Boss call was made
TheGamingLuddite
joined 3 years ago
Agent 47 getting ready for the easiest mission of all time.
"German-Israeli Christian Zionist" is just a polite way of saying "spawn of satan"
Harden your heart, oh Jezza
Is the purpose of this exercise just to have something for Russia to sign in case someone pulls off a coup?
Saw a lib zoomer with Palestine, Ukraine and China flags in their display name.
They want zoning reform, but are diametrically opposed to being part of an economically populist program which includes zoning reform.
If a Bernie sanders type politician started talking about zoning reform, they would pivot to something else.
Just like "popularism", "effective altruism", "YIMBY" etc, it's just a cudgel against the left to assuage voters' fears about oligarchy and redirect populist demands into something that's more acceptable to capital.
If you point any of this out, they accuse you of being a luddite degrowth fanatic who just doesn't want to "build stuff", if you question whether deregulation is the best way to "build stuff" they just stop talking.
The problem though is that these issues are self-perpetuating. Both the current Russian and post-2014 Ukraine governments are the products of US interference. If we were truly spreading Democracy, then they would be capable of mediating these conflicts peacefully. Since Capital dictates the terms of our international intervention, it puts its own interests first, and it's very interested in selling weapons. I just can't accept the premise that selling more weapons will lead to any sort of long-lasting peace or democracy in the region.
Ukraine has used internationally banned cluster munitions in the donbass since 2014. A six year old playing in a field and dying to unexploded ordnance, whether that child is a Russian or Ukrainian speaker, is a horrific tragedy. These bombs are a form of terrorism sponsored by the post-coup Ukrainian state, and the nazi paramilitaries active in the area were and are state-sponsored terrorists.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/20/ukraine-widespread-use-cluster-munitions
I have no concept of Iranian politics but after years of zionists advocating a secular civil society revolution in Iran it would be hilarious if somehow it finally happened over the supreme leader's refusal to authorize nuclear weapons to deter israel.