The post title comes from something Michael Parenti said: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11292604-communism-ladies-and-gentlemen-i-say-it-without-flinching

The tweet is the tweet. The only context needed is the apathy and chauvinism of the Amerikkkan populace.

“The principle established after the Second World War, which prohibited nations from using force to violate the borders of others, has been completely undermined.”

The genre of statement where you act oblivious to the last 80 years of world history sucks so much.

I just watched Soundtrack to a Coup d’etat last night and there were many instances of people describing being blackmailed, threatened (“arm-twisted”), and bribed by the US, or US officials themselves describing it using euphemisms.

And we see this kind of rhetoric about things being at a “new low” or whatever even in left-wing spaces where people really should know better.

In North Korea, girls school shoots back.

The section on Venezuela is BARS.

Video of it in the comments https://xcancel.com/ChristopherHale/status/2039736119546216572

probably made up nonsense from some nobody account. Please stop posting crap from random contextless fake news accounts. More likely than not posted by an actual anti-semite.

They’re only doing it in the hopes Iran will let them use the straight.

I feel like annexation is a different thing.

The world may be jaded but I don’t think the left is jaded. And that’s who has always created and run these political projects. Also I think it completely depends on who you’re looking at. I think there is a “silent majority” of people who are absolutely ready for a positive global project. But nobody so far has the chutzpah to get it going.

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This is like the weirdest inter-national hostility in the world to me. As far as I know, there is absolutely no reason for Japan to have a hostile stance towards Russia other than because Japan is a US vassal, and that the Japanese Empire got its butt kicked by the Red Army (but that seems like it wouldn’t that much of an effect in 2026, even if the Japanese govt still clings to that kind of stuff).

Bobrykivske’s reserves contain about 1.64 tons of gold, which would be worth almost $260 million based on current spot prices, according to the auction documents.

Australian mining company Korab Resources had previously been developing the site. But Korab halted its work in 2014 when the area was seized by Russian-backed separatists, making it impossible for the company to access the region, which came under Western sanctions, and it wrote off the value of the project, according to Executive Chairman Andrej Karpinski and publicly available Ukrainian corporate records.

And “Australian” resources.

Those evil Russians think Slavs should control resources in Ukraine!

Won’t even partly finance one bridge. They’re just that evil. Maybe they did a study on how many places along their lines people have to cross dangerously and decided it would set an expensive precedent.

I didn’t know they used inflatable vehicles props for target practice. That’s neat. I saw a video recently of those inflatable decoy tanks used in WWII but didn’t know they had more uses.

That’s the stated use case. But all you have to do is either view the post with an account, or use a service like xcancel that uses an account to load it on your behalf. For example, here’s the post from this thread: https://subium.com/profile/shoe.bsky.social/post/3mhswyoeqqk2e

Also the username is in the URL, so someone just has to look the person up!

And here’s the profile: https://subium.com/profile/shoe.bsky.social

It’s completely optional and disabled by default, I can’t believe there are big enough losers to actually enable it on their own accounts. And of course it is stupid that it’s a “feature” in the first place.

Another certified BRICS News® blatant fabrication!

Great point! Of course, if discoverability is what people are after then it’s a losing battle for anyone without bland mainstream politics because alternative viewpoints aren’t going to be boosted by American social media.

USE MASTODOOOOOON. It’s insane that Mastodon has existed for years but people decided to go with another obviously Silicon Valley social media platform in Bluesky. It feels like a conspiracy against anything not completely controlled by careerist American psychos.

People pay taxes into this system every year

Taxes do not pay for this stuff. This isn’t even obscure or complicated at all. Everyone knows the national deficit goes up every year and always has. The government could just as easily deficit spend for healthcare and such, on top of all the war. They print the currency, there isn’t some shortage of US dollars. There might be a shortage of labor for healthcare, since they want everyone working for the MIC.

I don’t get what is annoying about bringing it up.

I think it’s actually way more effective to actually educate people on how things work than for socialists/progressive forces to endlessly repeat canards about tax money yadda yadda yadda. It seems insincere to try to get people to believe something false (that taxes matter) just to get them to agree with you (that imperialism is bad).

The goal is to get people to think correctly about how the world works, not score rhetorical points.

I think far more effective messaging would be: The US is murdering good people, who just want to live good lives. Our labor is being used to make their lives worse. Instead, lets use our labor for everyone’s benefit. Lets replace the war industry with renewable energy, health care, and technology that benefits everyone.

Instead it’s like people are trying to play into American greed and chauvinism by complaining about how expensive it is to murder Muslims. If only a Muslim life took $1,000 to destroy instead of $1,000,000!