A Note About Free Markets, Capitalism, and Communism.
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Judging by the volume of (good if misguided) comments from
@QhsNYJ
I decided against answering each comment individually.
I'm going to instead write a large post (or a series) about these topics on my website;
@JMMaza1
@BusinessGamesAI
@BitopiaLand
@upholdreality
@eshaLegal
Every form of government and in turn monetary system is effectively trying to accomplish a singular goal. How to best produce as much of & allocate scarce resources to improve the standard of living for the masses. One extreme is no rules and no leader the other is dictatorship
A local Professor: I donโt understand why Russian people support the war.
I: because they feel under attack.
P: but thatโs not true!
I: you wanted to know, I told you. Now youโre saying that their position is silly? Thatโs not the point; the point is: Iโm telling you how they
@StopAntisemites
This thread is an ugly example of hate speech based on a lie.
The student in question clearly said โcuntโโbut
@StopAntisemites
purposefully lie and stoke hatred towards the person.
The amount of racism from the rabid Zionists in replies here is simply staggering.
SHAME ON YOU!
We now have additional context regarding the incident.
According to the student themself, the person they were talking to said derogatory stuff about their sexual orientation & said they would be raped.
This appears to be partially confirmed by a longer video.
#CDNPoli
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@RnaudBertrand
Not a fan of the UN, but letโs think this through โฆ should UN disappear, this also invalidates the 1948 creation of Israel, so this seems like an own goal here.
Also, Iโm disgusted at his wearing the Star of Davidโitโs an abuse of the Jewish trauma to excuse a genocide.
@AuschwitzMuseum
As a Jew and a human being, I fully endorse the words of Jonathan Glazer:
โRight now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October 7 in
@AGHamilton29
Such an appeal outside of Israel is designed to increase hatred of the Palestinians, rather than bring the actual release of hostages. It's pure PR & the worst kind, as it cynically uses the actual suffering of people.
Second, the Israeli government can easily negotiate the
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@davidmdraiman
@MarkRuffalo
If you think history started on October the 7th, 2023, would you buy a bridge from me?
It's a great bridge, the best bridge ever built, it connects the North and South Islands of NZ, and it can be yours!
Text me.
@GMB
Are you listening to yourselves?
All 3 countries have much more pressing matters.
British yellow press, on the other hand, that cesspit of gossipโฆ
This is fucking disgusting,
@guardian
Genocide in fucking QUOTES?
Whatโs your job: PR / propaganda cover for the Israeli government?!
You fucking arseholes, youโre NOT journalists!
Shame on you. SHAME ON YOU, youโre complicit in the genocide.
@HelsinkiComm
So, one of your senior leaders is the guy who is glorifying Nazis (Azov) that your own report in the past admitted were Nazis?
How does this make sense?
The dude fangirling over the Azov Brigade and Bandera, the war criminal and genocide purveyor, has been appointed Staff Director of the Helsinki Commission. If you're not familiar with what it is, it's a US government commission that promotes human rights, military security, and
@wayne_choate
@Megatron_ron
And the contract has no exit clauses? Iโm a little familiar with contracts, a party can usually get out of one under various circumstancesโฆ unless itโs effectively slavery. So now it just became illegal.
@DIVINGAV8TRIX
@StopAntisemites
Then maybe complain to and about
@StopAntisemites
for spreading lies, because the student in question never said the word.
They said โcuntโ and only after having been insulted based on their sexuality in the seconds before this clip edit.
@JamesHar16
@eurosport
Because you stopped talking to the Americans when they were bombing Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yugoslaviaโฆ?
Stopped watching sports where Americans and Brits took part?
Orโare those situations "different" somehow?
@jeff_kaye
@SecBlinken
Nazis had a much more than just anti-Jewish policy. They had an anti-Roma, anti-Communist, anti-Slav policy, anti-Untermenschen policy. The Holocaust Museum lists victims of the Holocaust as including all those groups, including Soviet people in their millions. I am of Ashkenazi
P.S. Remembered one more thing:
P: Putin was using gas as a weapon, turning off gas to Germany.
