ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

I can tell things are going great over there by how every piece of news is something like this

America’s response

What is it with dronies and an absolute fetish for collective punishment of women and kids

Lewis Black

Heh

Liberals looking at the genocide they wholeheartedly supported

The slack in what?

Yeah, he is dumb enough to do it but why is he being allowed to?

I have some news about Stalin courtesy of, no shit, the CIA

Sam Altman? The guy who’s currently on the wrong side of the dirt for SAing his sister?

Seriously.

What’s authoritarianism, and how does a country do it?

I know when I’m bested.

This is not true

Can you name a single non-“authoritarian” state, please?

They’re still comrades even if they are miss guided

This is unironically the nicest and most reconciliatory anti-tank post I’ve ever seen. We have different assessments but neither of us are writing off the other as stupid or an LLM, which is actually a breath of fresh air. The bar for political discourse may be in hell these days, but I still appreciate your clearing it.

As for where our views diverge, I would like to understand the nature of the divergence. I guess my main question is: what decides your ideology’s position on the spectrum?

The world did not need the first set of resident evil movies, and I say that as someone who’s personality is largely rooted in them

The world arbiter of freedom and goodness

FUCK it’s too real

Pillaging of the global south for labor and resources

Thanks Harvard Political review, I hadn’t noticed

Folks, the bourgeoisie. They’re no good, more and more people are saying it