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Malcolm X had the best comeback to liberal "harm reduction" narratives:
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The US stunt in Taiwan was designed to bait China into an overreaction that would compromise its broader commitment to creating a new, law-based international order.
Instead, China is following what was clearly a long-planned response.
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Just so we're all clear on what is happening here: Zelensky is trying to goad nuclear powers into a direct war with Russia, which will certainly end with nukes being used. This is insane.
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How are you a "leftist" still using Cold War buzzwords like "totalitarianism" and "authoritarianism" lmao
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It's an insane commentary on the collapse of the western world that Destiny, a complete dipshit gusano edgelord streamer without an ounce of qualification to speak on anything, gets put in the same room as Norman Finkelstein for a "debate" on Palestine
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The revulsion that Westies have toward Soviet apartment blocks is exactly how I feel when I see American suburbs
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POV you haven't read a single page of research on Soviet urban planning
"I hate capitalism because it made America so car-centric"
meanwhile socialism:
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Not a single person was prosecuted for the "Iraq has WMDs" lie, and yet you want to believe what those people tell you about China? How fucking dumb do you have to be?
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China's "Zero COVID" policy is objectively the most humane strategy that protects the vulnerable, disabled, immunocompromised, people who work in public-facing jobs, etc. But tell me more about "authoritarianism" (lol).
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American fascism has flown "under the radar" as in, very few people accurately identify the American empire as fascist, largely because it has the most sophisticated multi-billion dollar propaganda machine able to rebrand it.
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It must be absolutely wild to live in a country (China) that says "Hey, five years from now we will have accomplished this major thing that people want" and then, amazingly, five years pass and they actually accomplished the thing.
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The Iranian response was strategically brilliant. They understood that however they responded to the embassy attack, the imperialists would accuse them of "aggression" thereby revealing their utter hypocrisy. By taking a "limited" action Iran achieved several things🧵
Irony is well and truly dead. Israel accuses Iran of “a flagrant violation of international law”.
Which is not even true by the way. Iran had a right of self defense following article 51 of the UN Charter after the Israeli strike on its consulate. They
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China executed a perfect judo throw by using capital's inherent short-sightedness against itself. Western Capital abandoned its manufacturing strongholds at home for short-term profits abroad but is steadily losing that advantage as China "domesticates" the whole value chain.
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You didn't use Western sources? Really? Let's see about that. In this video, Vaush cited the WSJ: (1/9)
I’ve already seen tankies smear me for relying on “Western Sources” when a) no I didn’t, and b) nice argument, I hear Nazis use it all the time when they don’t like data either
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They are going to normalize the virus and make us all risk our lives to keep capitalism moving and that surplus value flowing.
The narrative is already being prepared, be ready for this:
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School shootings are a consequence of a hyper-capitalist society with zero community bonds built on fascist violence as the answer to all problems. Dehumanization is a crucial process necessary for reproducing the capitalist system. That is the root.
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If you actually read what Theodor Herzl wrote (founder of modern Zionism) the guy was an actual psychopath, spewing out the most vile antisemitism against anti-Zionist Jews imaginable. I can't even quote what I'm talking bc I'll probably get banned. Always go back to the source.
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I can't lie, every time I think about the loss of the USSR or see pictures from the Soviet Union, or hear a Red Army Choir song, I feel intense mourning. Thinking about how many lives could have been saved, about how humanity could have averted so much loss.
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"Leftists" in the imperial core who did not come of age politically during America's mass-murdering rampage through MENA have an incredibly warped view of the global balance of power. They genuinely think Russia and China are on an equal footing with the US empire.
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Did everyone just forget that Evo Morales, before he got couped, was targetted by green imperialism for allegedly failing to do enough to stop the wildfires in the Amazon even though he was literally, personally, on the front lines?
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Left Twitter is this amazing place where debates that were hashed out 100 years ago reoccur because no one has actually read what they're talking about.
