SweetLava [he/him]

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Cake day: September 24th, 2022

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  • just plain capitalism. it’s a lot easier to see without all the Reaganite bullshit getting pushed next to a weakening USSR.

    this is as raw as it gets in “peace times,” peace in the Western definition where we aren’t technically fighting Russia and we’re just using a bunch of proxy forces and/or economic policy.

    It’s all uneven, too, so it would be bold to claim this is progressive or regressive or even neither. Some countries are on their way to knocking down capitalism, others are coming with a more Third World nationalist type of approach (think Non-Aligned Movement). Of course the liberals are dominant in the West, they aren’t really doing much and their failures are openining up the gates of hell. Unfortunately some of the “socialist” movements we see are more of the socially conservative, or even National Bolshevik, types, so we have the international fascists alongside the national communists - don’t ask me how that makes sense…

    Yeah, just expect all those contradictions Marx warned about back in the 1800s, when all the middle classes of Europe were celebrating their new economic success after the brutality of the initial industrialization, to come back. Just like the end of the 1800s leading into the end of World War I.

    We just have to remember the US invasion of Iraq (2003) and the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022) are just the typical markers of something fucked up to come. A little bit of rivalry and jealousy among the different capitalists goes a long way.

    For what people like us, Communists and other leftists of the more revolutionary edge, we just have to stay disciplined and get some work done while we’re ahead. There could be a civil war in Germany tomorrow for all we know lol. It’s just business as usual, no different from the 1840s, 1870s, 1910s, 1960s, etc







  • I didn’t really get that out of it at all, but I developed a skill to see past a lot of the garbage. It was fear-mongering and overall just a scary way of saying China has reduced the use of death penalty, there are better mechanisms in place to prevent unlawful/unnecessary use of death penalty, and a drive to replace gunshot execution with lethal injection. The “victims” included are simply multi-million dollar fraud (essentially) and an abused kid that went on to (cw: violence) rape and kill.

    You are right, in that there seems to be no widespread use of this van in the event that it is seriously used.




  • tl;dr - There is no better or worse when discussing American policy on Israel. We will head on the same trajectory regardless. No need to give Trump nor Biden any credit.

    Likely worse. His team is fully of anti-China, anti-Iran warhawks. I don’t think he’d approve of getting or keeping Americans away from Syria, Iran, Palestine and occupied Palestine, Taiwan, Japan, the Phillipines, etc.

    We all know the story. Yes, Democrats and bad. Yes, Republicans are undeniably worse in every way at every level.

    His team this time around will also be more competent. Maybe he will pivot to an “America First” agenda… then what? The open NED-type operations will be less noticable, others will be taken up by partners of the EU and other NATO members besides the US. Covert operations and the other dark, buried, illegal shit will boost exponentially.

    But look. Biden has his support base, he has his voters secured. So does Trump. They’re both Americans and both have already been president for 4 years each. We already know what has been happening and we know what is happening. The US will continue doing what its government and key capitalists already have been planning to do.