When Kojima scans feet, he does not destroy them.

I should pay more attention when posting, clearly. I see someone say “tankie” and I fire up the tank, but it appears that our disagreements aren’t that substantial. Unless you’re a trotskyist, of course…

Much more nuanced than expected. Okay, yes, the American revolution was a bourgeois revolution, and historically progressive in the sense that it unshackled the forces of production compared to continued British rule. It was still far less progressive and far less admirable than the French revolution, though.

Diva was incorrect in claiming that it was a counterrevolution, since there was no preceding revolution to react against, but the rest is all perfectly accurate.

Qilai, buyuan zuo nuli de renmen!

You can cry “tankie” all you want, but you can’t refute any of it. It was a “revolution” led by slave owners who didn’t want to pay taxes.

It’s certainly not out of the realm of possibility, though there’s no direct evidence. One possible reason there’s no direct evidence is that, as deputy AG Todd Blanche recently said, they’re withholding any images that contain violence, physical harm, or death.

Comrade Donnie over here nationalizing industries, you love to see it

Being the best president of the 21st century is also an incredibly low bar. Two of the five are child molesters!

Who’s trolling? You’re the one who thinks the lives of 3000 Americans has more value than millions of Koreans and Iraqis.

Calm down, Ben shapiro

“The reason why the U.S. has a continued military presence in South Korea is because the South Korean government requests it and pays for it.” Imagine how cucked you’d have to be to pay for your own occupation force voluntarily, God damn.

You’re extremely mistaken regarding the Korean war. The South was not the “legitimate government” of Korea, it was an American-installed dictatorship made up of collaborators from the previous Japanese occupation. The North had a much greater claim to being the legitimate government, and Kim Il Sung, having fought the Japanese rather than being a collaborator, would have won nationwide elections had the American occupation allowed them.

The 38th parallel was not an internationally recognized border, and didn’t become one until after the war. It was just the demarcation between the two occupation zones. South Korea made plenty of incursions into the North before the war, it’s just that the North pulled the trigger on an all-out invasion, and they had every right to do so given that half of their country was occupied by a hostile imperial power.

Nobody’s “stanning” North Korea, you dolt. We’re talking about history, and the history is that the United States pursued a campaign of genocidal terror-bombing against North Korea, destroying every city, town, and piece of civilian infrastructure. They used biological weapons developed by Imperial Japan’s Unit 731, they doused villages full of people with napalm. It is in no way inaccurate to say that it was a war of extermination that you undertook against them. To top it off, after the armistice, you imposed a perpetual economic siege and military encirclement, in their eyes threatening to resume hostilities at any time. Is it any wonder that they would end up “sooo craaaazy and evil”? All I said was that the US went a lot crazier per building destroyed than they did.

2 buildings vs. all of them. Incomparable.The rabid dog genocidaires of the United $naKKKes will assuredly be punished for their crimes

How so?

They have no defined borders, the most extreme among them claim the whole middle east, and they just keep getting more extreme. The progression is obvious

“You have to earn my vote” is very different from “you’ll never get my vote no matter what you do.” You can kind of say whatever you want though, given that the Democrats never tried to earn votes.

You should realize there is a spectrum between “working within the existing Democratic party structure” and “violent revolution.” The former is as unlikely as the latter. But now that I put it into words, maybe you’re right. Maybe all change in America is equally impossible - the establishment is too powerful and entrenched, and the American people just don’t have it in them to fight for anything. Maybe you just have to ride this doom spiral all the way to the bottom and rebuild from the rubble before anything gets any better.

I don’t know how so many people are still falling for this. Sure, the Iranian government isn’t exactly “good”, but they’re the only major counterbalance to the genocidal Nazi imperialists that’s left in the region.

Sure, but perceived volume of people on the internet isn’t necessarily indicative of real life, and I would hazard a guess that a lot of the people boycotting were in safe blue ridings.

The thing is, I don’t think it’s so much that they see a progressive platform as a risk. I won’t say that isn’t part of it, but the main thing is they really, really don’t want to implement progressive policies. It’s anathema to them ideologically, at least for the true believers. More important, it would lose their major donors money, and therefore would lose them money as their donors went over to the Republicans.

As tho why progressives should in general (upcoming elections are arguable of course, given the situation) withhold their votes from the Democrats, it’s because it’s the only leverage they have. As long as the Democrats can win without offering people anything, they won’t offer anything.

The law only exists so far as it is enforced. Who will enforce the law against the state? Political power grows out the barrel of a gun.

Nothing is forever, even cold November rain