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Communist auto-phobia strikes again

Edit: I mean, I suffer from it too. Don’t want to say it like this isn’t something a lot of us suffer from

I remember when George Floyd was murdered, and it shook me to my core. Now it’s…unsurprising, although still horrible

Hey, is Maduro’s wife actually being charged with anything? Or is she just being held because ??? Obviously the entire situation is bad but I feel especially bad for her.

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[This won’t change anything but like…yeah, no shit Sherlock]

1. On second thought, perhaps he shouldn’t be placed as a “Maoist.” Honestly he’s very vague on what his ideological throughline is, but it’s not Maoism.

2. He’s not the worst person ever, I should point out. I wouldn’t trust him too much, but he’s certainly better than a lot of people

3. 1dime is a bit of an idealist sometimes [which might explain the lack of ideological throughline.] For example, his video on the cultural revolution handwaved away explanations about how certain structures would be good beyond them sounding socialist.

4. He tries to do that thing that western leftists do where they try to make a direct ideological connection between enlightenment thinkers [Nietchze, Voltaire, etc.] And marxist ones [directly or indirectly saying marxism is a continuation of the enlightenment]. This, in my opinion at least, is a very baby leftist take that I struggled with in my first years. It’s not a horrible thing to think necessarily, but 1dime has obviously been a marxist for longer than I have, so it’s concerning he is making what is quite literally a Vaush level take at this point.

5.Speaking of Vaush level takes, he believes China is imperialist and capitalist, says there’s a genocide(?) In xinjiang and that the CPC is using “Bush Era tactics” on Uygers [I for one wish I got the same treatment as Uygers in China, considering they have gotten more prosperous], constantly plainly throws out bangers like “Stalin had dictatorial power and called all of his opponents Kulaks” (note: he doesn’t actually try to argue this, he simply throws this out as a truism. This is one of the reasons i get a little angry with him, as truisims like that are my least favorite form of argumentation), and other such things you can find on his Twitter and videos and such.

I think he’s less Hasan and more black redguard/onedime. He’s not going “ohh we don’t like Maduro cause otherwise liberals will dismiss us.” Hes just a Maoist.

I stopped taking his modern views seriously after his stuff with Syria.

I think honestly him and a lot of people who do work like him are just…stuck in the past. It sucks, honestly, because of how important connecting those topics of history to present day circumstances is. But unfortunately people like him, onedime, just get stuck back there for some goddamn reason.

This is just a…idk. My brain gets very emotional when i see logically contradictory things. It’s just that whenever i see “I hope every American gets glassed,” it’s like…I get it I guess. But I remember a little while ago someone wrote a memorial to the victims of the Dresden bombing, and the German government wiped it away. And when it got posted here it was a lot of people basically saying the bombing was unnecessary and that the German government was wrong for removing it.

So my brain looks at those two statements and it kinda just fries a little. And i don’t want to get angry or anything, and I always feel like I have to be in this little box of outward hatred towards people I know. Im…I’m not built like that. I can do self hatred, I’ve been doing self hatred for basically my entire life. But I can’t look at the people in my life and say they deserve the things I read in Last Train to Hiroshima.

For the China stuff, i always go back to what Franz Fanon said. “The Cold War must be ended, for it leads nowhere. The plans for nuclearizing the world must stop, and large-scale investments and technical aid must be given to underdeveloped regions. The fate of the world depends on the answer that is given to this question.”

It’s exactly that coupling and reliance that the US has on China that has allowed China to do its BRI. The peaceful development also what makes a lot of anti-imperialist countries comfortable with exchanges with China, when before Iran and other countries were wary to work with the USSR because of their heavy handedness [see: Assasinations in Afghanistan. I love Andropov but I feel like that was one of his biggest mistakes, besides dying].

But in any case, China has had a mixed history with internationalism as it was practiced during the age of the third international. Specifically with how many leaders of the CPC became somewhat…lazy in their thinking, simply attempting to copy And paste the soviet model of army, strategy, etc. [Although many good things came out of the cooperation as well] So I think it’s not only fair, but respectable of them to have learned lessons from that

[Note: twchnically was a social democrat, but i dont really care seperating soc-dems from dem-socs] I was really, really bad for a while. Like “no country should be trading with China or Russia” bad. Like “supports israel” bad.

