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  • Also that lib was full of shit. Steam has never actually banned racists, no matter how many times they're reported.

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  • umberto eco

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  • www.kyivpost.com Poland May Start to Extradite Ukrainian ‘Draft Dodgers’

    Ukrainian lawmaker suggests that Kyiv should begin extradition procedures for men of military age who have illegally escaped to Poland and other EU countries thanks to bribes.

    "this war is totally about NATO defending innocent Ukrainians from Russia," cries NATO, as it deports innocent Ukrainians back to the war zone. And here's the kicker: The Ukrainian government needs them to do this, because it's nearly run out of military age males to draft human traffick into mine fields with insufficient training who are still in the country.

    !thinkin-lenin what if revolutionary defeatism? what if no war but class war? what if the ukrainian proletariat doesn't deserve to be used as meat shields for the preemptive geopolitical jockeying of NATO against BRICS?

    Some forced conscription videos

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    Zelensky admits it is in US interests to use Ukraine

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  • Xi Jinping is stupid

    the chinese state is supposedly a ruthless machiavellian cunning genocidal dictatorial power structure but the guy who climbed to the top of it is dumb? take-a-xiat

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  • https://sh.itjust.works/post/4274675

    To this I say, no. As a community, we do not deny proven genocides, like the holocaust, or the genocide against indigenous Americans by various European colonizers, or the genocide against the Congolese by Belgium, or the Bengal famine that was carried out by the British empire. In fact, denying those genocides will get you banned, here. However: we are also aware of a tendency of nations to project their crimes onto others, and to manufacture atrocity propaganda to justify overthrowing or destroying rival governments... like Libya in 2011:

    From Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad (a great book I highly recommend)

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    A post from Michael Parenti regarding the destruction of Libya by NATO-backed reactionaries

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    A headline shortly after Libya's destruction by NATO-backed reactionaries

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    The US government has been reenacting the fable of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, and has been cynically leveraging the very serious accusation of genocide against its geopolitical enemies. This is the source of skepticism on Xinjiang. And this is not a new strategy, yes, the Holodomor, which everyone in the US has been taught to take seriously lately, is a nazi fabrication first spread to the United States in the works of Robert Conquest. Why would the USSR deliberately starve a fellow socialist Republic? Why would Stalin, a Georgian, have some kind of Russian chauvinist grudge against Ukrainians? Why would Lenin (Donbass), Stalin (Lviv), and Khruschev (Crimea) all expand the territory of the Ukrainian SSR while also trying to kill off the people inside of it? Why would the USSR ethnically cleanse Ukrainains while simultaneously sending food aid to the starving British colony in Bengal? Natural famines and crop failures were spun by the nazis into atrocity propaganda. Also, a state does not have to be perfect to be defended against false accuations. I think China is far from perfect, but the burden of proof is on the United States to prove its accusations (which have changed in scope several times) regarding Xinjiang. Delegations from Muslim majority nations visiting Xinjiang do not agree with the United States that there is a genocide of the Uyghur people. There is however an attempt to reeducate extremist groups like ETIM. Reeducating extremists might seem a harsh government policy, but I assure you it is a better way of dealing with religious fundamentalism than drone striking weddings or air striking hospitals like the USA did in Afghanistan.

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  • ah yes, the wolfsangel.... about that....

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  • Your whole woke thing is over. Trump will take 2024 and then normalcy will return.

    Oh wow, you mean the ICE camps will open back up? Oh wait, Biden never closed them. What exactly are you threatening us with? Replacing one senile racist with another?

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  • or by using the market by short-selling, using hedge funds, trading through illegal offshore numbered accounts, derivatives, etc.

    Which is also just stealing surplus value by proxy, since return on investment is simply a share of the company's profits, which is itself just surplus value, or unpaid labor.

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  • he was well known for his havana banana

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  • the modern monetary theorists point out that taxes is how the demand for national currency as a commodity in and of itself is created. At least in a country with currency sovereignty, a fiat currency, and a debt that is denominated in its own currency (like the US). Basically, imagine if you actually managed to live the "yeoman farmer" dream. Imagine you actually got to own some land (paid off the mortgage) and started subsistence farming on it. Well you now have a huge economic incentive to stop participating in the economy, not have a job, feed yourself, and just fuck off and enjoy the rest of your life until you die. Good for you, bad for the nation. So you get property taxed. Well now you can't just live off of your subsistence. You have to go get a job and earn dollars and participate in the economy at least enough to pay your property taxes. There's no actual escape from needing participate in the economy and earn dollars, even if you try to pull off the libertarian meme of getting your own land and growing your own food and paying off your mortgage.

    28:27 of this video explains what I'm rambling about

    Of course the caveat here is that the real way to get around all this is to just become a capitalist exploiter, so that other people's work earns you enough money to live off of. But by definition most people can't become an exploiter, because exploitation is a pyramid scheme that requires more people at the bottom than at the top.

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  • Comrade Dessalines, you rock. Your audiobooks and essays are great. No questions.

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    When someone makes a crude joke on the internet
  • The "extremist" part of Right wing "extremist" is meaningless. All reactionary politics are extreme, whether they take the active form of stochastic terror or they take the passive form of social murder (as defined by Engels in 1845, see below). The plausible deniability employed by reactionaries as camouflage among jokes is extremely transparent to anyone familiar enough with it.

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