MarxMadness [comrade/them]

This is your response when you see facts you don’t like? Here’s a 2021 article on Biden’s support for Ukraine before Russia invaded:

Zelensky observed that Biden “knows Ukraine better than the previous president” and “will really help strengthen relations, help settle the war in Donbas, and end the occupation of our territory.”

Note the acknowledgement that there was already a war on.

While Zelensky’s comments may prove overly optimistic, there is little reason to doubt that the Biden presidency will be good for Ukraine… Whether Biden, who will face many demands on his time, will choose to engage personally is a different question. He knows Ukraine, having traveled there six times when he served as vice president.

To be fair to rank-and-file Democrats, I’m sure they largely didn’t know about the Banderite problem in Ukraine, if only because they probably paid little attention to the country as a whole. But the presence of neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine was certainly no secret. The Biden administration definitely knew the situation.

Hard to imagine the cops arresting her at 4:30 in the morning without getting special direction to do so.

The thing that really blasts a hole in the neck of any conspiracy theory is that he was maybe a third-tier rodeo clown who had very little mainstream visibility

The white “working class” in the US have no revolutionary potential

I’ve read Settlers and don’t find it convincing. If you found it convincing, why quote someone from another imperial core proletarian movement?

Boiling it down to “Bernie killed Rosa” is not a good response to someone digging into the details of what she wrote.

And while there’s stuff worth considering here, we’re in a radically different situation than she was.

Those who can harm others to get ahead, and have that opportunity, do.

This isn’t true on an individual level, and individuals make decisions for countries. Why would it be true on a state level?

Not taking advantage of others (either other individuals or other states) isn’t even some idealistic pursuit, either. There are costs and risks to doing so, and there are benefits (e.g., peace and cooperation) to dealing with others honestly.

Great point. That’s step zero – figuring out if you’re wasting your time or talking to someone who might listen.

You could say that all effective anti-communism is just variations on horseshoe theory. The argument that Stalin was as bad as Hitler, if not worse, is unavoidable here.

The challenge is how to de-propagandize people without:

1. Getting too lost in the weeds of mid-20th century European history,
2. Coming across as a cheerleader who will support anything as long as your side does it, and
3. Offending the person you’re talking to so badly they stop listening.

When you need multiple attempts to replicate something that’s existed for decades… maybe what you’re trying to do doesn’t work!

Imagine trying to vibe design something complex.

It’s not a dilemma at all. If they do it, they’re either complicit or too cowardly to refuse an illegal order.

the one where Brad Pitt speaks Jamaican patois

Don’t leave me hanging on this one!

A tweet that’s purely a take quoting a tweet that makes a “walking it back” claim without quoting a statement or anything? I’m supposed to take this at face value?

If there’s a real criticism here, let’s see what the guy actually said.