BartsBigBugBag 8mo ago • 100%
Wow great info, thanks so much for doing all that legwork! It makes sense that Putin would put less stock into the policy than did his predecessors, because while the leaked Soviet archives show the USSR was genuinely terrified of nuclear war and mostly built up in response to US expansion of nuclear programs, I feel like Putin sees it more as a tool for intimidation.
BartsBigBugBag 8mo ago • 91%
Russia also maintains a no first strike policy, unless that changed since I last got stuck in a rabbit hole about nuclear policy. The US is the only major country in the world to maintain a first strike policy with nuclear weapons that I know of.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
That’s a Dreams game, and as much as I love dreams, it’s really more suited to experiences than it is full fledged games. It does look great though.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
Fascism is capitalism in decay. Modern conservatism is still an offshoot of liberalism (as compared to old conservatives who were attempting to conserve monarchy). Liberalism is a capitalist ideology defined by promotion of individual rights, civil liberties, and most importantly free enterprise and markets. Fascism is capitalism in decay because those in power will use that power to maintain their rule, through whatever means necessary. For Trump, that was Jan 6th, which is a new low for US politics, but he’s not alone in manipulating the levers of power, and neither side seems keen on removing powers from themselves when they get in power.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
Thanks, it was tough, but very worthwhile. Hope the best for you also!
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 93%
My friend, more groups were killed than just Jewish peoples in the Holocaust. Are you advocating for a state for Roma people also? Where should we get that state to give to them? There is and has been no such thing as “open” land for centuries, since the completion of the partitioning of the world between imperialist states in the previous centuries. So, by advocating for state creation, you are inherently advocating for dispossession and expulsion of those who live in that area.
What about the indigenous Americans whom have suffered the worst known genocide in human history, should we pick a place in Europe and give them a country there by kicking out the historic residents of that region? Why is granting a people statehood your only perceived method of preventing violence?
How and where can you set up this mythical state without inherently requiring the kinds of oppressions and violence we see in Israel?
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
Trump famously hated Netanyahu before 2020 also. He even said the quiet part out loud, that Netanyahu has no intention to resolve the situation whatsoever. He just also really loves Israel, so it’s kinda irrelevant.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 96%
Ethnostates are inherently bad. You cannot have a state for a single ethnicity or religion and not have it descend into apartheid or worse. Zionism is inherently bad.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
I quit in September! Congrats! Quitting smoking was way harder than quitting drinking for me, and I was a daily drunk functional alcoholic for years.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 95%
Voluntary suffering in order to bring about future positive ends is essentially integral to having a good life. That’s like saying to someone who just started exercising and is complaining about being sore, “if you’re feeling worse, is it really for the best?” Yes. It definitively is.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
There is a high from nicotine, it just goes away so quickly as you get addicted.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 90%
That particularly piece of bullshit was platformed by none other than Elon Musk himself, the white supremacist piece of human filth he is.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
Are you the dude who got banned for linking this book on Reddit books? I just saw that on another community. I haven’t read Malatesta yet, I keep slacking on it. Hope you get some good discussion, and sorry I couldn’t contribute more to said good discussion.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 78%
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 80%
Actually they can’t, they have a legal obligation under the UN Convention on Genocide to take extra-territorial actions in order to stop or prevent genocide. They are acting within international law. The ships going to Israel despite the active genocide are violating international law and complicit in the genocide themselves.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
You don’t have to try to eradicate an entire nation to commit genocide, either. There’s a convention on this thing, you know..
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
Guess I’m not buying it then. Microsoft really hates printing discs.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 90%
He says that the groundwork they laid was by not intervening enough in the Middle East and Asia…. Am I reading that right?
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 100%
Apparently he was the inspiration for Professor Newtonium in Powerpuff Girls. Most unexpected part of that article.
BartsBigBugBag 9mo ago • 92%
If the media didn’t want him to win, they shouldn’t have called the race before even 10% of the state got a chance to vote. There’s going to be hundreds, possibly thousands of people who left caucuses early when they heard the race was called. The media is not only complicit in his win there, they have also exposed themselves to retaliation from campaigns and voters alike.
Sorry for the shitty quality, I can’t stand looking through a camera at a show so I was just doing my best to hold it steady while going ham.
My bad. Hope everything has been running itself well while I’ve been gone haha. Lemmy.tf got pretty unstable so I spend most of my time on lemmy.ml these days, but .tf has been a bit more stable lately so I’m back for a while at least. Much love everyone!
Don’t use the names of radicals to endorse your watered down reformism. There’s a reason radicals get killed, and reformists get positions in cabinets. One actually threatens the status quo, one reinforces it.
From: “Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg” by Kate Evans.
The Democracy of the founding fathers was Greek Democracy, predicated upon a slave society, and restricted to only the elite. This is the society we live in today, even with our reforms towards direct representation. The system is inherently biased towards the election of elites and against the representation of the masses. Hamilton called it “faction” when the working class got together and demanded better conditions, and mechanisms were built in (which still exist to this day) that serve to ensure the continued dominance of the elite over the masses. The suffering of the many is intentional. The opulence of the wealthy is also. This is the intended outcome.
Remember, the social Democrats sided with the Nazis over the socialists. They’ve done it every time they’ve been given the opportunity, and will continue to do so as many times as people fall for their shtick. “The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." -Audre Lorde
> It is not needed, nor fitting here [in discussing the Civil War] that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions; but there is one point, with its connections, not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effect to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. This assumed, it is next considered whether it is best that capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work by their own consent, or buy them, and drive them to it without their consent. Having proceeded thus far, it is naturally concluded that all laborers are either hired laborers or what we call slaves. And further, it is assumed that whoever is once a hired laborer is fixed in that condition for life. > Now, there is no such relation between capital and labor as assumed, nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. > Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Abraham Lincoln
But let’s be honest, who wasn’t inspired by how much food Goku can eat at once?
I need to quit coming to this community today so I can quit posting, I’m running out of things to post!