More here, this new Tim Snyder interview is good too (broader themes like the far right in Europe, trump and Ukraine’s position in all this) don’t know which community to add it to (most don’t allow videos), but sounds relevant to this sub, so here it goes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIPxIAgEnM

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😜 wink wink

lol, might as well park them in Alaska, they’ll be safest there. But this is good, right, means they won’t be able to use them to attack Ukraine.

Ukraine is not even that small…it’s the size of France…it’s got the means, people and resources to do everything, but it’s just unfortunate that it ended up just next to fucking Mordor.

Which is a pity, because before that it was quite good and the most pro-EU channel, now people will default to assign it less credibility just because it is linked to Orban, even if nothing changed. I just watch it knowing this and filter out the potentially fishy stuff (I’ve seen one case of an interview about Orban/Fico replaced with another halfway and an interview with Varoufakis where he was talking weird about Ukraine)

I still think it is better than Fox, CNN, etc

But at least this makes it clear to the siloviki that this war is not doing them any favours as a wannabe superpower, even if they have endless mobiks to sacrifice

Yeah, he’s playing the heli. Spins his ponytail to take off, putin’s right there cozy up his ass.

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reddit? reddit’s dead

Yea, but I was thinking of socialism in practice e.g. China has private property…it’s just that it’s not an absolute right, it is secondary to some other interests i.e. the state/workers/etc look at what they did do Jack Ma when he started getting too elon musky for their liking.

I always thought tankies are mostly stalinists and nostalgic brezhnevists, a violent and fanatic type of marxist-leninist who will crush anyone and anything to establish their utopia. They don’t argue much, it’s just aesthetics, violence and rhetoric, they are essentially red fascists. Most communists I know (which includes leninists, but not only) are mostly pacifist…but they will quickly turn authoritarian to tamp down any fascists and rich people who get a little too uppity, so yea, naturally, rule of law and property rights are secondary to them.

I don’t know yet, I’ve seen democratic communists, like Lula, who are a bit daft sometimes (e.g. meeting putin wearing his little St. George ribbon, somebody slap him 😠💢 , hard), but who truly believe in welfare, nonviolence, human rights and democracy. I even understand that he is unnerved and aggrieved by bozo’s foreign-backed efforts to destroy Brazil, but he’s also making strange bedfellows.

But I’ve never seen a democratic/“cuddly” fascist that doesn’t eventually take their mask off and the whip out…maybe Meloni so far (I don’t understand italian politics enough to get what damage she’s done) or maybe peronismo…

I agree with your point that “the ideas furthest from you politically all look alike” (aka political myopia), that’s why fascists think everyone left of an ultraneoliberal is a “dirty commie” and why tankies think everyone right of liberal socialists are nazis (no, I’m not one of those who say elon is not a nazi, he is, but for his own actions, lol). It’s just terrifying when you see a friend of yours imbibe that bullshit and suddenly call everyone they don’t like (including FDR) a commie…are they fascist now? :/

putin sympathizes with elon nazi musk. I wonder what they think about him.

And yet he created this platform for us to use…I don’t agree with a lot of his politics, but I respect what he is doing (until the day someone provably reports some sneaky backdoor, doxxing IPs, serving private data to hostile states, undermining dissenting instances or other things like that)