Maturin [any]

move the “not sure” bars to the left side of the chart (or remove them) and all of a sudden there are a bunch of majorities against it including the overall

GOOD post

“AES” meaning “actually existing socialism.” The debate over this word goes all the way back to Engels at least.

Someone else may help me find a link, because I remember reading a different article about this specifically, but these three definitely touch on it:

https://redsails.org/tankies/

https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

https://redsails.org/losurdo-on-totalitarianism/ (this one is about “totalitarianism” and the “horseshoe” theory I referenced above)

What they are saying is that “Authoritarian” is not a precise term that distinguishes anything and was just made up as a way to try to accuse AES states of being just as bad as fascist ones. It’s a horseshoe theory term because any actually accurate term you would use to describe Hitler’s or Mussolini’s ideology would exclude the ideology of socialist states.

If all broken clocks were right 3 times a day, think about how much better the world might be.

A Nazi farts in Palestine?

Not if you look at the long history of people who flew the Gadsden flag.

Not volumes. As you say, a little can go a long way. But rather than relearn the lessons of history from first principles, engaging with writings from people who have already seriously grappled with these things is the only efficient way to wrap one’s mind around many different major factors working simultaneously in the material world.

its time to read theory. you are currently at the utopian anarchist stage. which is a step in a better direction, but ultimately irrational.

you need to better understand that the people in the image [conveniently] on the left incorporated violence because they lived under the constant threat of deadly violence. 99% of the violence was directed at them. Fred Hampton was executed by the police not long after that picture of him was taken.

Which mask?

“Semetic” is already a pseudo-scientific term. It refers to the descendants of one of the sons of Noah (Shem), which is a mythic rather that historic origin. It has always meant anti-Jew specifically.

All that said, I still agree with you that Benjamin Netanyahu is among the most antisemitic people alive right now.

They are saying the Ds and Rs are the same party

Just like all satires of this ghoulish system, the settler culture will unironically and enthusiastically buy right in. See also Starship Troopers [movie]

You are aware that Dick Cheney and 200 other Republican representatives of the billionaire class have openly supported Harris, right?

Edit: https://fortune.com/2024/10/23/billioniares-back-harris-more-than-trump-musk-cuban/

Topology nightmare snake #2

Biden has actually been this openly ghoulish for a half a century at this point. Look for that quote from him on the senate floor in the 80s talking about the massacres in Lebanon.