I know the feeling. This Tom Paxton song [CW for n-word] has never been more relevant in my lifetime.

"Excellent, we got rid of the tankies! What's next? ...Wait, why are you calling me 'commie'?"

The Ukrainians built their national identity around worshiping a Nazi-collaborating pogromist. I hardly think Russia could make the place worse.

Ah, okay. Thanks!

Uh ackchyually it's the vegans who are destroying the Amazon with their soybeans (don't look at what proportion of those soybeans are used for cattle feed)

He had a brief association with one branch of the PSL that ended in 2017.

Not surprised. The sort of person who would do this kind of individualist adventurism doesn't last long in the PSL.

TvT

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Keep men, lose land; land can be taken again. Keep land, lose men; land and men are both lost.

Libs thought Ukraine was winning because Russia wasn't gaining ground. It never occurred to them that Russia's strategy has been to deplete Ukraine's strength until they can take as much as they please.

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

I'm skeptical about this becoming a Luigi Mangione situation because Americans near-universally recognize that health insurance companies are their enemy, but America is also a settler-colonial nation, so white Americans at least have strong motive to side with Israel.

I wonder what it is that keeps even the most politically engaged, and highly educated libs, like the one you are referring to, on the treadmill for so long?

If the existing political system is untenable, then that means that they are morally required to overthrow it, an endeavor that involves a lot of hard work, personal risk, and sacrifice. As Nechayev said:

The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, no business affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property, and no name. Everything in him is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the single passion for revolution.

The revolutionary knows that in the very depths of his being, not only in words but also in deeds, he has broken all the bonds which tie him to the social order and the civilized world with all its laws, moralities, and customs, and with all its generally accepted conventions. He is their implacable enemy, and if he continues to live with them it is only in order to destroy them more speedily.

The revolutionary is a dedicated man, merciless toward the State and toward the educated classes; and he can expect no mercy from them. Between him and them there exists, declared or concealed, a relentless and irreconcilable war to the death. He must accustom himself to torture.

Makes me wonder if the suspect was a patsy or fed.