ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

Why yes, members of the US military would never agree to particupate in many, many illegal wars since 1945

While standing in a perfect row with your coworkers

It’s true, we are

Also America has no allies, only livestock: countries it keeps in pens to eat later

Everything I’ve seen of this situation reeks of economic eugenics

Liberals looking at the genocide they wholeheartedly supported

In evil badcountry, the regime makes it a crime simply to posess things from Outside

I have some news about Stalin courtesy of, no shit, the CIA

Sam Altman? The guy who’s currently on the wrong side of the dirt for SAing his sister?

Seriously.

What’s authoritarianism, and how does a country do it?

I know when I’m bested.

This is not true

Can you name a single non-“authoritarian” state, please?

They’re still comrades even if they are miss guided

This is unironically the nicest and most reconciliatory anti-tank post I’ve ever seen. We have different assessments but neither of us are writing off the other as stupid or an LLM, which is actually a breath of fresh air. The bar for political discourse may be in hell these days, but I still appreciate your clearing it.

As for where our views diverge, I would like to understand the nature of the divergence. I guess my main question is: what decides your ideology’s position on the spectrum?

Flips to page one Ah, we should pull their funding! Why didn’t I think of that?

Oxford-Cambridge Silicon Valley

Look I’m as optimistic as the next mad scientist, but at a certain point the number of sex offenders is going to hit what’s called “saturation point”

The “Heh, but I’m not a member of the national socialist party in Germany from 1940-1945” that you hear from teenage nazis online is basically also the US cultural norm

he never misses a chance to fuck with Pompeo specifically

Have we become a hated, moribund party of billionaire lobbyists and genocide profiteers?

No, it’s the voters who are wrong.

FUCK it’s too real

Pillaging of the global south for labor and resources