AnarchoMLDialectic [comrade/them,any]

So a Swedish dude donated a plane to Finland starting their Air Force.

He used the swastika as his personal symbol…

Because he was an aryan supremacist and adopted the symbol due to the popular myth it united the aryan race. Not exactly a Nazi but he was drinking from the same well of aryan race theory and white supremacism, Nordic supremacism, as the most pure aryans, in particular.

Edit: having read the rest of this thread I see I am one of about a dozen people pointing this out. Doing my part.

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Ah well you see it’s because Russia are the bad guys.

Russia does bad things to the good guys which makes them the bad guys. We are the good guys because we do bad things to the bad guys.

It’s good to do bad things to bad guys. It’s only bad to do bad things to good guys. This makes them the bad guys and us the good guys.

You see?

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Fascist authoritarian political round up of your political opponents was definitely on the cards but to have it come from the democrats is just, that’s just excellent writing.

We were all so focused on who the bad guy was but this was merely a trick, a canny use of Lacanian gaze. Deflection.

Brilliant, the 2022 season is tense high drama and now brilliant plot twists. Let’s fucking go.

How are the “Actually it’s ok to tactically ally with fascists to defend the state” anarchists going to square this with ACAB?

To some extent it was true. Sometimes the empire was a net positive and sometimes a net negative. It really depended on how much steel they needed to turn into battleships.

The thing is though that the costs of empire were socialized. Taxes paid for the military and the colonial administration. Often a colony was paying for its own occupation but often it was the British public paying for it as well. These costs were socialized.

The profit of empire was privatized. Big capital got cheap land, government enforced monopolies, cheap and often actually slave labor, and they got to keep the profits.

For the British public as a whole often the empire was a net drain. It was never a net drain for the elite of Britain though. For them it was constant and immense profit. So they kept doing it. British imperialism was also extractive from the British workers, although the workers still got some less direct benefits from being higher up the supply chain and closer to the core, but they were still outside the core and were also exploited by it.

IMO as just another armchair geopolitician who doesn’t really know anything, that will come down to public opinion more than military reality.

If Ukraine collapses then that’s a humiliation for the USA. They will step in to prevent that and make concessions. But I think a total collapse of Ukrainian forces is unlikely (my estimation.)

Or let’s say something crazy like Zelenskiy goes on a rant about being betrayed by the west, kind of a fantasy since he is totally dependent on the west so he’s unlikely to bite at them but it’s at least conceivable his frustration at Ukrainians dying to achieve US geopolitical goals might get to him. He has real star power in the west and that gives him political leverage. If he threatened a Biden or BoJo re-election he would get big concessions from them.

Neither of these seem likely to me but it’s within the world of the plausible.

Honestly I think if the peace deal was all-encompassing about the security relationship between Europe, Russia, and the USA you probably could get close to it. But I agree it’s hard to see Russia making big concessions if the peace deal is limited to the immediate conflict.

I want off this ride.

I saw macron propose what is essentially Minsk 2. If only that was on the table before the war….

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Have you tried just stealing it while using a vpn?

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Everyone points at “lol china both sides” as though Reagan wasn’t selling missiles to the Iranians to fund his Narcofascists in Nicaragua.

I don’t buy most of that Hunter Biden shit. Most of it seemed like a mudsling of the slimiest type.

But…

What was he doing in Ukraine? Why did the son of the former VP have a seriously good job in Ukraine for which his primary qualification was clearly his last name?

Biden was still freelancing as a de facto diplomat and actor in Ukraine after Trump won. He was still active in terms of being an influencer and using his network. So how was it appropriate for Hunter Biden to have that job? Why wasn’t that the scandal instead of some hyperbolic and half baked sex scandal?

It was clear nepotism at best.

We didn’t have that conversation because of how crazy the laptop leak shit was and now it’s verboten to discuss this example of clear nepotism because if you bring it up everyone thinks you’re Qanoning about the sex stuff but actually there’s an exceptionally clear case for nepotistic corruption of the family of the president of the USA in a nation at war with Russia and at risk of dragging the USA into WW3. How the fuck is that not a story? Why didn’t we have this conversation? It’s absolutely mad.

That could be a spelling error and this tweet is still nazi as fuck. And it’s probably a dog whistle made to look like a justifiable spelling error.

But don’t worry about it he wants to lead “Dark MAGA” on a violent mission for national rebirth that is nazism straight up.

Cargo cult Marxists

Just gotta keep the rage alive. Vote blue no matter who for 20 years and they’ll eventually get to it.

Modern banking is Italian and more complex financial instruments like shares are Dutch and bleeding the natives white while you praise yourself for civilizing them is all of the above but the British did it best.