I’d put it 3/4 of the way between Startrek and Bladerunner on the dystopian scale.

My lady and I watched it all but there were times we considered looking for something else. (we are pretty picky) It was way better than most of the shows made these days but I am really divided on the expanse. On the one hand it was good hard scifi setting and plot.

On the other the writing felt childish. The romantic relationships were really bad and the characters feel really shallow. They each have a neatly prepared backstory but their motivations seem arbitrary.

That’s not just your theory. Its fact. israeli schools send kids on death camp tours in europe. I heard somewhere that they don’t use local tour guides and instead have israeli guides who’s entire job is to scare fascism into kids but I am having trouble remembering where I heard it.

Yeah. This is a really important idea. Pushing back on the narrative that israel is the ancestral homeland of Jewish people destroys the legitimacy of the zionist state. Palestinians are descended primarily from Hebrews that converted from Judaism to Christianity and Islam. While israelis are descended primarily from europeans who converted to Judaism. The lie that Jewish is a race or ethnicity and not a religion is an invention by zionists.

Working for the CIA for free because you are an ignorant idiot is still working for the CIA.

I really couldn’t tell you where I got it. Its been a long time since my explorations in that area.

So your family are nazis? Or just work for the CIA? Based on your historical and political ignorance it sounds like both.

Communism is the goal of a classless society of equals. Socialism is the process of attaining communism. “Late stage communism” is like saying “The last leg of the podium.” USSR was never communist. It was socialist and it was killed in it infancy.
The economic struggles of the USSR we not due to their policies they were due to hostility from capitalism and capitulation by revisionists who snaked their way into control.

Early stage capitalism and early stage capitalism before all the horrible shit comes out are a comparatively nice creature.

Capitalism was horrific and inhuman from the very start. Read a fucking book. Go read about the process of enclosure in Britain.

It began with the rich expelling people from their ancestral homes where their families had lived since time immemorial. Those now homeless families starved until they got jobs working at factories where the wages barely covered food and shelter where multiple families were crammed in a shack and literally sleeping on top of eachother. A little while later it became a crime to be unemployed with the punishment being slavery. Capitalism started with genocide and the genocide machine only slowed down with the emergence of communism.

The only time a genocide was ever fought against was when the USSR defeated the nazis. The british, french, belgians, spanish, germans all engaged in genocide a few times each without batting an eye under capitalism. Only when the USSR showed up did capitalists concede that genocide was not acceptable.

The history of capitalism is 100% soaked in the blood of innocents. The only thing standing between capitalists and genocide is a strong and internationally active socialist nation. Yes people died under socialism but the majority were not violent deaths they died due to famine caused by natural factors and by petit bourgeoise fuck heads trying to destroy the revolution. The ones who were killed by violence were capitalists sympathisers and genocide lovers and they got what they deserved.

The claim that the CIA funded castro was only ever made by one guy who wrote for the ny times. None of his assertions have ever been backed up by declassified documents from the CIA some of which would have surely mentioned it if it were true.

From everything I have read about the subject nobody seems to know for sure if Fidel was really communist during the revolution. The version of history I believe is that Castro wasn’t a communists when he overthrew batista but Che just kept propagandizing while the americans proved that liberalism is just a mask worn by fascists.

It gives me hope to think that the fascists’ fear of communism will push liberals into our arms.

For a person killing their ego you sure used the word “I” a lot. (This is mostly a joke.) Though attempting to limit references to oneself is an interesting exercise in ego death and mindfulness.

I’d like to believe that all forms of racial/religious/ethnic supremacy will be eliminated by 2100 but my faith in a better world within my lifetime is waning.

I won’t tell you it’s going to be alright but there will probably be moments where things are a bit better than they are now.

Life was really simple when I was homeless… but my back loves my mattress and not carrying everything I own all the time.

I can see why the west would be sick of the watermelon seller. He’s too slippery for them and they want someone who will just do what they say. They are sick of him saying saying thing while doing another.

I can see why Turkey’s people would be sick of him. On the one hand he stokes nationalism and racism which makes minorities hate him but on the other he doesn’t go all in to support pogroms so the the racist nationalists are upset.

I don’t know enough about the economic situation but if Erdogan is true to form I’m sure he plays both sides against the middle and that is probably pissing off the bourgeoise too.

What will come if he is ousted? No clue. I think its a coin toss that it will be either way worse or way better. Or maybe it’ll be the same.

This is wrong thinking. While American comrades should be willing to give critical support for policies that burnie and aoc have those few policies are practically non-existent and consistently sacrificed in exchange for personal political gains. Those ideas are not aoc or burnie’s ideas they just grabbed onto them. You can support the policy while disparaging people who claim to support them.

It is not a purity test. There is nothing there to purify. Lauding them for their “progressive” policy ideas (that don’t go anywhere) is picking corn kernels out of a pile of shit and presenting them as gold. They are not comrades. They are tools of the capitalists through and through.

It is better to engage with supporters of aoc and burnie and show them why the little they offer is a) not enough and b) a trap to keep people from seeing there is no voting their way out of capitalism. I am 99% sure that aoc is a fbi or cia operative instilled to lure younger progressive voters into voting democrat and I am almost as sure that burnie is the same.

The part that many leftists get wrong (myself included) is our attitude and tone when trying to communicate these ideas. We often come off as combative and talking down and that is unhelpful 99% of the time.

I never bothered with roses because I thought they were temperamental. Then a few years ago I got one on clearance and it went really well despite the horrible soil and lack of care. Now I always check the bargain bin for roses. I’ve lost a couple to wild life and lack of water but otherwise they are really easy going.

That is to say, we should take care not to use words that wound other comrades and should be able to stand injurious language from others.

Lenin is getting called out for being a dick.

That is a conspiracy!

You too oppo

I’m not solid on this as a prediction but other than the war continuing for another few years I don’t see many paths that are more realistic.

I really doubt the uaf hardliners will stop fighting of their own accord even if the government ordered it to. Russia isn’t going to be able to be passive in the face of ongoing terrorist attacks coming out of Ukraine.

So peacekeepers are going to have to be deployed eventually. As much as the west might dislike it China is the only option for peacekeepers that Russia would agree to. The only other option is for Russia to occupy all of Ukraine until denazification is complete, which nobody wants.

If ever there was a time and place to move away from their non-interventionist stance I think a peace keeping force in Ukraine would be the spot.