and the instinct to swim away from unpleasantness.

As a child I asked how a pregnant person could pee with the baby in the way, and if the baby gets wet when she pees. I was 9 but I do still cringe when I think about it, despite the fact that very few of my classmates really knew the answer either. I don’t think that anymore though, I have learned that the baby nimbly avoids the pee because it tastes bad

But were talking now about an exception to the first strike policy? As in, Russia will assume the first strike is happening when an F-16 comes to attack and retaliate. My comment is just about whose blind interests are aligned with any sort of nuclear fallout (anywhere in the world). And that Russia (ruling class) is more likely to accept a world where the US is just fallout than the other way (US ruling class wants Russian sources, not non-existence).

I agree with that other comrade, if we look at this from a materialist perspective, almost none of the power structures actually would benefit at all from such actions. It’s gonna be real hard to exploit a nuclear bombed area in any timeframe which the current western powers work with. Russia would be more likely than the US to do so, because they have little to gain from the west’s existence/non-existence because of current sanctions and no ambitions to take over western lands. But I think that Putin and the Russian government understand that the west would not easily pull the trigger and so will actually not assume that all f-16s are nuclear armed. Just act as so until the last moment.

But again, nobody should call that bluff, it’s dumb as shit and only prolonging suffering to help imperialism of the west.

I would personally guess it’s a bluff, but maybe I’m just hopeful. A bluff that shouldn’t be called, of course, but only shooting down the planes (and expending all force to do so) is likely

Yeah I’ve experienced that too. The Dutch one is kids chase the car away waving until you turn a corner. I hadn’t seen that (at least not for a normal visit/just having a tea or something) anywhere else. Maybe I’m not experienced enough elsewhere though

Fucking shitty article by the Guardian. It never explains for a second what “powder paint” is. I don’t know what it is specifically, but I’m gonna guess this is easily washable (as in rain will take it away) and non-harmful. But instead they just interview like 10 weirdos who give are angry and call it front page material. Just terrible work regardless of how one feels about the action. I tend not to care too much, personally, about this sort of action but I see its place in a broader movement I guess

Which cultures is that? The most “egregious” form of this waving I’ve seen with Dutch people, so I wouldn’t be surprised if your answer is “boers” lol. I’ve seen is elsewhere, but some Dutch people seem the most extreme version of this (like kids fucking jog after cars waving)

Waving goodbye until someone is out of sight is a fairly normal thing in many cultures. The only reason it doesn’t apply to planes in more cultures is the security preventing it (though people still do it until you disappear form sight at the gates).

Damn I did not catch that. Ok well another visit then

Oh shit, I only looked at 1 post and I guess I missed that it was satire. My B. Or I’m now misinterpreting you message but I dont think it’s that…

Ohhhhh ok yeah I’m a dumbass. That subreddit kept coming up with just the acronym in the title but I did not put 2 and 2 together.

Classic stormfromt bullshit then

What is tgcj syndrome ? I googled but am getting uninterpretable reddit bigotry

Unintended may be somewhat true, in that nobody explicitly had that as a conscious reason, but it was an obvious result that they could’ve known beforehand. So I don’t think it’s useful at all to call it unintended. Just an easily understood and expected side effect

Lol same for the spoiler. I just guessed randomly and googled after

Can’t see because of local legal restrictions. What is in the link?

Other labor theory of values had been proposed before Marx, but Marx developed it into a consistent and rigorous form. It was (and should now still be) obvious to even liberals that value is created through labor. How that works, in what amounts, and how that value is imbued and made useful in an economy are things that Marx developed entirely differently to his predecessors

Libs and your obsession with whataboutism. This one isn’t even “whatabout,” the point is that the guy in this picture was fine, and in fact the army did everything in their power not to harm him.

In a complete opposite fashion, US drone operators gleefully shot random people and caused unbelievable harm to an entire region.

I proudly defend whataboutism when it’s used to exemplify the necessity of some tactic elsewhere or to compare similar cases for better understanding. But this isn’t even that

I’ve said it before, I’m bi and very much not attached to my manhood. But for any poll’s sake, it’s not fitting to ignore that I live in and experience the world as a cishet.

This whole thread is very disappointing to me, I don’t think anyone here has presented a coherent idea of what fascism is. I’ve said it many time on hexbear, the US is the perfect example of fascism having already won long ago. Fascism is the expropriation at the edges of the empire, where exchange is unequal due to expropriation. The US was fascist, stayed fascist, and is now fascist. https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

Biden is just the specific face of it today, the slight flavor. A flavor that’s slightly nicer to the queer community (not seeing the queer community as a space/group to expropriate from specifically) and nothing else. Trump wanted to expand some internal expropriation and apply fascism more internally and closer to home (and maybe at China, but I think he’s just racist not actually wanting war). Nothing else.