Your whole comment could be used to explain how people confuse correlation with causation.

I had to note that you hilariously assume the Soviet Union had no prostitution and capitalism brought it back. Hilarious claim, thanks for that!

About Marx and his maths, even Marx himself discussed his troubles with mathematics, he likely has what we now refer to as discalcula. You can search online yourself where people have done deep dives into the mathematical errors in Das and other of his manuscripts. His numbers literally do not add up.

. It's clear that you're more of an enemy of the working classes than a supporter,

I would argue the real enemy of the working classes is Putin, sending poor Russian boys to their deaths. Dulce et decorum est and all that yea?

and again ignored that the population crisis facing Ukraine is far more devastating than Russia

Pro Russians always seem to argue this but can't give me a compelling reason why. I would argue that Russia has a lot of land to protect with a rapidly falling population. This population is expected to fall dramatically over the next 50 years. With 2.8 billion resource hungry Chinese and Indians on their doorstep that's a lot of land for the 100million or less people Russia are predicted to have by the end of the century.

There are very few in Russia who are against this war for the right reasons. It is a myth that this is Putin's war and the poor meek Russian people are just going along with it. The vast majority in Russia are chesty thumping nationalists who support the war whole heartedly.

You are betraying all of the people who are against the war or are avoiding making themselves into nationalist cogs

I am betraying no one, I owe nothing to those people, again why do you think I personally owe these people I have never met anything. They were betrayed by their own leadership, stop trying to pass the blame onto me.

I have no hope for any anarchist revolution in Russia since they betrayed Nestor Makhno. Russians only know how to bow down to a strong warlord.

That's how we get Mushroom Man!

The substance of your critique is what stands out as opposed to the critique itself. It is a common pro Russian talking point to dismiss the effectiveness of the sanctions on limiting Russia's ability to wage war. The reality is that sanctions have only started to work now that the Russian state has started to run out of the 300 billion or so dollars of liquid funds to support the war. Russia's current months long at this stage collapse is the result of sanctions starting to bite.

The majority of the Russian people support this war, fuck them, they deserve what they get. Why do you expect me to show more responsibility to mankind than the Russian people? That is your expectation, I genuinely do not give a shit about those warmongering pricks.

Da, comrade I shit in bucket before war, I shit in bucket after war. My brother Ivan went to SVO, he lost both legs but brought home real toilet for shit, great success!

Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6. Only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

By the cops own logic we should be shooting cops on sight to make the streets safer.

It is unlikely that Iran would attack the US mainland but they could just continue attacking US military bases in Qatar, UAE and Saudi.

Oil is a globally consumed commodity, when the price of a barrel goes up this affects American consumers. The US has been using its strategic oil reserve to attempt to mitigate a politically damaging price shock. Oil price is the biggest factor affecting inflation that has begun to affect the American population since the war began. Trump does not fear the oil lobby who are currently making bank and, he fears an embarrassing defeat in the November elections.

He's a good man, deserves at least a pint next time I see him!

I was thinking this game reminded me of Another World in terms of the art style and game play. I just went off searching for the name of Another World because I had completely forgotten the name, should have just read the comments!

They were both published by Delphine software so they could have had some crossover there.

You are so dumb that is is laughable

Opening with an ad hominem attack, this should be interesting....

to control of Iraq resources and enrichment to military industrial complex

You are the cultist who believe your poor shitty country never hold no responsibility that it is always the fault of other countries and foreign influences

You then proceed with an unintelligible, illiterate diatribe. I was incorrect it was not interesting. I'm also from Ireland not the USA Einstein.

You should read about how the region was

You should read literally anything buddy, then learn how to write before playing with the big boys.

What I have was facts about Israel manipulating the US government, as they have been doing since their shitty settler colony came into existence 70 odd years ago. You gave me your opinion and feelings, stop being so emotional homie, losing will do that to you I suppose.....

We should always believe what Rubio says because he would never lie to us. Can't decide if you are naive, thick, duplicitous or some combination of the three.

Never forget, it was Israeli "intelligence" regarding "WMDs" that got GW Bush to start his disastrous invasion of Iraq. Israel are not allies of the USA, they are the USA's greatest threat and history will likely view them as their manipulation of US foreign policy as the reason for the downfall of the American empire.

