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Guy with a Churchill profile picture yelling at the guy with a Stalin profile picture for idolizing someone who killed millions in a famine.

No way, I also invented that guy to get mad at and I gotta say, FUCK HIM one of my absolute most hated guys

*NATO *10 years ago

‘Building socialism’ and ‘actually existing socialism’ are pretty much synonyms, because the terms for the transition stage between capitalism and communism are vaguely defined.

Some call the end point of a “classless, moneyless society” communism, some call it socialism - and some call the transition period, where a society still has features of capitalism alongside features of communism, socialism.

Ultimately it comes down to: who holds political power in a given society, how strong is their grip on it, and how forcefully are they pushing in the direction of communism?

For myself, I would use the word ‘socialist’ for any country that’s somewhere along the transition stage, with whatever features are peculiar to that particular country’s history, as long as it’s controlled by a Dictatorship of the Proletariat led by committed communists.

So for instance, I would call the USSR, China, the DPRK, Cuba etc. “Actually Existing Socialism” whereas countries with ‘socialist policies’ (basically, pro-welfare and pro-development) but no DOTP like Venezuela are less clear. Conversely, imperialist nations with big welfare states, like Norway for example, despite being called ‘socialist’ all the time in the capitalist media are very certainly not.

It was a joke…

Saint Petersburg

Where’s that? Is it near Leningrad?

Russia and Ukraine have a long and bloody history

No they fucking don’t! They have an extremely short history of conflict, this shit kicked off literally just ten years ago!!

In 2014, the US launched a coup against Ukraine to replace the democratically elected government with Nazis (and I don’t mean that hyperbolically, I mean actual Hitler-worshipping Nazis) who immediately started persecuting the minority of Russian-speaking Ukrainians. After eight fucking years of doing nothing as the Ukrainian Nazis constantly escalated, Putin finally got it through his thick skull that the west was never going to treat them as an equal and launched an incredibly restrained military action to knock the coupists out of the Ukrainian government and protect the now-autonomous Russian-speaking regions.

The result is this:

When a peace deal was about to be signed in April 2022, Boris Johnson personally flew to Kiev and through a combination of lies and threats convinced Zelensky to tear up the deal and continue fighting.

The unfathomable devastation, the destruction of enormous swathes of infrastructure and the catastrophic death toll of Ukrainian men are squarely the fault of the Nazi regime in Kiev and their western - let’s not beat around the bush - their US handlers. Ukraine had a peaceful and beneficial relationship with Russia from independence all the way up to the moment the US took direct control of it and suicided it into Russia for their own geopolitical gain.

No, they’re right, Xi would be helpless trying to explain dialectical materialism to a reader of the Wall Street Journal

Stamping out copies of each street sign in Simplified Chinese

about it you ignorant racist imperial peon.

Chinese people feel both that their country is more democratic, and that democracy is more important than USians do.

The optics of having to kill dozens and dozens of zombies that were formerly African civilians, in scenes reminiscent of the horrid racism of Black Hawk Down, are pretty hard to get past… but the actual story is of a western megacorporation, owned by a council of fucked up ultra-wealthy eugenicists including several aristocrats, coming to Africa to steal a local resource, ignoring the warnings of the locals as to its danger, then performing horrific medical experiments on the locals culminating in giving all of them the zombie virus by lying that it’s a vaccination program.

In RE4 the threat was native to the area of the outbreak, but in 5 the villain is very clearly plundering, racist, capitalist white guys trying to advance their genocidal ambitions.

First, I would say: same, way more money goes in subsidies and pseudolegal tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy than on welfare.

Second, I would try to explain that that’s not actually how taxes work anyway. The government doesn’t gather all the tax money into a big pile, count it all up, and then make a budget to decide how to spend it. Instead, money collected as taxes basically just ceases to exist - it’s deducted from your account and disappears. Separately to this, the government simply creates as much money as they want to fund their budget. (At least, any government with currency sovereignty does - this excludes Eurozone countries and many local or municipal authorities, who actually do have to make a money pile, or else borrow it from somewhere.)

Printing too much money can have inflationary effects - prices increase because there’s more money around to buy things - so taxing away and destroying some money is necessary, but if the newly printed money is spent to develop economic activity then you can actually safely print more than you tax by quite a large margin. Neoliberal economists are incapable of/choose not to understand this because it leads to higher wages, lower unemployment and increased bargaining power for the workers, which could ultimately lead to greater political power. Instead they preach austerity doctrine, telling the lie that governments need to cut services and reduce spending to ‘reduce their deficit’, selling off public goods and services to the private sector so they can extract a profit - at the expense of the nation’s people.

There was German resistance to the Nazis too.

No, and we probably never will for sure, but it ran away and really that’s embarrassing enough.

Damn, cause from here it seems kinda like all their Nazi shock troopers got smoked

What do you mean? Now the brave Ukrainian resistance can use those Schutz Staffel Storm Shadows or whatever the fuck to not only blow up grocery stores in downtown Donetsk, but also blow up grocery stores in downtown Belgorod too!

Violence is the only thing that has ever destroyed oppression.

Violence, and the threat of violence, is the only way to make someone who is persecuting you for their own material benefit stop.

There was another post somewhere with the calculation of the actual explosive warhead mass converted into TNT equivalent, and it was around 6kT total, just over a third of Little Boy which was 15kT. Which is still absolutely fucking insane.