• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    What part of what he said implies he’s “advocating for Russia to strike NATO countries for supplying weapons”.?

    Thats never really been grounds for war in the past. Otherwise we would have gone to war with the soviets for Vietnam, and the soviets would have gone to war with us for Afghanistan.

    If selling or giving weapons to your enemy’s enemy was a cause for war we’d all be dead by now.

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          Ahh yes, I forgot that knowing basic history makes me a capitalist?

          When did the modern Russian state become anything close to communist or socialist again?

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            You’re not a capitalist, you’re just a lib bootlicker

            Capitalists don’t waste their time defending capitalism online, they’re busy doing drugs and pretending to work

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                  Lol, liberalism just isn’t a vibe or a neat slur to throw at people who don’t embrace every single one of your ideologies. It’s an actual political and economic theory proposed by John Locke, built around free market capitalism.

                  American politics have reshaped the national understand of the word liberal to suit their bi-polar view of geopolitics. But if we utilizing recognized geopolitical terminology, all liberals are proudly free market capitalist.

                  I don’t really even understand your use of the word if it isn’t recognizing the difference between the preferred economic systems. If liberals aren’t capitalist, what is your problem with them? In your “understanding” of the definition, can a person be a liberal and a socialist?

                  I suspect you don’t really understand political theory very well.

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                    Of course liberals support capitalism and cannot be socialist. The problem is that capitalist is simply not the word for someone who supports capitalism in the same way that socialist is the word for someone who supports socialism. It’s an unintuitive language quirk, but not a unique one.

                    If we were to redefine capitalist to mean “everyone who supports capitalism” we need a new word for what capitalist means. And considering “everyone who supports capitalism” is a group consisting basically only of liberals and fascists, I don’t see why such a word is necessary. 99% of the time you would use this redefined form of capitalist, liberal would be sufficient.

                    I suspect that you are a pig with shit on its balls

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      We have gone far further than any of those.

      Imagine if the Soviet Union gave Vietnam missiles and explicit permission to strike US cities during the war.

      That is an entirely different scale of involvement that has never been tested against a large power before.

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        and explicit permission to strike US cities during the war

        While also providing direct targeting data for it to happen

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      Thats never really been grounds for war in the past.

      Cuban Missile Crisis ring any bells? The crackers nearly destroyed the planet over it.