If you didn’t already know about Comrade Julius Malema then you need to. This man is an exemplary revolutionary.

  • QueerCommie
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    1810 months ago

    I don’t know if sending weapons to Russia is the best use. Russia has arms factories, they’re doing fine. Meanwhile Palestine could use the weapons.

    • @cfgaussian
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      10 months ago

      Yep. The idea that Russia needs others to give them weapons is somewhat silly. Russia is a major arms exporter, they are the ones who give others weapons. The only reason i could see for other countries to send weapons to Russia is as a symbolic gesture to show the West that “what’s good for the goose is also good for the gander”, i.e. if the West is allowed to send weapons to Ukraine then they don’t get to tell anyone else not to send weapons to Russia. It would be a big middle finger but it wouldn’t really affect the war itself.

      Arming the Palestinians (and doing so in a pragmatic, non-ultra, non-moralizing way, meaning not shying away from supporting certain Palestinian liberation groups just because you don’t like their ideology or their positions on certain social issues) would be much more impactful and much more radical of a step.

      • @Shrike502
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        410 months ago

        not shying away from supporting certain Palestinian liberation groups just because you don’t like their ideology or their positions on certain social issues

        Could you elaborate on this part, please?

        • QueerCommie
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          610 months ago

          Possibly referring to Iran not supporting non-Islamic Palestinian liberation fighters?

          • @cfgaussian
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            610 months ago

            Yes, but also vice versa, secular Westerners being squeamish about supporting Islamic liberation groups like Hamas.

    • @hegginsesOP
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      910 months ago

      I think Malema was talking more in principle rather than in terms of practical need

  • @Shrike502
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    1510 months ago

    We don’t need weapons. We need socialism

    • @hegginsesOP
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      1910 months ago

      We ain’t gonna get there by singing kumbaya

      • JucheBot1988
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        10 months ago

        True, though to speak to what comrade Shrike502 was saying, Russia is a lot more lacking in the socialism department than the arms department (as in, they don’t seem to have much of a problem at all when it comes to arms production).

        • @hegginsesOP
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          710 months ago

          I think Malema was talking more in principle rather than in terms of practical need

      • @freagle
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        1210 months ago

        Kumbaya is a Gullah Geechee phrase that means “Come by here”, a plea for their God to intercede in their oppressed condition. It is not, as many have been taught, a song of togetherness and peace but rather an explicit acknowledgement of ongoing conflict. White people singing kumbaya in times of peace and prosperity to express togetherness and fraternity is, to say the least, a complete disarming of the meaning.

      • @Shrike502
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        -310 months ago

        We ain’t gonna get there by pouring weapons into bloated capitalist system either

        • @hegginsesOP
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          810 months ago

          That “bloated capitalist system” is making a mockery of NATO, they must succeed in this war