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I think he’s posted enough pro Russia stuff here that it’s a wash
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shivas.wisdom said: Do you think the indirect actions of sharing social media posts and donating surplus income to political pundits more than compensates for your time spent directly supporting the US war-machine?
I don't really care. Who do you think you are, St Peter?
When I was in the military, I launched satellites into orbit and then I purchased GPS satellites. Never did I make decisions on foreign policy (that's for Congress to do; they're the ones supporting the war machine).
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The Ecstatic said: I think he’s posted enough pro Russia stuff here that it’s a wash
If you think providing information that the mainstream media won't is being "pro Russia", I'll respectfully disagree.
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I was joking
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shivas.wisdom said: Do you think the indirect actions of sharing social media posts and donating surplus income to political pundits more than compensates for your time spent directly supporting the US war-machine?
I don't really care. Who do you think you are, St Peter?
When I was in the military, I launched satellites into orbit and then I purchased GPS satellites. Never did I make decisions on foreign policy (that's for Congress to do; they're the ones supporting the war machine).
You don't care about your participation as a cog in the American war-machine?
The anarchist approach is one of individual direct action and responsibility as the foundation of systemic change, so I was curious about how you measured up your own actions. Note that I never passed judgment here - I merely asked you to judge yourself. It seems I struck a chord with this line of questioning.
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Judging myself, I left the military once I realized it wasn't a force for good, I continue to speak out against it, and I'm happy with myself for doing that.
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Glenn Greenwald highlights a few lies from Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC. 
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Shouldn't it be "Gratuitous Military Spending", as opposed to Ukraine war?
But then that wouldn't be something conservatives could claim to get behind?
That pipeline - straight to Lockheed-Martin.
Inevitably brought this clip to mind.
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Re: Political Cartoons [Re: mycot]
#27785439 - 05/20/22 09:39 AM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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George W. Bush gets a prank call from 'Zelensky'.
When asked about Putin's request to join NATO, Bush said "I think what he (Putin) wanted to do was sit on the fringe of NATO to make sure NATO was not offensive but defensive."
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A new and improved political compass:
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Hardly, capitalism is highly centralizing, billionaires and soon trillionaires.
It favors small government but big corporations.
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Re: Political Cartoons [Re: Asante]
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Expanded labels for the axes would be (y) the degree to which power is shared and (x) the processes by which decisions are made.
Under capitalism, power (ie capital/wealth) is progressively concentrated into a handful of ultra-wealthy individuals - that's the hierarchy part. But these ultra-wealthy individuals aren't necessarily unified by a centralized decision-making process - more often than not, a sufficiently wealthy individual can freely act on their own decisions - that's the decentralized part. Theoretically, wealth could continue to accumulate until a single individual held enough power to unilaterally dictate, but that's basically late-stage capitalism giving birth to fascism.
It's loosely based on a quote by Bakunin, where liberty is analogous to decentralization and socialism is analogous to equality: "we are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege and injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality".
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Despite your explanation, I also am having difficulty with this compass.
Out with my trusty dictionary and here's some key ideas (not complete definition) associated with Fascism. (Elseware I have seen It defined as collusion between Government and Industry)
Strong centralised power often anticommunist Colloq any extreme right-wing ideology Colloq a dictatorial person
Also "late-stage capitalism giving birth to fascism" implies there's no great conflict between the two ideas.
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Re: Political Cartoons [Re: mycot] 1
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Fascism is a fairly nebulous term, because it includes culturally-specific myths - for example, the idealized versions of the Roman Empire, First Reich, and Shogunate which influenced the manifestations of fascism in Italy, Germany, and Japan. But I'm unsure where your confusion lies.
Strong centralised power? Check Often anticommunist? Usually, but the compass reflects this opposition with the y-axis. Extreme right-wing ideology? Moving away from the notion of left-right ideologies is a big motivation behind this compass, as it's not a very informative distinction imo. With that in mind, this compass won't reflect this quality. Dictatorial person? That's what the far-extent of the x-axis towards centralization implies.
There absolutely is a contradiction between capitalism and fascism, but the idea rooted in 'late-stage capitalism' is that the ideology itself is inherently contradictory and/or unsustainable. If capitalism leads to a progressive accumulation of wealth, an increasing amount of people will be unable to afford an increasing amount of material goods - at which point the capitalist system will begin to collapse without either redistributing wealth (ie, move down the y-axis), or opening new avenues of exploitation by 'othering' certain social classes - which temporarily maintains the capitalist hierarchy at the cost of the othered groups individual agency (ie, the fascist creep down the x-axis).
It's certainly a compass made with anarchy in mind - it intends to illustrate two important values to anarchist ideology (decentralization and equality) and how other ideologies diverge from these anarchist values - but don't think that these two axes are sufficient in their own right either. The goal was to illustrate nuance beyond the old left-right schism, not create a new one.
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This is a comedy routine, but like many political cartoons, it contains some truth.
It'll be interesting to see if we do coup the country he predicts in the next few years...
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He had enough material for a two minute bit.
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Re: Political Cartoons [Re: falcon]
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