In school, I grasped chemistry with such clarity that other students would come to me for help but physics has always been impossibly difficult to make sense of.

See, should have swarmed Area 51 in a naruto run after all

That’s a bizarre theory, I can’t imagine two ideologies being more dramatically different than anarchy and monarchy

I wish the brown note was real

I wish I had an instrument that played the brown note

I wish I was immune to the brown note

Not just tankie but in denial tankie

It’s called Campism. They take the side of anyone opposing the US even if those countries are objectively shit. It’d be one thing if they had a “the enemy of my enemy” attitude but they go full apologist instead. Russia has a Far Right nationalist government run by a dictator with a Far Right Ultra Nationalist powerbase but people will pretend they are the spitting image of Leftism in a way that even the USSR was not.

There’s alot of potential for the US to betray NATO by sharing intelligence and Troop positions/movements with Russia

“The Ukraine” is just a linguistic quirk of English because we say “The US” and “The UK” and “The UAE” and “The USSR”. If Ukraine started with any other letters than “Uk” it never would have been a thing. People injecting a bunch of meaning into it ala “that implies Ukraine is just a region not a country” are just wrong.

I mean, even Russian meddling aside the Left has always been rife with Campism and MLs in denial about the USSR. Putin’s powerbase is Far Right Ultra Nationalists and some communists still support Russia because “the communist party is still popular there”.

I like moving towards a stateless classless future but I’m not so naive as to deny that Russia is actively pursuing Nationalist conquest and directly opposed to a stateless classless future

The only skills Elon has is exploiting workers and milking the government for money. By all accounts he’s terrible at everything else

Yes, but their grip on reality is slippery, their dedication to campism is frustrating, and their love of strict hierarchy isn’t compatible with Leftist beliefs.

True that, I’d forgotten. Embarrassing considering how often I bring it up to my clueless fellow Americans. The regime in Tehran are shitheads but Iran is genuinely the aggrieved party in any conflict with the US.

As some other people have pointed out, Poland was briefly at war with the USSR during WW2 because the USSR made a deal with the Nazis to divide the country. Finland was allied with the Nazis for a time out of desperation; it’s debated if they were considered an axis power. And groups from the Baltic countries, seized by the USSR in the chaos of the early war, fought guerilla campaigns against the Red Army well into the 50s (see the Forest Brothers) as well as insurgent groups from a few other eastern European countries like Poland.

The most likely scenario though is that the Poster is an American, is fundamentally ignorant of WW2 history (or any history) and has no clue what they’re talking about.

The Leopards are eating face good tonight

don’t let .ml hear you say that or the screeching sound they make will be ear splitting

The problem is how much power is put into the hands of one person, not how that one person is selected. Sure, it would be a slightly better if we had a slightly more fair way of selecting the president but it would be much better to break up the position into multiple positions. It would be much better to eliminate some of those powers altogether. It would be much better if it were more practical to hold those individuals responsible for the crimes they commit while in office. I’m not holding out hope that a popular vote will be a panacea cause occasionally awful people are the popular candidate and what then?

I wasn’t aware there were any citizens in the US who got more than one vote unless you’re referring to the people who get zero votes.

Russia has had diesel shortages for months, that fuel will probably head straight back to Russia.

I got banned from reddit for disagreeing with someone who wished Trump dead. I said I hopped he had a stroke and lived a long miserable life. “Inciting violence”. The guy who wished him dead was not banned.