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Gommulism ended life on earth

Reminder that “poor Gary” was selling pirated roms.

Oh, the horror! I guess that justifies ruining his life forever.

By “socialism” they mean something very different from what marxists mean. This isnt a dig at them or anything, but Venezuela inst really a communist project like China, the USSR or even Chile under Allende.

I don’t know about Bolivia, but Venezuela ironically has zero pretensions of being a socialist country; there are no mentions of Marx or Marxism in their constitution. It’s just that they pissed off the US really hard by daring to be a sucdem country while operation condor was in full effect and while they wanted to force neoliberalism into latin america. They also reverted the US backed coup almost instantly.

This happens every time a neoliberal “experiment” is attempted, it was the same with Pinochet as well. However, even if poverty skyrockets, the rich get richer, so they keep doing it.

Lula already recalled his Brazilian ambassador from Israel

All the money being lost for nothing

Not true, war profiteers made a lot of money

Has long as the Palestinian people exist, and as long as their land remains occupied by settlers, their struggle will not be over.

I was expecting this whole operation to result in the destruction or near-destruction of Israel

How? That is simply not realistic considering the scope of this conflict. Israel has infinitely more resources and more manpower, this has always been a case of asymmetrical warfare.

There isn’t enough being done by other nations to stop Israel.

This is being done precisely because NATO and the US supports Israel and sends them weapons and funding. They value their own interests in the region more highly than the lives of Palestinians. In fact, Israel wouldn’t even exist without foreign support.
This conflict will only be resolved when supporting Israel becomes more trouble than it is worth, either because of the political turmoil at home is not worth the benefits, because the money spent on it outweights the profits, or simply because the crumbling empire no longer has the means to support it’s vassals.
It’s imperative to organize at home and to agitate against Israel if you’re an USian, it might not seem like much but the more you pressure your government to stop supporting genocide abroad the closer we are to resolving this conflict.

South Korea was a brutal right wing dictatorship until somewhat recently, so maybe their views are a bit different. They also have some pretty awful labor laws to this day, even by capitalist standards. I don’t know what they actually think about the DPRK though, but their experience with capitalism is not at all like the US or Ukraine.

Bourgeois democracies are absolutely incompetent at dealing with fascists. Lula’s government will continue to slide rightwards as he gives more concessions to neoliberals as well.

The governmemt is an entity that exists in service of the ruling class, not the other way around. It’s the liberals who think that the government is this metaphysical entity that exists outside of class relations and which has or seeks absolute power. In reality it’s an institution propped up by the bourgeoisie to further their interests, and the only reason why internal political conflict happens is because different sections of the bourgeoisie want different things

“Tankie” is used by liberals and left anti-communists to defame & differentiate themselves from principled communists, and really from anyone who defends AES states. That use is cringe and outs the person saying it as an absolute tool who shouldn’t be taken seriously.

I have no problem calling myself a tankie though. Sending tanks to kill fascists is good. Every tankie should be awarded their own tank.

Which is often better than streaming anyway

When Israel does a genocide: Self defense

When Palestinians fight back: Terrorism

Funny how that works

No he didn’t, he said the election was stolen and then his followers turned into doomsday cultists, camping outside national congress and military bases (while begging the military to “do something”, as in, install Bolsonaro as a dictator), as well as blocking roads. Eventually he fucked off to the US because he didn’t want to hand over his post to Lula in person and because he was scared that he was going to be arrested for attempting a coup.

Yes, actually. It was used to force the neoliberal ‘experiment’ onto the population, same as what happened in Chile and in other Latin American countries. Also, a lot of the supporters of the regime, as well as the upper echelons, were composed of capitalists. It’s a textbook example of fascists and the bourgeoisie working together to suppress leftist movements and force unpopular economic policies.

This article talks about it in more depth, but it’s in portuguese: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/24398

its continued use of United Nations forums for its own purposes.

Because the US never does that, ever.

The real reason why no one builds railroads (except for china) is because of automobile industry lobbying. For instance, Brazil used to have a functioning rail system until around the 60s, until a bunch of car factories moved in and started pressuring the government to not only invest more on roads, but to abandon passenger trains altogether as an “incentive” for people to buy cars. It’s also the reason why so many right wingers are so against walkable cities, they pretty much just gobble up corporate propaganda and think cars are freedom machines.

After the cold war, the US was the one uncontested world power and they could basically do whatever they wanted with impunity. This is not the reality anymore. China is NOT stumbling, it’s just USian cope that they’ve been spouting for years (“their growth is fake! Building railroads is a bad economic choice! They’re gonna collapse this year trust me bro”), they’re the second biggest world economy and a genuine competing world power. The Ukrainian war is also proving that challenging the US is possible; it was a spit in the face of NATO and the US regardless if you think what Putin did was justified or not, and Russia basically just got away with it. The US is still a powerful empire, but you have to put things in context to what they were like just a few years ago.

Sounds like they’re already emulating them