Found on an Iranian Telegram:

"As for people betting "Trump" won't use nuclear weapons - they still don't get "Trump" isn't in charge of anything.

This is an all-or-nothing bid by the US to maintain primacy over the planet before losing it permanently.

The unelected US corporate-financier establishment - pushing for wars since the inception of America as a nation - have ALREADY USED NUCLEAR WEAPONS - TWICE!!!

They considered using them on Korea, Vietnam, and even as recently as Afghanistan.

DO NOT let the US pin this solely on a single politician, or an administration or a US proxy. Make sure EVERYONE involved is blamed and held accountable.

This is called compartmentalization - dividing up your political fronts when dirty work is required so you can flush the consequences down with one or more of these fronts while keeping the political whole more or less intact.

The US literally does this every 4-8 years with presidents and scores of wars of aggression and other horrible foreign and domestic policies - and they will do it with this time as well.

It wasn't "Clinton," "Bush," or "Obama's" wars (although they are accomplices and equally guilty) - they are Wall Street and Washington wars - every single one of them - no matter who is picked to sell them and take the fall for them.

If you never expose and hold Wall Street and Washington as a whole accountable, they will continue their compartmentalization game forever without end."

Ultras, Hoxhaists, Maoists, and anarchists love to say that Deng was a counter-revolutionary force, a revisionist, and that his program was anti-communist in nature.

The fact that he chose to use the mechanisms of capitalism to achieve the development of the economic base is the obvious point of contention, but none of Deng's critics have been able to present an alternative solution. Capitalism is a historical process qua social arrangement that emerges from the material base. One can no more skip over capitalism than one can simply push the communism button.

We have not seen an industrial society that did not go through some form of capitalist arrangement. Even the USSR had the NEP. Moving through this phase of industrial development of the economic base requires the efficient allocation of surplus and purely pre-planber micromanaging bureaucracy has not shown itself to be up to the challenge, historically

To be fair, Kent was actually an anti-semite

It's not like before a.i. the US was held responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of children.

Imagine believing that having two parties is what makes a country a functional democracy

You supported DRM dude. Self critique, renounce your mistakes, and if you really want to go after ICANN, give me a call.

Invading the UK or the Continent is totally useless. There are no real resources. The land is not strategically placed. The US has more than it could ever need. Germany didn't go after Europe. It went after the vast wealth of Russia and Europe was a necessary stepping stone.

If the US could maintain a war machine that spanned from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego, they would have more resources than they could possibly use in an all out global war.

The problem will always be that the people will resist.

I disagree with the great Satan, but I believe all his lies

What are you even talking about "widely regarded as the least democratic country in South America". Bro, have you heard of El Salvador?

But also, liberals cannot fathom any form of democracy beyond voting for the widest range of candidates possible. You all literally believe that Nazis and traitors being on the ballot is more democratic and nothing could be more democratic.

Newsflash, democracy means GOVERNING by the people. Did you know that 70% of elections in the USA are uncontested? Real fucking democratic.

Venezuela went through land reform and farm collectivization. There are widespread and large scale participatory structures throughout Venezuelan society from communes to citizen militias and many things in between.

Venezuela is considered undemocratic by the usual suspects, for all the usual cynical reasons. Nationalizing oil fields has always attracted claims of dictatorship. The US and UK overthrew Iran's elected leader for nationalizing their oil fields.

Stop parroting the bullshit and actually look into the situation with the knowledge that the entire Western world is engaged in a 25-year-long propaganda war against Venezuela.

What helps is to recontextualize what you're seeing. It makes you feel less crazy and helps to give you a sense of your place.

The reality is that the US is not becoming like Nazi Germany, but rather that Germany became like the United States through the Nazi movement, and then that Nazi movement was integrated into the United States, and now the United States is advancing the thing we know of as "fascism" or maybe more specifically "EuroFascism" or "North Atlantic Fascism".