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As an antidote to the ridiculous coverage of the event in the West, I'm going to go through Xi Jinping's report to the 20th CPC National Congress in detail, with my side-notes and context added.
The highlight for me has been a striking level of constructive self-criticism.
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The CPC's first congress had just 50 members.
The Cuban Revolution fell to ~20 members during its initial phase.
30 to 50 Soviet fighters held off the Nazis in Pavlov's House during the battle of Stalingrad.
Never forget that.
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Americans have such a cartoonish, History Channel-level understanding of the world it's almost beyond parody seeing them calling people from the global south "propagandized"
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Some people were mistakenly focused on whether or not China would (somehow?) "stop" Pelosi from entering Taiwan. This would be a ludicrously dangerous move by China, plunging it into a direct conflict with the US for zero gain. I'm shocked anyone took that possibility seriously.
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🔥 TAKE TIME: Stalin was good. Anarchism is dumb. The Holodomor is a Nazi myth. China is socialist and good. Maoism is cringe and anti-Marxist (Mao Zedong Thought is good though). Imperialism is the primary contradiction. Patriotic Socialism in America is a fascist trojan horse.
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I need you all to understand that the "Israelis" didn't become genocidal out of nowhere. Their entire ideology is genocidal and fascist and they learned from the masters at that: America. The American ruling class will do the EXACT SAME THING TO YOU WHEN THE REVOLUTION COMES.
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Biden doesn't care about winning or losing a fake election, because in the end *his class* will always win regardless of the outcome. I'm begging you all to stop giving credence to the facade of American elections.
It’s obvious that Biden prefers losing young voters to changing course on supporting genocide. But as brutal repression of student protests unfolds across the country I can’t help but wonder: has Biden considered that these young people have parents who love them and also vote?
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I'm truly terrified by how sophisticated, hegemonic and effective anti-China propaganda has become. The English speaking world has been so relentlessly blanketed in the two "Big Lies" about China (HK/Xinjiang) and many small lies, that they've created an alternate reality.
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The United States is the most evil country to have ever existed on the face of the Earth, born out of slavery and genocide, millions upon millions of wasted lives fed to the American imperial machine. It continues to strangle the world with 800 bases and economic domination.
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Instead, China is taking the rational course of action involving economic sanctions and military "exercises" that will create a de-facto encirclement of the island.
In this scenario, China holds all the cards. In fact, this crisis *might* accelerate the reunification process.
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I am once again reminding you that there exists today exactly one (1) empire, and that is the American empire. Every other country is either a vassal of said empire and/or struggling to break with said imperial hegemony. Thanks.
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Losing in Ukraine to a resurgent and transformed Russia, defeated by Yemen, fleeing from Afghanistan, China containment failing, anti-imperialist fronts in East/SE Asia... We will probably remember 2021-2024 as the first big phase of the collapse of American hegemony in Eurasia.
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I want to do a 🧵on the Ukraine conflict, its deep causes and consequences in a broader geopolitical context, and what it means for US imperial hegemony. This is the context you are not getting in the midst of intense war propaganda.
This is Part 1.
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Remember that Taiwan is largely dependent on mainland China, as the mainland is by far its largest export market, with the two becoming more interdependent as the years go by. The island has little natural resources and imports 98% of its energy.
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A really good test of historical literacy for an American:
"What was the historical inspiration for the Nazi concept of Lebensraum and the Nuremberg Laws?"
9/10 won't know that the Nazis were explicitly inspired by US genocide of Native people and its racist legal system.
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The CPC seems to be taking the more strategic approach of isolating the political forces on the island responsible for this fiasco by demonstrating the consequences of pursuing separatism, while leaving the door open for de-escalation.
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China can decide exactly how and when to enact penalties on the island that will ultimately undermine the Taiwanese political forces stoking this crisis. The US has played a risky gambit, hoping for an overstep that didn't happen.
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Question to people who are critical of the idea of the re-education: what do you think capitalist media and education systems have done every single day to you? They have filled your head with capitalist ideology and literally brainwashed you out of your humanity.
