No, not with "leftists" we're not.

Anyone else have the experience of checking some crazy right wing nutjob's bio on twitter only to discover they're a PhD or a Professor at a western university, again and again and again?

So far...

Sure. Why not?

He mentions Europe “plunged into chaos by migration” and may have a few other chuddy asides

It might be an exaggeration but immigration is a massive issue in most European countries right now. In Ireland there's been riots in the capital, asylum housing is regularly burned down in arson attacks. The far right is being wielded by the forces of capital to maintain the status quo and attack the opposition...

The Little Match Girl.

This is very interesting, if long, I recommend taking the time to read it because it's probably another inflection point in global affairs.

What kind of battery life do you get out of it? I have the Gen 7 and from day one it's been awful. About 4 hours brand new.

It's probably just bullshit meant to make you feel sorry for them. That they weren't real soldiers.

Or if you’re playing to your liberal viewers, stop coddling their naivete,

Seems like this is the strategy.

The "...this doesn't justify the Russian invasion..." crap is pathetic. Of course it does, it's literally what was used to justify it?! It's such a shit framing.

Is that not a blatant admission of selling out?

If he's "sold out" he'd give a far less "gun to my head" answer. It's obvious he's saying that the decision was not his. Who do you think he's sold out to exactly? Can you elaborate on the conspiracy theory?

Yeah they apparently had a couple of hundred before Mariupol aswell. Moe Barney meme.

I've already seen at least a thousand pictures of individual Nazis. The NYT admitted at one point that they were asking soldiers to take off their Nazi shit before they photographed them. There's waay more than a couple of hundred.

They wouldn't be allowed to get away with genociding white people though.

And that difference is…?

Cops in capitalist societies are there to protect private property and little else. This is not the case in socialist states.

The police serve whoever pays them.

So do the workers. This is not saying anything.

That’s an idealist view, just because you say it doesn’t make it true.

It's a material undeniable fact.

why didn’t they do that in the Soviet Union before its dissolution?

The Soviet Union was a decrepit state with poorly principled people all over. You were expecting the police to be the vanguard of maintaining socialism there? This is unserious and silly.

Not at all. It is recognition of an institution that has no revolutionary potential. It is an institution that has historically been instrumental in counter-revolution.

In capitalist societies yes.

Are all traffic lights bastards whether they're in capitalist or socialist societies, since they have power over you? You have some neck to be calling anyone else idealist. You're reeking off anarchist "thought".

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I came across a trove of my old web scrapings from over a decade ago and had a great time going throught it all. Learned some things about myself, where I'd been and where I am now and seeing the growth vector. It feels a bit like book burning to me to destroy such an archive. What would it cost you to find some storage and just put it on there and into the attic? Even if you never see it again, maybe your loved ones will. I'd be proud for anyone to see what I've saved from the past few years.

They could swap in another completely unknown candidate tomorrow and have a chance at winning. They won't so that tells you all you need to know about how much they want to win. Two cheeks of the same ass.

Can the EU be sued for negligence in the conflict in Gaza ?

Well some people are trying to take VdL to the ICC.

That's something I suppose.