Is there any argument that could be made that it might be in Iran’s interests to let the enemy think it was more successful than it was, leading Iran to give false confirmations on the success of the assassinations? Or would there be no reason to do that? I take it that Iran never did confirm Esmail Qaani’s death, given he is clearly still alive. But that makes me wonder if there are other people that the entity claims to have killed but that Iran has not confirmed are dead, in other words more people like Esmail Qaani who are in a Schrödinger’s cat situation but might pop up like Qaani. Or was he the only one in that limbo who wasn’t verified by Iran as dead? If there are other discrepancies like that, then we’re back to where @[email protected] was at, wondering which others might still be kicking around.

ISIS was created by the CIA in Iraq.

Do you happen to have any good sources that describe how that came about?

This sounds very plausible to me, but I’m curious about who the differing bourgeois factions are and where the line is between their opposing desires. Is this a finance capital vs industrial capital thing, where finance doesn’t want to risk escalation and possible nuclear war but the evangelicals in industrial capital do? Or is that way off?

Without a doubt, that’s the healthier, better option.

Still tho

They were just doing a drive to try to get people to mod for that comm. As we know they settled for a fascist, which makes them no better. I’m sure they wouldn’t have allowed any communist (read: “aUtHoRiTaRiAn”) Pole into the position. But if you made an .ml account and most importantly, hid your power levels, they might let you onto the small mod team, especially if they were having as hard a time as they claimed finding any takers. Your fluency would probably go a long ways with winning them over. Obviously you’d have to actually want to take on the hassle of doing it, and playing a part for a while, but I don’t know, some people would find that fun and amusing. If you made it on, just playing the “fair and balanced” card, I’d bet you could help ensure some actual reality makes it through rather than every single good comment getting removed. Just a thought.

Seriously, I had been saving up to get a good monitor, now I wonder if I would be falling for a “go out and buy treats fast while you still can!” scheme if I bought one now when I can’t quite afford it, or if waiting until I’ve saved up enough will mean it’s too late and I won’t be able to afford one at all because they’ve quadrupled in price in 2 months.

That was a piece of the whole pegging the entire planet to the dollar and ensuring global dollar hegemony, but it was just another effect of that and not the cause of what’s seen in the graph, right? Either way the ditching the gold standard is not what conspiracy-chuds and many libertarians think it is.

Just mash that button, Xi, please. I keep reading comments around these parts from people who are smarter than me saying that liberalism is winning in China, even that it already has, and that our leftist hopes for China have been dashed. These aren’t anti-Dengists either, they’re very pro-CPC saying a big turn to liberal policies is relatively recent. I don’t know, is it just doomerism? I read things like this and it helps refill some of that waning hope.

Thank you for the reply.

I would hope Cuba also teaches of Stalin positively, or at least presents history as it truly was with all the positive things Stalin did for the USSR and the world. But I know nothing about the education system in either country.

This is an honest question, not a challenge. Why is DPRK still a remnant of Bolshevism but Cuba is not? Did DPRK follow in some early theoretical footsteps that Cuba didn’t?

Do we want more engaged and active users if they’re coming from- I dunno, lemm.ee for instance? I don’t think anyone here would want that

Nope, this was reality (not “the story”) all along. Considering that it’s known nazis who were running the ethnic cleansing campaign, it’s pretty clear that you can’t have one “goalpost” without the other. The fact that this is the first time you’ve heard this and think it’s moving of goalposts really speaks to your utter ignorance on the topic. But I realize most westerners are completely ignorant on the topic sadly, seeing as the “pUtiN BIG MEANIE RuZzIa is EBIL dictatorship! Poor smol bean Ukraine!” narrative is the only thing that’s allowed through the propaganda filter there.

Spoken like someone who clearly has zero knowledge of actual history. Especially considering a large part of the reason why the coup government in Ukraine began their campaign of ethnically cleansing the eastern population of their own country was because the people living there more strongly identified with Russia, wanted to be able to keep speaking Russian without persecution, and eventually pleaded with Russia to intervene on their behalf, which Russia fortunately did. But anyone who actually understands the history of the region is a “psychopath.” lol

The machine only outputs the value you put into it, since it’s constant capital. 5G worth of raw materials produces 5G worth of transformed material. 10G produces 10G, etc. You can make your machines faster and more efficient but they will still output exactly what you put into them

the machine will still output 3G of transformed material for 3G of raw material

But if this is the case, then what good are machines at all? If they only output the same value that went into them, then wouldn’t that make them entirely superfluous? I can understand that human labor is always required in addition to any machine, but surely machines still do increase the value of the material input? And more so the more efficient you make that machine, otherwise what would it even mean to make it more efficient?

Yeah, the nazis and their defenders will always come out of the woodwork any time someone points out the (easily verifiable) facts regarding who really won WWII (the Soviet Union) and defeated the axis powers.

And you’re a fuckin’ clown.

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Obama notoriously destroyed his entire political apparatus once it had served his purpose

How? What is this referring to?