At least the knights had to go war with each other every once and a while when there were squabbles between nobility. Modern cops never have to go to war against other cops.
This is an extremely apt comparison. The US formed out of feudal elements like a southern aristocracy, and the cops were invented to be their slave catchers. They are petty bourgie sheriffs of the Wild West, ronins who are a warrior class above us but below the royalty and owners.
In the north, they then brought those cops in alongside pinkertons to break strikes and kill trade unionists.
It’s the exact same relationship to the state and to the people as feudal ronins.
It’s mostly their superior bank accounts that will do that
There has never been a point in history where Israel directly controlled this much Syrian territory, at this rate they will control most of the Syrian-Lebanon border before too long. That’s new. Hezbollah has never had to deal with Israeli invasions from the East
Critical support because that’s based
RuSsIan PrOpAgAnDa
This is them with strict orders from the top to be on their best behavior and avoid doing anything to offend US or Israel.
That strict discipline will waver quickly
CW: Chud telegram
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/13802
which Ukraine helped destroy...
Or the american-backed Neo-Nazi maidan coup taking power after burning trade unionists alive in 2014, backed by Biden, Obama and Nuland.
PUTLER'S FULL SCALE INVASION vs. our democratic revolution
Maybe stop throwing coups? Never can get a Liberal to admit that the US still throws coups all the time and that's a bad thing.
British and American airstrikes were targeting actual military infrastructure. They weren't "effective" enough so now the Zionists have been called in to do what they do, obliterate an entire nation with ordinance.
You and frauddog stumbled into the middle of a vague posting thread about a specific current we had noticed in the news thread of people who were being pro-HTS and celebrating the fall of Assad.
That is the context. So frauddog essentially came in blasting all the white anti-imperialists and scolding them for not listening to comprador Arab shitlibs who don’t understand that the death of Syria is the death of Palestine and the axis of resistance. I have family and friends, all Arabs, who celebrated Assad’s fall because they are incoherent and kind of stupid libs. I don’t think principled communists who spend all day analyzing news with a Marxist analysis should cede even an inch to these people.
I’m the one being de-colonial hardliner here, yet you misinterpreted the context and claim I’m a white supremacist or whatever the fuck because I put compradors on blast.
I never once said “not all white people” I think I was quite clear I don’t give a fuck about defending white people. I was pointing out how colonizers launder their views through token compradors and that we can’t necessarily trust someone just because they aren’t white. Look at the fucking Palestinian Authority and the kingdom of Jordan, look at those craven self-hating cucks and tell me we should respect "subjects of empire" automatically without scrutiny.
White Supremacist tactics? I think you have me confused. I'm the kind of hardliner anti-imperialist 3rd worldist who wants the complete and total destruction of the white supremacist west. I wouldn't blink at any amount of terror inflicted upon the USA/Israel or its accomplices.
The context of these comments is discussion around Syrians or Sunni Muslims from the region posting about how relieved they and their families are Assad is overthrown and Sunni supremacists have taken power.
I’m Arab and have a family full of Arab shitlibs who also celebrated the defeat of Assad.
The defeat of Assad is the defeat of Gaza and Palestine, it’s the destruction of the axis of resistance. I am sick and tired of my fellow Arabs around me cheering on Zionist victories like idiots, and then to see that sentiment here too pushed me to being quite angry. People cheering for the genocide of Palestine essentially because they are too stupid to realize they have been duped, or possibly people abandoning Palestine and retreating into their own reactionary sectarian squabbles because it's easier. Oh zionists appears to be winning against Palestine? Nevermind I don't care about Palestine now I care about "sunni oppression" by the Alawite menace or whatever the fuck idiocy they've been sold by the turks and daesh, let's ignore the massize Israeli invasion and landgrab and bombing campaigns and just imagine we don't have to fight them - just like the other arab states delude themselves.
Frauddog walked into the middle of that vagueposting context, and perhaps didn’t understand what they were defending. Their argument in that context meant that people on the news mega should shut up and listen to comprador HTS softpeddling. That we were wrong to critically support Assad and should have listened to Al Qaeda Zionists instead.
You might see where my sentiment is coming from that I don’t think white communists here on this site should defer to the standard Arab position because the standard Arab position is a shitlib Zionist comprador one. The axis of resistance is the decolonial force in the region, and HTS are NATO-backed colonizers. The majority users on this site, at least in the news mega, have a better grasp on the situation in the Middle East than my family members do, and they have a more correct and decolonial analysis. They shouldn’t shut up and listen to compradors, they have a firm Marxist analysis why would they toss that away in favor of some Arab liberal views?
I come to this site to escape stupid muslim sectarian reactionary nonsense that surrounds me and find fellow decolonial marxists who would support pan-arabism. Maybe this context helps you put together why I don't think the "stupid white commies of the news mega" should bow before the HTS apologists, and what I was talking about when I was speaking of "reactionary and imperialist narratives" pushed by compradors. Go into arab speaking social media around the fall of Assad to see the absolute shit show, 50% of those people really are brainwashed by zionists into believing in an alternate reality. UAE, Turks, Qatar, Saudis are all pushing this zionist anti-zionism. People with Palestine flags cheering on Hezbollah being surrounded by Israel, cheering American proxies taking power and Iran getting punched in the nose.
Never trust succs. All power to Morales to crush these traitors
Then we will lose communism as a playable option. The moment Firaxis removes fascism the “both sides” whining will be overwhelming
Paradox doesn’t make Civ, Firaxis does
I agree it should have some type of penalties, but it’s hard to implement fascism if you aren’t willing to include dirty historical realities like genocide and ethnic cleansing and colonialism.
I understand why Civ doesn’t want to allow naziboos to roleplay as a genocidal maniac in their game
uhhhh let me be kokiri... if you like your deku nut, you can keep it
Drove behind a giant lifted pickup with bumper stickers saying "Proud Vietnam Vet" and "Mekong Bay Yacht Club" with a custom license plate that i'm pretty sure contained an anti-asian slur.
What a perverse country we live in that people like this are punished in no way for they blatant serial killer signaling, but anyone who had a Hezbollah bumper sticker would be arrested for supporting terrorism