The Deprogram guys are pretty great.
Yugopnik might be my spirit commie though.
He talks like he's a cousin who would call you an idiot but would undoubtly have your back in a scrap.
Griswalds, Simpsons, Griffins, McAlisters, Bradys....
Even in their time, these families werent average. MAYBE AT BEST by the numbers they were a not an insignificant minority.
👀 If your family owns a two story house with a semi finished basement, you are NOT average in America at any time ever.
Im allowed to pick sides. Damn the morals.
I know what kind of people and things liberals have sympathies for and what they will overlook and justify.
So fuck them and their atrocity propaganda. I like the soviets. I like Gaddafi. I like the revolutionary peoples of China. I like Palestine. I like the DPRK.
Fuck you, liberals. It's your own standards and hypocracies that allow me to appreciate revolutionaries without much criticism because they dont have to justify shit to you liberals.
Kulaks deserved it. Landlords deserved it. Plantation owners in Cuba deserved it. Colonizers deserved it. Yankees deserved it. Ukronazis deserved it.
Debate these potatoes, libs. 👊👊
Yeah. I love big stompy robots anyway.
Maurader 2 looks sick
Sure. It's not a "problem" really. The issue that I have is that all of the houses and clans being detestible is based on bullshit we think is actually true in real life. Like they took the house that was "socialist" and basically slapped together ill the bullshit lies about real socialist states and then put a veneer of sci fi on it? Then the house that is the allegory for "America" is bad because they keep talking about freedom and all that bullshit but they're.... Smug about it. 😒
I dont know all the lore. And Im slowly getting into it. But most of the stuff im seeing so far is just lazy sci fi. Which is a big shame.
Battletech lore is the most nonsense sci fi I have sver heard
Like Warhammer lore is digestible because it's very self aware that it's ridiculous.
Battletech unfortunately is really self serious. The different houses of the Inner Sphere are basically a rough sketch of what a redditor thinks America, Europe, Russia, and China are and Japan.
Then you have the clans who are basically exiled nazis with a handful of quirky social progressive quirks.
This. Is a shame because Battletech and MechWarrior are really cool.
But the understanding of states of any stripe is basically what a redditor thinks if they were also from the 80s.
I think I would appreciate sci fi that werent blisteringly inaccurate and vulgar appropriations of real modern day states. God damn.
Dude... What the shit?
You know... There comes a time when you start seeing numbers next to dollar signs and conclude that idiots are just pulling numbers out of their ass.
What part of that trillion is even real???
They were removed and moaning about sending billions to the Ukraine but you just found a trillion dollars in the couch cushions for MORE military shit?
...This shit is straight up fake. THAT money aint even real.
If it's any consolation, comrade.... We aint getting out of this world alive.
I got another way to deal with libs.
"If you were serious about anything you say, you would be talking to a recruiter about enlisting so the Russians can kill you instead of trying to make me feel bad about supporting China or Russia. Hail Satan."
I will never convince them otherwise. Maybe the horrors of a Russian volley will change their mind.
Yes. This. It's gone beyond PatSoc horse shit and Im seeing a very noticeable uptick of platforming backwards discussions by leftists calling it "platforming free speech" and "not being afraid to hear out your 'enemies'"
And it's fine. It's really jist okay that stochastic violence is happening to the LGBTQ community because I guess letting that slide will somehow pave peace between the East and west if we just have a global coordinated genocide of queer people? Because that's what it looks like.
Im over it. Im sick of free speech fetishists ignoring fighting words just because corporate will silence a virulent antisemite to protect their brand.
...I hate the west
Their obsession with free speech and how people thinks society went too far to ban Kanye from twitter after his PRO. NAZI. Media tour makes me SERIOUSLY resent western values.
Liberalism is white supremacy.
...If you are even SLIGHTLY marginalized... Get a means of self defense that puts bigots in the ground.
westerners arent going to stop until there's a ubi for conservative voices and leftist voices are put on notice for being devisive.
Death to this whole fascistic psycho world.
Also. I know what all this bullshit is about. It is all mass hysteria about trans people. It's transphobia top to bottom and side to side.
Here's some free speech for the west. The anticolonial and anti imperialist left trapped in the west who have a platform to be heard by many are transphobic by always lumping social progressivism into the democratic party platform AND... those same leftists low key hope that more stochastic terrorism kills more trans people. I said it and Im not wrong. How i
The west will forever be innocent and a victim.
leaves the party
Okay. God. Fucking. Damn. It.
