Would you care to explain how, in your mind, these things are in any way connected.

nice find

Ultras are gonna ultra I guess.

the root cause is capitalism

nice

@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml recommend reading so you get a bit of understanding on what’s actually happening in Cuba

also true

it’s just such a perfect allegory for how practically every startup out there works

anything but admitting that capitalism is working exactly as intended

Somehow people in other countries manage to do it, but I suppose it’s always possible that Americans are a special breed of stupid.

No, only an absolute imbecile would suggest that. My plan is to educate people and do what I can to help organize people outside a rigged political system in order to build an actual worker movement with teeth such as MAS in Bolivia. This starts with building unions, mutual aid groups, tenant organizations, and so on.

Because voting has been historically the most effective way to defeat fascism.

Marxism has never been utopian lmfao

Meanwhile in the real world, even libertarian cato institute found that communism and socialism are popular among anybody who’s not a fossil https://www.cato.org/blog/new-poll-nearly-half-americans-dont-know-what-americas-250th-celebrating

Not only that, but the numbers are rising since their poll last year https://www.cato.org/blog/young-americans-socialism-too-much-thats-problem-libertarians-must-fix

So, it’s pretty clear that there is no optics problem in practice. The reality is that liberals are just opposed to socialism because they represent the left wing of fascism.

Honestly, being as cynical as I am, even I did a double take reading it.

the least racist liberal has logged on everybody

and thread is full here too

Oh yeah, the media campaign worked, and the US is back in the game until Trump does a 180 again in a few weeks. I expect the next big event will be Russia taking all of Donbas. That’s when the real panic will start.

Oh just can’t continue down the thread, might have to start a new one. I basically can’t reply below this reply anymore. :)

And yes, it’s not a given that it will happen, but we are very much moving towards that becoming a real possibility. The reality is that Russia needs to restore deterrent, and doing nothing will only mean continued escalation on the part of the west because there are no consequences.

There is of course a second view here which is that European economies are imploding, and it’s possible that regime changes might actually start happening in major European countries. The winter isn’t just going to be bad for Ukraine, it’s going to be very bad for Europe too. European gas storage is already tapped out, and there’s no way to refill thanks to the war on Iran that’s ongoing. https://energynewsbeat.co/international-news/europe-is-at-its-lowest-gas-storage-in-15-years

A political crisis in Germany, France, or UK is extremely likely at this point. So, Russia simply absorbing the current escalations may be a rational strategy. Doing something like strikes in Europe could be counterproductive if Russia expects Europe to collapse politically and economically in the near future.

Meanwhile, the whole Anchorage thing has a second dimension to it which is creating a lot of tension within NATO. The war isn’t really about Ukraine in the end, and if Russia thought they could peel the US off from Europe then it was worth pursuing that. Ukraine is just a proxy here the west is using, but the real problem is with NATO itself.

I’m sure it’s a demographic, but yeah not sure how popular this really is

^ how to say you’re as gullible as a child