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“The bourgeois mode of production is the last antagonistic form of the social process of production… but the productive forces developing within bourgeois society create also the material conditions for a solution of this antagonism” — Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

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Cake day: October 27th, 2024

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  • { In 2008, US Ambassador (later CIA Director) William Burn cautioned that NATO expansionism “particularly to Ukraine” could cause a Russian invasion, stating, “In Ukraine, [fears surrounding such expansion include] that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.” He goes on: “Experts tell us that Russia is particularly worried that the strong divisions in Ukraine over NATO membership, with much of the ethnic-Russian community against membership, could lead to a major split, involving violence or at worst, civil war. In that eventuality, Russia would have to decide whether to intervene; a decision Russia does not want to have to face.”

    { In June 2022, a WSJ/National Opinion Research Center poll showed 55% of Ukrainians believed NATO (and 58% wrt the US, 70% wrt the Ukrainian govt.) bears some/a great deal of responsibility for the Russian invasion and ongoing war.

    Russian propaganda runs deep!!



  • The communist revolution in China did not “fail” and the nation has not become less socialist due to its reforms; you are blinded by aesthetics and you do not understand Marxism. Opening up the economy was a move by the CPC that reflected a proper understanding of the subjective nature of socialist construction and corrected Mao’s systematic fatalism/mechanism.




  • during a period of warfare between Israel and Palestine

    just genuine nonsense

    pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. violently attacked Jewish American diners and pedestrians in Los Angeles and New York, shouting messages including “Fuck Jews.”

    The paper only cites this CNN article for this claim, which doesn’t directly mention Los Angeles (but does link to other CNN articles that deal with this case), dealing primarily with the case in New York, the article qualifying that “F**k Jews” was “allegedly” yelled by the attackers. This is the source that THEY CITED.

    From the article we learn that the assaulted man “told CNN's Don Lemon that the attack took him by surprise as he was headed to a rally.” A rally for what? This article doesn’t say, but this NBC New York article says it was “a pro-Israel rally.” We know “the gang assault happened near the protests that erupted Thursday night in Times Square, shortly after an announced ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect” (and this is something the authors of the paper cited as well if they count any links within the cited article as being within the citation for that article, which they would have to for the LA case), so even if the authors weren’t certain which rally he was heading to, why wasn’t this mentioned in the paper?

    This is all from the first very first page, and I’m not going through the rest of the article, but already this shouldn’t have been published.



  • At least they’re setting deadlines and verbally admonishing Israel, under Trump you won’t even get that. If you had given the Democrats at least another four years to learn how to not continue sending billions of dollars to the entity they’re VERY upset with, then maybe we’d get somewhere.

    You know when you vote third party or don’t vote at all, they count that as a vote for Trump, and that’s what won him the election. Congrats, you really helped Gaza!!




  • My insults are actually very straightforward and not revenge for being insulted in the first place. I insulted your intelligence because your replies are unintelligent.

    I think your misunderstanding is a product of your needing to be right alongside poor reading comprehension. You decided to be cemented in your beliefs rather than take a closer look.

    Lastly, check the chronological order and what comments you’re replying to. Please don’t keep replying to me, it’s the same thing over and over again.


  • Alright, you wouldn’t know anything about this. Then there’s nothing else to say.

    I didn’t confirm your assumptions, I already responded to this. Call it a ritual if you like, I don’t care. Genuinely just semantics. The argument comes in when you say that it’s weird and you “don’t like it” (welcome back Kamala!!).

    I never said that. But I will bet you that people who are regulars in those sorts of threads look more favourably on each other.

    So? You could say that for any thread. People interact with each other and share viewpoints and form connections. How sinister!! This is not the same as what you said before. You now this.


  • Your whole attitude towards me from the start was negative and confrontational. I expressed an opinion and you said I should delete my account, called me an idiot, questioned my mental faculties, and then shouted at me in all caps. what kind of response did you expect?

    Just one response with the semblance of a correct point. What did you expect when you got a response to your original comment explaining why it was wrong and decided to smugly misunderstand it and continue digging your hole with awful arguments and bad info?

    Can you get out of your Orwell irony for one second? You admit you know nothing about the site, and yet use irony to deflect from admitting you’re wrong. I’m not asking you to submit to anything, you’re not in a dystopia, you thought there were daily threads where users were expected to say something and there weren’t. There never were. And no “we were always at war with Eurasia” nonsense. Just stop.