Munrock ☭

Chomsky. Didn’t he argue that Leninism is a right-wing deviation from Marxism?

Didn’t he argue that the Bolsheviks were actually counter-revolutionary?

Didn’t he argue that voting blue (and reinforcing the 2-party dominance) is the smart strategic choice for its short-term harm reduction?

Didn’t he argue that violent uprising is a gift to the right and we should only protest in peaceful, non-threatening ways?

This once-respected scholar used to be one of the few people who could sow doubt in my understanding, but now his opposition to all of these things galvanizes my belief in them. We see who stands to benefit from all of these positions he took.

They have quite a few of the originals in their leadership.

The guilt of carrying eyewitness testimony incriminating so many of society’s luminaries must have finally been too much for her?

manufacturing consent

We only even have limits for presidents because the same libs, right wingers, whined and pissed themselves after the country elected the least-shitty president 4 times. If the president is good… who cares. Let them stay 50 years. I don’t understand the term limit shit.

Their media milks this so much, too. They propagandise term limits until the concept ossifies in people’s brains and then they point out Xi Jinping has no term limits every time he gets reappointed, and that alone is proof of dictatorship to liberals. The guy’s on a roll scoring W after W for China and the Western media just bleats about how democracy is being crushed under the weight of all of those Ws.

I feel for our comrades in the US who have to live under Trump, but at the same time I can’t look at the dumpster fire that is the current US Government without feeling some measure of joy.

Couple days ago I hear that he’s moving to halt chip imports from Taiwan to have them manufactured locally. Yesterday I heard about the tariffs on Canada. This morning he appears to have axed USAID. Now this.

For all the harm he’s going to do within the US, he’s also rapidly diminishing the US’s ability to do harm to the rest of the world.

Sorry comrade, nobody gets to be unaccountable on Chinese social media.

Can you get WeChat?

It’s already been updated with more localisations to accommodate international users.

This is the country that mobilised to be able to build pop-up hospitals and quarantine facilities in 5 days. Now there’s a huge amount of soft power settling on their doorstep and all they need to do to reel it in is update software.

It was a great idea for everyone who made that decision. Not so great for the two NASA astronauts, who are workers.

I just want to make sure I’m following this right:

1. The USA has already been to the moon,

2. The idea of a USA return to the moon is being framed by US commentators as a new space race against a country who would be doing it for the first time, meanwhile

3. China continues to espouse its wish for more international cooperation in space while their lunar landing goal was set decades ago, and yet

4. The USA is losing the race that only they are running.

I was gonna downvote but then I saw your choice of examples.

Being a CEO is a pre-existing condition that disqualifies him from being insured against grievous injury by proletariat.

Pretty sure they consider USians equally disposable. And easier to leverage their deaths for manufacturing consent.

It just so happens that under Russian rule, Russian rulers will be making profit instead of Ukrainian rulers.

I think we’re missing a couple of nuances here, no? Although it’s a stretch to call them nuance. The way Ukrainian rulers have been making money has been through privatization. And because there’s so much privatization we need to look at who owns Ukraine’s economy. It’s only escalated since Russia invaded, with national assets being sold off to foreign private sectors so cheaply that one has to wonder why they did it when the gains are a drop in the bucket compared to the direct aid they’ve been getting from Western public sectors.

If Ukraine emerges from this conflict with its own sovereignty, it’ll be sovereignty over a flag, a presidential palace and a state framework that protects foreign companies’ investments from hungry Ukrainians.

Oof that burns harder than the ISS will when it gets de-orbited

Russia doesn’t need to do that. Burgerlanders already experience it through the magical way they render themselves blind to their government’s behaviour unless it’s projected onto China or Russia. Like how Trump is a Russian asset and China is turning Cuba into a staging ground for an invasion.

The Democrats knew this was going to happen. There’s no way they couldn’t. And I don’t mean Democrat supporters, many of whom were vehement that Biden was fine like so many anecdotes in this thread recount. I mean the Democrat leadership, who manage his campaign and more than likely manage his presidency. Unlike the public, they have access to him. They have his medical records, the reports of his doctors and caregivers, everything. There’s no way they didn’t know this would happen if he debated.

They might start seeding support for a different candidate into their supporter’s discourse after this, but they will have been planning for this outcome long ago. And when a left-leaning (left from a US Overton window) news platform hosts a debate that shows him up that badly and then publishes commentary like this, you have to wonder if that caused friction with the DNC or if they assented to it.

As the party starts singling out a replacement, the question I hope people start asking is why they didn’t replace Biden earlier? Did they need to wait until the urgency of imminent elections made their new candidate more palatable? And if they don’t replace Biden, why are they letting Trump win?

He gives lots of reasons, but if one of them isn’t “oil-producing countries are starting to escape US hegemony and your gas-guzzling motor industry is on borrowed time” then I don’t think he’s really appealing to the US government’s interests.

Or it’s a glimpse at Rom’s Dengist arc