What if they take it seriously and suffer the other consequences? Because remember, the biggest threat to Germany currently isn’t Russia or China or even America; it’s the far right. Expanding the military this much would put a lot of strain on the budget and inevitably come at the cost of social welfare, further fueling the far right as living conditions get worse and worse. And on top of that taking healthy young adults away from a workforce that already needs more people to do something wholly unproductive can’t be good for the economy. You’re completely ignoring the opportunity cost here; there are simply more important and pressing problems that deserve attention and budget than a hypothetical with nothing to back it up.

WWII jokes aside, it’s absolutely inane that Germany is actually taking “threats from Russia” seriously. It’s one thing to keep their military in shape, but nothing we’ve seen from Russia makes expanding it even remotely necessary. Spend this momey on the poor you corporate stooge. And let’s not get into the demographic crisis these idiots are exacerbating with their treatment of immigrants.

I gladly welcome New Zealand into the third world.

You’re citing my text but cutting off just before the point I was trying to make.

Yes, because my point is that your point doesn’t make sense.

I think be would still side with the people who claim to follow his ideology

Why…? That’s not how leftwing politics worked, ever, and it’s not like there has ever been a shortage of leftwing criticism of Leninism and Stalinism.

r in Marx’s case admitting that his ideas didn’t work or the fact that they didn’t work as intended cost the lives of millions.

Yeah that’s my point: They’re not his ideas; they’re their ideas. Lenin for example, aside from being an authoritarian dickhead, was an intellectual juggernaut and a lot of his ideas would be baked into the foundation of the Soviet Union. What you’re presenting here is a false dichotomy.

It’s important to understand that 20th century communist states weren’t just “communist” (there’s no such ideology as communism); they were Marxist-Leninist, which despite the name is a rebranding of Bolshevism by Stalin. “Socialist” and “communist” are incredibly broad terms, and the idea that communist = implementing Marx’s ideas is so reductive as to be just wrong. Now Marx’s opinion would likely vary depending on time and place, but at least he’d probably condemn Stalin’s USSR as an authoritarian hellhole. Beyond that I have no idea, but many Marxists who were contemporary to the things you describe condemned them and many others supported them, so we can’t make a realistic guess without projecting our own values on him. Basically what you’re asking is analogous to “what would Adam Smith think about the current state of the US;” it’s something we can speculate about but generally isn’t as salient a point as seem to you think it is.

PS: I suspect you don’t know much about Marx’s ideas, so you should start from there. First, the dictatorship of the proletariat isn’t necessarily an actual dictatorship (that’s not how the term is used by Marx).

Well I guess I’ll be eating my words I have no idea what the hell is going on here.

I think if he were honest with himself he would see that what he got wasn’t what he had envisioned in any of the countries that claimed to be communist/socialist.

I mean… obviously? Bolshevik theory (which is what all future socialist/“socialist” states would adopt) was their own take on Marxism with a lot of original thought. That’s where the authoritarianism comes from, and it’s not like the Bolsheviks were trying to hide it. Odds are Marx would denounce the Bolsheviks as heretics.

I’m pretty sure there’s no domestic terrorism charge in the US. There are state-level charges of doing insert crime as a terror act, but that’s it.

No no you see it’s only Science TM if they can use it to shit on Christians.

Trump is a (self-proclaimed) billionaire; of course he’s not going to object to more exploitation of the working class. It’s a whole different conversation when it’s something that will hurt the owner class.

I imagine Trump will possibly be more receptive to Mamdani’s comments in that private than in public.

In what way? Because I hate to remind you but Trump is a literal fascist.

Mfers looking for people driving with accents.

Yeah that’s the thing: They (usually) do. It’s weird and irrational, but people are weird and irrational.

Outside romantic relationships, the vast majority of people don’t have to deal with false declarations of love, so there’s no general method here. If you want to ask about your specific case you’ll need to provide more information.

Yeah, absolutely, just wanted to point out that this shit won’t stop if, say, his diet kills him.

Apparently both versions are old as hell.

Most eurocentric thing I’ve seen today. The swastika is still used in Indian religions. I guess very theoretically an exception could be made for practicing Hindus, but I doubt the military has too many of those.

The Mexican flag, probably.

US presidents haven’t been punished for wrongdoing for at least half a century.

The only thing that will stop him, singular, is death. The only thing that will stop them, plural, is a popular uprising.