Jfc have I not made it clear that I hold republicans more responsible? What the fuck have I ever said that would even begin to suggest I’d vote for the traitor party? Nothing, but anybody who disagrees with your narrative just has to be a Republican. Fuck off and merry Christmas, neolib.

People prefer to believe fairy stories of america playing the hero rather than confront the hard reality they’ve always known has been just before their eyes.

I mean if anybody is profiting from Russia’s crime it’s arms manufacturers. And arms manufacturers have an inordinate amount of influence in US policy.

The fact that this kind of behavior is probably legal does not make it any less corrupt. Buying influence, even under color of law, remains corrupting. I don’t give a shit if it’s legal for Biden’s or Trump’s children to serve as open sources of what on their face appear to be bribes, it’s still corrupt as shit.

Edit: and there’s literally nothing fucking right wing about demanding elected officials not take massive monetary gifts from foreign governments via state corporations and their family members. Defending that shit is about as reactionary and fascistic as you can get. This criticism applies with 100x more force against trump than Biden, but no, everything has to be the duopoly struggle, our side can never be wrong.

It’s literally an uncontroversial statement of fact, so long as you recognize someone being hired to a state oil company, at a seven figure salary, with literally no experience in the field, at the same time as his father is in charge of American policy regarding that state oil company’s state, is on its face corrupt. Jon Stewart has said this shit is blatantly corrupt, you accusing him of being a right wing parrot?

Maybe if the United States stopped engaging in corruption by exploiting suffering and death all over the globe people would be less inclined to think that is a motivating factor in our Ukraine policy. The son of the sitting president of the United States engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine while his father was in charge of the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy. The former president was impeached for his policy of using Ukraine as a means to tarnish his political opponents, let alone all the other corrupt dealings that were reported for his 4 years in office (with the sauds in particular). It’s an absurdity to say it’s sad that people recognize how their government regularly acts, and assuming that that is what they’re doing elsewhere. Particularly in a state that for years was ranked the most corrupt country in Europe.

And none of that’s to say I oppose military aid to Ukraine. We baited russia into invading we damn well better support them while they’re suffering that assault.

Here being spewed by an 11 day old account engaging in climate denialism. I have a feeling the smear campaign wasn’t limited to the past.

11 day old account spewing obscurantism and denial, wonder what you’re doing here.

> ocean currents

Including the Gulf Stream, which is what makes most of Western Europe habitable.

It’s funny you should mention education as it’s one of Noam Chomsky’s go to examples of a fairly anarchic power structure. Departmental leadership is regularly cycled while curricula are developed through consensus. Anarchism does not have to mean the complete absence of hierarchical power structures.

Hunter gatherer societies are in many ways anarchic and were the basis of human civilization for most of our existence. For a modern example the kibbutzim of Israel are a kind of anarchic society. There are tons of others as well. As a general matter, though, the fact that an ideology invites harsh repression doesn’t mean that ideology can’t work. Democracy didn’t exist for thousands of years and attempted democratic communities were brutally destroyed, but once democracy was able to overcome that history of oppression better societies were created.

I’m a big fan of Chomsky’s definition. My poor attempt to paraphrase: authority is not self justifying, and authoritarian structures that can not justify their existence should be dismantled. Could probably add what authority deserves to exist should be controlled through democratic processes.

I feel like liberating a people from a different foreign occupier is the sticking point with WWII. Even the Nazis had some of that good will in their invasions of Eastern Europe (although the people quickly realized the Nazis had no liberatory intentions).

> The most extravagant idea that can take root in the head of a politician is to believe that it is enough for one people to invade a foreign people to make it adopt its laws and constitution. No one likes armed missionaries; and the first advice given by nature and prudence is to repel them as enemies.

Robespierre, unsuccessfully lobbying against the French revolutionary wars.

Sounds like you haven’t actually done any reading on the topic if you think that’s a troll comment, it was widely speculated that he had wide hips and breasts for years (athough it has since been proven false and just a stylistic choice in artistic depictions) and he definitely had a foot problem.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/100216-king-tut-malaria-bones-inbred-tutankhamun