Man, what a bad year for us. Look at all these setbacks the global communist movement faced and didn't overcome:
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The Chinese spy balloon incident. We hoped the presidency and the Pentagon would make utter fools of themselves by shooting down children's kites and talking about alien invaders. Didn't happen: Biden's measured and appropriate response won him the admiration of the entire world, and put to rest any lingering doubts about his fitness for office.
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US sanctions absolutely destroying China's semiconductor industry. We thought that one of the world's richest countries, with the biggest real economy and most advanced industrial base on earth, would find a way to make needed chips on their own. Nope: cheap commie manufacturing got exposed once again as unable to adapt to the computer age, and the Chinese had to come begging to Washington to get the sanctions lifted. Just like Reagan predicted.
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The US economy and the USD were both stronger than ever, with de-dollarization basically a nonstarter. (This after the US did NOT experience a recession in 2022, and after American economists absolutely did NOT redefine the very meaning of the word in order to hide how badly the economy was doing). We hoped Russia and China announce a raft of trade agreements, including trade in yuan; none of that came to fruition, and we might as well accept that Bretton Woods is going to be with us forever.
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Russian retreat from Bakhmut, a city which had not strategic value to begin with. Russia said it was the key to the Donbas, and as good Z bots we have to keep parroting that line, but we all know the city was only attacked to stroke Putin's ego. Avdiivka is NOT, I repeat NOT, in danger from Russian forces.
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But the biggest humiliation we faced: the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which people are STILL talking about, which ISN'T being quietly swept under the rug, and which all freedom-loving people (not Tankies) will CONTINUE to talk about until the end of time. We thought the Ukrainian army would stall at the skirmish line, unable to advance because of extensive mining and massive Russian firepower; instead, we had to gnash our teeth in rage as those rag-tag Ukrainian heroes, armed with advanced American and EU weaponry, broke through Russian lines and liberated Crimea. Guess those Patriot missiles really are invincible.
So there it is, a really crappy year for anti-imperialism. Let's hope 2024 can be better.
I guarantee you some redditor is going to screenshot this post and repost it seriously on their subreddits
Us Tankies copeing and seething like this would be Ukraine's greatest victory all year.
I hope it becomes a back and forth with both sides screenshotting the post and reactions, then the reactions to the reactions and so on until the text becomes completely illegible.
I’d be so much happier if we were wrong.
Like yeah sure there’s a toxic part of me that gets some kind of boost from being ontologically correct but it’s like “ha I was right. Oh fuck…”
Same tbh, I'm like a dog on the fourth of July. I just wish some smart person like Aaron Sorkin or Lin Manuel Mirands could explain politics to me.
Not to mention the fact that the Chinese economy is going to collapse any day now.
Every year is a great year to be a ML because we stay winning
We lost materially, but we won the "I told you so" game. Which is what we are best at winning.
It wasn't as bad as... that is to say, it could have been worse if...
Yeah, there's really no way 1991 was a win. For anybody.
The peoples of the USSR had so many new things that year.
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You consider that a win???
Killed a few thousand innocent civilians and in response we got 1 million Iraqis and Afghanis dead, the passage of the Patriots Act, ramping up of domestic and overseas fascism, etc.
You consider that a win???
Symbollically it marked the first strike against the american empire, I think its the turning point that will be seen in history as the start of the end for the USA.
Obviouslly what came after was awfull.
Eh, the first blow came long before that. This was just the most visible one, and not worth the cost.
I suspect the cost would have been paid no matter if it happened or not, it was the rebellion of those oppressed in the middle east.
Not really. It was a violent and desperate assault by deranged fundamentalists that the US had armed, trained, and abandoned; therefore making their own bed to lie in.
It doesn’t really seem like it was meant as a rebellion if the Taliban pissed their pants immediately and offered to surrender Osama, and to aid international forces in capturing him, if the US didn’t invade.
Even in his infamous letter, Osama spends the majority of it wailing and and ranting about hating those that don’t follow Allah, and the “moral removed” of the west.
The conditions of all of these things where put into place by the US; I dont deny that those who attacked had extermist views, and non-alligned views with our own, outside of the scope of anti-impearlism; however I view it a symbollic moment the US realized the bombs go both ways.
Im also less likely to give credit to the idea that Osama's rants, and the wider radical islamic doctrine are again products of being colonized violently, given that im not going to blame the oppressed for holding these views when we keep bombing any schools they build.
I do agree with that first part. 9/11 was pretty much a wake up call of the consequences of American imperialism. While the perpetrators were evil, vile, and backwards religious extremists, the shock felt by the US after 9/11 did tangentially support the anti-imperialist movement.
Also I do agree for the second part partially, but at the same time Osama was hardly the one building schools, and very gleefully participated in blowing them up alongside the US. So he doesn’t really get the benefit of eating his imperialism cake, while whining about how evil it is when he runs out his usefulness to the machine. Not to mention that he was the same “moral removed” that he rallied against, as most Afganis saw him, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban as backwards, imperial hicks that was actively taking Afghanistan back in time. (I wonder why Afghanis didn’t like a random deranged Saudi man).
