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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Aarn_Dellwyyn on 2025-06-20 00:15:30+00:00.

I hate it. War really kills morality. I love people, I love humanity, how did we come to this? I feel like it's wrong, but when I see an Iranian rocket or drone striking Israel I can't help hoping it does some real damage to the Apartheid state or take out some IDF personnel. Technically it is cheering on people killing each other and that bothers me, but then again I didn't create this mess, the Zionists created this mess. I didn't bomb Iran, the Zionists did. I didn't commit genocide, and neither did the Palestinians or the Iranians. Everything about this is the fault of zionists. So I hate that I am thinking this, but I really can't not support Iran's recent actions here, whether that means Israeli deaths or not. This is the only way Israel will ever back off, if they will back off at all.

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Rajat_Sirkanungo on 2025-06-19 23:22:17+00:00.

I am reading Domenico Losurdo's Stalin, and I love the Utilitarian or consequentialist approach of Losurdo instead of deontological one ("Stalin did XYZ thing wrong... he is a irreparable monster!"). Losurdo contextualizes the times and compares and contrasts Stalin and USSR's actions with the liberal west and the Nazis BOTH (not only that Nazis)!

And when you properly situate these figures, you just stop believing that Stalin, Mao, Deng were some murderous, power-hungry, opportunistic scumbags. The Machiavellian framework through which liberals judge the leaders is flatly incorrect when you see historians like Kotkin and Montefiore literally saying that Stalin wasn't some sort of opportunistic gangster but genuinely committed to the cause!

Also, a reminder to read comrade u/Sugbaable 's copy pasta on comparison of Indian (reformist) socialism and Mao's revolutionary socialism - https://strikewire.xyz/Wu4AE.html

"How successful was socialism in the 20th century? Very.

In 1950, China and India were both enormous, poor agrarian countries. In China, land reform made the countryside more equal, and general welfare was included in public planning. India, despite hollow socialist rhetoric, was more "gradual", giving liberal rights to all (ie right to vote), but without tweaking land tenure or property relations (ie who gets paid). The results? China eliminated chronic poverty - and the associated high death rate - much faster than India, since day one. In 1989, economists Sen and Dreze found that:

Every eight years or so more people die in India because of its higher regular death rate than died in China in the gigantic famine of 1958-1961. India seems to manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of shame. ("Hunger and Public Action" (1989), pg 214-215)

Specifically, even on top of the enormous Great Leap Forward (GLF) catastrophe (killing 15-35m), this excess death rate translated to a relative death toll in India of 130-145m according to UN data from 1950-2021; according to Western demographers’s data, the toll is near 300m (35-50m and 140m by 1980, respectively).

While Mao’s failures are often ahistorically focused on (and inflated), the hidden price of a gradual, liberal-inspired approach tower above. Why does this basic fact remain so unknown? See my article here for more (explanation, methods, sources, etc). "

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Original Title: The Soroka hospital was hit by a blast wave, it wasn’t the target of missiles. As usual Israel is trying to use psychological manipulation to link Iran's attack on the IDF command center as an attack on the hospital in order to downplay the casualties from this morning's attack.

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The sheer enormity of it almost genius with how it obfuscates the enormity of the damage within it. This bill is going to close hospitals, destroy the environment (in two fun and exciting ways, by both revoking protections and expanding oil and gas operations on federal land), expand the MIC, cut welfare benefits, revoke protections for immigrants, and just generally fuck over everyone in this gods-forsaken country in a thousand small ways. And the best part is that the vast majority of Americans have zero fucking clue what the bill even entails. The fallout from this bill passing is going to destabilize America even further and I [redacted].

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Nervous-Cream2813 on 2025-06-19 14:14:45+00:00.

I will be deleting this post in 3 days, so ask anything and I will answer within 24 hours, ofcours I am 1 person I cannot speak on behalf of 90 million people but I will try my best to give factual answers rather than opinions.

EDIT: Ask normal questions no silly stuff, I will not respond to trolls as of this edit.

EDIT: so many questions I will extend the time to 3 days :)

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The original was posted on /r/thedeprogram by /u/Guilty-Grapefruit427 on 2025-06-19 08:45:09+00:00.

WTF is up with this mediatic blitz pushing the GBU-57 as a miracle bomb like a Marvel trailer ?

These past 3 days all mainstream outlets are parroting the same script, word for word, talking about mega bombs and Mount Doom targets. The message is clear the U.S. has the bomb, the target is obvious, the clock is ticking , so just drop it guys.

What blows my mind is how openly coordinated it all is and, it shows exactly who’s running the narrative ignoring all the mess of such an intervention. Even Pentagon insiders have expressed serious doubts about the bomb’s effectiveness. Best case scenario for them it delays Iran’s program by a few months. That’s it.

But I love how they ignore the one thing that’s guaranteed: Iran will respond. A regional war, global fallout, chaos. Too messy for the narrative.

All of it sold to you under the shiny branding of “defense” and “stability” for protecting a rogue state’s dominance while it throws a tantrum because someone dared challenge its throne.

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