Been reading Absolute Superman, this is in the context of a private military besieging a small town:

Am I reaching or is this a reference to Maoist Standard English?

“The revolution that feeds the children gets my support,” was what did it for me. It just immediately clicked that if only one political ideology had ever implemented a government that made it a priority that all children absolutely had to be given the necessities of life then that ideology had to be (I know this isn’t very Marxist of me, but I was raised Christian, sue me) righteous, and anyone who opposed it was evil or deluded.

I know that Marxists falter and make mistakes, and if they’re running a country then joining the party is a necessity to certain kinds of social climbers, so there can be careerists, but down deep, Marxists are fighting on behalf of humanity and liberals just aren’t.

He just had a way of distilling very important ideas into consise and understandable language.

This one got me. I’d be a “Yeah the US government is evil, it’s a government.” Guy if it weren’t for his clear-eyed and easy to follow rhetoric.

I grew up poor- we always had enough to eat but resources were always thin (single mom, multiple kids, we had to crash with family due to evictions a lot). I always thought of the Soviets and the CPC as just another kind of capitalist and then I heard “The revolution that feeds the children gets more support,” and that’s all it took. Communists have always made sure that everyone had enough, as long as it was within their power, and no one else has ever done that.

Michael Parenti was a so good at clarifying important ideas in a way that a dumbass like me could even understand it. Such a tremendous loss.

Sheinbaum rules, wish she was my president

It’s a huge escalation, people don’t just assassinate heads of state like that, because the people giving the order would be heads of state who don’t want assassinating heads of state to be normalized.

But I guess it is now.

Got em

My personal opinion is that if you have a Nazi war memorial in your nation’s capitol, you ought to just tear the whole thing down, rather than obfuscating that it’s a Nazi memorial by refusing to name the dead (Nazis), but I’m not important enough to be in the Department of Canadian Heritage (which, I guess, again is Nazism?).

Yeah I’ve basically considered him a Nazi since then, which makes people look at you like you’re wearing tinfoil but this man said it himself.

Cool, I’ll give that a look later too. Can’t believe they got Hillary Clinton, I guess even political elites can be boomers who get scammed online lmao

You’re not wrong, but I saw a ton of people in the twitter comments of another tweet about this exact video who more or less (sometimes literally) said that it was Russian propaganda. For a lot of people, a Western politician can openly say that they’re going to commit massive unprovoked violent atrocities and manipulate public opinion against the victims and they’ll just “doesn’t look like anything to me” it.

I’ve never heard of this one, I’ll have to check it out.

Wild to me that these kinds of things don’t move public opinion. Imagine how much it would shake communists if recordings of major communist leaders came out in which they, in conversations they thought were private, confirmed that everything the West says about them is true. It would shake us to our cores! And a liberal can hear a Biden appointee whose job was to devise foreign policy for Europe say “yeah we basically orchestrated the war to stifle Russia’s influence, I’m not sure if the massive death toll was worth it” and they’ll just say “Actually Russia invaded so it’s all their fault, you Ruzzian orc bot.” Genuinely can’t understand it.

Also, is there a list of their stuff anywhere? I’d love to see what else Western elites have admitted to when they thought they were among friends.

Former Biden Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council Amanda Sloat was prank called by those people who got Stephen King to praise Stepan Bandera and call him a great man right after mentioning that he was a Holocaust perpetrator.

She openly stated that had the US advised Ukraine to agree to remain neutral and not join NATO, that Russia wouldn’t have invaded and all the death and destruction could have been avoided, but that they didn’t want good relations between Ukraine and Russia because it would increase Russia’s sphere of influence.

https://xcancel.com/ricwe123/status/1998987234998108513

Not really news I guess, but kind of news adjacent and I thought the folks in here would find it interesting.

It’s interesting if you think about it, because using an offer to help build up a country in exchange for the country giving you some of its terrorists is literally the mirror mirror exact opposite of the US strategy of insertion of terrorists into a region to destabilize and destroy the infrastructure and societies of their enemies.

Demyan Hanul got got at least.

After years of being economically ransacked by America, the EU will now allow a Canadian to convince them to destroy their credibility as a safe harbor for international finance and banking and skim off the top. It’s nice of them to let imperialists from other North American countries have a go at pilfering their coffers I guess. Couldn’t happen to a nicer economic union.

I can’t read this because of cloudflare but is this for real saying that Al-Quaeda Syria is handing over their Uyghur terrorist allies to China?

Good, I hope they make all their important decisions with the confidently wrong hallucination machine.

Posted this in the mega immediately after losing my mind at this, then realized I should search for a NPP thread.

Haven’t been here in a bit but I needed to vent about seeing the reaction online to María Corina Machado getting the Nobel Peace Prize. So many people are posting “lmao won by a woman, and a Venezuelan woman too, Trump totally owned.”

Then doing 15 minutes of looking into this person to find out she supported Trump’s terrorist attack on 11 of her own countrymen, called for US military intervention in Venezuela, called for israeli military intervention in Venezuela, supports privatizing the oil industry, was involved in a 2002 coup attempt that tried to dissolve the entire government down to city level positions (mayors!), has literally been on DJT Jr’s podcast, has supported the current israeli genocide and states that when she takes control of the government she’s putting the Venezuelan embassy in israel into Jerusalem.

Then hours after winning she tweeted, in English, that she was dedicating her prize to Trump anyways!

Absolute freak shit. Constantly seesawing between whether I hate libs or conservatives more. Also, in-between all the “Tankie this Tankie that” that anyone trying to call attention to this gets, I’ve seen “campist” used as a pejorative for people criticizing this. Fuck anyone who calls people campist, they’re just American running dogs with extra steps.

Haven’t been here in a bit but I needed to vent about seeing the reaction online to María Corina Machado getting the Nobel Peace Prize. So many people are posting “lmao won by a woman, and a Venezuelan woman too, Trump totally owned.”

Then doing 15 minutes of looking into this person to find out she supported Trump’s terrorist attack on 11 of her own countrymen, called for US military intervention in Venezuela, called for israeli military intervention in Venezuela, supports privatizing the oil industry, was involved in a 2002 coup attempt that tried to dissolve the entire government down to city level positions (mayors!), has literally been on DJT Jr’s podcast, has supported the current israeli genocide and states that when she takes control of the government she’s putting the Venezuelan embassy in israel into Jerusalem.

Then hours after winning she tweeted, in English, that she was dedicating her prize to Trump anyways!

Absolute freak shit. Constantly seesawing between whether I hate libs or conservatives more. Also, in-between all the “Tankie this Tankie that” that anyone trying to call attention to this gets, I’ve seen “campist” used as a pejorative for people criticizing this. Fuck anyone who calls people campist, they’re just American running dogs with extra steps.

I don’t even register stuff like that anymore as suicide baiting.

Are you saying that you read “touch dirt six feet beneath grass” as something other than a request for the other person to be dead?

I’m genuinely not sure what else it could read as and it’s hard for me to not take this as a bad faith defense of the behavior.