They probably just scrum pokered really well

But still, even when you go to more politically aware places (like lemmy), you’ll get mocked for suggesting America is rules by a uniparty when it comes to American inperialism. It’s unbelievably fucking stupid.

And their body parts as well

So taxing the rich is an unstable temporary solution, and more fundamental changes are required.

We hit a tipping point though, where 99% of people do not have any capital to risk

When do you think this tipping point was? Because as far as I can tell this was around the French revolution.

Reaching obvious conclusions based on observations in reality is tankie shit, please refrain from doing so.

I don’t know for certain, but I think you might be mixing up Kosovo and Bosnia. Because I know he illegally (by international law) bombed Yugoslavia for the Kossovar Albanians (which some argue hastened and exacerbated the ethnic cleansing of the Albanians, which aligns quite well with the timeline, especially considering there was a concrete diplomatic alternatice proposed by both sides), but he got approval for this. Famously, Bernie Sanders voted in favor. So while it should earn him a trip to the Hague, he didn’t violate any domestic laws that I’m aware of.

But again, Yugoslavia in the 90s is crazy complicated, and there’s so much I don’t know, so maybe I’m just completely wrong here.

So, I like this idea, and the recent expose indicates that the stroke has essentially rendered him non compis mentis, but do you really think the brain damage turned him conservative? Were there no red flags before? I genuinely don’t know enough about the guy.

• woke bad
• progressives good
• religion bad
• billionaires bad
• bombing the middle east good

You’re enigmatic.

They could have impeached Clinton for Bosnia

Why? Forgive my ignorance, balkan history is hard.

With much love and respect I ask you to please read the remainder of my comments in this thread.

It’s sarcasm yes. I figured dropping a phrase like dicatorship of the proletariat would give up the game (honestly I thought my very first comment in the thread was already laying it on thick), but Poe’s law in action I guess. I do really appreciate you, keep up the good work.

Look, it’s like the scientific method, right? You start with a theory, and then you gather a bunch of data, and the stuff that agrees with your theory you keep, and the stuff that doesn’t you either dismiss outright, or you rationalize. I feel like I really can’t make my position any more obvious than that.

I appreciate your patience and your continued efforts to educate folks on this website, but I think you’re barking up the wrong tree here.

See now there you’ve made a crucial error. You’re recommending a book which, while it has some criticism of the specifics of how the USSR implemented socialism, on the whole it’s quite positive about the idea of establishing a dictatorship of the proletariat in general. Obviously that disagrees with my preconceived notion that humans are greedy, and that therefore capitalism is good, so I would never read a source that contradicts this, because I would have to dismiss most of it outright. And that’s just a hassle.

It’s suspicious because it disagrees with my preconceived notions about communism.

I think this is a good rule of thumb in general. When statistics agree with my preconceived notions, I consider them trustworthy, and if not, I assume that reality lines up with what I expect. For example, the referendum in held in the Baltics about leaving the USSR ended in favor of leaving, which I think is a good example of a trustworthy statistic. But the subsequent referendum in the remaining members ended in favor of staying in the USSR, and I think that’s a little suspicious, don’t you?

What makes you think the IC is in Putin’s pocket? Is it because they’ve assessed that Iran hasn’t been building nuclear weapons for the past 22 years? Does that mean the IAEA is also in Putin’s pocket?

it is well possible that they were preparing all the pieces

You’re literally describing building a bomb with different words. And both the IAEA and the American IC are currently of the opinion that Iran hasn’t been doing that since they suspended their nuclear weapons program in 2003. Is there something you know that they don’t?

Isreal is committing a genocide right now, and has been maintaining an apartheid state for decades. In this analogy, they’re the white South Africans. They’re the nazis.

Same place the Germans went after the holocaust ended. Same place the white South Africans went after their apartheid ended.