• mathemachristian [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    Keep europe dependent on the yankee empire and they act as forward basis so the yanks don’t have to airlift everything from turtle island every time they decide to bomb west asia. What sort of dumbass question is this? Ofcourse they’re there to uphold capitalism, what else would they be there for???

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      8 hours ago

      You might have had an argument if this were the 1980s. But communism failed. The “communist” party of China is dominated by billionaires now. Even the communists are capitalists now. Your socialist youtube influencers are all monetized and are heavily promoted by big tech’s algorithms. Many of them have merch stores and are millionaires. Leftism is just an aesthetic packaged and sold in a capitalist system.

      Capitalist authoritarians in China maintain a communist aesthetic to have some weird semblance of legitimacy, and capitalist authoritarians in Russia have some nostalgia for the communist aesthetic. North Korea is backwards monarchy now, struggling to keep people from starving.

      The military doesn’t maintain capitalism because at this point the “communists” are all capitalists now. Maybe for a time it helped protect against the authoritarian capitalists but now the US authoritarian too. We’re back to the era of Great Powers, and capitalism vs. socialism isn’t a factor much like it wasn’t a factor in the Great Powers world order of the past.

      Sorry but Santa Claus isn’t real and communism died a long time ago. You’re just being sold the carcass by capitalists.