If the power source and lightweight, you suddenly get jetpacks/flying vehicles and distances are shortened all over. 1MW would allow for BIG flying crafts, possibly going up to high layers of the atmosphere with a big payload and making the costs of satellites and space exploration much easier.

Huge cargo aircraft render sea cargo obsolete, making goods reach the other side of the planet for a negligible cost in the span of 24h, same applies to train cargo since no rail infrastructure is needed for air travel, and prices of human travel around the globe drop by an order of magnitude.

The artificial heating and illumination of vast surfaces is enabled, leading to increased exploitation of uninhabited northern territories in Canada, Russia, Greenland or Antarctica. Desalination at unprecedented scales solves droughts, allows for the greening of deserts, and immense water pumping and land expansion projects spawn in countries wanting to gain land from the sea such as Bangladesh or Netherlands. Oil countries go into irrelevance.

B to the ump to the bump bump bump amber whataboutism volcel police

Oh boy this is gonna be a spicy comment section.

Essentially, the point is that Russia has no choice. The western empire has expanded eastwards and aims to control increasingly the former “Russian sphere of influence”, which used to be the eastern block for the most part. The west can do this because it has the economic and geopolitical supremacy, and can do this through so-called"soft" power, political power and economic power.

This process progressively weakens the Russian empire in favour of the western empire. This leads to a stronger western empire over time, and this is something patently bad for the entire global south and all nations suffering under the yoke of western imperialism. Fighting against the western imperialism, even by means of military struggle, is considered positive by many socialists, even if done by a reactionary nationalist force. For example Mao famously allied with the Kuomintang during the Japanese invasion, because the priority was the elimination of imperialism, followed by the revolution. Edit: this is to me the epitome of critical support: having good analysis that lets you fight side by side with an anti-imperialist force, but after dealing with imperialism being able to fight the reactionaries and win.

Furthermore, history didn’t begin in 2022. Tens of millions of Ukrainians have suffered the oppression of the west since 1990, becoming the poorest country in Europe and losing millions of lives to poverty, malnutrition, stress, unemployment, alcoholism and suicide since then. If you’re concerned about the wellbeing of Ukrainians, you should primarily be concerned with the western role in the fucking up of the entire country over the past 35 years, which arguably affected it much greater than the ongoing invasion.

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DWP? More like DVP, da volcel police roflmaooooooo

Just bumping and being a dork, I hope it doesn’t come accross as insensitive <3 we appreciate you a lot here buddy, what about whataboutism

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The vegan hotdogs at IKEA (at least in Spain) are about half the price of the meat ones, feels good

I don’t remember them fabricating a lot of stuff

Remember the spring offensive?

Got linked to this comment. Thanks for the writeup

Sorry, are you implying that, out of all media, WaPo is spreading Russian propaganda?!

Thing is, all western powers and their vassal states will be diametrically opposed to it. I don’t think there’s much possibility for international cooperation of workers in states while there are imperialist powers like the US or Western European states.

What you’re suggesting seems to me something akin to the former communist internationale? Why not straight to something that has historical evidence of working, such as the Warsaw pact?

“plants feel pain, that’s why I chose a diet that introduces extra steps on the food chain so that the animals I eat end up eating 10x as many plants as I would”

More like scrotum master, LMAO GOTTEM

Being Spanish this is specially true. “My” traditions are of torturing a bull inside a ring in front of an audience, so FUCK those traditions.

Germany is already taking the wrong side of history.

Always has been

Dude, wtf, show some respect for the people struggling

Edit: sorry, wasn’t aware of the situation with food waste in other countries

[…] is a provocation worthy of military invasion?

See, that’s an entirely different statement. Threatening to join Russia’s geopolitical rival’s military alliance while bordering Russia, is provocation. The acts in Donbas since 2014 are provocation. Is it “worthy of military invasion”? I don’t believe so. The proto-fascist Russian government is clearly not acting entirely out of pure will and self defense, and I’ll be the last to defend it since I have loved ones directly suffering under that government. But it’s important to frame things correctly, and yes, threatening to join NATO while bordering Russia is a huge provocation.

Particularly, NATO has no history of defensiveness (as far as I know it has never intervened for the defensive purposes it’s supposed to uphold), but it has a history of offensiveness. Yugoslavia and Libya can both attest to that, and extra-officially (technically not NATO interventions even if many NATO members participated one way or another), countries such as Iraq can also attest. The case of Iraq is a perfect example of what unprovoked invasion in modern times is, and we are still forced to see libs fall heads over heels for a fucking Dick Satan Cheney endorsement to Kamala “most lethal army in the world” Harris.

So, yes, when a country bordering you chooses to join a historically aggressive military alliance that openly challenges you, that’s huge provocation. And it’s important to state so when we talk about the war in Ukraine.

completely unprovoked

considering joining NATO

Those two statements are in the same phrase… My god

Not very hopeful but it’s something

I highly recommend that you get yourself a copy of the book “Human rights in the soviet union” by Albert Szymanski. It discusses the access to goods, healthcare, education, publications in local languages, and much more, for different republics within the USSR, for the period from 1917 to 1980 approximately. There was a famine in Kazakhstan, but how many famines were there in Kazakhstan before communism, and how many were there during?

In the book (which you can probably find online, ehem Anna’s Archive ehem), go to the chapter that discusses the central Asian republics, and look quickly through the tables discussing these metrics, and comparing them to (historically similar pre-1917) countries of the region such as Afghanistan or Pakistan. You’ll see how communism brought literacy, education, healthcare, pensions, women’s rights, and material well-being to central-Asian republics.