They’re confusing migration (violent or otherwise) and imperial urban rule with settler displacement and the annihilationism that goes with it

Also the defining character of settler colonialism has been its use of industrialization and market building to shore up a racialized ideology and vice versa

That was rarely or never the case with the old empires which were agrarian tribute systems that usually relied on their subject peoples being semi autonomous to relive pressure on imperial bureaucracy, that’s not to say there wasn’t settlers, it simply means the ruling mode of production didn’t always cater or center around them

For instance, if the Roman Empire had been settler colonialist in the capitalist sense of today, Greek wouldn’t have remained the lingua franca of the eastern half of the empire, and every Roman emperor would’ve remained an Italian or “ethnic” Roman

Lose away bozo, you got played

Yeah no, the one state is the only future, and if you’re squatting in a Palestinian family’s home your ass is getting evicted so you best come to terms with that

I hope you enjoy your future Palestinian citizenship and can look back on your old racist self with disgust and shame, it’s honestly more than you deserve

You’re disgusting you know that, let me say this more simply for you son, any vote for Biden is explicit support for genocide, end of story

There’s no set of tortured apologetics that will wash off the blood, you better straighten yourself out motherfucker, cause you’re a fascist and you don’t even know it

lmao if you can excuse genocide you definitely don’t give a shit about “democracy”…which this country doesn’t even have in the first place

Just complete gibberish, socialism’s goal is the abolishment of capitalist property relations and worker ownership of the means of production

Liberalism in 99% of its political and theoretical formulations absolutely does not want those things, you’re the definition of an opportunist and utopian idealist, further proved by the fact you’re willing to sacrifice this make-believe ideology of yours in the hope of courting fascists

Honestly dude if I lost a debate as hard as you did I wouldn’t be spouting this psychobabble diarrhea

“you believe in stuff and that’s bad cause I don’t believe in anything” is never the place you want to be in a discussion, you basically admitted you have no clue what the fuck you’re talking about and because your opponent does that somehow makes them mentally ill???

Seriously get a grip

You literally don’t know anything about Mao

if I were to say something horrifically racist in pretty much any company I can be fairly confident I would be told exactly where to shove it though

What Saturday morning cartoon do you live in bro?

The problem is who gets to decide what’s acceptable and what isn’t?

I don’t care who gets to decide as long as Nazism and pedophilia isn’t tolerated

Capitalism in it’s true form was “I give you this, you give me that”

So you believe capitalism existed all the way back during the neolithic and beyond, were cavemen “true capitalists”? Capital isn’t a set of goods simply traded between people, it’s circulating money tied to productive property or alienated assets

Primitive exchange of goods requires the goods becoming the means and the ends even if money is an intermediary, under capitalism it’s capital (i.e. money) that becomes the end, while goods may or may not be the means of generation, and since money is the sole metric of success there must a set of people who work for capitalists to create that money and reproduce themselves, since goods are hidden behind said money

What a fuckin prick, yeah hop up and down you piece of shit, that’s all on you

About damn time, only took people 5 years to catch on to this bullshit

Russia is using this as an excuse for a shameless land grab.

This literally just ignores the entire history of the Minsk agreements and Russian-Ukraine relations between 1991-2014, also the fact there’s been a brutal civil war on Russia’s border for the last 8 years

It’s literally just to stop NATO expansion, protecting Russian speakers in Ukraine is just an incidental political benefit

The “warm port” and “land grab” theories are pure nonsense that ignore the last 8 years of Eastern European history

Have you ever seen the 1995 racial role reversal movie with John Travolta called White Mans Burden?

Apparently some mfers here think that was a documentary lmao

Good points

Agreed, if that thread has taught me anything today, it’s to be more weary of some folks on this site, caught a whole lot of ‘smuggling whiteness through the leftie backdoor’ vibes, also that “assume good faith” bullshit some have been peddling lately is not going to fly with me anymore, the one time I decide to play it all nice and patient and a comrade still gets hurt, fuck that

Don’t let that crap eat at you comrade, you’re a respected member of this site, and no amount of shitty arguments from malding privileged s will change that

We got your back