Is there any argument that could be made that it might be in Iran's interests to let the enemy think it was more successful than it was, leading Iran to give false confirmations on the success of the assassinations? Or would there be no reason to do that? I take it that Iran never did confirm Esmail Qaani's death, given he is clearly still alive. But that makes me wonder if there are other people that the entity claims to have killed but that Iran has not confirmed are dead, in other words more people like Esmail Qaani who are in a Schrödinger's cat situation but might pop up like Qaani. Or was he the only one in that limbo who wasn't verified by Iran as dead? If there are other discrepancies like that, then we're back to where @[email protected] was at, wondering which others might still be kicking around.

ISIS was created by the CIA in Iraq.

Do you happen to have any good sources that describe how that came about?

This sounds very plausible to me, but I'm curious about who the differing bourgeois factions are and where the line is between their opposing desires. Is this a finance capital vs industrial capital thing, where finance doesn't want to risk escalation and possible nuclear war but the evangelicals in industrial capital do? Or is that way off?

If anyone is curious, the (cw) misogynistic c-word slur is the one this intellectual child is throwing about and saying isn't a slur. They're also too much of an idiot to realize that on most instances slurs are automatically removed so they don't understand what's happening here or how they're even being made fun of.

So on top of being a coward and genocide denier, they are a deeply sexist misogynist too.

Do we want more engaged and active users if they’re coming from- I dunno, lemm.ee for instance? I don’t think anyone here would want that

Unfortunately Mao was an idiot surrounded by sycophants who killed more of his countrymen through incompetent policies than Stalin did with his purges.

Unfortunately burgerlanders are idiots surrounded by propaganda made by the empire that killed more people the world over through cruelty and policies of greed and exploitation than even Churchill did with his genocide of Indians.

You are an idiot. Mao was a brilliant and resolute (though imperfect) revolutionary that saved millions of people, pulled even more out of poverty, and set China on the path to becoming the superpower that it is. Surrounded by sycophants? lol, he famously called on the people not to blindly accept party bureaucracy and to fight injustice even when it means fighting his own communist party.

Nope, this was reality (not "the story") all along. Considering that it's known nazis who were running the ethnic cleansing campaign, it's pretty clear that you can't have one "goalpost" without the other. The fact that this is the first time you've heard this and think it's moving of goalposts really speaks to your utter ignorance on the topic. But I realize most westerners are completely ignorant on the topic sadly, seeing as the "pUtiN BIG MEANIE RuZzIa is EBIL dictatorship! Poor smol bean Ukraine!" narrative is the only thing that's allowed through the propaganda filter there.

you’ve become conditioned to parrot the party line and be rewarded for it, no matter how disconnected from reality it becomes.

Pretty rich coming from someone who parrots the US State Department's line on every AES country and every successful revolution.

you need that dopamine hit of the collective praising you for owning the anarkiddies

Right, yeah, that's sure what happens all the time on an instance where people get banned for being anti-anarchist, anti-anarchist sentiment will get a comment removed, and where a good number of the users, even some mods and "power users" are themselves openly anarchist. Yet you run a "community" that bans anyone and everyone with the slightest hint of support for those ebil AuThOrItArIaN socialist countries, and constantly post threads about how dumb and mean those theory-reading "tankies" are. Projection much?

Using language to refer to other people is one of the evil, oppressive outcomes of civilization. Just like being able to feed people beyond a few hunter-gatherers is evil and oppressive. All of this must be eradicated. Don't you know, that's what it means to be liberated?

Any person who thinks China is imperialist either A) Doesn't know what imperialism is, B) Believes silly lies about China that are easily and readily proven false, or C) Are themselves the ones spreading those lies for ideological reasons.