you’re right, paramilitary wasn’t the right word but I agree, that was my point. That the excesses and violence came from below, not above.

i’ve been here for a short time and already seen you defend Chomsky’s honor, essentially call everyone here tankies without saying it outright & defend multiple color revolutions. That’s just in 20 days lol. Call me whatever you want, doesn’t change what you are.

disappeared? He’s still running and still has the backing of all the soft-left.

The entire mainstream western left (the Bernie-wing of soc dems) all rallied behind and defended Platner. Hasan and all the breadtubers rallied behind him. Chapo downplayed criticism. Bernie himself stood up for Platner and downplayed nazism on his behalf.

The fact that nobody knew who he was until the Nazi thing came out, but many decided to double-down to protect him anyway really goes to show how much the westoids actually care about “punching a nazi” and “anti-fascism”.

There was absolutely shitshows and huge arguments over this, don’t try to retro-actively erase history that we just lived through. SO many people were downplaying it, saying that he didn’t know what it was, making arguments that being a Blackwater Merc wasn’t a dealbreaker, etc.

oh look the resident squishy lib here to scold the tankies. don’t you have some color revolution to defend?

Since Luigi did his thing there has been like 400 mass shootings

Same with the cultural revolution and the excesses there. those were not done by the state by but para-military small cadres.

I can agree to that, but there were absolutely domestic terrorist elements in the al nusra front as well as foreign ones.

Us: Ukrainian militants are filled with Nazis

Libs: Yeah, but so are Russian militias so it’s a wash

The “Russian Militias” in question:

Have the duped Syrians figured it out yet? Jolani is not their leader, he is their prison warden

Original Pokémon hasn’t been good in decades

This time last year Israel was air striking Bethlehem

I didn’t say air supremacy, I said air superiority. Which they indisputably had within Iranian airspace. Marmite clearly laid out how the SEAD/DEAD the Americans did created an open channel to Tehran, this is the exact level of coping I’m talking about. When I point out objective facts you say I’m repeating “Israeli propaganda”. Shielding yourself from the battleground isn’t going to improve your understanding of these conflicts. Hezbollah is basically defunct now, we haven’t seen any action from them since their ceasefire with Israel that they said they would never do without Gaza (but were forced into anyway). Syria is lost. Most of Gaza is occupied and destroyed. Come to grips

Yes Israel’s “invincibility aura” and “reputations” are damaged. That doesn’t actually win us much, we are materialists after all. These aren’t material things.

You either die alone in your one-bedroom apartment, or live long enough to die alongside your roommates in your studio.

Before the war we were hoping that Israel was on its last legs and would shortly be destroyed. After we were coping that Iran probably hit a few jets and at least the supreme leader was still alive. It’s not an overstatement, our expectations were severely out of line with the realities on the ground. The entire axis of resistance was building towards this one cumulative conflict that could be decisive, and then it just get of dissolved. Iran backed down, Ansarallah isolated, Hezbollah neutralized, Hamas suppressed, Syria captured by ISIS Zionists, supply lines shattered. We need to be realistic about what happened here.

US and Israel carved a path into Iran where they could hit Tehran and were operating air superiority the entire time, Iran was unable to shoot down even a single jet due to the SEAD/DEAD done by the Americans during their strikes on the nuclear facilities (which also seem to have worked, no serious activity has been reported at these sites since)

There was an extreme blindness to the strength of our enemies here that still leads to people coping about it.

I guess bust wasn’t the right term, but it definitely wasn’t the decisive counter those in the anti-imperialist sphere had hoped and coped for (all the talk of the millenium challenge, etc.)

They hit a mossad base and a couple time at an airbase. In exchange Israel wiped out all of Iran’s entire civilian leadership and air defense grid. It was still an exchange in Israel’s favor

Truly. Before they arrived here there was often uneducated speculating that America’s military was completely defunct and pathetic, with people making fun of F35s crashing in the rain and whatnot. While it is true that the American military no longer has the total technological dominance it once did, it’s still a formidable force to be feared. The Iranian strategy of massive drones and missiles that was previously thought to counter the American/Israeli doctrine turned out to be a bit of a bust after all if they can pinpoint target your launchers and suppress/destroy all your air defenses. Seems there’s no replacement yet for air superiority and SEAD/DEAD. An anti-air network on the ground would have to be vast.

She will likely receive lenient treatment and be released quickly so that they can continue to sweep the injustice of Palestine Action members starving to death under the rug

Was going to say, as someone who knows literally nothing about Libya I could have deduced as much based on their allegiances to Turkey vs. Pakistan. Everyone allied with Turkey is dogshit

I will die alone in my apartment to spite the filthy capitalist pigs