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@re_colston You mean a left wing press that's critical of Mamdani's claim to Socialism, or of the mayoral office of NYC? i'm not really sure what either have to do with Palestine.

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@MariArchim63982 @geoffkeighley Greeks cared about when to act, and when not to act. The measure of that care being politics and virtue. Guilt had nothing to do with it. Moderns gauge their actions based on guilt,

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@TheSwoletariat_ Normal people in America know Marxism is corny. Normal people in America view jews, assimilated or otherwise, as benefiting the most from private capital and state welfare. Especially if you live in NYC. Everyone grumbles then goes to work anyway. So what?

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan discredited interventionism in the eyes of the American public.

What the last few years have done in contrast is discredit anti-interventionism, or the idea that American power cannot be used for good.

First came the Abraham Accords, where contrary to every prediction made by practically every Middle East expert, Israel signed peace treaties with several of its neighbors without taking care of the Palestinian issue first.

Throughout the first Trump administration, the maximum pressure campaign had Israel, the Arabs, and the US all on the same side against Iran.

The Syrian regime falls, the new leader in Damascus is pro-Western. We ended up fighting both Assad and ISIS, and defeated them both.

Then you had the Venezuela operation. Without losing any American soldiers, we removed the Maduro regime, and replaced it with a government that has been freeing political prisoners and opening up the oil industry to American companies.

Cuba will probably be overthrown without any cost next, ending the over half-century nightmare there.

Now, after taking a detour during the Hamas war and wiping out Hezbollah's leadership, Israel along with the US slaughter the entire upper echelon of the Iranian regime. What's next in Iran? Who knows? But isn't there at least a chance it'll be better than the old theocrats? Why would anyone dismiss the possibility? People deny this is possible just because they want America and the West to fail.

Russia and China remain problems and North Korea is an exception. But when it comes to weaker enemies around the world, we can just kill them and everything will be fine.

As it turns out, we misunderstood the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The lesson wasn't "never do regime change" or "never kill bad people."

The lesson we should've taken was "don't do social engineering through war." Killing bad people and removing bad government is fine, both in terms of American interests and from a humanitarian perspective. Now that we've seen how easy it is, we arguably have a moral obligation to keep doing it.

There is a lot to be gained by just removing the worst of the worst. Going from Stalin to Khrushchev and Mao to Deng made things much better. Same with going from Maduro to Delcy, and the same is likely to be true with regard to whatever comes next in Iran and Cuba. Don't waste your time on micromanaging the country and having feminist art exhibitions like we did in Afghanistan. Just remove regime you don't like first, and then be pragmatic with the next steps.

America is powerful and good. We just need to understand that it is ok to admit it.

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@jacksonhinkle why is everyone who follows this guy or comments on his post a retard? Including me

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@anti_socialform @ccutrone1970 I think Chris's point is that one can take sides on the morally obvious and morally ambiguous endlessly, but this doesn't have much to do with Socialism.

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@enoughformethx What does seize power mean? Vote for a fake socialist on the Democrat ticket?

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@tenshi_anna all this talk about fascist when maybe you should just faSCHUSH

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@tenshi_anna me no fashus blah blah blah you fashus

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@tenshi_anna What is the telos unconsciously guiding Leftists if they have no explicit telos?

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@acidhorizonpod lmfao can you please host Christ Cutrone on your show

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@squirtstain why quit

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@acidhorizonpod this yucky as hell

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@MattLech can you please get Chris Cutrone on Left Reckoning, there really isn't a more relevant guest

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@DJLilSus

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@TimChristiaens5 ya this is definitely according to the plan of Anthropogenesis

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@kaschuta good and bad are no concern of Neoliberalism, but winners and losers are. The concept of freedom has always been a key aspect of the ideology, hence the word "liberal"; the freedom of the individual to choose, leaving only you responsible if you're born already losing.

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@kaschuta lol I still don't know what Wokeness is, but isn't Neoliberalism an ideology that evaluates all social relations (family, economic, institutional, etc.) as though they were a market made up of competing individuals with no other history?

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@SexistHousecat @phendetta this joke is weak

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@HoojieBoojie 😂hell no