This is the most expensive, supposedly most advanced stealth fighter jet in the history of the world and it took a budget of trillions of dollars to develop. It’s a big deal that a jet that costs about a hundred million to get and needs expensive mainteinance for every hour of use could feasibly be destroyed by a weapon that costs tens of thousands of dollars.

Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions

Validity of theory isn’t based on what its writers do, but on what its students do. It’s a social science and without practical application it is absolutely worthless.

Marx, Engels and Lenin have been proven right by the practice of Marxist-Leninists, it isn’t the rule that the best theorists are also revolutionary leaders, but revolutionary leaders by their success prove the worth of the theory they applied to their circumstances.

I’ve never met a Bordiga follower whose achievements amount to more than writing in opposition to AES. You didn’t need to read leftcoms for that.

More than enabling competition the strength of FOSS is that it enables cooperation.

One guy in his bedroom can’t build a huge enterprise level app, but a hundred people working on what they have expertise at? They absolutely can

Bordiga lmao

I don’t do shit but hate on communists, and that’s the truly revolutionary stance.

I dont oppose colonialism

Capitalism spent centuries being the secondary mode of production under feudalism before the bourgeoisie had developed the productive forces enough to transition away from feudalism. The USSR, Albania and others attempted to force a socialist mode or production before the productive forces were sufficiently developed and it didn’t work. China’s strategy of development of the productive forces has had very little downside and I think it’s unreasonable and kind of suspect to want them to turn back (to policies that ultras would also condemn for one reason or another, as they always do). Poverty fetishism isn’t Marxist and isn’t scientific.

Or you could just read The State and Revolution where Lenin goes into it for about a hundred pages. It’s been out for over a century.

The split of a nation state into multiple smaller ones, usually along cultural or ethnic lines as in the Balkan states, Yugoslavia having split into Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia

I just twisted up into funny shapes like Professor Crocker shouting “Operation Gladio”

The government that is currently considering layoffs for a big chunk of the CIA, the bedrock of anti-insurgency? The one that just jettisoned USAID and has put vampire appointments on every federal regulatory body? Is that what centralizing and strengthening itself looks like?

If the US balkanizes, “Democrat” and “Republican” isn’t where the split will happen. Less than half the voting population even identifies with either party, ffs.

There’s plenty of cultural, religious and legal splits that could lead to a split. California is the obvious example, which would have to split with or take over Nevada and Colorado for the river and the dam. Texans has never been shy about longing for their own microstate and the swamp south has about as much in common with Seattle or Illinois as they do with British Columbia, if that.

It is Mussolini, the partisans executed him and his mistress and dumped in the city square. People beat up and stoned their corpses before they were strung up, badly disfiguring them.

Not to be a party pooper but we’ve seen it before. Hell, we’re seeing it right now with Kid Starver’s labor party.

Libs will claw back an unenthusiastic win, worry about The Economy ™️ (huge bankers and financiers), crack down on leftists then happily get dogwalked by conservatives with a vengeance the next cycle.

The US century of humiliation getting a running start lately holy shit

Where’s the evidence for that claim? There’s evidence of it happening in Israel and the US migrant concentration camps, but I haven’t seen any regarding China other than “trust me bro”

Peak lib brained statement. Does nobody have to die for it to be a murder?

Not that your assumption is any less false, there is zero evidence of genocide in Xinjiang, there is an open campaign against fundamentalist radicalization driven by US proxies which had resulted in some of the most deadly terror attacks in the world for more than a decade. The way such a campaign is conducted is via community outreach, job programs and (in cases where people have already been radicalized) reeducation.

These programs have been lauded by the Arab League as an example to be followed in the fight against terrorism. But if you have any evidence (actual evidence, not war-profiteer ASPI citing fascist evangelical Adrian Zenz and satellite pictures of nondescript buildings) I’d like to see it. Because if you don’t have evidence but are happy to tell others that it’s happening, you might want to examine your gullibility and whether it’s driven by sinophobia.

“There is no war in Basingse”

Libs stop thinking of politics like a children’s story challenge (impossible)

It is not a bold claim. Israel was from the outset an European colonial project which gained support from the US and Britain to gain a satellite in West Asia, as its unsinkable aircraft carrier/missile platform. The huge amounts of “aid” that has been given to them from its inception should be ample proof (whomever pays for the band picks the music) but US politicians aren’t shy about it either, as with Biden

Were there not an Israel the United States would have to invent an Israel

We can think of a better system that the USSR or USA.

Not by listening to anarchists in the imperial core. If y’all can’t be trusted not to sling mud at the guy under whose leadership the Nazis were stopped (and who repeatedly tried to stop them before they got as powerful as they did) then I don’t trust y’all with anything else regarding politics.

In short, this isn’t a glowing report of Stalin’s achievements.

Of course it’s not. It’s an internal report by the CIA regarding the political situation in the USSR.

reflects the legacy of Stalin’s crackdowns on dissent and internal opposition

Oh no, if only they’d let CIA agents run amok in the name of freedom and democracy.