I: Huh?? Gas was turned off because EU put sanctions and forbade buying RU gas, and then NS1+2 were blown up, and it wasn't by Russia.
In fact, the USA is the only winner in this
@SenSchumer
Iโm a Jew. Iโm anti-Zionist. Iโm a NZer. I feel at home in NZ & thereโs absolutely zero need for me to have a country somewhere else where I have no connection to, especially if that land is STOLEN FROM SOMEONE ELSE WHO STILL LIVES.
No group of people has a moral right to
@Alex_Oloyede2
On this? Clearly France ๐ซ๐ท
Why? Because women can and should decide for themselves how many children to have and if at all.
This shouldn't be a debate.
Just because the West has gone mental on SOME points, doesn't mean taking a diametrical opposite on EVERY point is correct.
@GretaThunberg
"unprovoked"โ
"atrocity"โ
world "unity"โ
"ecocide"โ
All talking points covered.
How peculiar that you, Gretaโ"fighter for the environment"โseem to have been utterly silent on the Nord Stream bombing & ecological climate-change-impacting disaster, though might this just be
@Val_Voshchevska
As a Ukrainian myself, you do not speak for all Ukrainians. If you supported the violence on Maidan, in Odessa, against the Donbass, if you supported the ATOโsorry, but as THAT type of Ukrainian you have no moral right to be asking for anything.
And NOW youโre acting like a
@vonClownsewitz
@POLITICOEurope
Most (all?) of the time, โfighting USSRโ is the same as โfascistโ. Why? Because fascists / Nazis were anti-communist at their core, and they were the only ones. Many people in the West were communists. The Nazis first came after the communists, after all. Anti-communist and
USSR was oppressing the Eastern Block countries?
Letโs see.
If USSR were capitalist, Russian capital wouldโve owned everything east of Elbe.
Combined with private property, no major asset wouldโve been available to anyone in the former Eastern Block.
This clearly hadnโt
@TarikCyrilAmar
Their country is done. Itโs already destroyed and itโs not coming back. The longer the diplomacy is postponed, the less of a country itโll be. Eventually, theyโll have to face the reality and will either change their stance or become increasingly irrelevant. Itโs sad and it will
@cem_oezdemir
@IDF
@AuswaertigesAmt
Ich bin angewidert von der Gefรผhllosigkeit und Idiotie der deutschen Politiker. Unterstรผtzer des Vรถlkermords, alle auf offizieller Ebene. Abstoรend. Die IDF ist ein terroristischer Arm eines terroristischen Staates und jeder, der Israel im Jahr 2024 unterstรผtzt, hat weder Seele
@helloitstanya98
@elonmusk
@KanekoaTheGreat
Ermโฆ Hello, Ukrainian here! That's absolutely wrong. You're not speaking for all Ukrainians, not even for the majority. Maidan was a minority-supported insurgency & coup, and the post-coup fascist regime started the civil war against own people in Donbass. So,
@elonmusk
is right
@OlgaBazova
Thatโs true and also wouldnโt matter, because โPutin!โ
He thinks that Zelensky is a potentially unifying leader that Ukraine needs (rather than a corrupt war criminal abusing human rights of his own people โฆ)
I mean โฆ I canโt even.
@caitoz
There's no contradictionโsupporting the Kyiv regime is supporting a far-right oppression & murder of the Donbass people in an unequal power struggle, while supporting Israeli Zionist regime is supporting a far-right oppression & murder of the Palestinians in an unequal power
โThat contrast between how the western political-media class is acting toward the Gaza genocide and how we all know theyโd be acting if an unaligned government was doing something similar is exactly why the US-centralized empire cannot be permitted to rule our world anymore.โ
Imagine how the western political-media class would be acting if Russia or China was bombing and starving a walled-in population of two million, half of them children. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine the rage and vitriol. Imagine the nonstop media coverage.
