GOOD post. glad you are here

“As things currently stand, South Korea has operational control of its military under armistice conditions, but the United States would take over in wartime. This arrangement is unique to the U.S.-South Korea alliance. It is reflected in the structure of the Combined Forces Command—the alliance’s war-fighting command—which is headed by a U.S. four-star general while a South Korean four-star general serves as deputy commander”

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Also, this is something to keep in mind when Americans try to claim that the Soviets started the Korean War.

I’ll add to this that the US helped cement the power and privilege of the chaebol. These conglomerates are owned by families who collaborated with imperial Japan during the occupation.

Also, leave river rocks alone

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IIRC some neo-nazis in I want to say Germany got raided last year and were found to have weapons from Ukraine, but I can’t find the link.

I’m pretty sure blockades are also illegal under international law. I think unilateral sanction regimes are, too.

I think the US embargo on Cuba is a genocide. No really, it fits the UN definition of a genocide

Based take and should be added to the rotating header message list.

“It’s not a genocide when WE do it!” Is all the USA has to say about it.

Jumping in to add, the social democrats helped found the Freikorps, a paramilitary organization that engaged in the mass murder of European communists and later became Hitler’s SA.

I think the Dutch skated on a lot of terrible shit, because they convinced the world they were all about tulips and clogs.

posh british accents are literally shorthand for ‘imperialism’ lol. this is one thing an american lib can sometimes parse but will usually still hand-wring about that being ‘in the past’

Sex work stuff is controversial among communists because Marxist-Leninists have historically been for the abolition of the sex trade. That’s all I have to say though cause I don’t want an argument over this again.

I agree it’s work, but I also assert that, under Capitalism at least, it’s exploitative work that targets and injures the vulnerable and poor even more than the majority of other work. You cannot buy enthusiastic consent.

I trust any 16 year old to be president over any 95 year old

“Ageism is good we’re just doing it wrong”

I don’t see how you can acknowledge the degradation of the brain and not the development

The politics ageism thing is mostly US-centric nonsense. The actual issue you have is that your political system is complete and utter shit. Fix that so people don’t feel compelled to vote for literal mummies.

oh yeah, and my god the history of Ukraine did not start with the 2022 invasion by Russia - idk how many times I’ve heard irl and on this federated site “oh no, actually I’ve followed the conflict since 2014, actually! and here’s why we need to kill every ruzzian ork on site”

and when asked about “ok, so what about the objective fact of ousting the elected president for a fair right wing candidate that immediately tries to make the russian language illegal? what about nazi marches in the streets, mysterious snipers that shot both protestors AND police, the RECORDED PHONE CALL OF US OFFICIALS PICKING THE NEW GOV, uh the nazis who boarded up the trade unionists and burned them alive, uh and on and on” and their response is just SILENCE or just picking a different (often single-line) response to comment on instead

ACAB is another one libs don’t like but less offensive I think than the above.

You just have to mix this in a cocktail with police abolition and they spin up to full RPM

Xerox Corporation

Tech companies, especially tech companies that are as old as Xerox, definitely are at least finance capital adjacent. Old school mainframes were almost exclusively catered towards financial institutions like banks because they’re the only place where you would simultaneously need computers and could afford computers, in this case for number-crunching financial transactions. Mainframes were also used by the military and the feds as a counter-insurgent weapon, in this case as a means of handling massive amounts of data gathered by informants and general surveillance. The origins of tech as an industry that caters to the military and finance explains the general reactionary character of subcultures that have origins in tech like gaming as well as entirely predict how social media companies would be entirely incorporated within the surveillance apparatus.

Was the WTC where the actual execs and shit were working though? From what I understood I thought it was mostly middle management and lower type employees in those buildings. This makes a lot of sense, though - I never really connected the contents of the WTC building with its selection as a target for the attack. Still, as much as we collectively deserved 9/11, it’s hard for me to lean in and say ‘those guys ESPECIALLY deserved it’ if they were just middle of the rung 9-5ers. If that was the case, they’re like… a degree or two closer to the imperial core, but this country basically forces you to work for those assholes if you want to be even lower-middle class. Unless I’m totally wrong, in which case forget everything I just said. But I prefer to think along the lines of how Chomsky described our collective guilt via our indifference during the Vietnam war era, namely that we were all equally culpable for not doing everything in our power to stop this project. Every American (us included) should be doing more.

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Stop right there criminal

All cats anywhere in the world?

Recycling this from a recent post of mine but: structural violence is still violence.

For others, the main term for this in classical Marxism is “Social Murder,” coined by Engels to describe the creation of conditions (mainly working conditions) in which some number of deaths was statistically inevitable even if the individual deaths were “accidents”.

When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.

US covid policy is the perfect example of social murder.

Biden ignited a land war in Europe.

That alone is worthy of trial and execution. The man has reverted us back to the era of World Wars and fed hundreds of thousands into a meat grinder for the sake of lines on a map.

adding that much text just makes it weird.

it’s a hell of a lot shorter than listening to Blowback Season 1. but I still liked that too. There’s more to it than “blown out of proportion”

Rambo II said “This film is dedicated to the brave mujaheddin of Afghanistan.”

Uhhhh ackshually miss that was Rambo III

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I like saying usa killed millions in the iraq/afghanistan wars so people will look it up and see it’s ONLY 300k+

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In australia, I could get away with saying “America both caused and deserved 9/11” without immediately being beaten to death, but i’d probably receive some grumbles or be looked at like a crank and would have to elaborate into a pretty lengthy conversation that might not get through at all

so idk, i wouldn’t say “common opinion” in the anglo core but “somewhat accepted”