American workers are about 6x more productive than Chinese workers based on my preliminary research. These guys are just fucking ghouls

Well, except for Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Classic book, very illuminating, but it does contain a warning that MLs need to wrestle with.

If you build the system from the top down, it will fail.

More like a reconquista than a colonization

1. Is meaningless. It’s been a couple months of future funding being frozen. The existing grants, the leadership, and the entire history of the org is tainted by being funded by the “soft power” arm of the US government. Just to note, the state department is the department that employed hundreds of people to flood Twitter in various languages in influence campaigns.
2. I don’t see any references to documents from Russia in the article or it’s second level links. Can you link me?
3. You can’t count children nor observe brainwashing via satellites.

Just a reminder that the US has been brainwashing it’s 100 million children for over a century through propaganda riddled public school curriculum. So the accusation that Russia is providing children with a basic education that includes things the US would find objectionable is actually more than I would expect Russia to do to take care of those kids.

Reactionary forces are the capitalists, the petit bourgeois, the compradors, and the privileged.

People who accuse Marxists of being tankies are not calling anyone out on anyone’s shit. They are moralizing.

That lab is funded by the US State Dept, so it makes sense to not risk your journalistic integrity on US propaganda

“World hegemon says that two nations in conflict need to negotiate a peace settlement to end the killing”

Libs: “Fuck no everyone should enlist and we should be killing more and more and more until there’s nothing left and even then we will never surrender!!!” :foams at the mouth:

It’s not an oversight. It’s a deliberate choice because, to the ruling class and their ideology, profits are more important than pretty much anything else.

Right, because Chinese technical junk is literally some.of the best technical junk in the world. There are only a small basket of things that China is not the best in the world at producing.

Where do you live that makes better technical junk than China?

You severely missed everything presented to you. Tripled literacy rates. Housing that was 5% of salary or less. Massive life expectancy jumps in the masses.

Direct benefits to the working class.

Downvoters better stop malding and start arguing

It’s 17th in population globally, putting it in the 80th percentile of countries.

It’s a farce.

There are never only two choices. It is impossible to actually construct a real world situation where in there are only two choices. Even in an elementary school, given a test with only on question on it and it only has two answers, you can eat the test, scribble on it, punch the computer screen, walk out, etc.

Even in prison with guards pointing guns at you and putting you in a position to do either A or B you have options.

However, the concept of lesser evil is a shallow abstraction of the real world experience of pragmatism. Amongst all of your options, what course of action leads to the most desirable outcomes?

This is a real thing. We do it all the time. People in positions of grave responsibility have to do it with consequences and constraints that are absolutely gutting. Let’s say the war has already started, well, now you have to make decisions about how to avoid losing the most strategically important objectives, even if that means people dying. In fact, the strategies employed in war force decision makers into these sorts of choices as a matter of course - an opponent knows you don’t want to make certain sacrifices and will therefore create pressures that trade off those sacrifices with strategic objectives. Sometimes it’s not even that they believe you’ll give up the strategic objectives but the delay you have when choosing will give them an advantage, or the emotional and psychological toll of being put in such situations repeatedly over a long campaign can create substantial advantages.

Lesser evil is rhetorical sophistry or mildly useful thought experiments when exploring the consequences of ethical frameworks in academia.

This is why I am not all that excited for Zohran’s tenure. I am excited that he got the votes, but the reality is he will not have the power to do what he intends to do because realpolitik drives NYC.

That’s not the calculus here. The problem is that the NYPD has a budget larger than the DPRK’s entire military including their nuclear program. The NYPD is also a bunch of thugs, extortionists, rapists, assassins, kidnappers, and torturers

And that department runs the security detail for the mayor and the mayor’s entire family. The mayor is required to be in their proximity at almost all times. They drive him around, they escort his vehicles, they manage crowds every day around him.

The pragmatism isn’t limited to getting votes. It’s life or death.

Downvoters gotta stop malding and start making arguments

Russia invaded Ukraine essentially on the same legal premise that was used by NATO and the US to carpet bomb Yugoslavia.

Murdering civilians is what war is all about. The Israelis are killing far and away more civilians and the globalists aren’t opposing Israel. The US refuses to even keep track of civilians killed for the most part.

So no it’s not either of those.

Also, the antagonism against Russia started many years before they launched the SMO. So it’s not actually the war that created the animosity.

Try again.

The reason it’s dumb is because DemSocs don’t actually have the ring of power to be able to cast it into the fire in the first place.

How many Bolsheviks were in positions of government? How much of the PLA was in power in China?

The sad reality is that nearly every successful socialist revolution was born through civil war.