Fine. Dont call Bandera a fucking Nazi. Fine. What did the mother fucker do?
He killed Poles, Jews, and Russians. That is what he did. IN THE NAME OF A PURE UKRAINE!
Okay. Heh aint a nazi. So okay.
Is it Ukrainian to kill Jews, Poles, and Russians? Is that the ESSENCE of what it means to be a Ukrainian? Is that it? Is that what we gotta get behind?
God DAMN these fucking liars! And god damn these comfortable liberals who are surprised by the revalations of nazi exposure.
To hell with Canada. Seriously.
In WW3, let it be the last war. May the East and Global South not stop until there is no west. Until it is simply a land of wild animals and vine covered malls and weeds cracking and turning to gravel the roads and side walks.
I fucking hate whites.
Fucking THANK YOU. This clown...
I agree. Yeah.
They are a pet.
I want to make sure I understand your meaning....
"We will make sure people have a bed to sleep in and a full belly. And we will make sure UP TO using the gun to see that it happens."
...Is that what you mean?
Because I would LOVE and I mean fucking. LOVE for my country to be downright draconian as the 10th circle of Hell to see to it that the people have all that they need.
Genuinely. Do you seriously have an issue with folks who want to hurt the common prosperity and welfare of the masses living a life of terror?
Can you walk us through what you mean? Because forcing the common prosperity and security of the masses at gun point is unironically the most moral and right thing to do.
Frankly. I seriously think these "socialists" who want to means test socialism should be put in prison.
That is just so fucking sad. Imagine murdering people because they didnt want other people to go hungry.
Christ almighty that's based!
Ugh. I love the colors.
Thank you.
I honestly have to argue what the fuck they wanna talk about when they mean they're against tankies. Cause if it's being against policy; I have ZERO idea why they arent just far right libertarians.
If you're anti tankie; here is a few policies you SHOULD be against
Free education -Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Vietnam
15% wage for rent - Soviet Union
Land Redistribution (Landback?) - Cuba, China, Soviet Union
Unions - Soviet Union, Cuba, China, Vietnam, DPRK
Free natural disaster reconstruction - DPRK
State of the art public transit - China
No electricity bill -Gaddafi Libya
No interest loans - Gaddafi Libya
On work site medical care - Soviet Union
Pre employment unemployment UBI - Gaddafi Libya
We can go on and on and on and on and on.
If one is an "anti tankie", then it must follow that one must be against these kinds of policies.
Progressives and leftists DREAM of having these things. But they're committed to being against the tankies.
They have yet to demonstrate how the masses are supposed to get these benefits by negotiating and appealing to the good graces of capitalists.
But they're TERRIFIED at the prospect that the people.may do these exact things AT GUNPOINT. As if they know those guns are meant for them.
How progressives and liberals can tell themselves they are the good guys because Putin is a conservative dictator is just so far gone, man. Jist fuckin stratosphere detatched. Far out.
Alright. Im gonna turn all y'all into MLG thought.
You got some hungry people. Answer. Feed them.
Contradiction: people who prevent people from eating
Synthesis: kick their ass and chase them off
Contradiction: Distribution
Synthesis: Fix roads. Streamline supply chains. Adjust for weather conditions.
It's that simple. You dont need a long hard discussion over these things. At no point does the necessary way to move forward require that liberals feel free about it.
This is what I call Marxism-Leninism-Gloriousism
Based young lady who talks about the soviet union!
Her videos are really nice.
Older comrades in here. I have a question. Need some advice.
I have a partner in my polycule relationship that is going to date someone from Ukraine. 😒
I have a problem. I can respect that ANY Ukrainian is likely pissed about the Donbas war and the Russian SMO.
I dont know this man. And Im already disgusted with myself for being prejudiced.
My partner is a socially progressive liberal. And they once tried taking me to task about China once before.
I told them it was best we never talked global politics.
But I will absolutely 100% lose my entire shit if my partner starts going openly rah rah for Ukraine.
My partner says they love and adore me. But they dont have a deep appreciation of me being a Tankie and they deserve to know. They deserve to understand or at least know who I am.
I cant abide a lover living in a lie and giving their love on a misunderstanding.
