Big cheap reverse engineered authoritarian spatula mythology is what western libs actually seem to believe.

$1,000,000 per person isn’t much to live off.

The mineral wealth of Greenland is in the trillions.

No one knows.

You simply have a fantasy that aligns with how you see the world - have declared that to be the absolute truth - and hold that anyone who doesn’t also indulge in same fantasy for the same reason must be the enemy; pure evil. What a whimsical way for the human mind to work.

Nato members have invaded each other before. Neither left.

No conventional capabilities. Venezuela can prevent a comprador government being installed by arming patriots and fighting a guerrilla war, however, the US is likely to see Venezuelans killing Venezuelans as a win and a good excuse to simply bomb economic targets and cause as much damage as possible.

The key thing is scaling up every level of missile production. The US navy barely has enough missiles to fill every launch cell in the fleet, and the annual build rate is very slow since they have to worry about things like “profit” instead of “winning”.

As long as you fill can produce missiles and fill missile cells - you win. The ships themselves can be civilian-produced, have no defenses, no safety features, and abandoned the first time they are hit without worrying about damage control. You don’t even need radars, since an actual real warship or command aircraft with a highpowered radar can data-link and aim the missiles for you. This would also give them very high availability since a civilian ship with no fancy features that just hauls missiles that can be borrowed by warships in the battlespace would be extremely cheap to maintain. A chinese warship locking onto an enemy warship and finding they have 200 missile cells in range to call from along with the 60 or so they have on board is going to win.

It’s fine to normalize eating less meat.

From their perspective, they’re exploring the idea of veganism/vegetarianism. If they want to call themselves that during that period of exploration, let them. The minute you start saying “You can’t claim to be real vegetarian”, they start doubting they can ever truly commit to it all the way. The more people get over the “meatless meals” hurdle in the west, the more normalized it will become.

Let them grow, don’t judge too harshly.

The same 5 fuckwitted firebrands posting again and again with no hint of irony about how they’re being censored by evil communists.

While the evil communists allow them to use their platform and take refuge from corporate media.

Countries should ban Xitter and treat it as a misanthropic terrorism.

Personally I was really enjoying Frieren due to some of the themes of lifespan, memory, and connection that almost coded Frieren as autistic, but, once it strayed into the demon stuff it left a pretty sour taste. Whenever you stray into the absolutes of good/evil dichotomy, you’ve lost any grasp of reason or self control.

You’re right. People’s political concerns reflect their material/class concerns, except in the rare cases of class traitors. They can’t be convinced. They will always consider themselves victims before and after the revolution. When you’re with family members of higher class, just listen. Don’t teach, just learn how they think, and how the fabric of reaction weaves together. Warp and weft; which threads tug on which threads? Ask people where they heard that, which podcasts, streamers, or content creators they’re getting things from. Let them reveal the rot of their soul to you. Let it wash over you, and try not to be disgusted or incandescent. You’ll learn who the enemy is, and how thin the veil of pretense is.

Save your energy for when you’re surrounded by love.

tl;dr – Someone stating the obvious with a bulletpoint breakdown that there is a user (cm0002) with a grudge against “tankie triad” using self-declared alts and pushing demonstrably untrue smears onto the rest of the lemmyverse to paint us in a bad light. And yeah, it’s true. There is a weird circus of lies out there to discredit us by using the most flimsy, poorly spun dramatics.

This whole project is run by communist devs who earnestly believe in user freedom. A side effect of that the devs won’t actually ban people who are calling them authoritarian tyrants. Ironically, cm0002’s deranged crusade simply proves the moral purity (if not superiority) of their opponents. A pleasant side effect that it has on hexbear is that it filters out the gullible from engaging with us.

Maybe she realized her friends don’t actually plan on waiting to kill her last.

The USSR also never took any Polish territory – they simply liberated Russian territories which Poland had occupied the previous decade, and was still forcibly assimilating (“polonization”) in a real process that can be compared to the Uyghur genocide. Any “free uyghur” person with moral consistency must support the invasion of the second polish republic. It’s also worth considering that Poland too, was “allied with the nazi’s” when it invaded and occupied parts of the Czech republic in concert with the nazi offensive.

It’s a good lesson that truth literally does not matter to historical collective reality.

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China is ending war, but at what cost?

and to think they said we couldn’t run a reeducation program for conservatives.

Pretty sure that yappers who get killed by a buwullet don’t go to valhalla.

Actually they cleared out an entire prison by via transfer and early release just to make sure they could lock up these dangerous terrorists.

Is it?

Multipolarity is popular on hexbear because it allows nations to assert themselves without being crushed - ripe ground for any ideology which wants to replace the stagnant liberal order in their own country. That makes the concept popular with fascists who want to dismantle the western order, and communists that want to dismantle the neoliberal capitalist order. Multipolarity is a dangerous double edged sword, but the key thing to remember is that it’s almost inevitable. The world changes, no one can stay on top forever.

Predicting that the world will be more unstable without a unipolar hegemon doesn’t, funnily enough, make you a duginist fascist.

Self preservation would be one motivation. .

The 2019 RAND report gameplan for this conflict makes it clear that, if the worst case scenario happens and Russia gets stronger over the course of the conflict rather than being depleted as intended, an offramp should be found immediately to minimize Russian gains. Ukraine is losing the war, and supplies are now limited to a dripfeed. Their suzerain is stating pretty clearly that they expect compliance. – Logically, in line with US think-tanks, the next step is to assassinate Zelensky and find someone more conciliatory.