I think Trump is petty enough and terrified of embarrassing himself like Biden did in Afghanistan. I know it would be pulling out just like Afghanistan, but from his pov it is less a direct debacle of his leadership. He will totally still support NATO and the MIC will get its contracts as they rebuild their stores.
imagine he has a stroke that night and dies the next morning. He would once again be a man upstaging Hillary
I have nothing to add to the definitions others are giving, but I do wanna say it really annoys me how radlibs and some socialists who are non-Marxist will define fascism mostly as "strong man who appeals to populism". Like I enjoyed most of the Dollop episode on Huey Long, but Dave at the end describing the basic concept of a demagogue and saying "that is what fascism is" was frustrating. I mean Dave is smart and understands Trump is not really cognizant enough to be a fascist himself, he still defines fascism in a really weak way. It is the same trick people fall into when calling Peron a fascist, even though Peron was at least a fan of Mussolini in the early 30s though for very stupid reasons of buying his propaganda when visiting Italy.
Something similar happened with Quinton Reviews when talking about the History Channel, he sorta goes to far in mocking Nazi inefficiency and ends up saying fascism is internally incoherent and is more or less just a vibe. I think a lot of breadtube and breadtube adjacent folks do this, heck WTYP have done this iirc. People ignore that the ideology and political structure of fascism is a thing, weird and unreasonable as it is, it has theories and shit like the hollow earth that are super goofy stem FROM those reactionary real material forces.
Esoteric fascism is not just the realm of history channel, shit like Sofindus and Executive Outcomes, these orgs literally run by former Nazis who said they communed with Hitler's spirit, actively did horrifying shit. And fascist ideology was not just left in the dustbin of history, not just reactionaries, but true believers in Hitler personally, got to structure and design our world. The bureaucratic fascists who remained in control of West Germany and the Von Braun types are not so easily divorced from the wacky guys, and said wacky guys had serious sway in the CIA, blew up shit in Italy, ran torture camps in Chile, and formed the basis for modern private military contractors and current torture techniques. Both parts of that equation are relevant.
I HATE when libs say "oh well bigotry is illogical, it doesn't make sense so there is no structure or path that led to these people" even if they accept that material conditions led to these ideologies. Because they more or less let fascism become the masses going crazy and their irrationalities and anxieties being the driving force hence the scattershot beliefs. This shit ignores that we can track how this shit develops socially, we can trace the esoteric shit and it doesn't come from the backwards hicks of saxony, it is the fucking Thule society and elite dinner parties.
I think Trueanon's spider-network series genuinely covers this shit so well
It took me a sec to realize that they did not mean it the way I thought. I was like "hell yeah!!"
Yeah they lost their coastline in the Pacific War and never got over it. What is funny is the most momentum on this front in well over 100 years was because of Evo. Evo brought it before the UN in 2013, it was turned down but still he went farther and expanded access to Chiles' ports more than anyone else. I know it was seen as a failure to follow through on a major promise by Evo, but still.
Bolivians have songs for school children to sing about taking back the coast. They are super invested it getting it back
OMG the navy was involved? This really is a farce.
It kinda seems this general was on his own. OAS even immediately disavowed him, which sure they always do when they fail, but this was quick. He did not even have real support in the military. Sometimes you wake up and think you are Caesar
First as tragedy then again as.....well you know
Oh thank god we are back.
Taking the site down during a coup as a joke was not OK
also good update
I ADORE Tom Veitch, but yeah that sums most of his work up in one sentence.
I am sure this time the EU will force Greece to follow the standards of say France and Germany's laws for "cohesion" just like they did when Greece wanted to break from EU standards to save its economy. Totally not gonna let this slide, but destroy the nation for trying to escape debt peonage
On the bright side, it is heartening to see Iwata's influence and decency still influencing devs today
The US has its nukes on everyone's borders, floats its ships through their waters, flies through their airspace. This is not an escalation. Allied nations send vessels through one another's ports all the time. Russia does this regularly. This moment is intense so it is getting attention and there is a case for not doing it, but it is not escalation. Keep in mind the DPRK has had submarines go to Cuba in the past 20 years.
I remember early in the pandemic when I was still on non-political boards' politics sections and the most left leaning person there, who I got on with quite well, kept saying he was pissed at what he called Third Worldists who wanted a nation other than the US to find a cure. It already seemed stupid to complain about people merely wishing for China or idk even SA to find a vaccine that works, but he would get really firm about it when I asked "well if it has to be somebody wouldn't it be better if it is someone who won't try to use it as a cudgel?"
In hindsight I feel very vindicated, this is the exact shit that one could predict would happen. The US no matter who made a cure, would hold it over poor countrys' heads and try to prevent usage of a vaccine if it is made by their enemies. You cannot hold the apolitical "I just hope someone, anyone, finds a vaccine" because we do not live in a world in which something so life-saving is going to be treated as property of all of humanity. It cannot be apolitical, it cannot be separated from the empire and its goals
Making it way more efficient. Its funny how when you look into things you find human ingenuity and not just "eh capitalists probably did it for no reason".
These fucking dipshits, the Bolsheviks did not lead to People's Will, that is the Narodniks. The Bolsheviks didn't fucking exist yet. And the Lipetsk Congress was the SRs whom the mention on this same page. Jesus christ even just by western academic standards this is worthy of being burned
'Israel' has responded by assassinating Hezbollah (and Iranian) leaders, but the Resistance just names missiles after the martyrs and send more.
Epitome of a heroic people
Felix is right
what does ordinary Gazan actually mean here? even just the armed combat wing alone has pretty large numbers in relation to the population of Gaza. do schoolteachers and bakers stop being ordinary when they pick up a rifle? is there some idealized apolitical Palestinian?
This thread was horrifying. Some good responses in there but holy shit.
I had somehow never heard this song. Amazing and sincere satire of the "civilized" way in which modern crime and punishment continues the oppression of old while applauding itself as enlightened. Obviously directly speaking to Alabama's Jim Crow laws. This line still works today, as we watch a man die for maybe having a fake $20 bill or previously selling dvds or having a dimebag
> Last year a negro stole a dollar bill
> The judge he said "We mustn't be severe
> Instead of death we'll give him life imprisonment
> To show there's justice here"
I've seen recommendations around before, but not having much luck with the search function. So I've played Crisis in the Kremlin and while I can't seem to win, I do like the tone/era. I'm wondering if anyone has specific recommendations for any rts or tbs games with late cold war era USSR as playable? Could be modern or old PC like the original Crisis game was or Red Alert, thanks.
