Ah yes, Sam Harris, the amerikkkan liberal redditor’s most handsome career 9/11 bigot.

I think the Whitehouse is currently on Code Wilson.

Iran punched through Toilet Paper Dome and David Sling twice now. The second time, Iran dropped a (probably hypersonic) missile right down in Mossad HQ’s front yard, which is being actively covered up and lied about to maintain the illusion of invincibility. Israel is also lying about damage at Nevatim. Any serious attack from Iran can easily hit all strategic targets in Israel. Iran has shown an uncanny amount of patience and it should be clear to Isnt’real that’s coming to an end. They know they’re vulnerable and Bibi’s hands are shaking out of fear.

What a stomach turning 9 minutes that was to watch. You couldn’t pay me enough to sit in that room and laugh at that shit.

I’m familiar those as well. In going through Breaking the Silence archives, I found very little in the way of anything really anti-Zionist. Mostly it’s unprosecuted war criminals going “wow, that was fucked up”. It’s not at all enough to be anti-genocide, but support the Zionist foundation that continues to cause it. We both know the amount of anti-Zionist jews in Isn’treal is not culturally or politically significant, and will have no foreseeable role in whatever outcome awaits the Zionist entity. I invite any that exist there to leave or take up arms against the state.

I understand that after WWII the CIA took control of the Banderites as a terrorist force to use against the Soviet civilians and armed forces; how NATO was cobbled together from the Nazi diaspora; how Canada imported Banderites to gut labor organization and all that. There’s probably a lot more awful stuff I don’t know, too.

So yeah, in the larger picture. But I was mainly referring to the time since the Maidan coup (which, of course, even then goes directly back to the previous color revolution…)

The western media that has been backing this genocide wants you to believe that this is somehow all on Bibi and not representative of the greater body politic and culture. In fact, Netanyahu is one of the more polite and coded public figures in Isn’treal. He’s a western friendly mask over the most depraved rot of a violent ethnostate.

According to the Israel Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index polls taken more than a month after the beginning of the massive Israeli bombing of Gaza, which by then had killed thousands, “57.5 percent of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) were using too little firepower in Gaza, 36.6 percent said the IDF was using an appropriate amount of firepower, while just 1.8 percent said they believed the IDF was using too much firepower.”

In Isn’treal, there have been protests because the extermination of Gaza is taking too long. Protests because the hostages are not being returned. Protests because Netanyahu is corrupt. Protests because privileged Haredi jews lost their exemption from military service. Protests to prevent the prosecution of Israeli prison guards who are using rape as torture on Palestinians. Protests that the IOF is not attacking Lebanon enough…

The entire zionist colonial project is founded on the deliberate erasure of Palestinian people, culture and history. Children of zionists are taught that arabs are subhuman from the earliest ages, and that god himself commands genocide. The book of Joshua is required reading for children in Isnt’real for that reason, and Amalek and the destruction of the Canaanites are constantly referenced in regard to Palestinians.

You need to look inside Isn’treali history, media, literature and internal politics because the US media distorts this reality to protect their “unsinkable aircraft carrier” in the region.

If this kind of messaging is not some semblance of regret, then what else might it be?

My other take is that it might be a pretext for a western invasion of Ukraine under the guise of “stopping the far-right and restoring democracy”, which, of course, would just be an excuse for the US to block an end to the conflict and create a new tripwire for nuclear war. The Kiev regime would probably also be relieved to get an easy out like that. Given how depraved and psychotic the US and NATO are it wouldn’t surprise me. In which case, I hope they’re just showing a little regret.

The starting point for the Marxian analysis centers on the existing dominant forces of monopolistic industrial capitalism. Therefore socialist revolution still must move through capitalism by process of subordinating the ruling class to a proletarian state. As Cowbee pointed out, fascism is not a state absent capitalism, but rather mode of capitalism itself. Because of the inherent contradictions, we assume that any capitalist system already produces various quantities of fascism as a mechanism for maintaining superiority of the owner class.

I’ve lived inside the western propagandasphere most of my life, and I’m always surprised at how obscenely xenophobic and dishonest it is. To the point of being an inversion of reality.

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I held on to many of these “china bad” media narratives and was reluctant to let go of them when confronted with reality. I can say now how wrong I was and irresponsible it was for me to perpetuate that bullshit. I won’t excuse my old attitudes, but I do recognize that I didn’t invent them either; I just sort of absorbed them.

The closer I look at China, the more my opinion improves. Especially with regard to geopolitics, the Belt and Road Initiative, BRICS, renewable energy and infrastructure building. It’s a success story of the process of socialism; they are effectively constraining and directing capital to improve material conditions for the working class. Planning society to meet the needs of its populations works. Building peaceful and productive partnerships around the world works. Of course nothing is perfect and any rapidly industrialized society comes with growing pains, esp given China’s own historical context, but I’ve come to regard China as close to as a model society for our point in time in many ways. And yep… I’ve also been guilty of having stupid ultra-left “iT’S NoT ReaL ComMuNiSm” takes too. I honestly wish I had been raised with a Marxist education in my early life so I could have found a sane way to understand the world much sooner.

As the empire collapses, I think it’s becoming clear to more people that the western media narrative is a bandage over the rotting wound of capitalism; ignoring its own decay and falsely demanding that we believe everywhere else must be somehow worse.

If you study history through the lens of hitler’s rhetoric I can see how a person could arrive at that conclusion. All his shit about Marx “stealing socialism” from him certainly paints a picture for libs who are too lazy and/or brainwashed to even attempt to understand what communism/socialism even means.

Horseshoe = when capitalism enters crisis it will do both fascism and communism at the same time to restore balance to the universe 😂

“The far right in Ukraine is growing. The right wing is a danger to democracy.”

Can we just get a straightforward “We regret arming neonazis to the teeth for the last ten years and cheering them on to invade Russia” already? This soft-landing walkback bullshit is so annoying.