this is like saying “since rich people have plantations full of slaves I’m not freeing my one house slave until they free all of theirs”

and billionaire use the same logic btw - “sure my super yacht creates massive emissions but my personal emissions are nothing compared to 7 billion people’s emissions - so why should I reduce mine if the masses won’t reduce theirs”

If you’re gonna share satellite pictures from an article - why did you choose to only share the outdated one from 2013 without any context?

Instead of the more recent ones that show the school being separated from the complex?

And yeah sure maybe the regime is fudging the numbers to garner more sympathy but I still feel bombing kids is much worse than lying - and you framing it as “it’s a he said she said, so we can’t believe anyone” - when there’s factual evidence that children were killed by the US-Israel regimes feels like you care more about pedantry than literal child murder

Can you trust the eye witnesses whose children were murdered?

Or what about the US military themselves admitting they did it due to “outdated targeting data”?

And the fact that it’s clear even from commercial satellite photos that the school is walled off from the military base?

idk what anarchists you’re around but all the ones I hang out with are vocally pro Iran even if they dont approve of the Ayatollah on principle - but yh I’d take mls over liberals any day of the week - I feel part of it is that anarchists aren’t a solid block so while some may block shipments other might fight against what they see as oppression that on a geopolitical scale can result in helping colonial forces - idk we’re all imperfect so I hope we can recognize that and through different means still continue to erode imperialism instead of fighting with each other at the benefit of colonizers

yeah that’s fair - but I feel they serve different purposes?

like I see anarchism as a form of counterbalance to state power irrespective of where it is - without needing to be dogmatic

as in undeniably Uruguay is materially much better now than its ever been (while still being at the peak of it’s colonial project even under socialist governance)

same with Bolivia giving relative power to indigenous peoples while improving living conditions even under a corrupt government

neither is perfect but vastly better than western powers seizing their resources and wage enslaving their populations - same goes for other socialist Global South countries

and yet I see the value of anarchist “purity” criticism in that it should continue to challenge all governments when the time is right - even socialist ones - as at the end of the day we all want a stateless society - and until then I dont see why anarchism and socialism can’t strive to achieve that through productive structural tension?

bro wat - I’m yet to see a socialist party group turn up to an anti-fash protest and put themselves in harms way to protect vulnerable groups instead of standing on the side lines selling political newspapers and dipping out as soon as their leaders decide they’d like to go home

you self host your own claude llm? damn and here i thought a 14B deepseek ollama instance was good shit - how did you get access to their proprietary weights?

wow bald youtube man is clapping back

What is VanillaOS again?

I guess my point is that from the perspective of the oppressed the distinction between “democracy” and “fascism” is functionally meaningless.

I feel your point is that in the abstract “law and order” isn’t inherently fascistic, but in practice what difference does it make? One group enacts centralized violence against another, fully in line with the laws that they themselves have set. To the in-group, this is legitimate law and order. To those targeted, it’s fascistic oppression.

So then are the people fascist, or does the system create fascistic outcomes even when people think they’re just supporting “law and order”?

i mean that was somewhat tongue in cheek but law enforcement is fundamentally the state’s way of enacting violence in line with whatever it’s leaders see fit - which imo at the very least has fascistic elements.

would you say that killing almost exclusively Arab and African people, tear gassing, shooting and brutalizing protestors because they disagree with governmental policies is not in any way fascistic?

what about the french national police massacring hundreds of peaceful Algerians explicitly due to racism, with full governmental support and subsequent censorship, led by Maurice Papon, an actual Nazi coraborator who deported thousands of Jewish people to concentration camps only to spend 4 years in jail 30 years later (while serving in government all that time) - would you call that a rule of law that applies equally to everyone?

at what point do we look at these “individual incidents” and start questioning the whole system of oppression?

so a fascist symbol…

Valid, those sources do paint a pretty appalling picture of Ukraine and it’s massive Neo-Nazi problem - I can argue on the specific numbers as they don’t fully reflect what you said but I agree that there are real issues with Azov’s integration, Bandera glorification, and the disproportionate far-right influence.

