Did you switch from anarchism to communism in the last month? https://reddthat.com/post/36317630

As far as I know, there are no commonly recognized symbols for Zionism aside from the star of David, and this does a great disservice to non-Zionist Jews and anti-Zionist Jews, to the point putting them in danger, because it conflates Judaism and Zionism. You might use the Israeli flag, but again this is fraught because of its insidious co-optation of the star of David.

It’s best not to bring up the star of David at all, except in condemning the state of Israel for co-opting it for the purposes of Zionist propaganda.

what horseshoe theory does to a mf

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C’mon we all know what this is: Remote Uyghur organ harvesting. /s

I swear they’re just flexing now. Next thing you know it’ll be autonomous robotic surgery on the Moon.

I know it’s bad. My wife is a researcher at a non-profit that relies greatly on federal grants, which are getting killed left & right, and so her company is laying off left & right.

This was all Greek to me, and it took a while for me to figure out how to google WTF you’re talking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_U.S._federal_deferred_resignation_program

For my own sanity, I choose to believe this is satire.

The CCP is known to have agents in western countries that manipulate and pressure ex-pats to return to China.

The seeseepee is “known” to do that if you believe Cold War II bullshit propaganda about “secret police stations.”

That’s a lot of microwave

The reason Marxist nations have struggled is due to elite corruption, not the ideology itself.

The primary reason, by a long shot, is that the imperialist states never stop trying to destroy socialist states, or really any state that stands between them and their plundering.

• Understanding Siege Socialism w/ Gabriel Rockhill
• Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds, Pure Socialism vs. Siege Socialism

They’re not wrong about democratic backsliding in this case, but I generally ignore this index, which The Economist Group^[1] publishes for the purposes of imperial core propaganda against states that it wants to regime change.

I actually fully believe in a genuine democratic capitalist government

This is impossible to achieve, because whenever “democracy” becomes too “genuine” for their tastes, the bourgeoisie will unleash fascism.

• Fascism Is Possible Not in Spite of Liberal Capitalism, but Because of It
• Michael Parenti:
  • Fascism: The False Revolution
  • Rational Fascism
• Gabriel Rockhill:
  • Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
  • Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
  • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It
• Domenico Losurdo: Liberalism: A Counter-History

A good dictatorship, one that truly serves the people and removes the influence of the elite, could be the only way to actually return power to the masses.

A “good dictatorship” in the Dark Enlightenment sense of the people skulking around the White House right now, or a “good dictatorship” in the Marxist sense?

why would funding campaigns matter if the vote wasn’t real?

In capitalist states, campaign finance is one of the reasons why voting isn’t, in practical terms, real.

You really need to specify what state you’re talking about and when. If you’re talking about a capitalist state, then the answer is the capitalist class runs it. If you’re talking about the US specifically, then I’ll recycle my previous answer:

It’s not wrong to say regulatory capture is a problem, it just doesn’t go far enough. The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

Don’t say that he’s hypocritical
Say rather that he’s apolitical
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department!” says Wernher von Braun

NATO “defence” 🍆 ✊

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
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