If liberals didn't have meaningless smug platitudes with no substance, they would have nothing whatsoever with which to drown out their denial.
Get bent
You know you're allowed to swear on the internet, right? Cry louder, white supremacist propagandist, I think there are still some people who's eyes aren't rolling.
In the depressingly binary Marvel movie worldview of the liberal, the only reason not to uncritically kneel down and start kissing the sonnenrad is if you're already kissing a framed photo of Vladmir Putin instead. Really goes to show why the US "Defense" Department was so eager to sponsor those flicks.
You and your type
When your worldview has no fascist undertones baked into it whatsoever and you're definitely the good guys
Being a nutjob is when you don't erase all your pre-2022 memories of all the western reporting about Ukraine's Nazi problem
Propaganda is when you assert that Asian people are people
And there’s that western heel turn, right on schedule. Between this and that "Ukraine is testing the patience of it's allies" article yesterday, it's pretty clear that US media has now begun manufacturing consent to decouple from Ukraine. We've been shipping them insufficient quantities of ammo for a while now, so I guess with the stalling out of the counteroffensive, the Pentagon has evidently decided that the battle lines have solidified, and the final closing of the money spigot, at least militarily, is at hand.
Most likely some diplomatic deal will be struck in the coming months to preserve the remaining Ukranian territory in a stable enough state for Blackrock and all the other speculators to reap the profit of all their new acqusitions. My heart goes out to the common people of Ukraine, the last ten years have been brutal for them (the coup, the Banderite resurgence, the killing of dissidents and labor organizers, and this meat grinder of a war), and it looks like with "radical privatization" on the horizon, the next ten years are gonna be even worse. I hope they can organize for some quality of life against the megacorporations planning to turn them into a banana republic after the war.
My second concern, and it's a concern that's never talked about until it's too late, is the blowback. Intervention is never without consequences. America' funding of fundamentalist militants against the USSR in Afghanistan created Al Queda. Western intervention against Saddamn Hussein (who's Baath party itself served as a western intervention against pan-Arab nationalism during the Cold War) sparked the Gulf War. The Gulf War set the stage for our invasion of Iraq, and our invasion of Iraq created ISIS. So what happens after the war, when all the leftover Azov guys, these staunch nationalists, look back at the west and see (correctly) the political bloc that put their government into power, sent them juust not quite enough materiel to win the war, and then abandoned their military to the Russian Federation and their people to venture capital? Much has already been written about the dissapearing of American weapons in Ukraine into Europe's various black markets, and when you combine that with the deluge of newly impoverished, traumatized and radicalized Ukranian combat veterans with an axe to grind against the west, you've got a hundred European 9/11s just waiting to happen. Pretty solid chance that 5 years from now, someone shoots down a passenger jet with a secondhand Javelin.
Every conceivable social arrangement is slavery except actual slavery which is fine
Damn you're right, it's almost like we need to also restructure society in such a way that prioritizes human need and equitable access to resources and education on an ongoing basis, instead of the maximization of profits at the expense of literally everyone on Earth. It's a good thing the world isn't currently being ravaged by an economic order reliant on murder, starvation and inefficiency, otherwise this persistent handwringing about logistics and overpopulation would seem really strange and premature.
Like dude, no person or faction with the political will to go up against the forces keeping people in poverty is currently in any position to do so. We're talking about a make-believe scenario, and the fact that even then your mind goes immediately to "overpopulation" is mega sus and indicative of where your priorities are.
parents bedroom
Gen X coolguy detected, opinion double discarded lmao
Damn bro thats crazy who do you have to pay this totally real money to, and why, and what happens if you don't? You need to grow up and open your eyes, you're like a medeival peasant telling me that the King's authority is a natural and divinely ordained part of nature. It's sad.
Just asking questions about if poor people should have enough food to live or if that would make them breed too much, no fucked-up Malthusian undertones here, nossir
Hm no you're right, better to let millions starve
Money is imaginary
I dont get it, why don't they just explain their ostensibly superior ideas to us? This is the perfect opportunity to prove the post wrong instead of proving it right
Probably because the Americans are fucking monsters that don't give a fuck. Look at all the mass graves and murder pits in Iraq.
When was the last time you voted on whether to invade another country, or double the price of food, or to turn something as simple and basic as health care into a luxury commodity until people can't afford to have teeth? I don't remember voting to let covid rip, or give tanks and murder robots to the cops, or to ignore climate change for decades. I was never consulted on if we should have the world's largest system of prsion slavery
All of these decisions were made for us, at our expense, because they made the donor class more money, and we live in a dictatorship of the rich.
"The United States is also a one-party state, but in typical American Extravagance, they have two of them."
-Julius Nyere, first president of Tanzania