Look, I’m not going to pretend that shooting the whole family like that was pretty. Revolution is not a dinner party. But why don’t these libs get equally teary-eyed about all the people shot by Tsarist soldiers on Bloody Sunday?

Also, I don’t turn human suffering into a “look at me” photo op.

“Dude, me and my friends were so cringey in high school. That time we tried dressing like Edward Cullen because we thought it would impress girls… so dumb. Or that stupid emo phase. And don’t get me started on the all the mass murdering and war crimes we did. Bunch of dorks, that’s what we were.”

That’s the thing about armies. You kind of need people in their physical prime.

Yep, I remember when hating the prequels was pretty much the Required Thing online. Before that, Return of the Jedi (ewoks! second death star!) was the one everybody claimed was terrible. I honestly wouldn’t be suprised to see the Disney movies get rehabilitated in about ten years.

You can never have too much Juche.

Notice the Moscow Metro isn’t in that picture

The last time Star Wars was good was 1999

You’re telling me you didn’t like Episode II: Unstable Jedi Guy Commits Genocide to Impress Galaxy’s Most Annoying Senator and Stand-In For Lib Political Fantasies?"

What’s behind this retconning of Fidel into a lib? I see it everywhere, and it’s annoying as hell.

Also, the comic book font and those three big exclamation points are really not helping me take this exercise seriously.

We communists are the ultimate assholes. Goes all the way back to a certain Georgian dude who ended up being a total asshole to Hitler (and is exemplified to day by a certain Chinese dude who’s an asshole to billionaires in his country).

Yes, this is correct. Only two things I would add: first, recognizing that those who sell sex are almost always victims does not mean we should have a positive attitude toward buyers of sex. Quite the opposite, in fact. I would actually argue that anyone who has ever paid a prostitute (of any gender) for sex should be excluded from a communist organization; OnlyFans is maybe a bit different, since it’s all online and porn use is so accepted in our society, but I would certainly be very wary of anybody in a leadership position who was bought “services” on it. It’s all a form of rent seeking, but with the rented commodity being an actual human being, and the “want” satisified being in no way neccesary to human life or human flourishing in the way that (say) housing is. So with the level of brutal exploitation in the industry, a principled Marxist has no reason to support it.

(For clarity, I don’t think you were saying anything different, but in my experience it’s good to make the point explicitly, because libs like to twist support for sex workers around into “visiting the red light district is AKSHUALLY a revolutionary act, and buying feet pics is just like reading Lenin!1!1!” We want to raise the productive forces and increase overall prosperity, so that everybody can work and support themselves, and nobody is forced to sell their body in order to put food on the table. In the meantime we can help sex workers through mutual aid, etc. Sex need never enter into the equation.)

The second thing is very minor, and feel completely free to disagree – but I’m always bothered somewhat by the term “normalize,” as it feels very idealistic. Things don’t get “normalized” or accepted without some change in the underlying economic relations. So I don’t think the normalization of sex work is good in and of itself; it’s a symptom of some unhealthy cause, not people waking up one day and deciding to be less prudish. We’re all a little prey to the liberal notion of social change, that it’s precipitated by what Stefan Molyneux (remember him? what a bozo) called “magic individuals” who step up and “change the discourse.” It might be good to avoid their language altogether.

Found this on Quora, so that tracks.

I think “17th century logistics” is code for having an industrial base big enough to actually produce the weapons you need. Instead of having an economy based solely on magic computer numbers and the power of Francis Fukuyama.

OP has an… interesting name and profile picture.

As well as a post history that looks like it escaped from r/redscarepod.

Okay, what the hell did you just subject my eyes to

NIP-16’s builders cobbled the hardware together from old railroad bridges, the hulls of decommissioned submarines and the rotating mechanism from a scrapped battleship.

If the US or one of its allies had built it a satellite station that way, you can bet the article would be talking about “recycling,” “earth-friendly building techniques,” “innovative use of former military hardware.”

Almost all those American ads are so lazy. “Let’s just take a picture, slap some text with a ‘woman bad’ joke on it, and call it a day.” And the last one doesn’t even make sense; why would someone be wearing a helmet and a space suit but no gloves?

Compare to those Soviet posters which could be in a museum of modern art.

Yep. I love how Kim is seemingly one of the few people on earth who can be in a room with Putin and not be overshadowed by his presence and self-assurance. (If anything, Putin seems overshadowed by Kim here).

I thought it was, but the date says 2023. So, not sure.

No one in particular – I was mostly making a dumb joke about the trope of “Soviet honeypot traps” you get in so many western spy movies. Don’t know how much Stalin and the NKVD actually used that particular strategy, or if they ever really used it at all.

If you look at ISS crews

I was tired as hell, and read that as “ISIS crews.” Funny thing is, the American soldiers part still made sense.