I can’t decide between a cancerous growth or a ball of wriggling intestinal parasites - I guess it’ll have to be the former since this is insulting to intestinal parasites.

they were ordered to not destroy them.

Most of the Afghanistan vets who I’ve heard talk about this doesn’t seem to place much importance on that distinction.

When I used to call capitalism and colonialism rapacious I got a lot of finger-wagging and handwringing from people calling themselves leftists… so I guess this means progress?

Maybe in five years’ time we could get leftists to actually start referring to capitalists as parasites.

There is no response extreme enough when it comes to this topic.

You feel me?

Sure thing… but two things.

First, thanks to ICE, the Trump regime now knows how to disappear people without getting stuck on any legal or institutional obstacles. Two, thanks to ICE (again), they now know exactly what reaction (or, rather, lack of it) to expect from the wider US public and/or media when they do.

It’s one thing to get hold of the hammer, it’s another to figure out how to turn every problem into a nail - and I’d say they have now managed both.

That might be why this feels… different.

a squad of attractive women bouncing around in skirts on the sidelines

I always thought they put them there because without them there’d literally be nothing about the whole affair worth watching.

A lot of people are pretending that this is a nothingburger, but I’m afraid it’s probably not - they are manufacturing consent for a crackdown.

Nah. Fuck liberalism.

I consider myself a liberal, and i have no problems with nazis dying.

Careful… you might get yourself kicked out of the liberal club with that attitude.

Piss off, liberal - this is not a safe space for you right-wingers, okay?

break up unity

Ooooh… when somebody starts whinging about “left unity” I smell liberal… is that what you are?

You can’t have fascism without liberalism. The hand that dangles the carrot cannot be seen to also wield the stick.

It’s colonialism when you teach peasants

Are we talking about the peasants who democratically rejected your bolshevik clergy over and over again through the soviets back in 1919? Those peasants?

You are a fucking stupid historically illiterate imperial core roleplayer

Oh, look… a reactionary cosplaying as a leftst is calling others “imperialist.”

Yawn, tankie.

USSR was the first anticolonial nation

LOOOL! Tell it to the Finns, the Ukrainians and the Poles, tankie. I can almost hear their laughter all the way from over here.

the USSR used its veto powers

And the US used it’s military power to end Imperial Japan - I guess that makes the US “anit-colonial” now, too?

The USSR created the first artifical satellite, put the first man in space, put the first woman in space,

And? Are you perhaps suffering from some kind of insecurity, tankie?

so just feel free to go read a book

Which one, tankie? This one?

It was literally the fastest growing economic system of all time.

Yeah… I think Marxism-Leninism is the only ideology that dictates that you do colonialism against yourself.

first interplanetary civilization.

Lol! Been overdoing the sci-fi a bit, tankie?

the bravest and most committed communists

Just to clarify… you are not talking about the ones murdered on Stalin’s orders, right?

against the wishes of 70% of the population

Stop fooling yourself, tankie - the fact that a large majority of the Soviet population saw no need to dismember the Union doesn’t mean they also wanted your faux-socialism.

In short, the people of the USSR were revolutionaries and heroes

Oh, really? So where did those liberals come from, then?

because if you did you would want to win

You mean… unlike you?

The USSR was also destroyed by encirclement and (nearly 100 years) of pressure from reactionaries.

Yeah, right… it had absolutely nothing to do with the batshit-insane economic and social blundering of the CPSU.

Nothing at all.