Weebus [comrade/them]

You may be aware of this already but just to be clear this will show up as a spoiled ballot. Write-ins have to be registered in order to count and show up in results. Spoiling a ballot is a legitimate form of electoral protest but if you want to send a more specific message you might consider researching what communist parties you can support

I do vote for the demon rats every cycle but I’d never shame anyone for not having the stomach. I’m trolleyproblembrained.

Just curious: not that it matters, they’re all ghouls, but what makes you put JFK so high, above Carter? JFK presided over the early stages of the Vietnam War and almost ended the world in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also Bay of Pigs and other examples. He was one of the most rabid anti-communists in the whole Cold War.

I’m not as cool as Mao but I’m with you too.

I just think dogging on someone for saying “think of the actual consequences/Realpolitik of this” is going too far. Especially if you recognize and agree with their point as it seems you do, that the reprisal is likely to be horrific. It strikes me as getting mad at someone for “bringing down the mood” and in my opinion this is already not a “high mood” situation.

All the best comrade, I mean nothing in disrespect

Are you implying the Indigenous peoples of Amerikkka did not violently resist their genocide, and that if they had history would have gone differently?

All I am saying is those who want to celebrate this may do so but all they are celebrating is the excuse Israel will use for continuing and worsening massacre. My only concern is for the human cost of war, the vast majority of which will once more be weathered by the Palestinian people.

Libs on reddit and the MSM calling this an “intelligence failure” are out of their minds. Mossad allowed for this to happen to drum up fear and jingoism and justify horrific reprisals against the Palestinian people.

So you don’t think reprisals tomorrow and beyond will be worse than the status quo?

I agree only with banning “derp”

What a brilliantly written piece. Thank you for sharing.

i have a mosin and love it to death but i really struggle to believe this is true lol.

Not wanting to have your own kid is one thing (to be clear: a totally reasonable and acceptable thing) but broad anti-natalism is eugenics and it is troubling how pervasive the rhetoric is, even among leftists

I’m not saying the west isn’t deserving of the highest possible degree of cynicism but I think this is a bridge too far. At the advent of the Nazi invasion of the USSR the US was not yet in the war, and Britain alone had no capacity to open its own front in western Europe. They had tried and failed spectacularly in the Battle of France. By the time the US had joined the war and was fully mobilized, the Wehrmacht’s advance had already been stalled for months, and the Soviets had already begun to regain ground. I think it’s a hell of a stretch to say the west was crossing its fingers that Hitler would reach Moscow, especially given that if they did, the UK was likely next to be invaded. But we can’t know any of that for sure, it’s all speculation. What we DO know for sure is that Stalin had been asking Churchill and Roosevelt to open a front in western Europe since at least the middle of 1942. With the benefit of hindsight it’s easy to say the Red Army easily could have steamrolled all the way to France without western intervention but the simple fact is Stalin absolutely wanted the help. I think it’s ludicrous to suggest the opening of the western front was merely to prevent a completely Soviet-dominated Europe. Of COURSE that was a factor, but the invasion also held immense strategic importance, and the war likely would have dragged much longer without it. Even if we say your view is accurate, I would retort, so what? Killing Nazis, even if for “the wrong reason” is good, actually.