Thief_of_Crows

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Thief_of_Crows ,

Damn, that sucks. Not sure why it's our problem though. Millions of Russians will be killed if we do give them aid. Ukraine should learn to solve their own problems.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Don't you know that everyone who disagrees with you is a bot? Most numbskull argument I've ever heard.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Okay? So we just trade with Russia instead if they lose. The wheat is t going anywhere, though I'm sure we'd do just fine without it.

Thief_of_Crows ,

She should expect him to lose the state. If the DNC nominates biden, they may as well nominate Trump and save us all the trouble.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Why would that be difficult? I'm sure the prison will get used to letting in all sorts of people. World leaders, various grifters of the week, ambassadors, etc. Not that it'll ever happen, the SC will say he can pardon himself. That's why he put them in after all.

Thief_of_Crows ,

"Less bitterness please", says man currently genociding people. "Just cause you don't like my opinions doesnt mean you get to be all nasty about the genocide I'm doing". "This disrespect is only making you all look foolish in the marketplace of ideas".

Thief_of_Crows ,

Okay? So what?

Thief_of_Crows ,

At least in my opinion, Hamas is the good guys. They are also labeled as an extremist group. So are we actually wrong to say ISIS is universally bad? I mean, both groups took power is response to foreign invaders just full on wrecking their shit constantly. Both groups employed Gorilla warfare to most effectively damage a far superior military. I've been recognizing more and more lately that America is almost always the bad guys in wars. So does that imply that ISIS was actually the good guys?

Thief_of_Crows ,

Damn, I really should have explicitly formulated that comment as a question asking whether my current beliefs are wrong, rather than stating incorrect opinions as a fact. Wait, hold on a second... I did do that!

Thief_of_Crows ,

Idk, it's kinda dumb for him to say it, but it isnt racist to acknowledge the facts about the private prison complex. It's dumb because he is trying to connect with them on an uncomfortable truth, but at least as far as he claims, trump believes he was the victim of a justice system out to get him, which, if it were true, would actually give him something in common with an average black person.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Im not saying he's right, just that, according to his public persona's claims, he has something in common with them. If we take it at face value that he actually believes what he says, then he would also believe they have this in common

Thief_of_Crows ,

Not according to him. According to him, every judge he's ever met has "trump derangement syndrome".

Thief_of_Crows ,

Their religion also says, essentially, to be a socialist, like Jesus was. It's literally all about forgiveness and making sure the least among us have everything they need. The facts about their religion are only relevant if they support what they were going to do anyway.

Thief_of_Crows ,

What would happen if a cop shoots another cop who's off duty? Does the media blame the victim as usual, or is the one who's on duty simply become "one bad apple"?

Thief_of_Crows ,

I mean, why not both?

Iran sends Russia hundreds of ballistic missiles ( www.reuters.com )

Iran's provision of around 400 missiles includes many from the Fateh-110 family of short-range ballistic weapons, such as the Zolfaghar, three Iranian sources said. This road-mobile missile is capable of striking targets at a distance of between 300 and 700 km (186 and 435 miles), experts say....

Thief_of_Crows ,

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,

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 ,

If Russia launches one nuke at USA, we will all die. Russian cities will be irrelevant to us then.

Of course you surrender to aggressors. If you can't feasibly win the battle, continuing to fight is the best way to lose the war too. Combat is about making very few highly powerful strikes. The rest of the time, you are surrendering and repositioning in order to actually make those strikes.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Why are y'all constantly so delusional that you can't even comprehend an American who understands any small part of global politics?

If we spend trillions fighting Russia in a cold war, we won't have the money to fix any of the many real problems we have, most important of which is our goddawful healthcare system that kills thousands of Americans every month. The estimate is 50-100,000 preventable deaths, every single year.

Take some goddamn pride in your country and help us fix it. You're just a crab in a bucket of boiling water, ensuring no other crabs escape if you can't.

Thief_of_Crows ,

So I take it you are pro WW3? Why do you think you will even survive it?

If America continues to engage Russia in a cold war over frozen wastelands that means nothing to us, there is a very real risk of starting WW3. In which case, most of us will die. Ukraine needs to solve its own problems, and so I provided a solution. Boom, war over. Russia is going to win the war eventually anyway, it's just basic math. Why are any of us still wasting all these resources fighting it?

It's all just a question of ego vs intelligence. Whichever side chooses intelligence will end up far better off in the long run.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Oh I know what it means. You're actively working against the interests of your class, because you would rather be right than actually succeed. That's contrarian, and it's an utterly idiotic way to engage with the world.

Thief_of_Crows ,

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 ,

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 ,

Consistency is not necessary, IMO. What did Israel expect Gaza to do when they started genociding them? The deaths of all civilians as well as all combatants are the fault of Israel. They don't get to play dumb about what was going to happen after starting a genocide.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Israel is still in the wrong for retaliating to 10/7 at all. If you punch a guy in a bar, then he punches you back, you aren't then allowed to retaliate to the retaliation. Throwing a 3rd punch would mean you are both the starter of the fight, and also responsible for perpetuating it

Thief_of_Crows ,

The explanation is that Israel has been effectively laying seige to them for 30 years, and they found a chance to actually hurt them and seized it. There was no other choice available to them. If some Palestinians survive this, it will be more than would have survived without the 10/7 attack

Thief_of_Crows ,

That's also why they aren't letting the rodents leave, the rodents are also Hamas. And obviously, hospitals and churches are well known to be the highest ranking members of Hamas.

Thief_of_Crows ,

But how can they possibly know someone is a non-combatant? The opponent doesn't even follow the Geneva convention, meaning it's correct to fire on people wearing a red cross, carrying a white flag, etc.

Thief_of_Crows ,

There's a similar fallacy that's often applied to USSR under Stalin: when you compare populations in 1930 to 1934, IE appx the length of the devastating famine they experienced, you'll see that it declined something like 20% over that time. People who generate propaganda about communism will say that something like 30 million people died during it, by subtracting the numbers, and ignoring the fact that birth rates had been steadily dropping for years as the famine grew worse. What actually happened is that 5-8 million died, and 22 million were never born.

My point being that it is inherently pretty misleading to use population data as the majority of your evidence. The most reliable evidence we have, IE our eyes and ears, shows us that Israel is deliberately harming and often killing Palestinians, under the logic of being a superior race. We can quibble about data all you like, the fact is that Israel is most certainly committing genocide.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Israel did significantly worse to Gaza prior to 10/7 than gaza has cumulatively done to Israel to date, and it's not remotely close. An article I found from may 2021 cited 5600 dead palestinians (115,000 injured) and 250 dead Israelis (5600 injured) between 2008 and 2020. And it's actually a bit misleading to only use numbers back to 2008, because it goes back much farther.

So yes, it is accurate to say that had things continued as they were going, Palestine would have fully died out in the first half of this century.

Thief_of_Crows ,

Sure, maybe extinction was too far. But certainly the trajectory prior to 10/7 was not something Palestine could abide. And it's also certain that by 2050, 100% of the land making up Palestine would be stolen. Claiming that Hamas started the war is 100% false, noatter which way you look at it.

Thief_of_Crows ,

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

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