AmarkuntheGatherer

The ~~Capitalists~~ slop machines will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Edit: Slop machine's rope suggestion didn't work, but blocking element with ublock did

How dare you question a billion dollar industry profiting off of %99 government funded research?

I'm going to chime in because I'm confident I know how they meant and I don't want to see this discussion get bogged down in "but he didn't literally boil babies" levels of discourse.

As much as all of us around here they're around the word balkanise, it's clear that the imperial hegemon doesn't need its former adversaries divided into chunks, merely subservient. Japan is subservient, they accepted a deal that would make their exports much less competitive, even though they didn't have a plan to deal with its ramifications. They accept usian bases in their land, because the constant spill of American rapists and the possibility of an outright occupation are a small price to pay if one of happy as a vassal anyway.

Yeltsin was the same. The drunk fuck didn't give a toss how much he pissed away the wealth of Russia, or how her people suffered. Unfortunately for the sрooks that got him elected, his successor and his base of support wanted an equal relationship with the west. Even as I say that, I believe (pure conjecture, have no source) they'd have accepted a position like Germany if it came without the ritual humiliation Germans get their kicks from. At any rate, if they wouldn't just be subjects, they'd be subjected, or at least the hegemon would try.

Anyway I didn't write any of this with the belief you didn't know, just to have some clarity.

Not like we've been saying Biden could've ended the slaughter with a single phone call. Couldn't be fucking tankies being right all the time.

The Saudi deal part is funny though. KSA can't be seen completely abandoning the Palestinians, but the Zionist entity can't bring themselves to accept anything less than extermination, even as a ploy.

Reactionaries only respect the in-group, and only for ex post facto reasons. An opponent showing resilience and otherwise strength isn't something they react positively to.

I'm too tall and too fat for my bathtub. Further, I dislike warm water and detest being still in it. Bathtubs are the bane of my existence.

Just take the L and log off, I'm sure you've got a life to live somehow.

Btw when a comrade called you "Hungarian Revolution understander" they were being sarcastic. MLs have been able to surmise as much for decades now, but with the JFK files it's been proven it was a CIA operation, not a real revolutionary movement.

"The current system is bad, the the only alternative (successor) is super horrible! No freeze preach, no grain, no consumerism. How could anyone live like that?"

Imagined ideal my right bollock. You've never met a communist advocating for some ideal, let me tell you that much. Although against whatever you imagine happened in the USSR, it might as well have been a proper utopia. No night raids nor thousands of dissidents killed daily, for a start.

But anyone directly under direct Soviet occupation kinda sufferred (sic) for it one way or the other.

Oh noes, I can't oppress people with my inherited capital or be openly fascistic, what a nightmare! Here I go, burning my crops and murdering my livestock, can't have those filthy underpeople share what's mine in a time of drought!

Praxis

Since the JFK files proved CIA was behind the 56 Hungarian uprising, the word tankie is just the "burden of being right" meme given form.