Whelp, I’m glad I’ve learnt how to distro hop in time :o

The modern SPD is so cringe even left-leaning liberals hate them.

I’m not making any claim of him being a dictator or a good legitimate leader or anything else here. In fact, I think Maduro’s moral character and his legitimacy bear no relevance to the question whether or not it’s okay to just bomb Venezuela and kidnap their head of state - which we are in agreement on.

I just find it absurd that some people have this “Well, this time America did a bad thing to a bad person, so I will not condemn the bad thing” attitude.

That wouldn’t really address my objection. My point is that some imperialism can be entirely internal to the artificial boundaries of nation-states as defined by the global ruling class.

I don’t understand why you would want to label that as imperialism rather than plain old class domination, carried out through various oppressive power structures.

Edit: To clarify: the subjugation of non-capitalist societies and incorporation of their land etc. was undoubtedly an act of imperialism. But I find the definition of imperialism most useful to describe the expansionist nature of capitalits societies, appropriating land, resources, labour as well as markets by some degree of violence outside the locus of their respective state (with its monopoly on violence). Once incorporated into the state, the violence remains but its goal is no longer appropriation/expansion but continued domination of those already subjugated.

I think “nation-state” would make more sense, since nation is an ideologically bourgeois construct, instrumental to the creation of nation-states as the foundation for modern capitalism. It is those nation-states, that have the diplomatic and economic leverage as well as the military power to engage in imperialist exploitation and aggression.

I can’t even comprehend how liberals in my country are coming up with the “Maduro was a d i c t a t o r, America is liberating the Venezuelan people” shtick on their own, when Trump has already given the game away.

Yeah it’s not even something controversial in terms of inner-socialist disagreements but just complete basics of “don’t identify with the interests of the bourgeois state and its geopolitical institutions of power”

What does the G in gnu GPL stand for?

What state has ever been anarchist?

I do hope you’ll grow out of your political compass phase someday

Goodbye then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Adaptation

What are you smoking? Transitioning away from fossil fuels is the most impactful way we can curb emissions.

US style open corruption is illegal in the UK and the EU isn’t it?

It used to be illegal in the US, too.

:=(

Sorry, der musste jetzt sein

You may inflict upon them tremendous psychological violence by repeatedly and consistently misspelling bourgeoisie

Saying fuck is fine but german is where I draw the line.

communism

It’s called cultural hegemony.

I hate that people now associate dashes with ai as I used to really like using them (distinguishing between regular, en- and em-dashes, using them to make structure clearer over regular commas).