The difference is that the tank brothers died before I was born, which means they're just part of the lore instead of real people whose generational villification by western media could have any modern parallels. Anyway, Hamas beheaded 40,000 babies.

They have joined what future archeologists will refer to as the sedimentary tank layer

No it's true, no revolution has ever happened and everyone who ever thought they did one was wrong. Nobody is a revolutionary and there is no hope of ever becoming one, leaving us with no path but to do nothing and contribute only hopeless navel gazing. I am a very serious communist.

That's a legit stance i respect. If i did propaganda for a living, it would certainly be easier and more effective to emphasize nuggets of truth than to make things up whole cloth

Revolution is the culmination of the difficult work of building a new society. It is not, as most of us who grew up movie-brained were taught to believe, a call of duty mission

"By all means, build a house. But do damage control and fucking let us burn your lumber for warmth now and continuously into the future, thus ensuring you will never finish the house"

So just because something is propaganda doesn't make it wrong, right?

Revolution has never happened

Yeah man, the oligarchs really give a shit which of their figureheads you vote for in the elections they control.

You people are such weird losers.

In a way, it's actually the runaway systemic success of capitalism ruining all our lives. Like a tumor, it's so fucking effective at parisitizing it's host (earth) to fuel meaningless growth for the sake of growth that it will be terminal if we don't excise it.

I'm not the same person you asked

"Erm sir it is actually a heckin whataboutism to point out that I have aligned myself with Nazis"

Its crazy how you guys will hear some moron say "I heard communists believe this" and just immediately go "yup sounds true, stupid communists" with no investigation or follow up.

"wahhh I don't want to think about what you're saying"

Keep coping, nazi

Why do you guys always avoid this topic?

Are you capable of admitting that the Ukranian government was engaged in an eight year campaign of ethnic cleansing?

I would tell Iran not to be foolish, that the US has shown many times that shows of good faith will be taken as shows of weakness, and to negotiate unabashedly from a position of strength. Keep Hormuz and take California anyway.

It's a huge economy with so many people who would benefit from being instantly free of the US sanctions regime. Can you imagine what could be accomplished there if they suddenly gained access to affordable Chinese EVs and solar panels? Cuban medicine? Culture from around the world? And all those Silicon Valley freaks with their flock cameras and eugenics fetishes would have to flee or lose the protection of the US government. I also think Iran, like most new vassal state owners, would be incentivized to leave as much of the legal structures in place as possible, meaning no religious law. They're not stupid, they wouldn't want to raise the danger level in their nice new wealthy province by implementing policies that would galvanize popular support for the right wing Christian insurgency that would immediately start putting itself together. They would prefer those people and the general public remain alienated from each other, and frankly so would I.

Overall I see some big wins and a few annoying losses, like shipping and administrative stuff. Oops, didn't notice the comm.

The chauvinism that lies at the heart of their worldview is the underlying assumption that all those foreign people must be A) Doing their own liberation wrong and B) Lying about it