These 3 images pretty accurately describe me:
“It’s dangerous for a states security if a foreign authoritarian government has information on ways to influence your citizens.”
Is the reply I’ve gotten before. Honestly not the worse opinion… if you applied it to the US. Otherwise it’s eye-roll inducing.
I do wonder about the timeline that would have been, had Trotsky put his ego aside and devoted himself to the revolution during the Stalin era.
Perhaps I’m just naive, but even if I don’t particularly care for Trotsky or Trots in general, I can’t bring myself to truly dismiss him entirely. His work for the red army is indispensable as far as I’m aware and for that alone I’m willing to say mu view of him is as an overall net positive to the world.
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Look I didn’t learn nuclear physics to actually do math.
God I know I’m a fucking nerd by the fact that I thought this was cool as hell, and could comprehend it a little (though I’m much more familiar with Python and industry specific coding, rather then economic analysis.)
I’m still not sure if I wanna try the new Legends. The thing that attracted me to the first fame was the setting, whereas I’m not quite as interested in Kalos setting of ZA. I think I’ll wait for reviews to come in and determine if the game play is worth it for me, as I quite enjoyed the first game.
I think I’ll probably choose the Unova starter again, but I’d like to see what they turn into, as all of them could become my favorite with the right final evo.
Had no clue what this game was, but he small showcase has really intrigued me. I love the asthetics of it and will be sure to keep track of it for when I have time.
It’s got my attention more then Metroid Prime 4, and I’m an avid Metroid fan. (Nothing against MP4 I just really vibe with Witchbrook)
As someone who has been privy to admin negotiations for my university, I have to say they are incredibly obstinate and bad faith to negotiate with. It’s like banging your head against the wall until it gives, but until then sustained pressure is required.
Thank you for the clarification. I think I understand now.
My understanding is that when a color revolution fails, which is becoming increasingly common as imperialism develops, along with the Global South’s understanding of imperialism, the US increasingly turns to sowing chaos and destruction through protracted terror campaigns rather then parasitically yanking organic movements in whatever direction they want.
Essentially the color coup is a development from the color revolution because movements in the global south have gotten wise to Washington’s tactics. Therefore, since the US can no longer attain their goals by latching onto these movements, they do there best to anhilate all functioning of governments they target.
The west is also on the decline meaning they have to resort to these more desperate tactics compared to before.
I’m now interested in the way things develop from here.
As we can see with Gaza, the western myth of humanitarian concern is shattered. This along with the increasingly aggressive sentiment of the US, even towards their vassels, makes it obvious to all of the global south that the US has no concern for people’s conditions of life and only carew about furthering its political goals.
The increased use of these color coups over color revolutions, though concering, potentially opens some doors, or more accurately, closes a large amount of looping paths.
With the increase of these color coups and terror campaigns, the more likely that the global south gains wider awareness of such simple tactics. It forces these movements and countries to burn the bridge of western compliance. More over, it makes obvious that the answer to this issue is through unity with other members of the global south. A chain is broken by its weakest link, therefore pressure from the rest of the global south to not be that weakest link will mount.
In a way this increased brutality will isolate the west further and create an enemy in their victims who is increasingly united.
I expect that initially this strategy will he successful, a shock of sorts, however I think it will quickly burn out its effectiveness as globalized brutality is unsustainable. We may then see countries begin taking measures similar to the Sahel revolutions in order to combat this new development, leading to the west fully committing to these campaigns.
Eventually sparse interconnected regional alliances who turned to “authoritarianism”, as the west will call it, will cooperate with another to cover there weaknesses against the western terror plots.
Perhaps my view is too hopeful or I am missing a key factor but, I honestly think these color coups may be, though initially more brutal, significantly less compotent then the former color revolutions.
I’m heavily doubtful of China doing this at all. I’d imagine they’d see it as a breach of their non-interventionist policy, though if anyone has information that contradicts me then please tell me.
I found this Business Insider Article discussing the possibility of destroying chip factories that was pushed 2 years ago.
I’m still a bit confused on all the differences between a color coup and color revolution.
Is the article stating that color coups forgoe the idea of taking control over the state and instead are entirely focused on making governing impossible? That doesn’t seem to me any different from the stages before a color revolution.
Why is Syria today under Jolani a color coup vs a color revolution? The brutality of it seems consistent with Latin American color revolutions like Chile.
The use of a protracted terror seems more like a tactic that the West uses to take advantage of in West Asia rather then a new devolpment. If they could instigate these kinds of terror cells in Latin America in the event that their first color revolution attempt failed, would they not do it?
The article is definitely informative and is a useful resource however I’m still not entirely sure I understand the difference between a color revolution and color coup.
Is social credit one of the only jokes libs have?
Luke it’s BS that you’d get dog piled for stating a basic fact that social credit, the way Westerners conceive of it, is a complete fabrication.
They could go the Qanon route and just make all their conspiracies about Russia rather then “the deepstate”.
Maybe the majority of Americans will have selective amnesia, as they do every few months, but committed libs may as well be a cult just as delusional as MAGA.
Considering there are few Arabic mainstream news networks that aren’t funded by US vassels, it’s honestly not unexpected that people would be fooled. They have no counter narrative, and never even interact with Shiites unless they are in a country that has a sizable population if them.
It’s still infuriating seeing my Sunni companions snub me over a sectarian farce, because they’d rather believe the largely corrupt Gulf funded media over siding with Iran.
Though today the media landscape is quite different. Online media like telegram, whatsapp, and social media have a larger influence then mainstream media I believe, so perhaps these efforts are losing their effectiveness.
Unfortunately, AJ has gained a lot of clout from their Palestine coverage, which they are utilizing to deceive the masses.
I’d say the material reality of Israel’s actions would be the largest motivator, but I’m not sure the sectarian hatred can be overcome.
So HTS decides to massacare Alawites and try to exterminate the Shiites of Lebanon but they won’t fight Israel who is currently occupying their country?
Of course Jolani is just trying to make a stable situation for Syria according to his supporters. What a ridiculous farce.
The only stability HTS seeks is one born from the eradication of all minorities within Syria, and they don’t care what it takes to get to that point. They’d give up the entire country to finally be rid of the “Mushrik” and “Kafir” which shows where their loyalty truly lies.
I’d love for another wigs to Republicans moment in the US with the democrats, however I don’t think that will happen due to a lack of framework for a left party to emerge. Also I think liberals would rather sink any emerging leftist party in their death throws rather them jump ship from their own party.
And dems are gonna still vote with them I bet. While liberals will blame the left even as they’re carted off to new Trump Aslyums for a Twitter post that got them labeled under “TDS”.
“Your opinion isn’t ideologically consistent, and your just using this rhetoric as a bludgeon against communism rather then judging things on how that relate to material reality.”
“Whatboutism”
Every time.
Graph is very funny at least.