I don’t support multipolarity as a concept necessarily, but in the current material conditions, it is an absolutely necessary step for overthrowing capitalism.

The US and its system of vassals, world organizations, economic strangleholds, networks of operative and political/military/economic violence have been suppressing socialist projects all around the globe since WW2. That is the main priority of the world hegemon, as the aim is to prop up the US empire, and by extension its capitalist system, as long as possible and at any cost.

We should not forget that there’s been multiple attempts to dismantle capitalism at various degrees, in many different countries, in the last 80 years, but they’ve all been squashed by the US or its proxies. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to assume that these attempts will continue occurring in the future, and if the reach of the US is diminished, then many of these attempts will survive and probably succeed.

Indeed, even in places where no attempts at socialism have been made, the local socialist groups and parties have all become extremely weak and diluted, to the point where some are even considered centrists nowadays. The reason for this is not just infiltration, or a “Western mindset”. A big motivator is the hopelessness they feel, as they consider that anything they do outside the permitted structure, will be doomed to fail due to US intervention.

Capitalism’s decline is inevitable. We are already experiencing it, and it is only kept alive by the exploitation of the imperial core population (which before largely enjoyed the fruits of imperialism) and the massive efforts at suppressing any form of dissent (which are becoming increasingly more and more direct and obvious). So if peoples are left alone to dictate their own future, it is very likely that much of the world will progressively abandon capitalism, particularly if PR China is around to help them.

As a recent example, look what happened in the Sahel in 2022-2023. With the US overstretched and its attention consumed by what was going on in Ukraine and Gaza, they couldn’t do anything, as Burkina Faso and others were throwing French and US soldiers out of their countries. They threatened, they sent some money to certain dubious groups and individuals, they tried couping the governments multiple times. But when all failed, the US could only just shrug and put a pin on it. Whereas before, you can be sure there would be deployments of fleets and possibly troops, bombing missions, drones visiting houses and weddings, operatives preparing assassinations, sabotage and coups, etc. And so, the Sahel countries kicked out the colonizers and are now on track on nationalizing the mines, eradicating imported western-sponsored jihadists and strengthening their independence.

On the other hand, if the US declines, but the world remains unipolar, i.e. another hegemon takes over, then that might not be ideal for Marxists around the world, especially considering all the top world powers, bar PRC, are capitalists. And also, most of them, bar PRC and Russia, are happy participants in the current US system. The ideal scenario would perhaps be PRC becoming the new unipolar hegemon, and they could certainly pull it off. But China itself does not seem interested in this future. They themselves promote multipolarity, which means they’ve probably come to a similar conclusion as what I describe above.

So, to summarize, multipolarity is good because: a) Socialism can take root more easily around the world, b) Nobody will oppose it, c) There’s no apparent scenario for a Marxist unipolar world right now, as the only nation capable of creating it does not seem to want it.

In East Germany, you could send a letter to any official’s office up to the chairman with complaints, suggestions, etc, and they not only had to read it, but had to respond back with the steps they took to resolve your issue, or explain why they couldn’t resolve it, within 4 week. By law, they had to prove to you that they put in every effort to help you. Then every few months, they had to submit to a committee of volunteers all the letters they received and the responses the gave. This committee published all the data of the amount of letters sent through this channel, and the % of letters that were successfully resolved. It’s estimated that at least 2/3rds of all households in East Germany had sent such a letter and got a successful resolution out of it, throughout the DDR’s history.

It takes effort to make aliens actually feel alien, and then build a good story around them.

It’s far easier (and possibly more engaging for most people) to make aliens by exaggerating human characteristics, and then have a story about humans facing against their worst or best traits.

There’s been at least 4-5 super-massive country-wide protests in the US, in the last decade. How much have things changed? At least how much have the elite even been shaken and made an effort to minimize squeezing the people? The answer is negative. Every single protest has not just failed to bring about one iota of change. They actually led to opposite effects:

1. Various organizations sheepdogging angry and desperate people back to the old political mechanisms

2. Protests have been highly infiltrated, to the extend where they die out from infighting and disorganization, or provocateurs and saboteurs.

3. Reactionaries becoming more and more inflamed and putting their own politicians in power, who are working precisely against what the protests wanted to achieve in the first place.

4. Reactionaries being used in establishment propaganda as a tool of fear, in order to herd protestors back in line to vote and back up the status quo again.

Literally, what is a protest? A protest is a WARNING AND A THREAT OF VIOLENCE. A protest is a show of force, a flex targeted at the elite and the rulers saying “You see how many of us are here? If we choose to come for you, you can’t stop us. So you better take notice and change course, or next time we are laying down the placards and the flags, and we are coming with fire and pitchforks”.

Every single protest that has ever worked, has either worked because the protest targets got SCARED(see Roosevelt’s reforms in the 30s, Nixon’s reforms in the 70s), or because it transitioned into a full-on VIOLENT REVOLUTION.