Angry idiot annoyed at Russia's continued incompetence resorts to attacking internet rando with ad hominem attacks that say nothing of substance.

A child's understanding of global affairs says the commenter who eats up Putin's delicious propaganda unquestionably. The majority of people believe they are of above average intelligence, this is of course impossible. I'm sure you are one of those believers, as Journey once said, "Don't stop, believing!".

You just reminded me of a friend who had a B.A. in psychology, an LLB (law degree) and wanted to either become attorney general or do an agricultural science (AgS) degree in order to have either BALLBAG or BALLBAgS as his qualifications after his name.

It is better to have flawed third-language skills than to be a brainwashed cultist

I disagree, it does however give you the ability to look foolish in more than one language, well done! You for some reason accuse me of being a "cultist" without any indication of what my cult may be, enlighten me please!

I remember a time when the ziobots actually had decent arguments but the quality of your output has declined sharply recently. You, like the Zionist state have lost the run of the narrative, like all death cults Zionism can have only one end.

Damn Ill be surprised if you even opened capital to begin with

I assume you are referring to Das Kapital? It is essential college reading for any third level student. Marx should be everybody's starting point in politics, when it is also your end point, as it is with most of your crowd, you run into serious problems.

Im sure you read most of marxist/communist literature

I'm a much bigger fan of Henry George, Progress and Poverty is a much better book in both writing and content.

also notice how you had to completely derail his point to USSR for a strawman

It was not a straw man, our entire conversation is about Russia and the article we are commenting on is also about Russia, in the context of our conversation how is it not relevant? Should I have referred to some other random successful communist state that actually followed the teaching of Marx perfectly? The point was what communists want and what happens in reality are two very different things. This clearly went over your head, don't worry about it though buddy, I am used to it from your crowd.

Yes, it has several meanings depending on the context. Used in the derogatory manner the other commenter used it in is nowadays typically reserved for American political discourse referring to social liberals. It can be used in the economic sense too but in general discourse this would not be the common modern interpretation of calling someone a liberal, Adam Smith has not been around for 100s of years now and terms change.

You appear to understand what the word means but you don't understand how the word is used. I am sure you are not a native English speaker or do not speak the language at a high level.

You are not a socialist, I can see your comment history genius. All I can see is Russian bootlicking, Russia is the furthest thing possible from a socialist state. You can call yourself a tankie if you like, big difference but a more fitting label for your sort.

Communists want the working classes to control and direct society

This never happened in the USSR though did it? The USSR was a dictatorship that brutalised the working classes. They are not some beacon of righteousness that we need to be referring back to, Soviet style "communism" is not what anyone seeking a more just world should be aspiring to.

There are other ways of delivering more horizontal power structures that would make society a better place for all. We do not need to be looking to a guy who lived 200 years ago for solutions today, anyone who critically looks at Marx's ideas who isn't a teenage boy in a Che Guevara t shirt knows his math and ideas do not stand up to scrutiny. Just as ridiculous as those who look to Adam Smith for guidance today. At least Marx fucked though, I never trust a man who doesn't.

I also don't get what you mean by "Russia's loss," it's a war of attrition

I don't know how you can't see how this statement you made is an embarrassing loss for Russia. How the mighty have fallen.

they are facing immense population collapse and crisis and an unstable government. Russia doesn't have the same problems.

This tells me you have never seen Russia's population pyramid or understand the trajectory of Russia's population. Demographics is destiny, worrying you can't see that but then lying to themselves is a Russian national sport at this stage. At least you are the best in the world at something!

In terms of government stability, power in Ukraine has changed power peacefully several times now since Maidan. I have no concerns that they can do it again. Russia on the other hand has an aging dictator who has been at the helm for almost 30 years with no successor or succession plan in place. Putin currently exerts near total control over Russia, the power struggle following his exit, which will be in the next decade, will be enormous. Bend over and prepare for Balkanisation my submissive friend.

Basic salty tankie comment from the bootlicker instance. Just a bunch of sad submissives waiting for more powerful men to tell them what to think and do.

You can definitely tell the ml crowd are getting angrier as Russia's loss in this stupid war becomes more and more apparent.