That’s the idea. Anti-imperialist accounts get banned all the time there, a thread can just disappear. Takes a little more effort to copy paste everything but it’s safer this way.

There is a page in history when the worker first fought back When the might of exploitation at last began to crack In farm and field and factory, in workshop, mine and mill A flame was lit, a beacon bright, that flame is burning still

Connolly was there, Connolly was there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly was there

William Martin Murphy and his Dublin millionaires Tried bribery and corruption, hypocrisy and prayers To smash the Transport Union, their scabs they did enlist But all their graft was shattered by a scarlet iron fist

For Connolly was there, Connolly was there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly was there

When the bosses tried to sweat the lads way down in Glasgow’s Clyde A voice like rolling thunder, soon shook them in their stride In Liverpool and Belfast where the workers lived in hell James Connoly rose and gave them hope, the truth to you i’ll tell

And Connolly was there, Connolly was there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly was there

Oh Irishmen the day will come when workers one and all Will rise up from their bended knees and rally to the call Throw out the bosses’ tyranny and shout from shore to shore For a working man’s republic and for freedom evermore

Connolly will be there, Connolly will be there Bold, brave, undaunted, James Connolly will be there

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China was able to maintain sovereign Party control while deploying market mechanisms within a planned framework.

Key was crushing the 1989 Tiananmen CIA/NGO-backed color revolution attempt and removing comprador infiltrators like Zhao Ziyang. This unlike the USSR, where the Party fragmented and capitulated to foreign-backed reformers.

The CPC then shrewdly built state-directed national champions, kept finance under Party command, and tightly controlled integration with global markets — avoiding the asset-stripping that ravaged post-Soviet Russia.

As for the USSR’s “autocracy”, for the most part — including its errors — seems like a reactive posture shaped by postwar encirclement and the imperative to defend against relentless imperialist pressure.

China, in contrast, leveraged its split with the USSR to gain controlled access to Western capital — a strategic move that fueled development without surrendering sovereignty.

Nobody should ever hope for nukes to be used… There is no such thing as a perfect air/missile defense.

That’s very interesting info, thank you!

Still, the youth unemployment rate around 16% is scary.

Is it? What does that even mean? Who are they counting? Are they counting full time students as unemployed? What age group are they looking at? Because frankly i don’t think it’s that unusual for young people to go into the workforce fairly late nowadays, especially if they still live with their parents and still go to school.

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Damn, the US couped the Vatican? Oh well, anyway…

Agreed. It’s easier to be a “doomer”. It lets you feel good about yourself without having to do anything. Revolutionary optimism takes effort, but it is also the only way to get anything done.

“Pro-Putin”. Lol. The MSM are such pathetic clowns. Sure, everyone who doesn’t like the Nazi regime in Ukraine and their pointless war is “pro-Putin”. Everyone who sees the shitshow that Europe has become with this obsession with war against Russia is “pro-Putin”…

(Also, let’s be honest, TERF island is not beating the “nation of freaks” allegations given its recent behavior.)

That wasn’t Hasan in the clip. Idk who that was cause i don’t follow any of this streamer shit. Hasan shills for AOC and Bernie though who are both in the “Israel has a right to defend itself from the barbaric Hamas terrorists” camp. He also did a podcast together with the now very vocally Zionist Ethan Klein who is married to an IDF war criminal.

It’s a possible path to de-escalation. I don’t know if India will take it but at least this way they can spin it in their own media to look less humiliating, which in turn means they aren’t forced escalate in order to not look weak. Best case scenario each side spins it as a win and things go back to the regular level of tensions.

Honestly things would be so much easier if India was a bit more willing to compromise on issues like this. It’s not impossible. China settled their border issues in Kashmir with Pakistan way back in the 1960s in a very mutually satisfactory way. And now their border guards are taking pictures like this:

In a better alternate universe this could be Pakistan and India…

At least the Americans seem to be edging slowly toward acceptance. The Europeans still don’t seem to get this concept, that the loser in a war doesn’t get to dictate terms to the winner. What world do these people live in?

Is it up to six now? Is this confirmed? Last I read there was confirmation for three or four. Either way still pretty crazy…and probably a good thing. It should cool off the hotheads in the Indian government a little. Let’s hope this was enough of a show of force from Pakistan that things don’t escalate further. Nobody except the US benefits from a conflict in this region.

I also wonder what jets these were and what kind of air defenses did Pakistan use…

Eh…it’s a start, but it’s not particularly impressive. Ethnic nationalism is a threat to the multi-ethnic Russian state, so of course someone whose primary interest is in preserving that state would adopt this view. Not to mention the fact that fighting literal Nazis for three years kind of pushes you in this direction regardless whether you wanted it or not. So it’s not that he is any less reactionary than he has always been, it’s that the circumstances in which he finds himself leave him no other choice. It would be actually based if he restored the name of Stalingrad. Sure, that would also just be symbolic, but it would be a much clearer signal that the Russian state, even if still bourgeois for the time being, is looking seriously to its anti-Nazi roots.