Please learn how the ‘social credit’ system actually works before spouting off

Idk I’d live there if I had the chance. The trains seem neat ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I can’t believe you lick the boots of the Paw Patrol

God forbid women do anything

The kind of shit the internet ought to be for, tbh

Install Temple OS on your mom’s desktop

While that specific scenario is unlikely, I do hope that Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party succeed in dissolving the UK

Horseshoe theory is bullshit, but I genuinely can’t tell if the original context of this screenshot was some anti-woke Evangelical shit, or smug Reddit atheism

Sigh as the .ml user, I guess I’ll be the tankie about it…

WOO! LET’S GET OUT THE POPCORN!!!

had to escape Venezuela after Maduro took power

they’d become rich under the old system

… They didn’t flee from Chavez? What’s the timeline here?

Venezuelan communes and participatory democracy is flourishing. In addition, massive social programs have been implemented, focusing on housing, food security, and poverty eradication

I think this really needs to be stressed. Venezuela is a country building Socialism. Maduro and the PSUV is in power because of a genuinely incredible mass movement of communes, neighborhood committees, and other organs of grassroots democracy. This is qualitatively different from say, any of the Gulf oil monarchies

I highly recommend the books Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela, and Commune or Nothing: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project, for a look at these aspects of Venezuelan politics, because it’s often papered over in discussions about the country.

Marxist does not get to exclusively define what imperialism is

Marxism isn’t the only analytical lens out there, no. But the people you’re arguing with are working with that definition, which is why I took the time to clarify. Thank you for appreciating my effort post though lol

The Marxist definition of imperialism is more specific than just “big country invade small country”.

In, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism Lenin lays out five aspects of what makes Imperialism:

1. the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;

2. the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy;

3. the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;

4. the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and

5. the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.

The question of “Is Russia Imperialist” isn’t a moral one, it’s a technical one. So if Russia were do to something that we all agree is morally reprehensible, that’s a separate concern from whether Russia is imperialist.

The technicality revolves around whether Russia has developed an oligarchy of Financial Capital, such that its invasion of Ukraine or other flexes of its influence, perpetuates the export of Russian finance capital around the world.

As it stands now, I don’t think that’s currently the case, but with Marxism being a dialectal philosophy, I do wonder if this war will accelerate that merging of Bank and industrial capital that Lenin discusses. It’s a Bourgeois states, and there’s financial capital in there somewhere that absolutely has an interest in forming a Russian imperialism.

So when people say “Russia isn’t Imperialist”, this is what’s being referred to. You can take it or leave it, but it’s worth getting into the weeds a bit, so we aren’t all talking passed each other

I saw the title, and hoped someone was summoning Demons from the Key of Solomon or some shit. Like they were worried about their dog getting possessed.

But yeah, “am I hurting my dog’s brain with a card trick” is pretty funny too

Me, on the lookout for fascist nonas, as I break my spaghetti

The only Libertarians I fuck with are Libertarian Socialists. Otherwise, Ayn Rand types are cringe as hell

Ok, so I looked at the more recent data you’re pointing people towards, and according to that, the US is #11 in per capita emissions, and China is #29.

So a bigger spread than the data on Wikipedia, that I cited earlier

First of all, why are you talking about me in third person, like I’m not here? Your comment literally appeared in my inbox.

Secondly, if you have more up to date data, then by all means, feel free to post it. I cited Wikipedia because it was easy to find and reference, but anyone who has ever done research onows primary sources are better.

I’m not here to brigade or pull the wool over your eyes, I’m just having a conversation on a tiny, inconsequential, internet forum

Also, I’m trans, so please don’t “he” me

If speeding was really an issue they have the technology to prevent it

Like building alternatives to cars so not every dipshit, 15 year old, and elderly person, are forced to share the road

As someone who hasn’t been in a Best Buy in over 15 years… What the fuck do they sell then?