Maoo [none/use name]

The United States, alleged land of the free, has the largest prison population on the planet.

Tankies when an American presidential election: this is the same liberal kayfabe that’s been going on for our entire lives and the best thing we can do is point out what its true function is.

Tankies on Putin: he’s just one guy, you’re not describing a Tankies because we don’t believe in your Great Man Theory fairytales. Feel free to rephrase once you know literally anything about this topic.

On centrists: wrong again Tankies just call centrists reactionaries. Y’all are right wing.

Your only excuse for being this confidently ignorant is if you’re 12.

Democrats also push right. You’re seeing that in full swing with Biden.

DPRK is actually a pretty good example because without the alliances and trading partnerships they provide it would have been stuck in the post-Soviet shock much longer and have basically no chance of developing a nuke. The DPRK exists only because China and Russia trade with it and implicitly provide associated military protection. It would most likely have been fully destabilized and color revolution’d in the 90s/early 2000s otherwise. The line on Korean unification shifted once the DPRK was in the back foot. SK and their imperialist masters have been pushing pro-reunification propaganda hard since the 90s. It’s comically absurd propaganda that is paired with painting NK as a militaristic threat at the same time. The propaganda is built on the premise that reunification would favor SK and amount to the end of the DPRK entirely, seeing the SK regime take over the whole peninsula.

The opposite situation is also true - you can have nukes and the US will contol you. Pakistan has nukes but is forced into compliance with US interests on a regular basis. This is because the primary weapon of imperialists is not their militaries (though they do use them) but their financial interventions and intelligence ops and funding of NGOs and lawfare etc etc. Constant pressure from all angles. The US just soft coup’d Pakistan’s leadership and were not deterred by the nukes. The fall of anti-imperialist, or even just slightly less imperialist states requires a pre-existing instability, otherwise there would be no coup government, it would be deposed by the military and the people. It is necessary, but insufficient, to create an economic base through alliances and trade in order to build a stable ruling order.

Of course you’re making a fine point that nukes deter an invasion and are complementary to other anti-imperialist actions. I just think the nukes are a lesser tool than strong ties. The latter is usually a prerequisite for the former, even. The ties ensure trade and more stability, the stability needed to organize and pay a military. The US has often thought so as well, a lot (most?) of its fucking around can be interpreted as a divide and conquer strategy.

Strategic alliances are much more important. When the imperialists come and prod, who will have your back?

If your strategic alliances are good you will acquire nukes as needed and weather imperialist sanctions.

Trots often introduce themselves as Marxists because they know Trotskyism will turn people away.

Stalin was a big nerd that probably read too much lol

Most veg Indian food has dairy added tho. Avoiding ghee is like going through an obstacle course of nice aunties and uncles trying to feed you. And don’t even get me started on curd.

Indian vegans also often use substitutes. I’m for vegan food unity: don’t harm and exploit animals and I support you.

The only thing vegans need to supplement with is B12. Everything else can be had from a balanced diet.

No no it’s this:

1. Decide you’ve gotta use tar.

2. man tar

3. Guess-and-check the flags until it seems to work.

4. Immediately forget the flags.

The uneven ratios in those top three are due to massive populations of second class immigrant laborers, often slave laborers.