Wonderful overview!

I hate the “argument”, which has been repeated to me verbatim by the way, that “The CCP is only doing these improvements so they can stay in power.”

Like what a dystopian ass backwards way of saying “people in power gave a responsibility to the people they hold power over.”

Literally every state acts in that way. That’s the point of a political party (theoretically) in a liberal democracy. They’re supposed to improve the lives of normal people.

Why is it that when a Western political party comes to power in a 4 year election, and do fuck all but rob the public, that’s just seen aa normal?! If a party is improving people’s lives materially, would they not always be voted in? For what reason would someone have to vote in another party if things were getting better for them under the current administration?

This sober reflection on how abysmally stupid it would be to invade Mexico should be obvious. However, here just north of the border in California, even if people aren’t in favor of any military action against Mexico (at least) they will still uncritically parrot the idea that the US is capable of it. The idea of war being anything beyond causing death and destruction is utterly foreign to Americans. Not to mention they don’t seem to recognize that starting a war on your border, which would likely turn into a Guerilla struggle, would very quickly spill into their own borders.

The US population has no idea about the consequences of war when its on or next to your land. I’m scared to know if the US ruling class has become as ignorant as the sheep they’ve led.

With China, the US can’t get back back the factories without trying to offshore them to other countries.

However Mexico borders the US… I assume the demented leadership of the empire has a more “concrete” way of obtaining those factories. It would not be the first time they steal Mexican land eitheir.

Obviously an invasion and occupation would be a whole other affair on their own, but we’ve seen how unhinged the US continues to be.

“Ummmm Maduro commited election fraud in 2024 according to credible evidence.”

Alright, for a moment, let’s say that there was credible evidence of this fraud or whatever.

Would the opposition, whose claiming to have won, make Venezuelan’s lives better? The ones who are fanatically loyal to Israel? The ones who literally want yo sell off trillions of dollars of infrastructure, land, and resources to foreign powers? The ones who want to dismantle the expanding numbers of self governing communes (really democratic there buddy). The ones who want to cut all social welfare which yhe most poor Venezuelans need every day? The ones who are literally requesting that the US and Israel (becuase fucking of course) to occupy their country in exchange for the majority Venezuelas assets?

No fucking normal person would say these people are anything but ghouls, but your chomping at the bits to have then assume power over Maduro? What’s better a brother you don’t choose who yells but never hurts you, or a friend you choise but who beats you for your money? Does the fact that you chose your friend make them better then your brother who you didn’t choose.

This is not even delving into the fact that US sanctions essentially make the democratic process (even limited sham of liberal democracy) completely null and void. US sanctions essentially holds a population hostage and doesn’t allow them to discuss internal affairs because the looming shadow of economic warfare is obviously going to dominate the national discussion. They force a country to ask “what should we do for the US” instead of “what should we do for our country” which deligitmizes the whole idea of self determination in the first place.

It’s basically a universal agreement that sanctions are economic warfare. So allow us to elaborate on that thought process. In open warfare, especially invasion, does any nation allow for a sector of soceity to capitulate to the invader? No, they outlaw the practice and suppress those who dissent. Yet nations under sanctions are lambasted for doing the same thing when being economically warred upon.

Frankly, Maduro didn’t suppress the opposition enough they shouldn’t have even been allowed to participate in the first place! The opposition is funded and backed by the US, directly linking them with the aggressor nation. That alone would be more then enough to disqualify during an invasion.

The only reason someone can have for opposing Maduro’s “suppression of the opposition” is if they support the opposition. Unfortunately liberals and my dear western leftists (who I unfortunatelyhave to contend with) are not so honest about their genuine intentions. Or they are still not fully understanding the scope of what politics and anti-imperialism entails.

Us Communists do not hide our beliefs when we support opposition. When we support the trade unions and socialists in Ukraine, we do so not because of some vague “Democratic process” but because they aim to improve the conditions of the Ukrainian working class, in which they’ve identified that the actions taken before and during the war with Russia was against the average Ukrainian’s interest.

We don’t hide our reasons for our support. If others want to contend with us on those points, then we can happily discuss worn them, but we don’t vaguely gesture to self contradicting logical fallacies.

Democracy under US global hedgomony is a sham. The day everyone accepts thus fact is the day we can actually have a proper discussion about what to do about it.

Claims like these annoy me the most because it’s never substantiated, it’s just endlessly repeated as a cliche.

For some reason I ask, “Why do you kick dogs on weekends?”

Something about the absurd accusation just felt like it got a point across.

I’ve strangely never been perma banned from a sub, probably because i just don’t interact with many libs beyond leftist subs that act as gateways into more radical politics like LSC. I’ve been heavily down voted before and was almost banned from LSC for telling a fascist to walk into traffic but the mod unbanned and just advised that I’m not as explicit next time, but that I should be all good.

I probably get into the most arguments on the California sub, LSC (though oddly enough it’s usually with other Marxists who are just not engaging with materialism), and the Bernie sub. The last I mainly just comment for the sake of catching a few baby leftists into anti-imperialist politics. While the first I’d just me argueing with neolibs and trying to agitate for people to expand their political consciousness.

LSC is honestly the one I comment on the most where I’ll sneak some good posts by comrades here on grad that I feel explain Marxist concepts well. I’ve found that I’m best at educating people sympathetic to socialism but don’t quite understand what Marxism is or why Communists operate in the way that we do. Interlinking concepts together from around the world is probably what I am best able to communicate, getting people to answer a question they were asking by themselves.

