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Yes it does, but I imagine not all pistol parries are created equal

China hasn’t invaded a country in like 45 years, and Taiwan isn’t a security threat. So what’s your point?

That is an incredibly ironic statement. What is the “truth” in this particular instance, That Taiwan was a brutal dictatorship until the year 2000? That it was founded by mass murderer Chang Kai-Shek? Was it a part of China back then? When did it become not a part of China?

I’m pretty sure that Taiwan doesn’t want to be a part of China, and I support the self actualization of people. But when was the last time you got upset about the Falkland islands; or is that one okay because it is a colony of the British? What about The US’s unconscionable interventions in Haiti? You’re either all in on self actualization, or you’re a stooge.

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You see real democracy is when you subvert the will of the people and call it “checks and balances”.

“What are we gonna do guys? People think its weird for us to fixate on children’s genitals, and obsess over our daughters virginity while secretly indulging in wife swapping”.

“Let’s hate gay people! That always cheers us up!”

I mean, I guess that’s fine. People are more rude to me more than I am to them; I just can’t always shake the feeling that a post is dumb and pointless

Medicare only exists to cover the most expensive patients who require the most care, so that we can support a massive private insurance industry, and to ensure that industry remains profitable.

Anyone who denies that this system exists to explicitly elevate one class of people over another whom are exploited is living in a fantasy world

Well there’s this, its old but pretty funny https://fxtwitter.com/ParrotVulcan/status/1813712659268722955?s=19

Also.

I don’t know how much more digging around I wanna do in my discord server for random examples. And considering I wanted to delete this post – still not sure why people can still.see my.posts after I delete them. Must be a bug with different instances

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I have a constitutional right to glue an Uzi to a quadcopter to protect my GMC Sierra

Tbf there were people in the audience holding water bottles which could be thrown as a deadly weapon – how do you know those bottles aren’t full of kerosene – and also filming the officer which can lead to the officer’s family being threatened by doxxing. The only people allowed to threaten the officer’s family with violence is the officer

I didn’t mean it to be antagonistic, and I provided a source. Its just such a disgusting story, bereft of any humanity. I wish I had never heard about it, I just couldn’t believe someone wanted to like read about it

Jesus, you want a citation for this?

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israelis-protest-arrest-of-soldiers-accused-of-gang-raping-gazan-detainee/3288825

There have been protests inside Israel for ceasefire, the org Standing Together has done a lot of good organizing inside the country.

But one thing that Oct.7 accomplished was show the divisions in society wrt Palestinian apartheid. Its getting more difficult for people who can’t abide it to coexist with people who are okay with it; and the people who believe there should be even more brutality and violence against Palestinians are becoming a major problem for both of those groups. The state of Israel is fracturing, while groups like the PFLP, Hamas and Fatah are coming together for the first time in decades. While some of the tactics of Hamas are unconscionable, and Fatah has a long collaborationist history with Israel, it definitely indicates a dramatic change of the dynamics in the region. We’ll see what holds together and what breaks apart. Its very sad that Marwan Barghouti is currently imprisoned, he’s one of the most popular figures in Palestine whereas Fatah and Hamas are fairly unpopular

Wait, are you saying that the Supreme Court is, gulps audibly political??? This has so many implications

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If the Israeli government was trying to nationalize their oil or mining resources, we’d invade their ass so fucking fast; but they’re just murdering tens or hundreds of thousands of people, starving children, bombing infrastructure, destroying culture, and traumatizing generations, so let’s just ask sternly for a cease fire, and frown a bit for the cameras – if that

Well as someone who couldn’t get through the Poverty of Philosophy, despite having read lots of Marx including Capital: that’s fair. He was really gunning for the Young Hegelians. I thought his critique of Stirner was really good, and his debunking of Bauer was essential. But I didn’t get into PoP. Maybe some other time. He was too optimistic wrt how capitalism would create “gravediggers.” I think its an actual thing that happens, it happened to me for example, but he underestimated ideology, or maybe like over estimated the way capitalism would change people’s consciousness.

You’re right there are individual anarchist Marxists, I study with one, but I guess I was referring to something more like a movement. I guess the Kurdish liberation movement kind of qualifies? Maybe my views are too west-centric.

Any recommended Proudhon I should read? Maybe take on Philosophy of Poverty before trying Marx’s response again?

As a Trot, albeit a reluctant and undogmatic one (I think), I also am terrified of winning a revolution with MLs in the mix. They love to talk about how no anarchist/trotskyists have ever had a “successful revolution” and its like no shit you killed them all and took power in the name of socialism.

Curious about your intellectual issues with Marx. No one is above critique, not asking to jump all over ya. I have some criticisms of Marx, namely that he spent the end of his life not finishing Capital and instead working on ethnography and trying to chart a path to socialism through Russian peasant society, and like I’d rather he’d have finished one of those instead of not finishing any of it. His work on ethnography would be really useful to anarchists and mutual aid networks: Anarchist Marxists, how cool would that be? But instead we just have his volumes and volumes of notebooks.