For me it was A. The disparity between the socialist response to covid to the rest of the capitalist world and B.Radicalization from learning about the Iraq War.

I lost a family member to covid, and when that million death toll rolled around, i was incensed. I was even more incensed because I warned everyone in my life and online about the disease, and i got the ever so often “don’t worry about it, it’s just the cold.” I essentially watched in reverance as China managed to do a full response while being a much more densely populated country and being where the outbreak originated from.

The Iraq War was another one. For me, Vietnam was bad, but that was just “bad strategy.” I still saw it as legitimate (obviously I don’t believe that now). Iraq was always “the war.” It wasn’t taught in schools, I didn’t even know any vets from the war. I knew we invaded Iraq, but I didn’t get why it was so controversial. I was looking at it and wondering, since the intial engagement didn’t actually last that long [unlike Vietnam, kind of. Obviously there were the Iraqi insurgents]. One day i finally looked into it and it essentially shattered me. So much death and destruction for what is basically money for people who already had money. And no one got punished for it. At that moment I basically vowed that I wouldn’t believe anything the media or western stooges put in front of me. Of course this led to some embarrassment [a la, Sadam Huissein and Pol Pot support], but after some ideological ironing it helped smooth out those wrinkles.

Note: I had an inkling of a sense of political economy. At one point i even remember grumbling to myself like “why do the corporations get to have all this power and get rid of jobs and dwvelop/impoverish places based on tax policies, but the workers have to put up with it?” That was way before the events mentioned above, i just find it funny looking back on it

replaces male president with female one

charges maduro with fire arm possession

Is trump secretly part of the woke liberal elite? Is he engaging in DEI programs abroad?

“Yeah they messed up the legal case, now they’ll never get him”

Jeffery Epstein looking up from hell:

Ehhh, what’s more normal is to actually try? Like obviously Vietnam failed, but they tried [understatement i know]. Panama was arguably a success given what the goals were. This time…the goals are simultaneously super specific but also stupid vague

kill a bunch of people, including civilians

Abducts Venezualan president

says vp is in control but you’re going to “run the place”

vp says no your not

refuses to elaborate?

leaves?

Ngl I miss when Bourgeois foreign policy makes sense. I mean I know that this obviously isn’t over, but what went wrong here? I feel like something went wrong on their end, but what would it be.

I know the SC seat was important for the USSR for vetoing a lot of bad resolutions, but the entire “permanent seat” thing is stupid. Especially considering that nowadays Britain and France can barely influence anything out of its own backyard. Britain especially. Why isn’t Japan given a permanent SC seat? Why not Iran or Turkiye or Egypt or any other African or Middle Eastern country? Shouldn’t South American interests also be accounted for? Why not give Brazil one? The entire system at that level is completely bygon, and there really needs some way to prevent one country from vetoing every resolution

For the comparison to Fidel, this wasn’t very subtle. If you read about the attempts on Fidel, a lot of them [not all] are filled with the usual CIA wackiness. I.e, explode him with a cigar or poison icecream or whatever. Even Bay of Pigs had plausible deniability and Kennedy scaled back air support. Given soviet backing, the US had to rube-goldburg machine their way into killing Castro. Castro was a long con you hear about in books, which are convuluted and confusing and barely legal. Maduro was a mugger cutting your purse, basically.

Also this was basically entirely focussed on Maduro, based on current information. The forces used to defend against an general occupation seem to be up and running [for now] and did scratch the task force [according to trump].

Lastly, Maduro has been playing up a lot of “man of the people” stuff, and probably rejected hiding in some cave in the middle of nowhere, or might have assumed the US would invade first and then attempt to capture him, like Saddam (that’s just speculation on my part though).

Overall, we’ll see. It’s been barely half a day so whatever happens next will help us formulate a conclusion

I can’t speak for other people, but i feel like my attention span is really [for lack of a better term] bipolar. Either ill be able to sit down and read or work on or watch or play something for half a day and not even consider getting up to get water, or I’ll sit down and immediately want to do anything else. Part of it is just how much fun I’m having, of course, but even when I’m working on my physics hw for college I can usually do that without a problem, but other work will make me want to get up instantly, even if it is no where near as complex or demanding