I mean, the unmitigated gall of the Global South to try to step onto the global stage.

If you’re a landleech and say you’re a communist, your comrades are going to have follow-up questions.

Sorry for the rant.

Comrade, we’re here for it.

Where was their support for Eastern Ukrainians against government-backed neo-Nazis in the eight years before the Russian invasion?

Actually there was a small amount of support that ultimately got crushed: The Nation, 2016: Congress Has Removed a Ban on Funding Neo-Nazis From Its Year-End Spending Bill

And so, in July of last year, Congressmen John Conyers of Michigan and Ted Yoho of Florida drew up an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations bill (HR 2685) that “limits arms, training, and other assistance to the neo-Nazi Ukrainian militia, the Azov Battalion.” It passed by a unanimous vote in the House.

Why do these NATO-aligned countries keep having lone wolf Nazis pop up out of nowhere for no particular reason?

Gabriel Rockhill: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It

Thank you for reminding me that I don’t miss Reddit.

Whataboutism is itself a thought-terminating cliché.

From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the tu-quoque pattern (Latin 'you too', term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the ad-hominem argument.

Gabriel Rockhill: Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek

This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous ‘Marxist’ in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: “Cultural consumers of the pro-Western world unite—and buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!”

I’ve been done with her since she started just asking questions: Sabine Hossenfelder vs. transgender people

Article link: https://www.counterpunch.org/...

Perhaps because they take exception to characterizing all of the Actually Existing Socialisms as “authoritarian” in the first place, and I’d agree with them. It leans into “horseshoe theory” and the anticommunist Western Left’s conceptualization of “totalitarianism.”

It gets better—or at least different—when you come to no longer enjoy much liberal media. The bad news is the dearth of alternatives to it.

Because it’s bullshit: CIA Behind Uyghur Propaganda and Scheme to Demonize and Destabilize China

hahaha what the actual fuck

It wasn't their responsibility to resist. It wasn't anyone's responsibility. #resist

Make up your fucking mind, Sabine, #resist or #acquiesce or #participate?

I assume a lot of actual leftists left Reddit in the mass exodus this year like I did, which would leave the entire site more rightist.

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Berkeley Property Owners Association: Why We're "Housing Providers"

We politely decline the label "landlord" with its pejorative connotations.

Cf. job creators

The Libyan authorization was done by the Security Council (Resolution 1973), with 10 yes votes and 5 abstentions. Here’s the Council’s current members. More than half of them are “global south” countries, which seem to be increasingly fed up with NATO’s bullshit.

Ackchyually the preferred nomenclature is housing provider. Berkeley Property Owners Association: Why We're "Housing Providers":

We politely decline the label "landlord" with its pejorative connotations.

Right, landleech it is then.