However, I’d ask you to also acknowledge that Russia has an equally serious neo-Nazi problem that fundamentally undermines the “denazification” justification for the invasion. And I don’t think it’s whataboutism to pointing out that the stated moral basis for the war is hypocritical. And this is clearly established by both Russian state and independent media:

1.Putin himself admitted Wagner PMC was fully state-funded:

• RIA Novosti (Russian state news): Wagner received 86.262 billion rubles from the state budget just from May 2022-May 2023

2.Wagner’s neo-Nazi leadership:

• Wagner founder Dmitry Utkin has documented SS tattoos (InformNapalm)
• Wagner incorporated the openly neo-Nazi “Rusich” group (Meduza)

3.“Rusich” leader Aleksey Milchakov - is an openly psychopathic Nazi:

• He cut off a puppy’s head and ate it when he was 20 while calling himself a Neo-Nazi and posing with swastikas
• And literally yesterday was teaching “Lessons of Courage” in Russian schools and received an offical state certificate for it, while planning “camps for combat training of children and teenagers” (Zona Media and the actual Telegram message with a certificate from the Государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение - ГБОУ - an official State Budgetary Educational Institution)

4.Neo-Nazi Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) founder Denis Gariyev received at least 15 million rubles worth of government contracts from Russia’s FSB, FSO, and Ministry of Internal Affairs

• And it goes without saying that they are a pro russian-imperialist entity as clearly stated in their Вконтакте page: https://m.vk.com/imper_legion

5.Putin’s contradictions:

• Even during Wagner’s mutiny, while calling Prigozhin a traitor, Putin called Wagner fighters “heroes who liberated Soledar and Artyomovsk” fighting for “the unity of the Russian World” (Life.ru)
• After Prigozhin’s death, Putin praised Wagner’s “significant contribution to our common cause of fighting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine”

So my point overall: Ukraine absolutely has a far-right problem that needs addressing and the US and Europe are propping them up as they align with their neoliberal and geopolitical values. But Russia claiming to “denazify” Ukraine while:

• Fully funding Wagner
• Wagner being founded by a neo-Nazi with SS tattoos
• Incorporating openly neo-Nazi “Rusich” into military operations
• Allowing neo-Nazi Milchakov to teach Russian children
• Giving government contracts to neo-Nazis

…makes “denazification” a cynical propaganda justification rather than a genuine moral concern.

So I think if we’re serious about being anti-imperialist we have to recognize that if it’s bad for neolibs to use Nazis in Ukraine for their imperial interests then it’s also bad for Russia to use Nazis for their own imperialist goals.

It’s possible for two imperialist forces to be bad - and you can then start comparing which is worse but at that point you’re doing imperialist apologia which imo isn’t a serious critique for a socialist to be doing.

These are a lot of assertions that you’ve stated as fact without any proof - can you provide independent non-government sanctioned sources for your claims?

It starts off with dick pics

Specifically, Zhou claimed that she “received 2 photos of Jeremy Renner and then a string of unwanted/unsolicited pornographic images of himself.” According to Zhou, this occurred “in June 2025.”

“He’s done this for years,” one Hollywood insider insisted to gossip columnist Rob Shuter. “Every new woman gets the same treatment — flirty texts, then out of nowhere, the photos start coming. He thinks it’s charming.”

Then denial

Renner’s lawyer, Marty Singer, blasted the allegations as “false, outrageous and highly defamatory.” He told PEOPLE that Renner met Zhou once in July, when she interviewed him for the documentary at a hotel in Reno, Nev. They shared a “brief consensual encounter,” and then met again in August, Singer said, adding that the actor has not spoken to Zhou in over a month.

But not before it had turned violent

I was discussing about the doc logistics, then he drank a bottle of wine alone and got angry and angry yelling for two hours. I had to location-share to my team, my parents and Disney colleagues in case something happens to me they know where I am. I had to lock myself in a room to be safe praying he would not come into the room at night as he was really angry. I did not say a word, I was so scared for my life."