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Lol Amnesty's latest report on Xinjiang notes in its methodology section (the only part that matters) that "nearly all" interviewees are being kept anonymous, making it impossible to independently verify their stories or validate their credibility, possible ulterior motives, etc.
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If you want a sense of how thick capitalist propaganda gets, you currently have a capitalist media consensus that China is somehow "colonizing" its own territory that was stolen from it by the British Empire for 156 years.
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Amazing. We are witnessing the damage control narrative roll out in real-time as the psyop campaign from the West fizzles. Someone must have finally realized that the campaign was never going to succeed and now they have to pretend like "it really happened just trust me bro"
The barbed wire is almost gone. So are the armored personnel carriers. Young Uyghur men are back on the streets. Beijing is slackening its grip on Xinjiang after a brutal mass detention campaign, but fear remains pervasive.
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As we've learned from the Russia-Ukraine war, Russia's ability to fall back on the basics of economic power through diversified energy and raw material trade networks allowed it to weather sanctions. I'm struggling to see how Taiwan even comes close to doing that.
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The lack of Marxist theory in modern feminism is really showing when you have people who think sex workers "freely chose" to work in the sex industry. No one in capitalism is making a free choice to sell their labor power or their bodies for money.
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Qiao Collective got suspended, I guess telling the truth about China on Twitter is bannable now
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In other words, Taiwan's ability to operate as a functioning economy is highly dependent on its relations with the mainland and its ability to remain connected to the global economy via its tech and services exports.
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Learning that the "Korean War" as it is called in the US was actually a genocidal imperialist war that killed 20% of the DPRK population is what made me first realize everything taught about the DPRK in the West is a lie
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The Jamestown Foundation, "a Washington, D.C.-based conservative defense policy think tank.[2] Founded in 1984 as a platform to support Soviet defectors" (2/9)
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Funny how, at this crucial juncture, CPUSA shares this utterly laughable smear job against Iran, which echoes the same "Shia sectarianism/imperialism" hasbara line that "Israel" loves to use to try to divide the West Asian axis of resistance.
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I believe the US was hoping for a severe overreaction from the CPC, thereby damaging its international position and emboldening independence forces on the island.
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Those are the kind of people Fidel kicked out of Cuba, by the way
"Fucking n*ggers": Miami woman fired from
@CHISouthFl
nonprofit health care clinic over racist social media post
#BecauseMiami
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Radio Free Asia, a *literal* US government propaganda organization (8/9):
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Everyone take note of how fucking massive this "embassy" is
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"car-centric" doesn't mean "omg a road with car lanes" it means "let's evict and bulldoze entire neighborhoods so we can put a super-highway down, cover the city in parking lots and garages, and build suburbs that require cars while underfunding mass transit"
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The US is waging a hybrid war against China to contain, balkanize and economically sabotage it. US imperialism will not allow a socialist country to overtake it. This war is escalating and we need to understand it. Here's my analysis:
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This raises the question of the political situation on the island itself. To what extent are the people of Taiwan, if at all, willing to accept this new reality, versus recognizing that they will benefit more from good relations with the mainland?
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Business Insider, "an American financial and business news website founded in 2007. Since 2015, a majority stake in Business Insider's parent company Insider Inc. has been owned by the German publishing house Axel Springer." (3/9)
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Reminder that Facebook partnered with the Atlantic Council, which is a US-based pro-NATO think tank staffed with top former US government and financial elites, to help run its so-called anti-"disinformation" operations.
Facebook is literally an extension of the US government.
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And extensive use of Wikipedia, whose founder is openly anti-communist by the way (9/9). That's just what I could find from 10 minutes of scanning the video so I'm sure I missed some gems.
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Human Rights Watch, the US based org with a revolving door to the US gov (5/9)
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For perspective, SARS is estimated to have killed about 800 people globally in the 2002-2003 outbreak. In 2017, the CDC estimates that 80,000 people were killed by the common flu in the USA. Yet I'm sure most people in the West have the word SARS burned in their memory.
