I’m sure NATO left and libs will now at least critically support Russia for “doing the right thing for once” just as they support USA “doing the right thing for once” in Ukraine.

Krzyżacy - Knights of the Cross. But then it turned out it’s not only hilarious but actually also have good gameplay, so i can recommend.

Then that entity, be it Pinkerton or gang or army, would be government. Sure, it could also devolve below capitalism, but capitalism need government structure of some sorts, it cannot exist without it.

There was a fucking referendum where people voted for not dissolving the Union and it was ignored. It can’t go more undemocratic than that.

Every single fascist country was capitalist before.

Weird headphones

Where on the Disc did you get ‘god-given external conditions’ from that?

In the premise and in the presented alternative. As you noticed, the boots, while being literal in the story, are also a metaphor, but for a metaphor on the broad topic as poverty and affluence, it’s exremely reductive, especially for someone who is not a medieval cop with a meddle-age crisis of nihilism and rampant alcoholism (for whom it’s understandable) but a XXI century reader. It does not present anything else for you to make it an universal theory to proclaim with smugness. It’s also untrue because price don’t necessary, or even that much often, equal quality.

Also Vimes was a cop and a lib, regardless what he babbled to himself, his job and purpose was to keep the status quo. And Pratchet, however good his books are was also a lib and his thoughts about revolution never came even an inch further than the usual liberal propaganda about revolution eating its children, lesser evil is dope and status quo is good, what he promoted was a old bankrupted “capitalism with human face” and other liberal ideals. Just he was intelligent enough to place his stories in the medieval like world where the capitalism is only emerging and this is still undeniably progressive.

By “not to be taken seriously” i meant that Pratchet was not a 10 year old and even in his liberalism knew society, politics and economics are much more complcated than to make universal theory based on “price = quality”

I mean actual cowboys were also looking lame, that’s why hollywood had to idealise them.

Taken seriously, it is misleading because it treats poverty and affluence like god-given eternal conditions. And considering Vimes ancestor being mentioned quite often, i’m pretty sure it was not to be taken seriously.

No, it’s just not at the discarding phase yet because the conditions did not changed very much since 1948 so it’s still needed and relevant.

National bolshevism is not communist version of fascism, it’s neonazi ideology and it’s anticommunist too just trying to coopt the aesthetics.

All of those except Soleimani did happened in America

After tens of millions of views on its viral videos and articles over the past two years

Dude bought this for farm and still shines more than all the cybertruck snobs lol.

and joined Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

Nearly complete gusano run, one thing he missed is joining Falun Gong lol.

Obligatory reminder that a fruit company messed up entire nations or soda producer funded death squads.

That would probably explain a lot of this.

Actually it was very very safe, if you compare it with peasants or burghers with occupational hazard being very low. Well, unless you were an Ottoman prince.

Also monarchy. You guillotine a king and the monarchy instantly jumps to the next one.

Democracy requires nonviolence

HAHAHAHA oh damn my dude go and read any history book.

Haven’t seen any prominent lib even use violent rhethoric in connection with pointing out Trump’s dangerous plans for his second term, so I was surprised you bring up stochastic terrorism.

That’s precisely how stochastic terrorism works, the big wigs never straight up call for it to have their hands clean just in case, for that they have their tabloids, their agitators, their media heads, their internet trolls. And btw Biden did said they need to put Trump into the bullseye (though he most likely didn’t meant it literally, but on the other hand he promised to get rid of Nordstream back in the day and it happened).

I agree that democratic processes have little to do with US politics these days, but are you suggesting you can promote democratic values with anything outside living them (not that US politician do that, but in principle).

In principle i do but i don’t see liberal democracy as desirable version of it due to it being in service of the small minority of capitalists and their stooges exploiting workers, and as such the system works exactly according to its values. I just think those real values behind that system are abhorrent.

And it shouldn’t matter where I’m from. The disaster that is the US empires fall is of global interest.

What SUPAVILLAIN said. If you’re not part of the abovementioned minority or their stooge you should be dearly interested in end of the US empire.