Is it really just cis men? No queer people would feel insulted if their partner implied they had no other desirable qualities besides being “a good person”?

I feel like 99% of these existential vulnerabilities can only be utilized by state actors until some NSA bozo leaks it because he got demoted for stalking his ex girlfriend

Mental intelligence? Not really. You can be the biggest psychopath who sees the world with numbers that can be solved and eventually make a bomb that answers your equation. If you mean field intelligence, that requires at the very least the ability to feign empathy. We’ve seen enough CIA meddling to know these people do not have souls. Although, morality is ultimately in the eyes of the beholder.

100 yards of IKEA

strategy of tension but it's for your favorite old man

Of course, its owned by the CCP!

Someone posted a screenshot of an article about some European political event. One picture included the politicians laughing and strolling down the street, and below that picture was one of Ukrainian soldiers deep in some mud carrying artillery

Gamers were mad when the previous black ops trailer (the one with the anti communist paranoia John Birch interview) removed a 2 second clip of the Tiananmen tank man since Tencent owns some of Blizzard/Activision lol

There's so many interconnected actors, racial ideologies, artifacts of colonialism, and disparate militias and rebel groups all carrying out killings with varying degrees of "justification."

This occurs with other exploited nations as well. But I think the difference is that Africa has been so exploited and prevented from developing that many countries don’t have the media infrastructure to speak about things unlike countries in Asia or Latin America. And because of that, the west largely ignores them and is uninterested in learning about them because their conflicts are largely contained within the African continent compared to Islamic terrorists and cartels having international networks that’s talked about 24/7

Why discuss something in public that will just play into anti-communist, or in this case imperialist, propaganda?

We should be discussing these things when brought up in good faith in an echo chamber, like hexbear. It will be unproductive to focus on in in more formal settings where organizing and policy comes into place. Much like Hamas, we should be discussing their merits and failures here because most people here aren't fast to jump on some CIA bandwagon, but in real life you'll be wasting your breath trying to "distance" yourself from Hamas because the government already considers you a terrorist for opening your mouth about Israel, so it's better to spend that energy elsewhere.

This only works if the other person is at worst an indifferent centrist whose thoughts start with “maybe both sides are bad” and end with “oh boy! Friday!”

If they give you that NATO stare then there’s only way to approach them

In the book School of the Americas, the author visits the base in Georgia and learns that a lot of the fascist dictators, torturers, terrorists, etc. getting training there were very excited to go shopping at American malls and live in suburbs and wanted to bring that back to Latin America lol