CommunistCuddlefish [she/her]

So all the escalations and violence from NATO that preceded the official start of the war don’t count?

If you do a thing that you know is going to lead to war then you’re starting the war. And NATO knew its brinkmanship with Ukraine was very likely to force Russia’s hand – analysts across the political spectrum were screaming it for years trying to sound the alarm. The mistake they made was assuming NATO would care to avoid war.

NATO led Ukraine into war, has fed Ukrainians into the abattoir of Russian artillery, sabotaged peace talks, and just generally clearly gives 0 fucks about Ukrainian lives.

Before I go off on you, are you serious or are you doing a bit? I don’t want to friendly fire

Clearly not a bit. Go fuck yourself.

Incorrect. The correct answer is C, NATO expansionism, something you should know because a bunch of people have already explained it to you

Pop quiz time: Who started the war? Was it

A. Russia?

B. Ukraine?

C. NATO on behalf of the US Empire

Go fuck yourself, plague rat

West better not sanction China, I get my cpvid masks from China because they make better ones than American companies (WHY DO AMERICAN COMPANIES ONLY MAKE RESPIRATORS FOE GIANTS?!?!?)

If only. I’d rather they sit around and do nothing than imprison, torture, and murder refugees at the border

Hey quick question what are you doing minimizing genocide with “owl” in your name?! 'Round these here parts “owl” signifies someone of exceptional integrity and basedness, which you clearly lack.

Ok but why the fuck would anyone give a fuck about US “nAtIoNaL sEcUrItY”? That’s

Walter White Face: Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?

What happened to free trade?

Love to see it. Even my mom, who used to call herself a “proud democrat” since getting citizenship here, won’t be voting this election.

7% too many, but inshallah the Democrats lose for embracing genocide.

Capitalist Party of the USA :(

Fascists hate it when you treat them the way they treat their victims. There is poetic justice in doing unto them as they do unto others.

My mom is Muslim and warned me not to be public about my apostasy in case some extremists went after me. But in all the years I’ve been an apostate, I’ve told plenty of Muslims and their attitude has always been very chill and accepting – “that’s between you and Allah”, “hope you find your way back but even if you don’t you’re clearly a good and principled person and inshallah that has to count for something. Allah is merciful after all!”, " it’s not my place to judge". No Muslim has ever given me shit for leaving the faith. In fact when I’ve told them about why (I simply can’t worship someone who refused to protect my family from AmeriKKKa’s systemic racism and hatred of Muslims) they’ve been sympathetic.

Whoever said that to you is full of shit, propagates racist Islamophobic lies, and should go die.

This is the problem with listening to their rhetoric rather thsn looking st their acrions. Their rhetoric is a smokescreen; their actions reveal their true values.

“Vote blue no matter who” is a rationalization. You are correct that if they wanted to win no matter what, they’d pick a better candidate than one who is explicitly pro-genocide, has dementia, and has fucked the working class over for his entire career. They’d go with a Bernie style populist and run on his wildly popular platform.

Western white liberals are at their core extremely racist. They fear and hate bipoc people, Middle Easterners, and especially Muslims. So Biden’s genocide in Palestine is actually a positive for them – but many* have enough self awareness to know they can’t openly cheer for it without revealing how depraved they are. They don’t just want to beat Trump, they want to do so while maintaining the fascist, imperialist, capitalist project. Biden is their guy

• Thomas L Friedman who recently got an op-ed published in the New York Times likening Middle Easterners to wasps and calling for the entire region to be set on fire, is a notable exception