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The New York Times, infamous for copy-and-pasting US government "WMD" lies used to justify to the Iraq war (7/9)
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Note that the only reason the Wikipedia mods aren't conceding to this coverup campaign is because "legitimate sources" from Western media reported on it. That's the level of power Western media has over Wikipedia.
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Buzzfeed, which published articles on China sourced entirely from an Open Technology Fund sponsored project. OTF is literally a US government propaganda cut-out, that also sponsored the Hong Kong riots (6/9):
The source of this article was funded by the Open Technology Fund, a US government cut-out that gets its funding from the US Agency for Global Media (formerly known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors).
This article is literally US government propaganda.
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Chomsky (and most anarchists) treat AES and real world resistance to the American empire as somehow tainted by their lack of some ever-shifting anarchistic goalposts of "democracy" or "freedom", in other words the perfect faux radical ideology of bourgeoise imperial core dwellers
I don’t even dislike Chomsky but we all need to grow up and admit anarchism is a childish philosophy and its influence on the western millennial left has been extremely pernicious.
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Imagine if Russia had a military alliance in Latin America that was constantly expanding closer to the US and was about to have Mexico join the alliance. That is exactly what the US has done with NATO to Russia. But apparently Russia is the "aggressor".
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"You stick a knife in my back 9 inches & pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. Pull it out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They haven't even begun to pull the knife out let alone heal the wound. They won't even admit that the knife is there."
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COVID-19 is exposing to all the fact that the modern capitalist economy is "fake"- in the sense that debt, private property and money itself can all be reappropriated, created or extinguished at will if there is political desire to do so.
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China is also funding life-saving desalinization plants in Gaza to overcome Israeli blockade, and there's no way Israel would tolerate this if China didn't have relations with Israel. China also routinely votes against Israel in the UN on issues of Palestinian rights.
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Imagine having the intellectual depth of a puddle to think this is a conflict about religion lmfao
Sooner or later these superstitious idiot arguing over religion are going to get us all killed.
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I was one of a small handful of Western Marxists who opposed the bombing of Libya and the war against Syria, which destroyed Libya and nearly destroyed Syria. This was an extremely unpopular position, the "antiwar left" had almost completely disintegrated post-Obama.
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"Do you know what it means to be able to read? To not be able to read?"
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The founder of Wikipedia lmao
@JackDexterity
And communism is just as bad as fascism. The body count is higher, actually.
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This is quite literally the ultimate expression of US fascism, melding reality and fiction. Fascism and Hollywood hand in hand. The targets of US imperialism are just fictionalized characters for the audience that is the US population.
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Another article white-washing post-2014 Ukraine. The author admits that "there are fascist militias in Ukraine" but "there are in the U.S. and other Western countries" as well. What he doesn't say is that those militias in Ukraine are officially integrated into their military.
Pseudo-leftists — sometimes called “tankies,” a name deriving from an earlier generation of Western leftists who backed the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 — also defend Russia’s behavior today.
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China is the future, the ability to manage and recover so effectively is just impossible anywhere else without a socialist government.
How does China feed 1.4 billion people while upholding a strict quarantine policy? Who is making sure that residents here have enough food?
CGTN's Liu Chen shares her experience during the
#CoronavirusOutbreak
as well as information she gleaned from news reports
#COVID19
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China is a perfect lens to understand the development of socialism in the present. The western left's obsession with idealistic categorization (100% capitalist or 100% socialist) generates endless confusion, bc understanding China's model demands a nuanced material analysis.
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Holy fuck the DSA actually cut out the "anti-imperialist" part of this quote, fuck off you feds
"My crime is to be a union leader, to be indigenous."
- Evo Morales
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Imagine thinking that Soviet apartments are depressing when they solved homelessness, created easy walkability and community. Meanwhile your Murican suburb is an environmental and human disaster rooted in white supremacy lmao
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Multipolarity is a broad concept that people of different political ideologies will attach their own pre-conceived notions towards when not grounded in histmat. Yes, in history there were periods of imperialistic multipolarity. Today's is much more complex.
