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When I first encountered NAFO out of context I thought it meant North Atlantic Fascist Organization
No one says “fellas” online unless they’re restraining themselves from saying the n word
I’m gonna offer something somewhat counter to the :doomer: in the replies, even though it may not be substantial.
If you know someone in real life doing this Nafo stuff get them to show you some memes and then ask if this is something for like schoolchildren like “oh is this like something students at {local elementary/middle school} are doing to show support?” And then keep acting confused when they say adults are doing it.
being a communist doesn't mean you're smarter than non-communists. being right is not, in itself, a virtue. you got lucky is all.
It's kind of doomerist to say that communists can't offer shit. We can't offer a total and lasting solution to capitalism as we are a marginalised movement but we can offer people something materially and even though that something is not very much, it A: Is still better than the nothing the reactionaries offer, B: Shows that we actually mean it when we say we're all about helping the working class.
In Austria a regional branch of the communist party realised that they could organise help for people to deal with shitty landlords or the welfare bureaucracy and they started using their government funding to run food banks instead of printing glossy flyers. It resulted in them winning the local elections in their city and although electoralism is a dead end it does show that people are ready to support those who make credible promises of improving their material situation.
Exactly. I think mutual aid done within a Marxist framework has a far greater potential for radicalising and organising the masses than most leftist movements are currently aware of.
The imperial core is not the world. Don't forget that. While the culture you live in may be a lost cause, that doesn't mean that the bulk of humanity is so lost, so kneecapped as what you see around you. We are undeniably entering a new multipolar world.
It might. I wouldn't count it as a surprise if the world ended in a nuclear fire that the US lit. But I also don't see it as a foregone conclusion. We ARE going to face civilization-ending climate change effects. We're not getting around that. But remember capital can escape for more fertile pastures before just outright dying. As dedollarization sweeps the globe, we just might have attempts at capital flight out of the US before the US actually dies. I don't know, no crystal ball, but the US might end up whimpering a lot more than it actually throws a tantrum that takes down the rest of the world. Whatever the case though, TRPF is at it's limits and we're going to see some shit in the coming years.
TRPF is at it’s limits
The historical remedy to that has historically been massive conventional warfare to destroy fixed capital, so a falling rate could encourage the US to lash out.
The imperial core will be all that’s left when the global south gets buck broken by environmental collapse, heatwaves, droughts, floods. Only question is if citizens in the core will embrace leftism when the resources/labor from the periphery run out. Or will the wave of refugees from the periphery push us towards fascism? Hard to say I guess
Yeeeaaah it’s over. The global south will get smothered by heat and the global north will embrace fascism.
I think the left just underestimated how shitty most people are/can be.
I still consider leftists to be “my people” even though I personally have given up hope of seeing them come to power. I love the people here on this website and value their ideas/outlook, but I just don’t see it coming to fruition.
Climate change/ecological collapse could be real opportunities for us to seize power across the world, but i think people will just give into fear and accept strongman rule. I think a dr strangelove ending for humanity is way more likely in which only select groups of people live in artificial climate bubbles while everyone outside dies from heat, starvation, and bullets.
Idk though i’m a pessimist and a defeatist which is why I’ve wasted a lot of years doing nothing with my life. So im not really worth listening to.
idk it doesn't dishearten me at all, i just pity them.
Imagine being in the trenches, getting in an artillery attack, waking up after your legs are amputated and you can't do anything but look at how Zelensky is posting le funny doggos to the oil companies buying up Ukrainian soil. Like how does that not have the opposite effect.
It was made in a lab at Fort Detrick to be as cringy as possible.
No matter what the fact checkers would never admit it as one, but think about the process of a fucking PM finding out about this meme and deciding to use it alongside all the shibboleths that come with it, and the conclusion becomes unavoidable.
My hatred for the Baltics has grown considerably since this war started. Unapologetically fascist
Yeah. I thought of them as the countries with quirky pre-christian festivals. Then I learned that they have basically been Nazis since the 30s.
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Fucking redditors, man. I am not a fan of Putin by any means, but I still offer him my critical support as he seems to be the only person who knows that the only way to stop nazis is to beat them at their own game.
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Imagine voting for someone who is like this.
The fall of the soviet union and it's consequences :ussr-cry:
Estonian Reform Party was founded in 1994 by Siim Kallas, then-president of the Bank of Estonia, as a split from Pro Patria National Coalition Party. As the Reform Party has participated in most of the government coalitions in Estonia since the mid-1990s, its influence has been significant, especially regarding Estonia's free market and policies of low taxation. The party has been a full member of Liberal International since 1996, having been an observer member between 1994–1996, and a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). Reform Party leaders Siim Kallas, Taavi Rõivas, Andrus Ansip and Kaja Kallas have all served as prime ministers of Estonia. From 8 July 2022, the party has been the senior partner in a coalition government with Isamaa and the Social Democratic Party.
Are the Baltics even Social Democracies? They have the worst rating on the happiness index thing in Europe.
Estonia is not a social democracy, no, and their PM is not a social democrat
Someone in her cabinet or advisory team said "Put this dog in your avatar" just to be more "relatable" among certain voters (western fascists). She just wants their vote, support and their money, and these fascists are not even aware of that lmao.
At this point they should just say "We think we're racially superior to the russians and the slavs (slava ukraini ofc)", be honest for once.
Just imagine in a few
yearsmonths time when this looks like a relatively sensible thing for a world leader to do