To put it short, I like to yap and lecture, and am pretty good at enthralling people who were willing to ask for input.

Though I’m always trying to improve. I think my main blindspot comes from dispelling why socialist state structures are qualitatively different from capitalist ones. Especially in a way that sounds appealing. For me it was enough to just show the material improvements compared to what cake before and what was around them but for a lot of people that’s just not something they hold stock in for whatever reason.

Speaking about politics, especially foreign policy, for a lot of Americans is considered a bit of a social taboo, at least among white suburbanites in my experience. I’ve one person in my family from this group, and though I do care for them on the basis of the fact they are family, it’s very clear they are uncomfortable with interrogating uncomfortable realities or personal held beliefs. They’ll immediately say it’s rude to speak about politics or religion at a family gathering, but the rest of us non-whites have no issue with arguing on the topic, even when people fundamentally disagree. However the older white suburbanite just refuses to apply their, some times genuinely abundant knowledge, into something actually coherent. In the case of my family again, it’s someone who could legitimately speak to you for over an hour on the abuses of white settlers against the native people, bringing up information that they clearly investigated before hand. Yet if you talk about the politics of today, suddenly your being unpolite. It’s a really baffling experience for me, as I’ve just never struggled with the same lack of curiosity.

It’s important to be equipped with ways to render liberals completely unable to license their support of empire.

Wow that was even more stupid than I expected some how.

These Yakkubian freaks are lucky that no one from our communities (Muslim I mean) has just decided “fuck it, I’m going to make the world a better world today” in relation to these grifter’s existence on our earth.

Billions of fraud done by Small businesses during Covid but of course they’re obsessed with Non-Profits spear headed by immigrants.

I fucking despise “I’m not right wing I’m just presenting facts” grifters. Too cowardly to just say they’re genuine beliefs out loud so they hide behind this veneer of tilted statistics like vermin.

Shit like this is why I was attracted to Marxism Leninism. Becuase only ML states have been successful in making fascists scuttle into the wretches of soceity where they belong.

I’m aware of the somaliland insurgency but I’m more asking what is being used to “sell” racism against somalis specifically right now. Is it just that Somaliliand is gaining more ground due to western support and Trumpers are suddenly taking a side in a conflict they’ve no interest in prior or is there domestic issue being exploited to try and make the concept of splitting Somalia appealing.

Alright what is the bullshit about Somalias? I just thought it was general racist islamaphobic trite making the rounds again but what have bigots specifically concocted this time for the sake of being mad at a marginalized group?

Frankly I don’t see how the diaspora of one of the poorest countries on the planet is in any way a powerful force to be wary of but its not like the whites are known for their grasp on reality.

I think it more has to do with the fact that the US borders them and a particularly rabid set of rulers is currently at the wheel.

Frankly I don’t blame Mexico for capitulating to the US from the position they’re in. Its an unenviable situation, being neighbors with the imperial hedgomon currently announcing the revival of a policy which declares they have sovereignty over your decisions.

I feel the same. The primary threat to the Iranian people is US imperialism in the region right now. If Communists want to have influence in and potentially come to power at a later date, they must position themselves against the threat of imperialism before all else.

Though personally I’m interested in seeing how Iran’s closer relationship with China may influence the newer generation. There’s still too much of a reliance on western economic and political doctrine among Iranian higher education which makes governance more difficult then it should be.

Do you have some sources regarding the government’s policy to make changes in favor of the Bazaar shop keepers? Also if you have a video of the proper audio I’d appreciate it.

Thats an MRI scan for below $80. In the US it can be thousands of dollars without insurance.

I’m just stating the often cited reasons that liberals support certain decisions made by their empire. It doesn’t need to be true, it just needs to something they can point to aa a reason for why whatever western plot is sowing discord.

Liberals don’t have any consistent political line beyond supporting what is currently beneficial to empire.

For Tibet, they say that the principal of self determination for nation states trumps the theocratic nature of the state.

However when it comes to the Eastern Ukrainian regions, self determination takes a back seat to stopping Russian expansion, labeling that as an outcrop of an ethnosupremacian.

Yet the concept of opposing ethnosupremacist ideology goes out the the window when it comes to supporting Russian opposition figures like Navalny, who are forthright with their ethnonationalism, now the issue becomes Putin’s subversion of democracy or the people’s will.

This subversion of the people’s will is however not accounted for when the average Tibetan today and at the time (largely enslaved) welcomed the intervention of the Communists against the theocracy. The issue here is now that the Communists invaded and invasion of one power by another us unacceptable.

Unless in the case of a place like Libya, where Ghadaffi was suppressing the will of the people-

And I could keep going in infinite circles. My point being, that liberals are not upfront with their actual consistent beliefs. Notice I did not say they are hypocrites, because is my view, in order for them to be a true hypocrite they would have to hold some attachment to their stated principles but it’s very clear they do not.

The consistent principle that liberals do hold on to unwaveringly is the principle of imperial supremacy of their states. Anything that aids that goal falls in line with their principles, anything that doesn’t is discarded.

The unfortunate thing is I’ve seen quite a few Muslim men in my community buy into this bullshit on the basis of “traditionalism” (what fucking tradition, we’re not White Evangelical Christians) with quite a few of them falling into Andrew Tate’s sphere of influence.

The whites seriously just poison our communities with their BS issues and then turn around and request our sympathy.