It's like our version of the roman empire.
TonoManza
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Ukraine should make peace because the only way the war ends is with making peace.
Taiwan should take notes on how the west revel in the destruction of your country continuing indefinitely so long as they perceive it as harming their enemies as well.
Me and who? (I'll be the bear)
Would it, though?
As opposed to the other more pessimistic option of pre-nazi Germany? Absolutely. The first victims of the Holocaust were communists and socialists.
Tsarism was very harsh against socialists.
Maybe we'll see similar things in the near future with the rise of the far right, but fortunately we're not there yet.
I can only speak as an American because I don't know the specifics of other countries (though I would imagine it's decently similar for most western countries), but we already had early socialist movements and leaders who were arrested/ assassinated.
The reason we don't currently have socialists being arrested (outside of standard arrest for direct protest/disruption obviously) and killed is purely because we don't have socialists with enough power to make it worth it to target them, not because of some principled stance which places us in a better context than the past.
We will see these harsh oppressions with the rise of the left, the right already has the power and just needs something to react to. it's important to recognize this imo.
In fact, we're seeing the stagnation of the capitalist west, and the boom of (arguably) communist China.
Yes, this is why I specified in the west. Fascism is capitalism in decay, western capitalism is decaying, therefore it's easy to believe we are closer to facsism and potentially a death cry (desperately initiating a WW3) in the west than many are willing to recognize.
Obviously it's great that China is in such a position of power for the global south, but they aren't gonna start exporting revolution to the west any time soon.
the world is going to change a lot thanks to the loss of hegemony of the west, and that brings great possibilities for us commies in my opinion
I agree that the global change with be great for the international communist movement. Just as the time period around WW2 was ripe for revolution.
The Soviets building strength and beating the Nazis didn't change history and bring the KPD and all its members back.
But it's equally important to remember, the KPD didn't stop fighting due to pessimistic fear either.
We don't need a radical optimism or to be filled with pessimism imo. We just need to recognize the reality of the situationand what needs to be done. Then take the proper precautions and be willing to do it, despite whatever we believe the outcome may be, because it needs to be done.
The fear is that we aren't in a pre-soviet Russian era in the west, but instead a pre-nazi German one and not 20 years out from the "big event" either (rise of Bolsheviks /rise of fascist power respectively).
It would be nice to think we are in the position of those early socialists in Russia. But it's hard not to have that doubt, that we are closer to the position of the German socialists who were too late and/or too disorganized and powerless.
I choose to believe that we are somewhere in the middle. We don't have time to dally, and even if we do the work we may not have time to get where we would like to be before the situation changes and demands more action, but we aren't hopeless either.
It'd actually be interesting to look into the specifics of how the western media has maintained the narrative that ukraine has been a victim of the evil and powerful Russians while also on the verge of victory versus those same weak Russian orc hordes, needing just a little more aid, for so long without more people catching on.
Similarly for Israels genocide.
Sort of an updated inventing reality
I thought Futurama ended years ago there's new seasons!?
The social contract
and the knowledge that it isn't acceptable
Rapists, well known followers of social contract who only do things that are acceptable...
It's not concerning at all that this didn't seem immensely silly and wrong when you typed it...
and any women inside would likely scream
Because if a bathroom allows trans women, women will then be unable to scream while facing an attempted rape?
the man would be perceived as an attempted rapist and would face consequences.
Are you advocating that any man who even accidentally enters a woman's restroom startling a woman be declared an attempted rapists?
Otherwise, they will be considered an attempted rapist whether trans and allowed in the bathroom or not...when they start doing the attempted rape...
This is Puerto Rican erasure.
Disagree.
His brand is bad memes.
The car into space and buying twitter were big memes. The cybertruck might have started serious but he definitely knows it's a meme by now.
He will 100% do some other absolutely stupid and ridiculously expensive meme, just because he can.