did you read the comment I replied to, also liberals are not the left

meanwhile, wakko is still the world’s leading ignoramus

And don’t forget that China has billionaires!

Propaganda is just messaging, there’s nothing inherently evil about it. The question is what message is being propagated.

“To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.”

― Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

all anarchists are incoherent

Israel using nukes is a very plausible scenario. There’s a great interview with Postol that I can highly recommend if you haven’t watched it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQI_IYz6uM

I find when you are trying to educate people you know, you kind of have to learn how the person thinks and then tailor the message in terms that will likely resonate with them based on their own values. How you express an idea tends to matter as much as the idea itself.

They just make it so easy. 😆

You really gotta love how anarchists see themselves as the ultimate free thinkers, but their views just always happen to be whatever propaganda the pedo elites are putting out. Weird that.

It’s like saying cancer is worse than AIDS.

The US is absolutely massacring its own citizens along with people all over the globe, and has been doing that since time immemorial. The US runs a literal torture camp on the territory it annexed from Cuba. The US is a home of the Alligator Alcatraz. ICE goons are literally killing people in broad daylight. Stop with this idiotic narrative that the US is entering precipice of fascism. The US has always been a fascist state, German nazis were literally studying the US as an example.

And, for the sake of the argument, let’s say they were. Let’s say everything our pedo elites were telling us about other countries was true. What business is it of ours. Surely those people have as much right to self determination as we do. Why are we to impose our broken system on them?

I think it’s really hard for people to accept that everything they believed in is basically wrong. They don’t live in a democracy, they don’t have a voice, they can’t vote their way out of the hole they’re in. That’s a hard pill to swallow for the crowd that convinced itself that they just need to vote harder and everything will be alright.

What your refer to toeing the Kremlin propaganda line is the mere acknowledgement that Russia has legitimate security interests that NATO has been trampling over. This has now been openly admitted by mainstream western media thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/

And I just love how you project here. Expecting that the cost of the war would not be worth it is not cognitive dissonance bud. Cognitive dissonance is literally what you yourself have been doing for the past 4 years while guzzling NATO propaganda with zero awareness. And when you’re face with people who point out the obvious you lash out and accuse them of licking the boot of imperialists because that’s what you yourself are doing. It’s really pathetic dude. I sincerely hope your grow up one day.

Ah yes, the Kremlin propaganda which turned out to be the actual material reality we live in. Meanwhile, what you claim to be contradicted is the assessment most people made that it wouldn’t be worth it for Russia to engage in a war with the west over Ukraine. Nobody has a crystal ball and can predict what actually happens. We all make assessment based on what we currently know. What separates adults with fully developed brains from trolls like you is the ability to reflect back on past beliefs and adjust your thinking based on material reality.

And no, this speculation was not in any way justified at the time. This was just the propaganda trolls like you were spreading to justify the continuation of the war so you could keep jerking off to watching Russians and Ukrainians killing each other.

You are clearly unable to differentiate between speculation on possible scenarios and predictions about likely outcomes, and also the quote in German supports exactly that.

Wild how you open up with accusing people who were speculating that Russia wouldn’t invade Ukraine as spreading Kremlin propaganda, but don’t apply the same standard to your own speculation.

What we’ve actually established multiple times is that you lack even a shred of intellectual integrity. The worse part is that I suspect you do this completely unconsciously. You genuinely believe everything you say here.

I’m not judging or anything, but are you just a masochist by any chance? That would explain a lot of your behavior here at least.

You’re now denying having an account on lemmy.ml? Meanwhile, the quoted text precisely supports my claim.

At the beginning of the war, you sagely lectured everyone here how the internal political conflicts in Russia would lead to a change of government and that Ukraine would only have to hold out until then. I just love how you keep digging in here. You genuinely are unable to do any sort of self criticism. Just take the L and crawl back into whatever hole you suddenly decided to crawl out of.

just because you lack any inquisitiveness on your part, don’t assume the same for everyone else

can try this link instead https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/116223022810878412