Do you understand what living conditions were like before the revolution? Socialism took an agrarian society and catapulted it into one that won the space race. Literaracy, food output, lifespan all increased during socialism, and they deteriorated again once the USSR devolved back into capitalism.

Bruh, you literally just linked to a paragraph that makes the claim that the idea of a three-day conquest came purely out of American and Ukrainian speculation. This is exactly what I’m saying, save for that one Lukashenko quote.

I’m not going to get into the weeds with you about the invasion, but I am going to call you out for sheisty implied quotes. Any reasonable and adequately uninformed person would read your “three day war” comment in response to a comment chain about putin and assume you were talking about putin. You deserve to get called out for that. It’s misleading and disingenuous.

Oh my bad, for some strange reason I had assumed you were talking about Putin in a comment chain devoted to talking about Putin.

Show me where Putin claimed he’d take Kyiv in 3 days.

Idk what “free and open” internet you’re talking about. All I see is a one massive advertisement that requires me to sell my soul away every time I want to sign up for something.

https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korean-leaflets-north-korea-2014-1

https://www.nknews.org/2023/05/ngo-says-it-sent-bottles-filled-with-rice-and-flash-drives-into-north-korea/#:~:text=A South Korean nongovernmental organization,the outbreak of COVID-19.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-366-thumb-drives-vs-north-korea-aftermetoo-grammy-nominations-a-charlie-brown-christmas-and-more-1.4423146/flash-drives-for-freedom-how-smuggled-western-media-could-take-down-kim-jong-un-1.4423241

https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/asia/north-korea-drones/index.html

my ass

Ftfy

Maybe because they’re littering e-waste at a massive scale?

They’ve already being doing that shit for years now. The trash balloons are a response to that.

This only logical conclusion to this naive utilitarianism is reaching a point 30 years from now when liberals will be frothing at the mouths in support of the dem candidate who wants 5 genocides as opposed to the republican who wants 10.

There is a legend about a certain species of caterpillar that can only cross the threshold of metamorphosis by seeing its future butterfly. Proletarian subjectivity does not evolve by incremental steps but requires non-linear leaps, especially moral self-recognition through solidarity with the struggle of a distant people, even when this contradicts short-term self-interest, as in the famous cases of Lancashire cotton workers’ enthusiasm for Lincoln and later for Gandhi. Socialism, in other words, requires non-utilitarian actors, whose ultimate motivations and values arise from structures of feeling that others would deem spiritual. Marx rightly scourged romantic humanism in the abstract, but his personal pantheon—Prometheus and Spartacus, Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare—affirmed a heroic vision of human possibility that no longer seems to have any purchase in our fallen world.

Mike Davis

Remind me how many Neo-Nazi battalions are in the DPRK? Or where in the DPRK constitution there is a provision to protect their gene pool?

Show me where Putin claimed this would be a 2-day war.