Did we just find the Blackrock CEO secret Lemmy account?

It’s a fact that private ownership exists under Communism.

Ah yes the wonderful “freedom of property”, which means “the freedom of megacorps to buy up all the property, and overcharge you exorbitant fees to rent because you have no other option than to be homeless”.

The capitalism endgame is that megacorps own everything, regular working class people own nothing.

Only the megacorps are actually free.

All these states are universally impoverished and abusing basic human rights

As opposed to capitalist states, which are wealthy because a small handful of powerful people have extracted the value from everyone else, by abusing human rights.

long as it is notionally in opposition to the US and it’s allies

Man, I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but Russia isn’t even opposed to the US, as long as the Christian white supremacist fascists are ruling things.

The sheer irony of people playing defense for a white supremacist fascist state and then accusing someone else of being a “fascist sympathizer”. Like dawg the call is coming from inside the house.

Wdym financial cashes, pandemic, doomscrolling, Trump got the presidency twice??

You’re talking crazy it’s only 2005 bro, futuristic computer interface means frutiger aero, I listen to music on my iPod and text on my candybar flip phone </3</3

Paradox of Tolerance - Karl Poppler - 1945

It’s a shame that something we already figured out 60 years ago still needs to be learned by most people.

The good news is, this is an opportunity for you to grow and be better right now. It’s never too late to improve yourself.

“Negotiating a peace deal”

Ukraine was not involved in the peace deal, it was Russia and the US alone behind closed doors.

That’s not a normal peace deal.

And now Israel is voting in the UN in favor of Russia.

The US, Israel, and Russia are similar countries with similar leaders, similar goals, similar methods. Unless we actually see one of the three experience an internal revolution, an alliance is inevitable.

I can’t argue against anything you said there.

The advantage of a Harris administration is that the US would continue to be unfriendly to Russia, so pro-Russia leftists could continue to believe that Ukraine was just a vassal ruled by US deep state plants, and not have to face the world-shattering reality of a US-Russia alliance against Ukraine.

If Putin came in as a liberator, sure. Instead it became a convenient excuse for the subjugation of Ukrainian people, demoralizing them and terrorizing them with war crimes, so he can annex their land and strip them of natural resources.

The US was heavily involved in overthrowing that government.

Slight reference here to a prominent Russian theory that Ukraine is under US deep state government control. Which is this was true, the US wouldn’t looking to switch sides to Russia. And Ukraine wouldn’t be so set on continuing to defend itself even if the US switches.

That’s why I’m saying, pro-Russia leftists are going to mentally crumble if the US switches over, because their entire world view (the one they like to call their “nuanced geopolitical view”) has been ripped apart.

I do understand the argument, and it lays all accountability for Russia’s invasion at the feet of the US, NATO, and Ukraine.

It’s the equivalent of blaming Iraq for the US invasion, or blaming Hamas for Israel destroying Gaza. Make sense?

The “nuanced view of the geopolitics and history around the war in Ukraine” is usually a lot of mental gymnastics for the sole purpose of defending Russia.

lemmy.ml has a huge pro-Russia bias, for example, my recent comment accusing Russia of being a Nazi country was removed for being “bigoted”, another recent comment accusing Israel of being a Nazi country using identical phrasing remained untouched.

You can’t have it both ways, saying you don’t support Russia while putting in lots of effort to support Russia.

US is throwing in with Russia instead. So question is, will Russia be a US vassal, or the US a Russian vassal, or will the US and Russia jointly become the new Imperial Core.

After years of defending Russian war crimes I don’t think they’ll find it all that easy to “just stop supporting Russia”.

Like are they suddenly going to admit that Russia was commiting atrocities the entire time, or pretend the atrocities only started with the influence of their US ally, or just go silent on everything?

The new Fash Triumvirate of US, Israel, and Russia.

There’s a certain demographic of self-described “leftists” who end up being pro-Russia because they are anti-US and see Russia as the opposition to the US.

I’m curious to see if they’re able to mentally reconcile a possible geopolitical future where full fash USA and Russia become allies. Are they so pro-Russia that they become pro-USA, or are they so anti-USA they finally become anti-Russia?

Or do they just stick their heads in the ground and pretend like nothing is happening because their US vs Russia worldview cannot support real life geopolitics?