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Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and Iron Front/Antifascist enjoyer.
We must create a Popular Front against fascism.
I'm firmly anti-Zionist.
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Not even entertaining monkeywrenching or fucking with them via lease requirements. Some local jurisdictions have also tried to go real heavy handed with them on e.g. fire inspections, (not dissimilar to tactics conservative local governments have used against reproduction service providers).
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It drives me insane because showing a double standard in this *would* be a valid proof that someone’s anti Zionism is hiding antisemitism, but you have to *show* it, you can’t *assume* it.
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You know that little grease-twig has worn a Nazi uniform in a sexual context.
People who fetishize symbols of authority and violence the way he does generally do so because they're extra scared of the actual implements and practices - and of not measuring up to their one-handed fantasies.
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I have no doubt Miller thinks he can just kill everyone who disagrees, or kill enough of them that everyone else meekly falls into line. This is not because he is a savvy and calculated operator. This is because he's a fucking idiot.
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This is one of those things where being Venezuelan inoculates me against Tankie thought cause I'm very familiar with "what the actual people in this country want is immaterial so long as the faction I support opposes America"
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One telling statistic is that more Canadians actually volunteered to fight in Vietnam with the US Army than there were draft dodgers who headed to Canada
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Even Vietnam wasn’t Vietnam. 70% of US fatalities were volunteers ~3/4 of the troops in country were volunteers. 80% of the fragging was committed by volunteers.
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One of the biggest causes of WW2 was that German men wanted another go and wanted to win this time around, and they were willing to throw morality to the wolves if that would help them win (it didn't, in the event, ironically enough).
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So this is a problem people have with my work as well. It's almost impossible to get people of some political beliefs to comprehend that someone could be a soldier willingly. But they do
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Pretty much 95% of "why soldiers fight" scholarship is people post-1945 trying to find any possible reason for why German soldiers fought so hard other than the actually correct one (because they wanted to).
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I think this has to do with the way that white supremacy is sometimes talked about as a trans-historical, almost metaphysical force, instead of a contingent historical formation.
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This is the sort of thing that happens when everyone is expected to be a flawless ambassador for their beliefs
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I have been a bit confused at the lack of distinction between "ideas you should use while governing" and "political messaging platform", although tbh I think the authors have sometimes blurred the lines a bit in interviews and the like.
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It was a dumbass move to go on Hannia’s podcast considering the potential audience for the ideas and they deserve criticism for that, but a lot of the rest of the abundance critique is just hit dogs hollering. Like no shit Ralph Nader doesn’t like it!
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Nobody asks Zohran about India because there is no bipartisan obsession with India being a Hindu state (which it is not) or Turkey being a Turkish state or whatever. The Israel obsession is elite-driven.
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too many people are viewing it as election strategy and not what to do once you *are* elected.
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Doesn't help that Riley supports Trump and his buddies-- most of whom have been credibly accused of abusing kids. (That's why #NotADragQueen exists...)
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Personally? He doesn't.
The GOP writ large? Absolutely does, because Trump has made it clear that his policy is every last penny he can hoover up into his "war chest" (personal accounts) he does.
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The thing about Putin is that he didn't need Khodorkovsky or really any of the oligarchs. He could run a state with the siloviki and the military--he just preferred using the oligarchs to help balance against potential rivals within the siloviki and the military.
They were useful, not necessary.
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Riley Gaines is not beating the allegations of being a bully at best.
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But Democrats don't have the GOP winner take all/most delegate structure. Sanders' path via plurality takes him to a contested convention with proportional delegate allocations. He'd have to hope for a deadlock on ballots and then start horse trading for delegates--the sort of party stuff he hates
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Generally security comes from a combination of 3 factors.
- Too costly to invade (due to powerful military or hostile terrain like Switzerland)
- Part of a strong military alliance
- Peaceful neighbors with no desire to invade
How do you see security for Ukraine if it's not due to being well-armed?
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What does this even mean? All states are secured by arms.
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Never convince me it wasn’t a miss that Bernie didn’t drop out in the 2020 primaries and full force endorse Warren (and I like Bernie too)
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And a lot of the "Good Israeli" is hitting similar notes to "Good Russians", where they often oversell how humanitarian they actually are, and Ukrainians and Palestinians alike have a lot of justifiable problems with privileging good Russians/Israelis.
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Yeah, the Israeli opposition is basically conceptually similar to the Russian opposition, and has nearly the same points on liberalism at home, but violent colonialism, and the 2021-2022 Bennet-Lapid government is basically what a Russian opposition government under Navalny would look like.
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Also, "more than 1 million meals" sounds impressive if you don't know that there are more than 2 million people in Gaza.