So when libs go about organizing their peaceful demonstrations and marches, the action is destined to fail, precisely because it is peaceful. US senators, and US congresspeople, and US presidents, and US billionaires, understand this very well, which is why their answer to protesting is to silently ignore them.

The US is just an example here. This applies all over the world. If peaceful protest worked, then judging by the scale of worldwide protests, by now Israel wouldn’t just have stopped bombing Gaza, it would have given Palestine its independence and then disarm itself.

When libs go on about how violence is bad, and doesn’t solve anything, it’s good to remember that the reason we even have a semblance of democracy worldwide right now, is because hundreds of thousands of French men and women got out in the streets, stormed the guardhouses and the gates, took the aristocrats out of their palaces, beat the crap out of them and then chopped their heads off in plain view. And while the French revolution didn’t go so well afterwards, what ended up happening is that the nobles of Europe got scared shitless that their own serfs would do the same to them, so they granted them constitutions and democratic processes.

It’s also good to remember that the reason we have universal healthcare systems, free public education, subsidized households, retirement funds, unions, worker rights and protections, is because hundreds of thousands of Russian men and women improved upon the example of the French, and not only overthrew the nobles, they also chained up the capitalists and put them to hard labour for all the evils they did upon them. The European capitalists got scared shitless, like their aristocratic cousins a century prior, and decided to ease off on squeezing every single penny out of every single pound, and tried to buy off the European proletariats by emulating some aspects of the Soviet experiment.

Yeah, it’s good to protest. It’s good to also remind ourselves that we are many and can achieve things. But protesting isn’t the end-game. The end-game is overthrowing the system that produces injustice. You can’t fix what is designed to be broken. Protesting is one tool we have, but it’s a middle-of-the-road tool. We should never lay down our capacity for violence, because by declaring our docility, we might as well proclaim our defeat.

3 day account suggesting rules? How much have Maoists and Trots hurt you in 3 days here?

I don’t agree with this, because a) We don’t have these kinds of leftists around here. They do wander in sometimes, but it’s never been a serious issue of causing unmanageable trouble. b) We do get right-wingers occasionally strolling in through the rest of the verse, and usually they come in maliciously, so the existing rule makes sense.

So, no.

This will never get old for me

So it’s historically proven that 1 Hitler = 0.2 Ho Chi Minhs (or that communists actually save countries from destitution and destruction)

Also, there’s absolutely no vegetation or rocks on the ground. It’s all the same texture and same evenness. There’s no burn or skid marks on the ground. There’s no other debris or wreckage strewn about the area. The afterburner colours look exactly like the first image on a Google search for “F35”. The plane’s surface looks rough and matte, sort of like an F16, whereas F35s have a really slick, almost shiny surface. The fuselage of an F35 is much less cylindrical and more ellipsoid (again reminds me more of an F16 or F15).

Probably some news website made the image to accompany their article. Maybe they even mentioned in the caption that it was AI generated. Then other websites picked up the picture hastily and used it without question.

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The only way fascists have of making themselves look good is through LARPing and cosplaying

“They shoot women because their hair is uncovered. They shoot students. They just suck the oxygen out from these brave and gifted people, the Iranian people.”

You know, that reminds me of another country that does something similar to certain groups of people… I wonder which one it was…

Just for context, Gaza needs about 500 truckloads of food per day. This idiot has just admitted that their “adequate” and “humanitarian” and “amazing” food aid to Palestinians has provided them with less that 1/5th of what they need to survive per day, in the course of 2 weeks. Meanwhile, the siege perpetrated by his country continues normally.

This isn’t strange. It’s exactly how the West has been behaving for the last 4 centuries:

1. Claim “European/American/Christian/Democratic” values are the pinnacle of human achievement.

2. Identify country that is a target for expansion/exploitation/influence

3. Constantly claim that this country is barbaric/inhuman/undemocratic/racist/heathen/terrorist/backwards/repressive/dictatorial/rogue/etc etc etc, so as to pressure it to fall in line

4. Use the propaganda you’ve been spouting to get your people in line with hating this country

5. Use the propaganda you’ve been spouting to get the target isolated diplomatically

6. If it doesn’t fall in line, then invade it or take over its government by force and subterfuge.

7. Use the propaganda you’ve been spouting to excuse any attrocities/war crimes/revealed subterfuge

8. Move on to the next target.

This is quintessential liberalism. Liberals will constantly advertise that it was liberalism that produced the legal framework of human rights, or that liberalism brought back “democratic” governance. They will also constantly attack other ideological frameworks as having committed attrocities, as people using them just to grab power, as malevolent systems of control, as being backwards and repressive, etc. However, they will always conveniently ignore the evils brought about by liberalism, such as… oh you know… that tiny thing called CAPITALISM and all it entails.

