ShimmeringKoi
@ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net
- Comment on US spies stoked separatism in Greenland, Denmark says 4 hours ago:
Every American accusation an American confession
- Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent 21 hours ago:
“Whichever one Russia is, I don’t remember”
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 3 days ago:
Please inform me, what is “their action on Taiwan”?
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 3 days ago:
Live China Reaction: bugs-no
- Comment on Woody Allen rebuts Ukrainian condemnation over Moscow film festival appearance 3 days ago:
“Pedophile still somehow not ostracized”
- Comment on What's your thoughts on this? 1 week ago:
DO NOT, MY FRIENDS, BECOME ADDICTED TO ELECTRICITY
- Comment on Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 1 week ago:
It would certainly have been more comfortable for all the upper class supporters of Hitler
- Comment on Trump says Ukraine needs to make a deal after summit with Putin ends without ceasefire 1 week ago:
My consolation prize for being in the collapsing hell empire is watching the smug liberal jingoists lose their minds at the cold hard touch of reality
- Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ 1 week ago:
I> don’t even need to highlight exactly how I know, you are well aware. You don’t have a choice, and I understand that. I also understand that you literally cannot let this go, as you have been trained not to. To let it go would bring harm to the Party.
- Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ 1 week ago:
u mad bro?
Now who’s unserious
Russia, Iran, China. Textbook definitions of Authoritarian government.
So authoritarianism is when designated state enemy that the US wants to bomb. Refreshingly honest for someone who probably wouldn’t admit to being an American jingoist otherwise. No but for real, tell me a definition, not examples. You do know what words mean, right?
Winnie the Pooh
Cool racism bro
Netanyahu
Who did you vote for this past election?
- Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ 1 week ago:
That’s absolutely fascinating
In what way? What do you find fascinating about it? Say what you mean instead of hiding behind redditor cliches.
a tirade
My comment was all of two sentences long. If that’s what you consider a tirade, you’re gonna hate what comes next. Of course, we both know the actual reason you chose that word is because you want to paint any disagreement with your self-evidently correct ideas as coming from a place of mental instability. Call me hysterical or delusional next.
ridding the world of obvious evil
This is purely subjective and doesn’t actually mean anything. Good and evil are stories for explaining the world to children, adults understand that history operates on cause and effect. And even on your own terms, you haven’t defined evil, so how can it have any meaning that can be shared between us. Nazi Germany and Israel were/are also “ridding the world of obvious evil” from their perspective, am I supposed to just take that nonsense justification at face value because you presume that to be sane and rational, a person must share your prejudices?
You don’t have a serious position to take
This is the black hole at the center of the galaxy calling the sun black. Here’s a quick summary of the serious position we don’t have, courtesy of one of the lengthy essays we don’t write:
A Marxist understanding of capitalism leads to anti-imperialism. Anti-imperialism is understood by detractors as a simple rhetorical dressing over simplistic heuristics like “reflexive anti-americanism,” “history repeats itself,” and “the military-industrial complex needs contracts,” but all of these are reductive. Marxists understand that human political leadership in the imperial periphery, whether enlightened or tyrannical, will only be antagonized by empire for one single possible reason: it is getting in the way of market penetration. This is phrased succinctly by Kevin Dooley when criticizing Noam Chomsky’s support for a military alliance between the Kurds and the USA in Syria: “The difference between [Chomsky’s] position and a hard-line anti-imperialist position isn’t tactical. What he’s arguing is simply a violation of anti-imperialist principles based on a fundamentally different understanding of what can drive the empire to act in the world.” [16]
The accusation that anti-imperialists are unconcerned with human rights deserves a sharp rebuke. The USA was born of slavery and genocide, dropped atomic bombs as a matter of political brinkmanship, imported Nazi scientists and installed war criminals like Klaus Barbie and Nobusuke Kishi around the world to defend and advance anti-communist positions [17], and enthusiastically supports gruesome butcherers today. Simply put, Capital has destroyed innumerable countries and murdered hundreds of millions directly and indirectly. It is precisely a concern for the rights of humans that should make one immediately skeptical of any humanitarian posturing by Capital. Anti-imperialism not only means support for the important pro-social projects of states like Cuba, Vietnam, and China; it also means critical support for non-socialist states such as Iran and Russia. Critical support acknowledges that, though instituting various indefensible policies, enemies of empire are not being antagonized because of said policies. The only thing that can drive empire to act in the world is capital accumulation.
