Thief_of_Crows

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to solarpunk memes in the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago

The level of brainwashing in America that good economy = good times is truly absurd. Hiring 100,000 men to build mountains and then tear them down again has much better economic output than war does, because your workers don't all die constantly, while still keeping all those people employed and spending money. Hitler wasn't exactly an idiot, but he wasn't even smart enough to understand that A) being evil is really stupid given how important teamwork is to human successes, and B) he literally could have gotten better results for the German economy by building and destroying mountains.

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to Ukraine in Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles

I do know a lot about it, you're suggesting I don't based on one detail. Shut the fuck up with your imperialist propaganda, it isn't "contrarian" to demand that we make peace with a global superpower rather than start a world war. The working class is all on one side of that potential future war, and we can only win it by not all dying in it.

The contrarian view is to shrug and say "well, guess we all have to die in the capitalists war now, nothing to be done." Realize that us in the American working class are on the same side as the Russian working class. Our enemies are both American and Russian oligarchs,who will happily start a world war for profits.

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to Ukraine in Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles

Literally just don't let them do that. America and Europe together would have no issue repelling that at all. We have no reason to think they would do that either, aside from our own projection of course. This current demand is reasonable enough that we should be willing to wage peace over it. Further demands would not be. America is so concerned with winning (ironic considering I don't think we actually have won a war since 1945), that we seem to have forgotten the lesson of WW1: Dont let the losers lose too hard. America needs a somewhat strong Russia anyway, as a check on China.

Russia is capable of taking Crimea by force. They also really, really want it. The smart thing to do would be for the west to concede this war as early as possible. The boneheaded thing would be for us to hand over trillions to weapons manufacturers over the next 10 years, while Americans continue to die of preventable illnesses because we "can't afford" Medicare for all (even thoigh its the cheaper option). But obviously, because that is what the capitalists want to happen, it will probably happen.

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to Ukraine in Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles

Huh, didn't know about that. I'm going to hazard a guess though that this particular rule has not actually been followed? That sounds much more in line with the America I know.

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to solarpunk memes in the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago

No, they're winning because they have the support of capital. Under capitalism, money = power. And capitalists will always be far right (see their widespread support of Nazi Germany).

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to Ukraine in Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles

Maybe the US should not be having a cold war with the entire eastern hemisphere. Just a thought. Could go badly.

Just let them have Crimea and ensure that American nukes will never end up in Ukraine by writing it into their NATO treaty, boom, war over. Russia is capable of forcing this through militarily, unless America decides to fully engage in the cold war again. Ukraine needs to surrender a war they're losing anyway in the interest of preventing world war 3.

Thief_of_Crows , 4 months ago to > Greentext in anon's dad is now her mom

Because she will never see her former (current?) father again, as he is now TransParent.