Is there any argument that could be made that it might be in Iran’s interests to let the enemy think it was more successful than it was, leading Iran to give false confirmations on the success of the assassinations? Or would there be no reason to do that? I take it that Iran never did confirm Esmail Qaani’s death, given he is clearly still alive. But that makes me wonder if there are other people that the entity claims to have killed but that Iran has not confirmed are dead, in other words more people like Esmail Qaani who are in a Schrödinger’s cat situation but might pop up like Qaani. Or was he the only one in that limbo who wasn’t verified by Iran as dead? If there are other discrepancies like that, then we’re back to where @Awoo@hexbear.net was at, wondering which others might still be kicking around.

ISIS was created by the CIA in Iraq.

Do you happen to have any good sources that describe how that came about?

This sounds very plausible to me, but I’m curious about who the differing bourgeois factions are and where the line is between their opposing desires. Is this a finance capital vs industrial capital thing, where finance doesn’t want to risk escalation and possible nuclear war but the evangelicals in industrial capital do? Or is that way off?

Well then you should educate yourself as to what is factually true because everything I said was just that. You seem aware enough that you should know that one can not trust western sources if they want to have any idea what is really going on. Yet your responses here seem to indicate that that’s exactly what you’ve done: trusted the propaganda put out by the imperialist world hegemon.

Exactly! A country should belong to the people who live in in and not to neighboring empires who call dibs on someone else’s home.

Then you should be supporting the people of Donbas in their anti-imperialist struggle against the neo-nazi Ukrainian regime that had been trying to ethnically cleanse them and seize control of all their resources to sell off to western private interests. Just as you should be cheering on the Russians who came to their aid and prevented them from being wiped out by said nazis. But instead you’ve confused anti-imperialists for imperialists and mixed up the nazis with the victims because you have swallowed the western narrative.

Seriously, I had been saving up to get a good monitor, now I wonder if I would be falling for a “go out and buy treats fast while you still can!” scheme if I bought one now when I can’t quite afford it, or if waiting until I’ve saved up enough will mean it’s too late and I won’t be able to afford one at all because they’ve quadrupled in price in 2 months.

For her alone in this situation? Yes, it would very likely be even worse for her (but still a silver lining if she were to take out an ICE agent or a few too). But if a community is armed and prepared to defend their members it makes it vastly harder for these fascists to just come and abduct people like this.

Guns alone are not the answer here. But guns paired with community is at least a .Major part of the answer.

That was a piece of the whole pegging the entire planet to the dollar and ensuring global dollar hegemony, but it was just another effect of that and not the cause of what’s seen in the graph, right? Either way the ditching the gold standard is not what conspiracy-chuds and many libertarians think it is.

Am I losing it? Is this really just a bunch of racist propaganda spliced in to bookend an official movie trailer?

CW: Extreme racism, murder victims presumably irl, tv series trailer with quick but extreme depictions of SV and SA.

I don’t know what to make of this. Is the owner of the Trailer Hub youtube channel a white supremacist splicing in this shit to propagandize people trying to see a trailer? Am I stupid and completely missing something here? I’m too high to make sense of this. I did try to report the video, but I don’t have a youtube account so of course it won’t let me. I wanted to tell someone about this but I don’t know anyone who would care or believe me except for here.

Thank you for the reply.

I would hope Cuba also teaches of Stalin positively, or at least presents history as it truly was with all the positive things Stalin did for the USSR and the world. But I know nothing about the education system in either country.

This is an honest question, not a challenge. Why is DPRK still a remnant of Bolshevism but Cuba is not? Did DPRK follow in some early theoretical footsteps that Cuba didn’t?

So weird how under the leadership of the CPC and Mao in particular, the known cycle in China of recurring severe famines that had plagued the country for centuries just, well, ended. Another one of those weird coincidences that happened in spite of their stated efforts to end hunger ig. So weird that food insecurity is vastly worse right now in the US than in China, where it barely even exists.

The industrial revolution had already long since happened, dipshit. I wonder why at that very specific fucking time, China was finally able to industrialize the way that countries exploiting it already had. HMMM. Why might that come about then? Better put on my big thinking cap about that one.

“and modern medicine made its way into China.”

HUH? Wow, I wonder why it made it’s way into China right then? What a WACKY coincidence!

This trend could be in spite of Mao and not because of him.

Mao was following (and building upon) Marxism-Leninism which among other things is a science that predicts how industrialization occurs and can be used as a roadmap for how to achieve it. The fact that Mao followed and forged this roadmap with the stated intent to do so and that expected result happened is not a “trend in spite of” literally the policies you can look up that he (and the CPC) implemented with the purpose of achieving that very thing. (I’m facepalming so hard rn).

Correlation does not equal causation.

No, but you know what? Causation does equal causation, like when someone says “I’m going to throw this ball” and you watch them throw a ball, you can be pretty confident that the ball is moving through the air because their throwing it, which they said they were going to do and you saw them do, caused that to happen. Nah, it must be some other hidden corollary that is the reason the ball suddenly left their hand and moved through the air. Frankly it’s embarrassing to see someone trying to come up with excuses to hand wave away the obvious fucking truth that is right there and plain for anyone and everyone to see, at least anyone who isn’t frantically putting up blinders to try to protect their bullshit worldview.

Unfortunately Mao was an idiot surrounded by sycophants who killed more of his countrymen through incompetent policies than Stalin did with his purges.

Unfortunately burgerlanders are idiots surrounded by propaganda made by the empire that killed more people the world over through cruelty and policies of greed and exploitation than even Churchill did with his genocide of Indians.

You are an idiot. Mao was a brilliant and resolute (though imperfect) revolutionary that saved millions of people, pulled even more out of poverty, and set China on the path to becoming the superpower that it is. Surrounded by sycophants? lol, he famously called on the people not to blindly accept party bureaucracy and to fight injustice even when it means fighting his own communist party.

Nope, this was reality (not “the story”) all along. Considering that it’s known nazis who were running the ethnic cleansing campaign, it’s pretty clear that you can’t have one “goalpost” without the other. The fact that this is the first time you’ve heard this and think it’s moving of goalposts really speaks to your utter ignorance on the topic. But I realize most westerners are completely ignorant on the topic sadly, seeing as the “pUtiN BIG MEANIE RuZzIa is EBIL dictatorship! Poor smol bean Ukraine!” narrative is the only thing that’s allowed through the propaganda filter there.

Spoken like someone who clearly has zero knowledge of actual history. Especially considering a large part of the reason why the coup government in Ukraine began their campaign of ethnically cleansing the eastern population of their own country was because the people living there more strongly identified with Russia, wanted to be able to keep speaking Russian without persecution, and eventually pleaded with Russia to intervene on their behalf, which Russia fortunately did. But anyone who actually understands the history of the region is a “psychopath.” lol

None of the vaccines I’ve had in the past, which I think were mostly pfizer, were too bad as far as how I reacted to them. I’m not too concerned about how hard each hits, so long as it’s temporary. I just want the one that is most effective right now for the variants that are out now. I should have paid closer attention when I saw it, but I remember in a thread here someone was talking about making sure which one you were getting, and even asking the nurse or whoever was doing the shot to show you the label on the container to make sure.

I’ll have to check to see, but I would really hope my clinic would be able to get it for me for less than $202 or $140 if I do have to pay since I’m on the state healthcare plan, but I don’t know. Even $140 sounds absurd to me. I’m not a veteran but thanks for the information.

Yeah, the nazis and their defenders will always come out of the woodwork any time someone points out the (easily verifiable) facts regarding who really won WWII (the Soviet Union) and defeated the axis powers.