When Russia invaded
@JoeMaristela
@RnaudBertrand
If youโre โenjoying the showโ this says more about you than about Lula.
It IS a decades-long conflict but without that much nuance: thereโs one party who are victims and the other party who are the aggressors. And if you donโt hold this opinion then go read the Zionist writings
@CattnTwoDogs
@Angelo4justice3
Yes, but does Kyiv?
No, Kyiv / Zelensky does not.
Zelensky daily violates the human right of the Ukrainians to leave the country.
Does the U.S./ NATO?
No, they do not. See the wars of aggression against Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, etc. etc.
While Russia CAN credibly
@gen_enhazed
@Megatron_ron
None of them are. USSR put people first, with universal education, healthcare, socioeconomic lifts, zero unemployment โฆ
Both the EU & RF are capitalist countries putting the oligarchs above the other 99%. Though there IS consolidation inside RF on one goal, thatโs true.
As for
@SparkleSinghing
@medeabenjamin
Itโs tough to prove a negative. Almost none of it happened. Itโs on the accuser to prove that it did; the fact you canโt find evidence is because there isnโt any.
FYI there IS evidence from the Israeli media with Israeli eyewitnesses saying that many of the October 7 Israeli
So, I am a NZ national of Ukrainian descent, grew up & live in NZ, have never ever been to nor conducted business with Russian Federation, have a fairly generic nameโI'm now being refused a software download until I prove that I am NOT a sanctioned individual.
Guilty until
Yuri Podolyaka about the two-step plan behind the terror attack in Moscow: this is an attempt to start inter-Russian wave of hate crimes.
> Terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall: why did Kyiv take this risk...
So, Kyiv is insisting with its hands and feet that all this is not
I was born Soviet. Not Ukrainian, nor Russian, nor Polish, nor East Prussian, nor Ashkenazi, nor Romani, nor half-a-dozen other nationalities that run through meโฆ I'm lucky to have been born Soviet.
My people led the Victory. No re-writing of history by our one-time "allies"
All respect to the Soviet peoples and their Red Army for their victory over fascism 78 years ago. We can never forget the sacrifice of 27 million Soviet citizens in the war against Nazi Germany.
Despite this victory, the U.S. govt has since 1945 rehabilitated & recycled Nazis
@DmytroKuleba
Your own parliamentarians and negotiators contradict you and support the so-called "Russian talking point" (i.e. the truth, in this case).
So, ermโฆ Yes, you rejected it and yes, it existed, and yes, Boris Johnson put pressure on your regime.
It was always about NATO on Russia's doorstep.
Boris Johnson vetoed any peace deal in April 2022.
David Arakhamia, faction leader of Servant of the People and head of the Ukrainian delegation at the peace talks is interviewed by journalist Natalya Moseychuk. This interview
@hvidguld
@caitoz
So, if I show that what Hamas did is itself a response to an attack, will you change your support for Israel, because it will be shown that Israel attacked first, and everything else was a consequence of that โoriginal sinโ?
@NikkiHaley
How many spy bases does the US have around the world, again? I thought you were supporters of free markets, so whatโs this about buying farmland? Taiwan is part of China (officially acknowledged by the US since Nixon) so China is threatening itself?! โInfiltratingโ universities?
@socialiststeve6
no state has a "right to exist"
states are artificial constructs
humans have the right to exist
states are an apparatus of violence of one class over other classes (most modern states are capitalist, so by design they promote the intents of a few over many)
@AndrewBodinger
@khrachvik
Buddy, buddy, buddyโฆ
Lwow in 1930-1933 was under Poland, not USSR, so your father โfrom Lwowโ could not have experienced even the fake โHolodomorโ first-handโand if he did, Stalin had certainly nothing to do with it.
So, why donโt you follow your own advice?
@socialiststeve6
@OneQuantumLeap
In order:
1. Time (overworked on several jobs)
2. Understanding the revolutionary theory (riots are often, donโt lead to anything): why are there problems, who is at fault, and what to do?