For reference, Renner’s ex-wife, Sonni Pacheco, previously accused Renner of drug use and domestic violence. Specifically, she claimed that Renner threatened to kill her and there was at least one instance where he fired a gun in the presence of their daughter.

And then the ICEing on the cake…

Damn this washed up actor guy sure seems like a massive piece of shit - and since we’re at a he said, a-whole-bunch-of-other-people said situation - I’ll go with believing the victim and the rest of the people claiming he’s a POS and not the alleged POS himself.

uhm ackktually he signed a 155mm artillery bombshell (nowadays shortened to just shell) and not artillery which are large cannon like weapons, transportable and usually operated by more than one person unlike a bombshell that’s a bomb or artillery shell designed to explode on impact 🤓

hope this helps!

Thanks for linking the UN Report - really horrific stuff:

Two-thirds of the twenty-six former detainees interviewed, reported having been subjected to treatment that would amount to torture and/or other forms of ill-treatment, either in VETC facilities themselves or in the context of processes of referral to VETC facilities. These claims of mistreatment took place either during interrogations or as a form of punishment for (alleged) wrongdoing. Their accounts included being beaten with batons, including electric batons while strapped in a so- called “tiger chair”; being subjected to interrogation with water being poured in their faces; prolonged solitary confinement; and being forced to sit motionless on small stools for prolonged periods of time.

Some also spoke of various forms of sexual violence, including some instances of rape, affecting mainly women. These accounts included having been forced by guards to perform oral sex in the context of an interrogation and various forms of sexual humiliation, including forced nudity. The accounts similarly described the way in which rapes took place outside the dormitories, in separate rooms without cameras. In addition, several women recounted being subject to invasive gynaecological examinations, including one woman who described this taking place in a group setting which “made old women ashamed and young girls cry”, because they did not understand what was happening. The Government has firmly denied these claims, often through personal or gendered attacks against the women who have publicly reported these allegations.

The extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups, pursuant to law and policy, in context of restrictions and deprivation more generally of fundamental rights enjoyed individually and collectively, may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity.

You’re right it’s incorrect to call it a genocide but I’m glad you at least agree that “rape”, “torture”, “deprivation of fundamental rights” and probable “crimes against humanity” are being committed in the “re-education” camps against non-Han ethnic groups with the government being at the very least complicit by denying any wrongdoing - so it’s good to know you don’t blindly believe the CCP to be a benevolent force for good but can recognize the harm they’ve already caused to Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks and Huis in Xinjiang.

So you consider a state censoring all it’s citizens from discussing certain words and topics to not be authoritarian?

The article you’ve linked says they’ve forgiven less than 5% of the total amount lended so not sure I’d classify that as “frequent”

Further, the PRC does not require austerity politics or otherwise giving up sovereignty over the recipients economy, they pay for infrastructural development.

I agree this is definitely a good thing but I want to acknowledge they do also directly profit from all this development - they’re not doing it to help others for the socialist ideal but for strategic geopolitical goals

they just fundamentally don’t have the same mechanics that force imperialism in the west, like huge private monopoly and falling rates of profit.

But they still operate in the same system which is why even their renegotiated loans never fall below the 2% inflation rate.

Idk I can understand critical support of China when it comes to challenging western imperialism I just don’t agree with their approach of rejecting egalitarianism and enforcing material inequality as a means to supposedly reach communism

So you’re saying that China didn’t extend or take advantage of western debt traps for their own economic and geopolitical goals?

So

• Sri Lanka desperately needs $1.12 billion to avoid defaulting to Western bondholders
• China provides that cash immediately
• In exchange they get 99-year control of a $1.4 billion strategic asset
• Sri Lanka still owes them the original construction debt
• China now controls 70% of future port profits for a century (or two)

And look I’m not claiming that this crisis wasn’t caused by western imperialism - but calling it a “trade” or “multilateral exchange” when China very obviously took advantage of a country in crisis for almost exclusively their own benefit is disingenuous.

Do you really see no issues with such predatory lending (irrespective of it being done by the IMF or BRI)?