Yeah dont get me wrong im not holding up Osama here, I know he wasnt a figure to idolize or hold up up in a current day settin and im not a twitter Osama video rider. I do think that the creation of Osama by the US state apparatus is what turns a lot of people on to just why things are the way they are in the middle east though, and I think thats why 9/11 is significant as a honest academic material analysis of the situation always leads to the US.
Im also less likely to give credit to the idea that Osama’s rants, and the wider radical islamic doctrine are again products of being colonized violently
I'd say that Wahhabism and radical, fundamentalist Islamic doctrine and jihadi movements are not entirely the product of colonialism (though a fair bit is in reaction to colonialism)- but their proliferation and general success (for certain measures of success) absolutely is, both in the sense that the west has a long history of backing Islamic extremists to undermine secular Arab, north/west African, central Asian, and Muslim south and southeast Asian countries, and that the conditions of "post-imperialism" naturally also don't lend themselves to moderate religious views (particularly when a certain grouping of countries tends to kill off secular nationalists and socialists).
It was an unironically horrible year for a tankie, stuck in Ukraine, while my SO is right over the eastern border. I'm so tired... It's hard to imagine normal life now.
Thank you, comrade... I'm just really hoping that the war will end soon, and I'll be able to move away. I hate this place with a passion.
Is it difficult to get out now and claim asylum somewhere? There's a lot of Ukrainians around Europe now.
You can't get out legally if you're an adult male. You'd have to pay an exorbitant amount of money to get smuggled through the border, and it's still very risky.
Usually it involves a long journey through the wilderness with non-zero chance of being lost, starved, frostbitten (at the colder times of year) having dangerous encounters with wildlife and even more dangerous ones with the customs.
Sorry to hear that, comrade. Puts my shitposting here in perspective. Hope all is well with you and the SO, and that you're able to get to a safe place soon. This criminal western-backed war can't end soon enough.
We're physically well, but mentally exhausted. Both of us can't wait for this war to be over.
Puts my shitposting here in perspective
Sometimes it's easy to look at the world events and say "yeah, this is horrible, but in the end it'll lead us to the better world", and kinda forget about those swept up in these events. I do this too, because the only other option is a complete burnout.
And finally the outstanding PR success that has been supporting the totally peaceful, inclusive, democratic and legit state of Israel in its efforts to promote
ethinic cleansingpeace againstarabs untermenschterroristsThe Chinese spy balloon incident. We hoped the presidency and the Pentagon would make utter fools of themselves by shooting down children’s kites and talking about alien invaders. Didn’t happen: Biden’s measured and appropriate response won him the admiration of the entire world, and put to rest any lingering doubts about his fitness for office.
This is a win for the commies. Biden let that spy balloon stay afloat for several days, more than enough time for the CCP to gather sensitive data. This is irrefutable proof that Biden and his democrat cabal are controlled by the Chinese. It's only a matter of time before Texas gets hit by a judeo-Chinese space laser!
Texas gets hit by a judeo-Chinese space laser!
but will they survive the Muslamic raygunzz?
Fortunately, not all seems to be lost, i heard that AFU is currently completing occupation of not Vladivostok but merely Moscow.
The Ghost of Keeeeeev has only shot down 9,999 Russian planes this year, down from 69,420 kills in 2022.
Small blessings.
It sucks for sure. But if lib politicians like Biden and Baerbock can face up to uncomfortable facts, we Marxists can do it too.
My doctor told me I'd be getting stomach pain from worrying too much about the failure of China's high speed rail industry (and absolutely not from all the champagne I've been denying myself to bemoan the definitely continuing adventures of Henry Kissinger)
And not to mention Ukronazis currently advacing rapidly on every single front, destroying any hopes of Russia capturing Marinka, keeping Bakhmut and Avdiivka while Russian military must run and build entire new defense lines in the middle of winter which is impossible and wasting tens of thousands of soldiers in failed offensive.
Honestly from my review of the war it seems like Russia is winning pretty convincingly;
- Ukraine only met 10% of its recruitment
- US wants Zelensky to hold elections, the head of the Ukraine military and Zelensky have been butting heads over this and several high profile deepfakes and several murder attempts on the challenger, Zaluzhnyi and his family; Zelensky has been resisting holding an election
- Front line has more or less frozen with small Russian gains over the last 12 months
I think surrender or peace will be on the cards over the winter.
Avdiivka is NOT, I repeat NOT, in danger from Russian forces.
Also I disagree with this
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doesnt look stable to me
this ones for the redditor screen capping this to post on /r/politics, I see you
I think surrender or peace will be on the cards over the winter.
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Don't forget that Israel benefits from more worldwide popular support than ever!
it's not satire 2023 was a horrible year for tankies. altho idk what op is talking about im just talking about me stubbing my toe really hard which was like my 4x 9/11s