3. Organisational challenges (need: time + knowledge + organisational experience)
If
@NewZealandMFA
@JudithCollinsMP
Houthis are the only nation in the world that is taking active measures to stop the genocide, by force if needed, invoking the Genocide Convention, which means theyโre the only ones who are not only morally, but also legally in the right.
NZ should support the Houthisโ actions.
@socialiststeve6
1. Revolutionary theory: understanding who the enemy is, why this is a system problem, and what to do about it
2. Lack of organisation
3. Capture of the power structures by the 1%
In that order.
And 3 wouldnโt matter if 1+2 are overcome.
@SUITE911
@Kanthan2030
You mean, the Kyiv atrocities against Donbass and ostensibly Kyivโs โownโ people? Then Iโd agree with you partially.
Because as a Ukrainian, Iโll tell you that Zelensky regime & the far-right formations are utterly inhumane.
But as
@traderdog12_
said, Ukraine conflict is
Way back when the Western media like CNN reported from Donbassโitโs incredible how
@CNN
lost its whole archive in February 2022. This is what you reported back in 2014๐
So, Donbass โseparatismโ WAS the direct outcome of the Kyiv regimeโs actions! Rewatch this,
@CNN
@cnnbrk
๐๐
Letโs try this againโplease, answer and RT.
Goal: to make my podcast / newsletter/ analysis be self-funding, but OUTSIDE of Substack.
My websiteโs content this season is free but allows subscriptions (~donations).
QUESTION: what $ sub. option should I provide on
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per month?
@Tsihanouskaya
Belarus does notโonly the Belorussian neo-Nazis waving the white-rad rag of the Nazi collaborators of the past...
I mean, fash always sees fash, amirite?
@ianbremmer
@TJGlobal16
yes, they do. They communicated the ethnic cleansing intent quite explicitly + failing that, their actions speak to the genocide intent.
@ianbremmer
BS. There's a well-documented intent for ethnic cleansing. Failing that, Israel would settle on genocideโall their actions point to that being the intent. If it weren't the intent, the actions would've been different.
In contrast, Hamas has NO intent to genocide anyone. "Ending
@alon_mizrahi
@walidfreiha
It's very sad. Zionism also participated in the destruction of the Yiddish culture in Europe.
It's very sad that instead of the wonderful worldwide Jewish diversity and beauty we get this artificial, angry, dehumanising, Zionist whatever it is "culture". This cannot be healthy
@Grynn
@Kanthan2030
US can afford the defeat. Theyโll rebrand it as victory and move on, like in Afghanistan and Iraq and everywhere else. With enough marketing, this is possible.
For RF, on the other hand, itโs existential.
On "Holodomor" myth: a massive takedown by Grover Furr for
@timand2037
's CCHS (consistent with my own take on this, and something that already landed me in Twitter "jail" onceโI dare Twitter place me there again for promoting actual historical research):
@rch371
@BitopiaLand
@upholdreality
they also literally had nothing to do with either socialism or workers' rights, but were instead a PR spin on the party of large capital. So, not the only difference. Basically, they were the opposite to socialists.
Israel is done. USA is done. Old world is done. They don't admit it yet, and it might not happen for a little while, but they must realise that this is the beginning of the end.
At least, US leaders must know it; Israeli ones are too stupid.
Televised Gaza genocide has brought
@PingouinHeureux
@AuschwitzMuseum
Clearly, Zionists draw all the wrong lessons from history, if any at all.
We donโt need a reminder of who and what you are, but thanks anyway.
@AlternatNews
I asked my very learned German friend about the NS1+2 & his response was a rather angry โit doesnโt matter! The decision had already been taken.โ
It seems to me they had collectively resigned to being a party to this war.
Well, maybe not all. Stillโฆ That reaction was strange.
The most moronic statement I've seen this side of NAFO.
