And the libs don't reply at all to comments like this.
SevenSkalls
joined 1 year ago
I noticed that lol. Weird...
What the hell triggered new aggression on Cuba by Trump?
I think this one is my favorite answer so far, besides the ones people have already posted by Monkey_DDD_Luffy:
The primary contradiction in the world is imperialism vs anti-imperialism.
Socialists come down on the side of anti-imperialism.
A lot of the soft-left has an incorrect analysis that Russia is imperialist, this is not correct. It is aspirationally imperialist but the imperialist bloc in the world is the nato block led by the US. Russia in its opposition to this bloc also provides arms and helps in the defence of all the other opponents to the imperialist bloc.
It doesn't do this out of goodness. It is aspirationally imperialist. But this does not matter. The primary contradiction in the world is imperialism vs anti-imperialism. Everything that harms the imperialists increases the sovereignty in the rest of the world. Increasing the sovereignty increases the potential for revolution unimpeded by the mass genocide that the imperialists have carried out dozens of times against communists.
Another way to look at this problem is to do a thought experiment:
Tomorrow, let's say a EU country has a socialist revolution. Who are its enemies? Who are its potential allies? The first thing this new socialist country needs is the capability to defend itself from counter-revolution, they are immediately about to be attacked. Ask yourself who is going to do that attacking, and who and where this new socialist nation is going to get weapons, supplies, logistics and allies from. Is the nato block going to be nice to this new communist-led country? Or is it immediately going to throw it out and start attacking it? Are the nato countries going to arm it or sanction it? Is Russia going to view it as useful to support or as an enemy? China? DPRK? Iran? The global south? This thought experiment will lead you to making the correct analysis about who our potential friends are and who our real enemies are. I don't need to point out what the correct answers are, they are self-evident realities of the current time. Your enemies will become the nato countries, you will need weapons and you will be getting them from russia, and you will need many other things that are going to come from iran, china, potentially the dprk among others.
This is the reality of the world and a lot of the soft-left has never performed this thought experiment to come to the conclusion that while Russia is absolutely not a good country, it is a strategic necessity to socialists and anti-imperialists in the current moment.
Does that mean everyone should become loud mouths about it? Also no. That would be a tactical mistake.
Isn't this literally a Keye and Peele sketch?
Ah, the Corbyn playbook
Their control is slipping. Between this and Zohran's election, the powers that be must be getting scared. They're losing the narrative.
Ya they've actually been complaining a good amount about this one and I think decided to read every single page of the bill to extend the time to vote on it by however many days. Don't remember which chamber. I have to give them credit for that one at least.
That and leaving his daughter with Cloud and Tifa. Especially since I've played FF7: Rebirth, where Barrett goes through a little arc about taking care of his adopted daughter and wanting to be better at it. After leaving her frequently during his dangerous job as a member of AVALANCHE or the events of FF7, you think he'd choose to spend more time with her. (I know people have complaints about the new games, but that's one of the things I actually thought they improved over the original - except for the end of Dyne and the placement of a comedic fight there.)
I think they were just determined to thrust Cloud and Tifa in a little family and so took Marlene from Barrett and gave her to them.
He is now from some polls but we're so far from that election it doesn't even matter. We still have so many years of Trump it's crazy they're even talking about that election.
I'm getting at least 5 of these calls a day. It's getting insane.
I think another big part of that with hexbear is that 1) it was a relatively big instance before people arrived to lemmy so it looked like an army of people disagreeing with someone when they were wrong, giving the appearance of brigading, and 2) down votes don't exist in this instance so when someone disagrees with someone else they have to write a comment to them.
Hexbear is definitely argumentative, too, but it actually seems less so than it used to be to me. Or maybe all the defeding made it less. Or maybe being here so long has made me see other sides to hexbear. Idk.