Racism as we know it today, is found all over the world. That's NOT because racism as we know it coemerges naturally everywhere but rather because racism as we know it was invented by the European civilization and then imposed on 80% of the world's population through imperial domination. This is important because it helps to understand what I mean when I say that Germany became like the United States.

Germany, like most Continental European countries, was not multicultural. The European nation states were generally monocultural and their techniques for survival involved the dominance of their one culture over another, often through the process of complete extermination or displacement. This expanded the boundaries of those states, but maintained them as a monoculture.

Settler colonialism started off this way - bring your culture and your people to a new land and begin the process of extermination and displacement until you have secured an outpost of your nation state in new territory. But this was incredibly inefficient, it turned out, and the Americas really showed that by being so goddamned big. A new way of colonial domination was invented in America and it drew on racial hierarchies articulated by European scientists to rationalize it. Did you know every single original medical university in the US had a huge role in the research and development of race science?

The integration of chattel slavery, reservation systems, child separation, cultural erasure, the creation of slave hierarchies where some slaves were masters over other slaves, the creation of inter-racial conflict between kidnapped and enslaved Africans and the indigenous... All of these advances were done here, in the Americas. The first gas chambers were invented by the French generals in Haiti, the same French generals that we look to as liberators and leftists in the US, because the Haitian slave revolt was so massive that the French needed efficient ways of killing large groups of them.

When you study the rise of the Third Reich and it's leaders and philosophers, you find that they studied the US to learn how the Germans could achieve what the US had achieved. The Germans wanted to stop with this idea of just Germans owning and dominating nearby lands - there weren't enough Germans! They needed to construct a cross-cultural race, the Aryan race, that could bind a disparate group of people together and build a greater violent force. Their intent was to invade the Slavic nations, invade Russia, and control all of the territory and resources there. To do this, though, they would need more than just extermination and displacement. They would need slave camps, reservations, they would need the Slavs to work and labor and toil but not revolt, they would need different groups to fight with each other, to fight for proximity to the Aryans for their own safety, they would need to advance the American system.

And they did. They made huge strides in developing what the Americans had made huge strides in developing from what the Americans had inherited from the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch. But, the Soviets won. The Soviets rallied every single ounce of self-preservation they could muster and they defeated the most powerful military ever fielded in Europe and marched all the way through Berlin.

And what happened. The Holy Roman Emperor - the Pope in the Vatican - to which we can trace the Doctrine of Discovery, the literal Pope started saving Nazis by getting them into monasteries and then relocating them to monasteries all around the world.

And the Americans helped. Truman oversaw the creation and execution of Operation Paperclip, which brought Nazis from all levels into the US and all over Americas. They were given money, property, jobs, security details, false identities, etc. And they were integrated into the US. The US put top Nazi officers in charge of NATO. The Allies put top Nazi politicians in charge of West Germany. It never ended.

The US isn't becoming like the Nazis. The US inherits the fascistic empires of Europe, it advances that fascism to its highest known height, and then the Nazis emerge and extend the US's program back into Europe, and then the Nazis are absorbed back into the US, and the US continues to develop the program, unhindered by any opponents, with a completely pacified and propagandized population.

When you realize this, you realize it's no longer as crazy making. You have always been surrounded by Nazis or latent Nazis. The signs have always been here. You have been raised in text books worshipping genociders, slavers, rapists, human traffickers, drug dealers, and yes, fascists. The entirety of your upbringing, education, and social structures all conspire to integrate and obscure these things, because they are complicit in it. And up until such time as you realize what's going on, you also are complicit in it

Now that you realize what's going on, now the job is to figure out what to do about it. How to be less complicit, how to stop it, or how to build the momentum that will eventually stop it.

And WHY DID PEOPLE STAY HOME?

I assure you that it is the party's job to inspire people to vote and not the people's job to inspire the party.

Totally valid. You're right. Under those conditions, voting will definitely work. But only if you shame people on the Internet to vote the correct way.