A simple history test:
How many people do you know who "fought Russians during WW2" that were NOT Nazis / Nazi collaborators?
Especially Ukrainians?
As a Ukrainian myself with my great grandpa having served in the Red
Rota was set up. Heโs guilty of trusting someone he shouldnโt have and not doing his due diligence. But Russiaโs quick reaction, Poilievreโs insistence on blaming Trudeau, American personalities piping up and numerous bots and trolls released at the same time convinces me it was.
@RnaudBertrand
Yeah, I really don't like this "wholesomeness" vs "satanic" / "decadent West" narrative.
First of all, it's a value judgement, and if we blame the liberals who want to install their values on others, what makes the other set of values "better"?
Second of all, we should strive
@heiko_wimmen
โObviouslyโ!
I mean, it hardly needs to be said, itโs so self-evident! โWeโ = democratic, fair, balanced, just, in short: the good guys. โTheyโ = autocratic, corrupt, biased, hateful, evil, in short: the bad guys.
Which part of good vs bad guys is unclear, people?
@naomikimallen
@MelaniePodolyak
Thereโs absolutely nothing โunderstandableโ here. Our people, Naomi, had been accused of things like blood libel & other antisemitic canards, just like the Russians are accused of stuff they didnโt do. The key difference with the Odessa massacre is that it WAS perpetrated by the
@MelaniePodolyak
This atrocity was directly caused by the ๐บ๐ฆ air defence hitting a rocket off its course, but sure, letโs call for a genocide. You OK living with yourself?
(Source: Arestovych)
@delwynism
@robrousseau
@MarkHamill
No, no, no. A major reason weโre in this mess IS the Nazi ideology. Itโs literally the reason for the Russian special military operation, for Maidan and the Ukrainian civil war since 2014 in Donbass. Had there been no Nazi ideology, RF wouldnโt have to run the SMO. Look, Iโm
@NikkiHaley
Just going to rewrite this slightly for
@NikkiHaley
:
"US barbarism knows no end. The World must learn that when imperialists make threats, theyโre serious. When US says it will attack Cuba, when US says it will attack Iraq, when NATO says it will attack Libya, we must believe
@ecomarxi
Thereโs no revolution without revolutionary theory.
Spontaneous riots are in fact a mechanism for the elites to release popular built-up tension, to dissipate the energy.
The system can weather THIS kind of โstandโ.
There needs to be a coordinated strategy TOWARDS a goal; and
@OisinHarr
@johnnyjmils
P.S. Thatโs why I keep telling people: itโs a civil war; Zelensky does NOT represent Ukrainian people, only oligarchs and foreign interests; more people were against the Maidan in 2014 than for it; Maidan was an armed unconstitutional coup.
@Kanthan2030
Except it's not the feminism's problems, but that of capitalism. It's capitalism that subverts feminism etc. for their own goals (suppressing the worker bargaining power while increasing capital's rate of return).
Soviets achieved gender equality and all it led to was freedom,
@JamesLLandis
@Megatron_ron
4.5 million civilians that died from US-instigated wars of aggression say otherwise.
Iraqi, Syrian, Libyan etc. oil reserves captured by the US troops say otherwise.
You want to reconsider your position?
@aaron_schwa
@aaronjmate
Yes, they didโand they werenโt even a party to it, so they had no obligation to adhere.
The party that violated Minsk is clearly Kyiv, itโs a matter of all the available evidence,
Why even this question?
@KyivskyRus
@johnnyjmils
No, he hasnโt. Itโs Odessa. Catherine the Great and Count de Ribas wrote it so, and they built the city.
You might be from Odesa, but youโre no Odessite. Youโre an embarrassment to Odessa.
@Alexandernewry
@Kanthan2030
Ermโฆ โbadโ boys? How many countries have they jointly invaded in the last 30 years that werenโt a threat to their national security? Zero? Maybe one if we take SA. Total countries invaded that WERE a threat? Two?
Now, take the US/UK nexus, same questions. Answers: too many to