So trueeee

My implication was simply that they are allowed to exist because they happen to align with geopolitical US interests in the region, and otherwise would have likely disappeared.

You didn’t respond to my comments on the Machnovschina

Would you say the same about the Zapatistas?

Not sure, to be honest, I would have to read more about the Zapatistas. They absolutely are a micronation with no geopolitical power whatsoever, though.

Or the Makhnovshchina. They fought against the Bolsheviks so in your black white thinking, they are evil, right?

I never called Rojava evil, and I don’t think they’re evil, so don’t put those words in my mouth. Regarding Makhnovshchina: if they weren’t capable of enduring a civil war-destroyed red army, how were they supposed to survive Nazi genocide? How is a loose set of preindustrial farmers going to stand a chance against total extermination by an industrial power? And no, Vietnam isn’t an example because Vietnam was well funded and armed by the Soviets. No Soviet weapons, no Vietnam.

Take [irrelevant microstate with same interests in the region as the USA] as an example:

How are we more gaslighted against resistance with Trump? People are mobilizing in much higher numbers now, and they were quite literally shutting their ears during the Kamala campaign not to hear the names of genocide victims.

The only reason there is a “truce” is cause the Trump regime causes so much chaos they think they can get away with a hypernormalized fake truce

So an amelioration of genocide is insufficient to you? Good, it’s insufficient to me too, that’s why I suggest voting against democrats too

By all metrics, the genocide has slowed down in scope. It’s obviously insufficient and the genocide truly won’t be over until the settler colonial entity is driven out of the region, but what we are seeing isn’t a worsening of the genocide due to Trump as libs predicted.

Furthermore: how many different parties are in the EU? How many EU countries are rising GDP expenditure in military to 5%? Democracy under capitalism is an illusion

in general go much slower

Tell that to Palestinians, the truce has been implemented famously not during democrat rule.

I thought foreign investment was good? Or is it automatically bad because it’s Chinese companies doing instead of white people?

Well then the comic shouldn’t be referencing a biological trait (being a sea lion), but a selectable trait.

We mostly bully over at hexbear because it’s a safe space that shouldn’t get contaminated with imperialism and transphobia, people are more reasonable when the takes aren’t wildly immoral.

For the most part you get banned anyway. E.g. me getting banned yesterday from 196 @ blahaj: