-born into a family of marxists
-protested against the shah and disliked him heavily
-uncle killed for being leftist
-strong against foreign intervention
-still dunked on by tankies and campist
You can’t win with these people
the left for decades: lots of people seem to die in police custody due to their incompetence or malice without consequences, and we ought to do something about that.
the right today: why don’t the left care that the police let a man die in their custody
Let her find out.
It’s sad that so many westerners are just straight up brainwashed by TikTok propaganda and streamers about China but if they refuse to listen to even actual Chinese people then you just can’t save them.
I would warn people against the belief that any individual or group has been so specifically, thoroughly, and uniquely victimized that it is categorically impossible that they themselves are capable of any form of violence. It is dangerous and it should not be dignified.
If a minority of Ukrainians holding extreme ideological views is justification for invading Ukraine, then by that same logic, the bombing of Gaza is even more justified due to the broader support for extreme ideologies there.
This isn't a good logic to work off.
Begging people to read historians instead of Parenti.
It was KPD policy at the behest of the 2nd international to be openly hostile to the SPD until 1933 when Hitler got elected. That's when they realized they fucked up and pushed for united fronts in France and Spain
Russia meets the Lenin definition of imperialism. It is a developed capitalist nation with financial capital and is actively attempting to spread its market (even if ignoring the inter-imperialist Ukraine war, BRICS is an economic imperialist federation)
It does matter if you are:
🟡🔴 A violent scumbag from Ulster
🔵🟡 A braindead gobshite from Munster
⚪️🔵 A backwards sheepshagger from Connacht
🟢🟡 A stuck-up sellout from Leinster
We are ALL Irish 🇮🇪🇮🇪💚🤍🧡
against my nature to go to bat for any republican, but wow. a formerly popular politician losing a primary this bad over Epstein transparency? republican party below rock bottom now. in the sewers