In this regard, liberals behave like religious radical extremists. They think they’ve ascended to some sort of moral nirvana. Hence everyone should be forcibly converted to liberalism. If anybody refuses to, it’s clearly because they are a bad, evil person with no respect for human rights or democracy. Thus, any such people, groups of people or even countries should be attacked until they change their mind. It’s for everyone’s best interests after all.

In the current era, most Western liberal governments view liberalism cynically, as a tool of control and coercion, through virtue signalling (Funny how liberals will be ever vigilant to detect control and coercion elsewhere, but completely fail to see it in their own system). Because colonial capitalist exploitation is being applied right back to the imperial core nowadays, and because digital communication gives instant access to any information anywhere in the world, it’s getting harder and harder for Western governments to keep their populace content. Therefore, they have no qualms about employing the very same behaviours they accuse others of. But it’s OK, because through the liberal washing machine, any and all attrocities, insults to dignity, hypocritical proclamations, and scandalous repression, can be excused as a justified means to a wonderful end.

And there seems to be a sort of monopoly trust going on for the past 30 years, with companies agreeing with each other on what game prices will be across the board. They are even openly admitting that they are waiting for a big release like GTA 6, to raise the standard release price of games.

Not just any industrial powerhouse. Germany is an industrial powerhouse. Italy is an industrial powerhouse.

Socialism produces industrial powerhouses that are putting people into space, building nuclear reactors and inventing revolutionary technologies.

Hollywood does something far more dangerous with Stalin, Mao and Lenin, compared with Hitler.

They do not make movies about them, but there’s plenty of movies and series where the characters will refer to communism as evil, usually with an off-hand matter-of-fact statement, often outright equating communist leaders (especially Stalin) to the story’s villain or to other evil people in history (e.g. Hitler), and then quickly move on to whatever else is going on in the film. This is extremely prevalent, especially when the film revolves around espionage, international intrigues, political dramas, science fiction, historical films, etc.

This is way more dangerous than films dedicated to them (and the liberal propaganda against them), because the audience is focused on something else. Their defenses are down, and propaganda seeps in. The confidence with which such statements are made, from characters that the audience usually has spent the last hour or so empathizing with, reinforces the acceptance of the audience. And these occurrences are often enough, that over time, the audience takes it for granted that communism is evil, that Stalin, Mao and Lenin killed way more people than Hitler and that they should treat communism as a joke.

On the other hand, western movies about Nazi attrocities are not made to criticize the Nazis as such. It’s actually very rare to see the Nazi ideology being connected to the attrocities being committed. Almost universally, one can see that the Nazi characters are evil, but not that they are evil because they are Nazis. Only that they are sadistic, abusive psychopaths. Usually, there’s going to be at least one Nazi/German character that is shown to be a somewhat decent human, who either objects to the attrocities, or accepts them as a necessary step to saving Germany, or is outright oblivious of any attrocities and is just misguided. Film-makers might intend to show that even good people can fall for Nazism, but at least some of the audience are likely to take it that Nazism isn’t necessarily that bad. It just attracted the wrong kind of people who gave Nazism a bad name.

Doubly so, when western movies focus on Western European battles, where Germans (and Italians when they appear) are shown to be tragically heroic, fighting for the other men in their units, and eagerly missing their families back home. It’s extremely rare to show major German characters in such movies participating in attrocities. If any attrocities are performed, they are usually perpetrated by unnamed characters who often appear only to perform the attrocity and then go away, while our heroic Germans are dumbfounded and sad.

There’s also the matter for how Hitler or high-ranking Nazis are portrayed. Often as outright crazy or delusional, almost always as bubbling fools but somehow charismatic at the same time. The film Downfall is especially guilty here, as it often tries to present Hitler in a sympathetic light, a tragic figure that got swept away by hubris.

All of this might not be done intentionally. Film-makers might be going in with the best of intentions and are just trying to balance making a good film, with presenting an anti-fascist message, their own liberalism, the studio’s desire for money, and political pressures from various sides.

However, the result of this contrasting presentation leads to a simple sub-conscious conclusion: Communism should be dismissed outright as evil, inhuman and foolish. No need to talk about it. No need to examine it. There’s definitely no good role models to look at. Every communist is as evil as the dictator Stalin. Fascism though, requires thought and discussion. Every facet of fascism should be examined. Sometimes good people become fascists after all. Maybe fascism isn’t so bad, it’s just the people who represented it made mistakes or used it for their own personal villainy. We shouldn’t assume that just because someone is a fascist they are inhuman, or even bad people.

It’s even worse than you let on.

The F35 is supposed to have stealth capabilities. That’s partly why it costs so much.

Ansar Allah locked on the most technologically advanced stealth fighter the West has ever produced.

Nah, the Vatican just trying to get off the sanctions list 😂

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