You are coping by telling yourself that one of the most widespread ideologies on the planet, with a century and a half of theory behind it and revolutions up on the scoreboard, has no serious positions. It’s peak solipsism: you can’t understand it or won’t bother to, so it must be gibberish.
Authoritarian
What, in your own words, does this term mean? I’ve had this conversation a thousand times, and nobody has been able to provide an answer that doesn’t just boil down to “any use of authority that I personally dislike”. Maybe you’ll be the first.
Look man, my problem with liberals, aside from the support for nazis and genocide, is that you have a static, shoebox diorama view of the world. Things simply are, good guys are good guys and bad guys are bad guys, and that’s that. It’s very similar to the more right wing liberals who think that “criminals” are just a group of people that spawn in dark alleys like a video game.
A Marxist view on the other hand, a materialist view, conceives of the world and all it’s parts as a machine in motion, each component affecting others and being affected. Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation did not crawl out of a molten crack in the ground: the US empire created the government and installed him at its head to facilitate the shock doctrine that allowed corporate entities to strip the very profitable flesh from the bones of the former USSR. Western communists did not fall out of a coconut tree: we were liberals who believed sincerely in the stated values of liberalism and could not look past its rank hypocrisy and racism. I’m not a hostile NPC the game put here to challenge you dawg, I’m you from the future.
- Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ 2 weeks ago:
You guys always,without fail, fall back on hollow quips whenever you’re asked questions of a practical nature, because your ideology is not built for answering practical questions, it’s built for justifying power.
- Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ 2 weeks ago:
Okay, let’s say you press the button that kills all the “evil” people (what does that mean) at once. What would you expect to happen next?
- Comment on US | Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’ 2 weeks ago:
This one shitty capitalist is the source of all evil in the liberal mind, and it’s turned you all into borderline religious fanatics ranting about the devil . What are you going to do when he keels over in like 10 years and nothing changes? I know, I know, asking this question makes me a Russian spy or a bot or whatever I need to be so I can be written off as less than human for not wanting to experience nuclear Armageddon.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 2 weeks ago:
Who’d have thought that not letting your infrastructure rot would put one in a better position to do infrastructure stuff? Not us, because planning ahead is for poors and commies
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 2 weeks ago:
Finland
- Comment on Permian Park 2 weeks ago:
Dropping acid for a lad’s trip to Cambrian Park
- Comment on Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe dies two months being shot at campaign event 2 weeks ago:
Crabs outcrab-partyrip-bozocrab-party
- Comment on US-Russia plan truce deal that would cement Putin’s gains in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, the number of flags and dead men’s pictures lining every inch of that walk. It looks surreal, like one of those cartoon graveyards with no room for a single additional headstone. This is lunacy, actual madness. Death to America. Image
- Comment on US-Russia plan truce deal that would cement Putin’s gains in Ukraine, Bloomberg reports 2 weeks ago:
It was over before it stared dawg, nice weird homophobia btw. Why are you all like this
- Comment on China and Russia conduct joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan 3 weeks ago:
Don’t you mean “freedom of navigation exercises”?
- Comment on US House panel subpoenas Bill and Hillary Clinton for Epstein testimony 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on North Korean youth risk arrest for speaking like South Koreans 4 weeks ago:
Could you even FIND any “NK” propaganda if you tried, or are you just considering anything outside the US imperial propaganda sphere (the biggest and most pervasive in history) to be “enemy propaganda”? Seriously, I want to know where in the english_speaking internet you think people are even encountering northern perspectives at all. Because this seems to me like the laziest, most ridiculous “no u”.
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns 1 month ago:
Good, get nationalized idiot
- Comment on Thai woman arrested for blackmailing monks after sex with thousands of videos 1 month ago:
God forbid woman hobbies etc
- Comment on Taiwan says it detected 11 Chinese aircraft, 7 naval vessels, 1 ship as it prepares to resist China's invasion 1 month ago:
China being “about to invade Taiwan” for 80 years solidarity Iran being “weeks away from a nuclear weapon” for 40 years
- Comment on North Korea opens massive beach resort, rolls out red carpet for Russians 1 month ago:
Eyy waterparksquirtle-jam
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
- Comment on Viruses related to deadly human diseases found in Chinese bats 2 months ago:
Oh cool, the libs are now 2015-era fascists who think they’re coy