How do I approach this diplomatically and in good faith? Because Im probably gonna have to meet this guy and frankly... He is a Ukrainian in the US. Im being prejudiced; b
Im calling bullshit
Look. There was a lot of leftists out here giving the GoP too much shine and too much rub with their claiming of the Donbass war money funneling is wrong.
If the red wave happened; they would NOT have ended the funneling of weapons and cash to the ukraine.
They would have blamed the dems for starting shit and causing a moral trap and NOW we cant pull out because we have to RELUCTANTLY fight the Russians instead of being enthusiastic about it.
And Im frankly done playing along with the anti imperialist left giving the GoP way too much credit simply because the republicans are morally lucky and currently morally advantaged.
These MAGA politicians are not some right wing populist thing that we should BELIEVE them about their whole anti war posturing. Stop. They're full of shit and just as fake as the squad and Bernie.
Is it possible that the US military is overvalued?
I was thinking about that point that people bring up about military spending with the US and Im getting suspicious that the actual money spent on the US military is a mirage suggesting a capability that far far surpasses the capabilities of the next 10 near peers of the USA.
Something just doesnt add up.
The US has spent trillions on its military yet NATO and the US is having a tough time making the fight against Russia trivial.
If the money spent is any indication of capability; then it follows that besting Russia in Ukraine should be trivial. But that is not the case.
You see... I can understand designing weapons in order to kill and win wars which Im sure that is the principles of Russian and Chinese philosophy in warfare.
But what if the US is doing that... But also allowing the profit motive to have a say? Im starting to think that the USA is blowing money on overvalued systems that are AT BEST, MAYBE a tiny bit more effective than the oppositions' weapons.
It aint like U
Lib or fool's guide to anticolonialism (or why you should support anyone but the west no matter what)
So you are a lib. You care about women. You care about LGBTQ. You care about minorities. Fine.
Questions. Do YOU specifically command the US military and NATO militaries? No. Do they fight like you want them to fight? No. How many women or trans people or queer people have they liberated with their bombs? Or did they just... End lives of civilians indiscriminately?
If you stop supporting NATO and American militarism, then potentially, reactionary forces that cant POSSIBLY muster the amount of destruction like the USA may rise. This may blunt social progressive things... But like how you cant command the US army, neither can you convince or control how other countries forge their futures if they had peace from imperialism.
If you are a human rights lib; you have no reason to support NATO. All they do is kill women, queer folks, and children and sometimes reactionary men.
You dont have to have opinions on other countries. NATO is not a civilizing force and you dont have t
McArthur should have been executed after the nazi and Japan surrender
He might have been the most dangerous man alive after WW2 and frankly ANYONE in the west even slightly like him should be kept under surveillance forever. Maybe even stripped of any kind of authority.
That man was a demon.
Nerd culture doesnt deserve The Sandman
Nerds are the most joyless, antisocial, and bitter people.
Dont be a nerd.
Just spitballing here....
So the USA has federal laws protecting things such as mail and privacy and protection from unlawful searches and whatnot.
And I got to thinking. MOST abortions arent surgical anymore. Most are just pills you take and you go into a heavy period.
You can order these pills online and get them shipped anywhere.
So HOW can single states even manage to enforce anti abortion laws so long as folks have a network of friends willing to do things for their friends or even for themselves?
Im at work and dont have much time to elaborate.
But just put yourself in the shoes of Mississippi for example. How can you go about enforcing an anti abortion law without violating SEVERAL amendments? HOW can you even know when someone has an abortion? Do you have the manpower? Is the court big enough and willing to serve warrants for every period cycle in your state?
How exactly can you enforce it even if you wanted to?
Now that America is poised to show its true cultural face...
Is it time to start asking the progressive chauvinists if it makes sense that we hope the Chinese communists and their progressive members invade America? To bring back women's and minority rights at the point of their guns and root out the y'all quaida elements?
Is it time to ask them if we should begin to hope that they intervene in our names like Americans have pretended to do for decades in the East in the names of women and minorities?
Is it now time and appropriate to wave the banners of nations we believe would be capable of saving us from ourselves in our protests?
And if they dont trust the Chinese military, does it not play that it can help the progressive cause if Chinese missiles level DC? To buy us an opening to do what we want in the rubble of American cities?
You know... just asking them these very fair questions.