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*typing furiously as the landlord increases my rent by another 20%* but was the USSR really socialist though, i mean REALLY socialist? the state was just like the bourgeoisie, but with a different name
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Part of upending the US imperial hegemon is to present to the world a viable alternative that is not based in destabilization and terror. The narrative has been flipped, and the world can clearly see that the US empire is the source of all difficulty in the world.
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Imagine you survive the Long March, become a hero and live to 107 years, what an absolute legend.
Wang Dingguo, a 107-year-old veteran of the Red Army who walked the Long March from 1934 to 1935, passed away on Tuesday in Beijing.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative is the most significant geoeconomic effort in history, a multidecade $4-$8 trillion plan impacting 70% of humanity to develop productive forces throughout Eurasia and steadily erode US power in the hemisphere.
Here's a thread.
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That manufacturing is never coming back to the West. China's two-tiered economy creates stability unheard of elsewhere. While commodity production is relegated to semi-private enterprises, the natural resources, financing and infrastructure system is nationalized.
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First, Iran is completely insulated by international law, in contrast to "israel" which is committing genocide and constantly terrorizing its neighbors. How many times have the zionists illegally bombed Syria without a peep from the UN?
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If he is being genuine, the logical follow-up question here is "what would make Zelensky think that a no-fly zone was ever an option" and the answer is either:
A. He has been manipulated by his handlers or
B. He is not a strategic mastermind, to say the least or
C. Both
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A major survey report from Harvard was just released, finding that satisfaction among Chinese citizens with all levels of gov have steadily increased from 2003-2016.
The survey up-ends numerous myths about China that I'll try to summarize below
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In the 1960s, plans were drawn up at the highest levels of the US government to conduct a terror campaign and blame Cuba for it. One option included the destruction of a civilian plane swapped for a drone, mock funerals, etc. Another included sinking a boatload of Cubans.
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Solzhenitsyn cancelled in the west? 🤣🤣🤣dude is living in an alternate universe. "The Gulag Archipelago" is a core text of anti-Soviet propaganda to this day all over the West, it's practically a religious text for these people at this point
Solzhenitsyn was a Russian patriot, which is exactly why he was "canceled" in the West. He didn't fit their definition of an anti-Soviet, who has supposed to have an ethnic hatred of Russians.
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If Americans were taught anything factual about Operation Barbarossa or the Soviet Union's NUMEROUS attempts to form an alliance with (capitalist!) Western powers against Hitler it would instantly destroy the myth of Soviet-Nazi alliance- and that is why it is never taught.
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Communists the world over, who sacrificed so much to destroy 20th cent. fascism, are still slandered with this false equivalency.
It is a propaganda tool wielded by the bourgeoisie to deflect attention from their role in building fascism onto its enemies: communists.
"Si Fottano!": Italian communist leader Marco Rizzo tore up EU Parliament's resolution which equates communism with fascism
#Italy
#Communist
#Party
#Partito
#Comunista
#MarcoRizzo
#EU
#Italia
@MarcoRizzoPC
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China defeated the separatists in Xinjiang, they defeated the separatists in Hong Kong and they handled the pandemic. BRI is continuing to expand despite the trade war, & Chinese tech is growing internationally. China has demonstrated the strength of ML theory in action.
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Imagine being alive in 2020 and not understanding that the United States is fascist and has millions of little Himmlers, Henry Fords and William Randolph Hearsts running around. Most of them don't wear brownshirts or Klan hoods.
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Love to use thought-terminating propaganda terms applied to the Soviet Union to draw false equivalency to the Nazis
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So I've decided to start digging into the backgrounds of some of the most rabid anti-China "reporters." I figured I would start with Melissa Chan, whose Twitter feed is a non-stop torrent of anti-China propaganda.
Wouldn't you know I found out she is a CFR member since 2016?
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