Rioting Pacifist

Did they ever raise the literacy rates and raise the workers and peasants out of poverty?

Litterally yes, not just in Spain, but also in Korea & Ukraine then the MLs betrayed them and gave the farms back to the owners, because authoritarian “socialism” only exists to replace capitalist oppression with state regulated capitalist oppression, because it’s more paletable to the capitalist class, that’s why they’re happy to collaborate with them, to put down any sort of independent worker movement.

Man pick up a history book, you might learn something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_People's_Association_in_Manchuria

As for Spain, the Anarchists weren’t ever going to manage to beat the Nationalists.

Lol, as if the betrayal by the USSR didn’t decimate both the troops and their moral.

Except the result wasn’t liberation or socialism, but another loyal member of the imperial core, happy to help keep the boot of capital on the necks of the world proletariat.

Lol, it was just switching one imperialist capitalist boot for another. You have to be real stupid to consider the USSRs treatment of Eastern Europe as anything but imperialism.

Or it’s treatment of workers as anything but capitalism, just capitalism managed by the state.

Marxism-Leninism is the only thing that’s ever worked.

🤣🤣🤣

Yeah China will be socialist any day now 🤣🤣🤣

Why isn’t the USSR on any maps anymore?

How come Vietnam is liberalizing?

Is there a meaningful difference?

OpenAI Anthropic: Be scared we have developed AGI

Also OpenAI Anthropic: our permissions model is dogshit, we just wildcard match strings

1. Anyone who self-identifies as an ML, such as the part mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Russian_Federation

2. Workers being in control of the means of production, like actually not in some “the party represents the workers BS”.

• cooperatives & unions control job sites - real unions not yellow unions
• workers control the economy via some real mechanism not 1 party elections with per-determined outcomes (Could be state-less - e.g Anarchy, could be state-full e.g some form of democratic socialism, will probably be a mix of both)
• the people that work farms control them and are not forced to give back the farms to capitalists like the USSR did in Spain.

Yeah nukes are only useful in the hands of people crazy enough to use them. The UK & France having nukes did nothing to protect Ukrainians, it’s also done nothing to dissuade Russia from carrying out attacks on British & French soil.

I also doubt Russia would have invaded had Ukraine not given up its nukes.

Maybe, or maybe the risk of nukes falling into the wrong hands is used to justify a more violent preemptive strike on Ukraine. Russia effectively used salami tactics and “rebel” troops to take Crimea without it looking like an invasion until it was too late, I don’t think the invasion of Ukraine necessarily doesn’t happen, it could have just happened in a different way.

Even Thatcher’s nukes failed to deter Argentina’s Junta, so simply having nukes doesn’t really guarantee anything.

The UK has given up over 50 territories since it developed nukes, including handing Hong Kong back to China, so I don’t really think nukes guarantee much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_that_have_gained_independence_from_the_United_Kingdom

All we know for sure is they cost us a lot of money.

Spain, Korea, Ukraine, the Soviets.

Any attempt at putting the workers in charge instead of the state is met with violence.

It’s not controlled in the sense that capitalist control them, it’s just controlled in the sense that the state requires private property & structurally state-capitalism is closer to liberal-capitalism, so you get less pushback from the cops, bureaucrats, bosses & other assorted middle managers that still get to live off labor of the workers.

Probably just have someone put Ezekiel 25:17 on the teleprompter

Really I don’t think nukes are a deterrent when the world is full of despotic leaders.

Trump, Netenyahu & Putin don’t give a fuck about a retaliatory strike.

No sane leader will launch a strike, so I don’t really see who nukes are meant to deter, it’s just a money pit that could be spent on just an okut anything to be more useful.

They did and they got the tarrifs refunded.

The issue is that with markets nothing is tightly coupled.

Yup

Also what happens when the companies are forced to eat part of the tarrif, if the tarrif is 15, but that pushes the prices above the maximum profit point (units sold * per unit profit) then how much tarrif back should the customer get?

All pricing under capitalism is based on uncertainty.

What the market will bare isn’t a known thing.

Side-note: this is why YIMBYs are dumb as fuck when they apply econ101 to rents.

The companies paid the tarrif, they get the refund.

The fact that tariffs allowed some companies to demand more money, is related but not causal, some companies will have had to eat shit because the market wouldn’t bare the increase.

I’d love for the lawsuit to succeed and it set the precedent that when governments issue refunds they can force companies to pass it on to the customer, but I think it’s unlikely.

It’s also complicated by the way pricing works.

If the tarrif is for $15 but the uncertainty allowed a company to increase prices by $20, how much should the customer be refunded?

And what if the tarrif was $15 but the market only allowed a $10 increase and the company ate shit on the other $5?

Now what if none of these numbers are set in stone and all of the numbers are guesswork? Should the government audit all companies that changed their prices?

MLs are always controlled opposition (and always have been), just look at how quickly they team up with capitalists to take out any real socialists.

That’s the joke.

I’d rather save the money and not have nukes or if we must have them, spend money and roll our own (doesn’t even matter if they work or not TBH). But being dependent on France is preferable to being dependent on the US.

But the nukes are totally operational without us support 😉

Missing the era when popes would have people killed for no particular reason right now.

What vission did Gates have beyond using money to crush competition? Being a pedophile?

Well the Philippines is just a US proxy (& Filipino are dumb and have no agency), so this is actually anti-imperialism

Also I’m anti-racists and very smart