this is not supposed to be a “gotcha” or anything like that

I’d just like to make you aware that in the sense of preventing invasion from the RF, NATO is kinda redundant, since the EU has a mutual defence clause that would trigger in such a case

DS9-era Star Trek: Beware of the corruption and moral decay that comes with secret agencies, laws do not matter to them. Is all that rly worth it, even if it is in the name of “national security”?

Discovery-era “Star Trek”: We cooperated with the CIA to make the depiction of Section 31 more realistic and now we are making a separate film about them 🤠🤠

no one ever said anything about boycotting the vote. If you think trying to curb unconditional support for genocide equals Trump, that’s on you. Ofc one should vote blue in a swing state, but don’t act like it’s a good thing that’ll fix anything. Strategic and conscious voting may be necessary but is by far nor enough political action

your bourgeois state needs NATO, not the working ppl living in Poland

In an inter-imperialist war, shouldn’t socialists from an outside country support neither side and shouldn’t socialists from a country participating in said war employ revolutionary defeatism towards “their own” bourgeois state?

the answer to a regional imperialist power is not the largest imperialist block in the history of humanity(!)

after all, a socialist has no country and belongs to no nation. just like working ppl everywhere

EDIT: cmiw but isn’t supporting one bourgeois state over another and thinking of it as “one’s own” contrary to anarchist thought?

unfortunately neither Sanders, AOC, nor Warren are real solutions and never will be the solution. They mostly pay lip service to progressive causes but then actually support atrocities like the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (in Sanders’ case).

their job seems to be to “capture” progressive support and then endorce the reactionary candidates they actually plan on pushing. And even if they were to come to power, the best case is a renewal of capitalism so that it may exist another year/decade/century

as the DNC has become beyond repair

that is the case with the whole of the USA, it’s beyond repair and in dire need of abolition if humanity is to have a future. Bourgeois “democracy” is inherently designed to halt real progress and to preserve the private (not personal!) property of the rich and the economic system that makes it possible in the first place (capitalism).

One viable future would be a socialist council democracy as one of the few true solutions

classic lol

parasites at “work”

preach!

rly? From my perception it’s a rare case that it’s used coherently.
And as I said more often than not, just as a “someone to the left of me” or “someone I don’t like”- type slur

Wish I could do that as well but I have to mod their shit TwT

That’s one of the few good definitions tbh

However, most of the time liberals or so called social democrats/democratic socialists just say ‘tankie’ to everyone to the left of them

Stalin I get, but I have yet to see a revisionist (read Dengist or “ML” larper) who defends fascist Germany

It’s just that the CIA did sooo many fucking atrocities, that quite a few of them (most notably experiments and their silly stuff like trying to murder Castro) turned out to be failures.

And during the Cold War the CIA was some axis of evil shit. Any time some leftists came to power in the US’s “backyard” (read the Americas and Caribbean. but tbh most of the world), you would either see a fascist coup or some other attempt to delegitimise them…

Guess who trained the mujahedeen in Afghanistan and the contras in Nicaragua, and gave money, resources and guidance to the fascist military in Chile? (just some historic examples)

Nowadays you still have the same shit but less. Especially in the US’s “backyard”. Like Bolivia a few yes ago bc they wanted to nationalise their resources (most notably lithium mines)

But a lot of the time the CIA just makes the preparatory work for US Invasion (Grenada, Iraq and Afghanistan to give some examples)

It’s kind of interesting how under an anti-CIA post, some of the first associations ppl make is “man the USA is bad but have you heard of them tankies? I hate those ppl”

Like no one even said anything about revisionists or wannabe MLs lol.
The word tankie doesn’t even mean anything anymore

no real-world anarchist will do that. Unfortunately there is a bunch of online liberal larpers who just like the aesthetic

You know that… Christianity developed in the Roman Empire? The Middle East (more exactly Palestine and Syria. Which were larger that today’s counterparts) wasn’t some magical place where giants lived, but a province of said Empire

Don’t forget the communist conventions and baseball games!

It’s about European churches using historical revisionism (depicting Jesus as a white European) to establish a sense of “superiority”.

Those churches are by far the most dominant