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Finally someone saying something sensible and rational. Enough of this emotional overreaction that we've been seeing from a few of the comrades! It's not helping anyone or anything, it's just a way to make yourself feel better, but it's selfish and short-sighted. It's sad because until recently Zei had a track record of very good posts, but unfortunately it seems the stress has gotten to them.

Everyone needs to take a minute to think calmly and soberly about what kind of messaging actually benefits the cause vs what is just doing the work of the enemy for them. If some people can't control their emotions that's understandable and human, these are stressful times, but doomposting is not going to achieve anything. But they should do their comrades a favor and sit this one out, take a break from posting and go outside. Take the advice of the OP in the screenshots here, start thinking about how to organize and agitate against the empire's war. Stop trying to make prophecies and start working to influence the course of events in whatever way you can. Nothing is inevitable. We have agency.

Minimalism is a psyop to encourage more fast turnover consumerism, similar to the "fast fashion" psyop. Throw away things then buy more then throw them away again to buy more again.

Even after they became affordable for the masses people still historically cherished possessions like books and passed them on to their children. They are not disposable, consumable commodities and i'm not going to let anyone gaslight me with their new age faux philosophy into treating them that way.

I'd rather re-read a book i've already read five times before, than buy a new book every other week just because i enjoy reading a lot and i've stupidly thrown away my old books.

If space becomes a problem i just expand my e-book collection instead (and in a way such that i actually have the file on my computer, not rented from some online service that at any time can take away my access to books that i bought and was supposed to own).

Doesn't matter. I say this same thing to Trots when they rant about a piece having been written by "Dengist Stalinists", if it's not the explicit topic of the article please stick to criticizing the actual content itself. There is a time and place for Stalin vs Trotsky debates but most of the time that is just distraction and a waste of time.

Everyone knows that the WSWS is a Trot publication. Yes it is annoying how often they compulsively insert needless and unrelated anti-Stalin rants into their pieces. This is not one of those. Sometimes they put out genuinely good pieces that deserve to be read and shared. Take good analysis wherever you find it.

balatro and animal crossing probably dont have the same effect

i don't know about those two, but i can definitely say that chilling in my single player minecraft world doesn't have that effect on me

some people just take their games way too seriously

Why wouldn't they? The imperialists make propaganda in pretty much every language. Media is a soft power battlefield. Would you have Russia just roll over and not fight back? Yes they are at a massive disadvantage in terms of reach and resources, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't try.

I completely agree with you. Another thing is the perpetual doomsaying on the news mega every time something let's say "interesting" happens also gets quickly tiresome. There are a lot of good posters there but also some that just keep repeating the same thing over and over, whether it's hyper-criticism of China or projecting their own insecurities and/or wishful thinking onto the global south. The western left needs to get its own shit together before criticising others.

they aren't even able to grasp the logical contradictions in their argument

Because it's not a logical contradiction. When one side is "The Good Guys™" and the other side "The Bad Guys™", of course "The Good Guys™" have a right to get everything they need to make weapons and "The Bad Guys™" don't. Trying to deny "The Good Guys™" their weapons just proves that you are a "Bad Guy™" and justifies why you should not be getting weapons. It's a logical argument so long as you axiomatically accept the premise that one side is ontologically Good and the other Evil.

I don't think so. "Israel" is vital to the US empire's strategic goals in West Asia. Without the neocolony to serve as their proxy and military outpost, their entire regional hegemony collapses.

This. They tailor their content to suit the target demographic. If you make English language media for an Anglo audience you are inevitably going to end up adopting either liberal imperialist talking points or reactionary social-conservative ones, else you will remain extremely niche.

For obvious reasons a Russian media outlet cannot take the liberal imperialist position. However we also see the other option happening with CGTN America, which is much closer to Western liberal media in its tone and positions than the actual (international) CGTN.

This also has to do with the fact that they have to hire native English speakers to host or translate their programming, or to advise them on how to market to western audiences. Depending on who they choose to hire, these people will also come with certain biases.

That's what they intend, yes, but Iran isn't Gaza. And even there, with all the destruction they caused, they are still losing the war. They are failing to achieve their objectives.

well then this war is destined to come down to a negotiated stalemate at some point

Yeah i think that's probably how this will end.

with the side who inflicted the most damage having the upper hand.

Not necessarily. The side that can endure the most damage will have the upper hand.

And the neocolony is incredibly fragile when it comes to its capacity to actually take hits.

Neither aircraft nor missiles win wars. Ground troops do. Everything else is just support.

Very much agree with this. A valuable resource, but one that should be approached wearing a hazmat suit. They will frequently contaminate their more grounded analysis with some chud nonsense. It's not ideal but we can't be squeamish about these things.

I agree with this. The analysis is mostly solid, especially in its discussion of the raw military facts, but the speculative part about political intentionality is dubious at best. Yes it's an interesting thesis that we should not entirely discount, but we definitely need more evidence before we can start to support this theory over the simpler alternative explanation, which is that casualties are inevitable in a war.

As usual, in lieu of further evidence, Occam's Razor is the safest bet. Most importantly: don't jump to unsupported conclusions.

Russia is pretty much self-sufficient too. Perhaps they don't make the top three at the moment but the capability is definitely there.

Entirely their own fault. You wouldn't give a three year old child control over your entire PC. It's even stupider giving it to an AI.

I said this when the PSL put out their statement disavowing anti-Zionist direct action but it doesn't really matter how restrained and law-abiding they are, it's only a matter of time until they are outlawed and forced underground. They can only delay that moment to give themselves more time to prepare.

Yeah. To anyone who has studied the Nazi rhetoric and policies with regards to their war against the Soviet Union it's clear and undeniable that that war had a settler colonial character. Hence why the war was waged as a war of extermination in the East and not so in the West. It's very strange to try to deny this...

I'm not sure exactly what the author of this piece is trying to achieve. There is no contradiction between the statement that the war was colonial in nature and the idea that it was also waged to save capitalism. Colonialism has historically been a way for capitalism to externalize its contradictions.

Yeah that's a very strange take. Sure you can criticize a lot of the foreign policy decisions that China made during the Sino-Soviet split. That is absolutely legitimate, they did make many mistakes. But to outright say that it was the "wrong side" is very odd.

At most you could say that taking any side at all in that split was counter-productive, since the split never should have happened in the first place and greatly negatively affected both countries and the entire world communist movement as a whole.

But actually siding with the USSR is particularly confusing to me, as much as i admire the USSR and its historical achievements, because retrospectively we can now see which country's ideological, economic and political strategy succeeded and which failed.

Communism in China survived. Whereas we can clearly see that the USSR's revisionism and historical nihilism, especially in regards to their treatment of Stalin and the Stalin era, did them no favors and actually ended up undermining the ideological base of socialism itself.

The fact that China did not do the same to Mao is one of the reasons why it did not fall as the USSR did. I'm not saying it's the only reason, there were many geopolitical factors as well, but the internal political line of the ruling party certainly also played a big role.

Of course it is. Literal fucking death traps. This shit makes me so angry... It's been known for how long now that these issues exist? These people did not need to die! Makes me fucking sick. The aviation industry needs its own Luigi moment.