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- Not having any coherent politics to start with, which means they had to grasp for something when they realized juvenile shit like libertarianism falls apart under the slightest pressure; and
- Not giving a shit about poor people.
I’d have to re-watch it, but I thought the protagonist didn’t so much execute the woman sniper so much as he put her out of her misery. As I recall, she was badly wounded and asking for one of them to shoot her. I don’t have a good take on what that scene is supposed to communicate, but I don’t think the best reading is the protagonist finally becoming a mindless killing machine/“real soldier.”
Dope ass posts by @TransComrade69 that everyone should read:
- The whole discussion series on Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
- This great post on how to get strapped
- All of her other posts
Sorry to lose your efforts. This place has a lot of promise, but we have to do better by our trans comrades.
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Early contender for Post of the Year
Changing perceptions about socialist states has to come from the bottom up, not the top down.
Look at how Bernie’s entirely truthful, extremely moderate statements on Cuba’s healthcare and education programs was wielded against him. That’s what happens when political leaders try to change the tune about socialist states in a country that’s been strongly anti-communist for most of the last century. We have to have those conversations on the ground first.
He is also associated with expansion of government to act as economic planner and mediator-manager of capital and labor in a wartime situation.
Wilson was arguably the first liberal internationalist
Creating ruling institutions rather than relying on and solidifying one’s personal ruling power is also very different from fascism.