people treating memes like a treatise to be debated has to be my favorite trope

when you definitely read and understood the comment you’re replying to

cry ab it

people waking up to how a capitalist government actually functions and whose interest it serves is the one silver lining here

The fact that people in the west don’t understand there is propaganda in the west has always been astounding to me.

I agree, without applying a materialist lens, you just end up discussing symptoms endlessly and ignoring the actual mechanics of the system responsible for producing these outcomes. This is another example I just ran across today where the author is discovering the contradictions of capitalism from first principles. https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

Yeah more like people are starting to realize the internet is too American.

It can be since it’s more socially acceptable, and then people start engaging with new ideas which can lead them towards more rigorous analysis.

there seem to be a whole a bunch of these projects now

oh I didn’t even consider the last bit

The whole premise behind private enterprise is that it was supposed to be more efficient than state planning. If we’re saying now that state planning works better, then maybe the west should think about abandoning the dogma of letting private businesses run wild. It’s also worth noting that the US also gives massive subsidies to their car companies. Tesla wouldn’t exist without decades of government grants for example.

Steam Deck is a really under appreciated Linux machine in my opinion.

Iran makes it pretty clear just how bad US/Israeli intelligence is. And the US is no longer in any position to do escalation in China because they shat the bed in Iran. They’re literally out of weapons at this point, and their economy is collapsing because of oil prices. Cost of filling up your care basically doubled now, and you can’t go anywhere without a car in the US. This is the biggest crisis since Vietnam.

There is no other path for Russia or China today than what he says. Neither Chinese nor Russian leadership is stupid, and they can see that the only way they survive is by working together. And their economies are complimentary on top of that, they have nothing to fight about. Russia is a resource economy and China is a manufacturing one. It’s the exact same situation as the US and Canada.

I honestly don’t think China cares what US thinks because they have Americans by the balls. The US economy cannot function without Chinese exports. Period. Did you see how Trump was behaving in China? That tells you everything. Not only will China be testing their AI for drones in Ukraine, they will also continue to cut off rare earths supply to the US which is what you need to make components for these drones.

And I expect there will be strikes coming. I also don’t understand Ukraine’s strategy. It’s important to remember that Putin is a moderate, and if he lost then it would almost certainly be somebody much more hard line, and then gloves will come off fully.

I agree with Mearsheimer, the strike on Kiev doesn’t really mean anything at this point. There will have to be sustained escalation now.

If Russia was intentionally going to do an attack outside Ukraine they would do a bigger one, likely with Oreshnik and on a military target. I think two most likely possibilities here is either a stray drone or Ukraine using a scavenged one to try draw NATO in.

Actually, I grew up in USSR and frankly, I was shocked when I saw at how much worse the propaganda in the west. Most people in USSR understood there was domestic propaganda and were able to think critically about it. Meanwhile, Westerners gobble their propaganda up completely uncritically, and many don’t even realize they have domestic propaganda.

like moths to a flame

clearly not when the purpose is to merely indoctrinate people as opposed to actually teach them to think

That’s basically why anarchism only really exists within the imperial core as an ideology. It’s really just liberals being edgy and pretending to be on the left without actually wanting to make any systemic change. That said, I do think a lot of ideas from syndicalism are genuinely good and should be applied within a socialist society. However, building such a society in the first place requires Marxism.