Thanks for the explanation.

I don’t think the proliferation of violence is a good thing. I think the most powerful entity having control of violence makes the most sense, as it reduces the amount of violence. That is, assuming that entity is sufficiently limited and democratic, but that of course is the foundation of liberalism.

I think most social democrats would be in favor of private co-ops, state owned industries, and recycling.

If factories/offices were owned by a co-op though, wtih no state, what incentive would they have to let you repair/recycle their product? Who would stop them from putting DRM in their product, and gluing everything together? Who would enforce right-to-repair laws?

Was giving literal gold to Donald Trump part of that campaign to save the users?

Both Tim and Pinchai paid Donald Trump money to attend his inauguration and lick his ass on a daily basis. They both have one very big incentive to invade their user’s privacy: American fascism.

I wouldn’t call people Russian trolls for having a different definition of the word “liberal” than you. Most online leftists use the term “liberal” to refer to bourgeoisie that support, intentionally or unintentionally, mega-corporations and patriotic nationalism.

disliking things like rules-based world order and voting?

What reasons would illiberal ideologies have to be against that? Nationalism? Opportunistic cronyism?

What’s the difference between liberalism and anarchism? Referring to liberals that support a welfare state and market regulation, not anarcho-capitalists like the American Libertarian Party. Seems very similar to reformist statist anarchism.

This. In most countries the liberal parties are in favor of rolling back government regulation and forming coalitions with nazis.

Social-liberalism is the kind of liberalism that results in the most freedom for citizens, and is the ideology of most social democratic parties and their coalition partners in Europe.

10 days that shook the world

The USSR began its life has heavily invaded and sanctioned by countries like the US.

The Red Army invaded many countries, like Poland, Finland, Ukraine, Baltica, etc.

That article is honestly kind of nonsensical and reads like AI. What does Watergate have to do with any of this?

I can tell you’re an authoritarian because you don’t believe in the rule of law.

“The principle applied in the U.S.S.R. is that of socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.” - Josef Stalin

But also

“I am the best at industrial policy, Tariff the Ukrainians to Make the Russian Empire Great Again” - Josef Stalin, probably

Also Stalin wanted to pretend he was as good friends with Lenin as Trotsky was, OP’s painting is a massive manifestation of Stalin’s historical revisionism. Quite ironic to make this text+image with such an obvious example of historical revisionism.

It was Kimmel’s remarks about Trump that got him censored. Kimmel didn’t say anything at all about Charlie Kirk, he only commented on Trump/MAGAs reaction to Charlie Kirk’s shooting.

You will sleep in your car, you will work in your car, you will eat in your car. You will pay your monthly payments in the Tesla app. The only entertainment you get is playing Cyberpunk 2077 on your Tesla steeringwheel, and the only social interaction will be with your voice-activated AI girlfriend.

The is some argument to be made to compare him to Stalin with all the industrial policy, trade manipulation, attacks on civil liberties and rule of law, and purges of those disloyal to him. But he hasn’t committed genocide in the US yet.

they are better known than Marxists, though.

H1-B visaholders are in danger living in the US

Yes remind me which invades/threatens to invade neighboring countries, EU, Russia and/or China? Which of them is flying aircraft into the others’ sovereign airspace? Which of them is actively committing genocide?

I dont think the covid thing actually met the full description of a threat. They had strategy discussions and said “we want to prevent this issue”, but they didn’t go as far as Carr did by laying out punishments for non-compliance. It was just idea sharing among experienced peers.

Or maybe I’m remembering the details wrong.

You don’t understand Marx or Lenin if you don’t understand their belief in the relationship between capitalism and communism.

My point was that there’s more nuance than just “capitalism always causes social fragmentation”