@souljagoytellem
also an extremely stupid argument on its own because the logical end point is that any state that is unique in its majority ethnicity can do whatever it wants because they're "the only X state in the world"
@BadSocialisms
none of them lmao. Taiwan probably comes closest but even that's a stretch because it's nowhere near as reactionary and it's not pursuing demographic engineering/settler colonialism nowadays.
@McKay4Senate
honestly regardless of the stuff being dropped on Shapiro I just think Kamala won't pick him because he's clearly hyper ambitious and she knows he's gonna snake her when it's politically expedient so he can run in 2032
@SeanMcCarthyCom
lol I told people it wasn't going to be Shapiro. If you put a white guy doing an Obama impersonation on your campaign expect a level of ambitious court politicking on a level of the late Ming Dynasty.
@fawfulfan
that's not stupid at all. If the Israelis know that they can do literally whatever they want and they're insulated from the only thing that might cause them to be reasonable (violence) then they're going to continue to act as they do because who can stop them?
@agraybee
Israel did not exist in 1924, but the zionist movement did, a movement which pretty openly stated that its goal was to create its own ethnostate for relatively recent transplants, at the expense of the local population, with the willingness to kick them out to do so.
@agraybee
I mean, they did commit an enormous amount of ethnic cleansing, refused to reverse it, and had most of the west back that up (plus a pretty vicious occupation) for like 8 decades, it is, to put it mildly, not a good look for us.
@donaldp1917
I remember even Huntington (the clash of civilizations guy ironically) argued that Lenin was a genius in state formation. No small task to get a reactionary like that to praise you
@SlavaUkrHeroyam
@jurgen_nauditt
This would require, at minimum, a germany so different from nazi Germany that WW2 probably just wouldn't have happened to begin with
@TopSecretNoam
They killed like 20% of the population in 3 years just via Arial bombardment. I dont particularly love the government but we really didn't accomplish much
@3lfares
him being secular almost makes it worse. the religious ones can at least write it off as being their divine fate, this dude literally just likes making people miserable
@LegoRacers2
It was the most advanced society in the world in its day, so yeah probably. Although the French went full orientalist whiteboi we wuz Khmerz and probably over hyped it a bit
@Post_Punk_Prick
I mean they run the country now lol, and the only reason leftists in the US pretend otherwise is because they're so married to exporting American style IdPol onto every country that they can't process it
@CosmosEnjoyer25
Azerbaijan just roasted france for its centuries of colonialism and brutality and then was like "and that is why you shouldn't care about Artsakh being ethnically cleansed"
@TopSecretNoam
I think if the northern government was really that bad they probably would have just overthrown the Kims anyhow and a lot of the economic failure is mostly sanctions. Plus south Korea was a dictatorship for several decades
@RishiJoeSanu
they really didn't though. they have one of hte most successful HSR export industries in hte world! it's not just a domestic powerhouse it's also an export competitive industry!
@daniela127
@futurama_nerd
Yes the intent is what matters significantly in determining relations with locals and how your relationship to them is perceived
I dont tell people how to vote because I dont think its productive and because its a personal decision with a lot of factors that are beyond my grasp, but genuinely if you were all in on Harris and only changed your mind because she announced price controls you deserve poverty.
@EiFrenchie
no that's pretty clearly not it because you've forgiven France for its participation in the holocaust and its extensive destruction of its former colonies
@capyqueer
@TrueSlazac
I mean you are literally mocking his potential death, but beyond that, this isn't about NATO or oligarchs. Putin was fine with the oligarchs in the past and was offered neutrality multiple times and was never satisfied with it. This isn't about nato lol
@chaine_ibrahim
@asubparusername
that was very difficult btw! they had to deal with rebels in Laos (backed by China, the US, Thailand and Cambodia at different times) up until like 2008 (although the insurgency really stopped being a large scale threat in the 90s)
@GlassMybeloved
>be an ML
>"elections don't matter, there is no proletarian democracy so there's no point in electoral participation"
>country under invasion has to push its elections off so that soldiers and occupied regions can vote
>"where is the democracy? muh free and fair elections"
@TrueSlazac
Is it? It was successful in improving peoples lives under Chavez, the pre-chavez era was incredibly unstable and unequal based on oil prices and the recent opposition proved time and again it is completely unserious about governing and only obstructs regardless of circumstance
@KieHirako9700
@frijoliz
Give me the one side you think in the DRC should be armed. I'm curious to hear. You seem very knowledgeable and not like you're socially pressured to vaguely signal over an issue you know little about
@yinyang_yo_
The soviets didn't abuse vietnam at all lol. You can argue they saw them as useful but the relationship was not particularly exploitive or abusive
@daniela127
@futurama_nerd
no, anti-zionism is a thought crime, at least in the US. wanting to establish a nation state knowing that it would entail endless expansion and demographic engineering (and a genuinely unhealthy obsession with demographics) is just a horrible thing and should not be accepted
@EmissaryOfNight
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@ItsBCJim
this is still nothing compared to the "end of the golden age of Jewish Americans" article. I saw that shit and thought it was a stormfront article
@Athenion3
@Crashandmemes
I think proxy war just implies that one country is using it to weaken the other or to ensure the other does not expand/make an ally which meets the definition here (which is why I think I think it's more or less a totally useless meaningless term).
@SlavaMalamud
I'm Jewish too and if you asked me to go serve for Israel I'd fucking laugh at you and tell you to fuck off, and if I were running for office and served in the IDF I'd definitely understand that would be held against me.
@seanyzf750
@constans
@munchiedonut
You mean the offer where the Israelis refused to recognize Palestine and made very clear they would redraw the borders as they saw fit at their convenience? The one that allowed the nakba to happen?
@Athenion3
no but there are a lot of Russian citizens who have moved into the occupied Ukrainian territories and basically taken people's homes etc... I think a lot of people want all this Russophobia discourse this to be about ethnic Russians but its very clearly about Russian citizens