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Cake day: June 14th, 2025

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  • This is gunboat diplomacy ripped from the age of empires and dragged, screaming, into a world that has outgrown it.

    Gunboat diplomacy never went away, its perpetrators just used other justifications for the same thing. Fighting communism (Korea, Vietnam) and terrorism (Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen), claiming that countries are “dictatorships” and have to be liberated (Iraq, Libya, Cuba), using mercenary groups like the Contras (Nicaragua), having presidents do it and then meekly apologize (W. Bush, Obama), claiming that countries are developing nuclear weapons (Iraq, Iran) have all happened, and I consider it identical to gunboat diplomacy. The tactics are almost entirely identical (invasion, overthrow, installing dictatorships), and its causes are the same (resources to be delivered to Imperial countries).

    There is however obvious evidence of these excuses being more and more flimsy, and history being rewritten. That is from the desparation of Capitalism in decay.







  • I realize that “Tankies” can be replaced with “U.S. Liberals”. Liberals from other Western nations can have their own lists.

    • U.S. Liberals don’t care about minority rights. They will openly work with a government that crushes minorities over and over again in the vain hope that the United States will, somehow, become a fair country that helps people. As Liberals refuse to help minorities if it harms the U.S. government, or breaks its laws, they show a clear preference: minority rights lie beneath the functioning of the United States and its laws, no matter how draconian.
    • U.S. Liberals don’t support workers’ unions. I remember that one court case where a workers’ strike was shut down by the House.
    • Liberals support numerous fascist ideas, such as the War On Terror, the need to support Israel and silence its critics, the acceptance of austerity measures, the cheering on of the military, and the funding of corporations that in turn fund many Liberal campaigns, as well as Conservative ones.
    • Liberals rule over the United States of America, even when they themselves admit it to be authoritarian, so they can make the measly attempt to “retake power”. The rule is also over all the territories and protectorates of the United States who have no say in who rules over them.






  • When it comes to television and radio, public media (PBS, BBC, NPR, CBC) is often more professional, more serious, than corporate media. PBS or CBC make outstanding documentaries.

    Yes, they look “outstanding” because they have a high budget. They have a high budget because they aren’t Leninist.

    Really, liberals make me feel sad because you have people reading about this horrible stuff, and they don’t know what to actually do other than vote. They don’t understand Marxism-Leninism and believe in the “Communism has failed” mythos. If I were to live their life from birth, hearing about one tragedy after another but never knowing the way out, I would be miserable all my life. It’s like a person who doesn’t know how medicine works during a plague outbreak.