GoodGuyWithACat

I wanted a secular communist revolution in Iran, I compromised. I got an anti imperialist Islamic Republic instead.

I mean good for you Nardo, but the President has been able to do this for decades now. And Trump famously doesn't follow laws anyways.

Maybe he's threatening people to let Marxists have their way.

Supplying allies in war with weapons is a good way to build up your military industry without having to go to war. Unfortunate realpolitik, but perhaps necessary when the great Satan salivates over destroying your country.

Don't fall into the trap of defending every single thing the USSR did, instead redirect the convo to the international and economic conditions that spawned the USSR.

Be cooler if they did.

Me last Wednesday: Man the news megathread has been slow for weeks

Last Thursday: Monkey's paw curls

If it is not contextualized that way, then it just becomes another item on the internally contradictory American political ideology buffet.

Excellent way of framing it. Americans have no coherent political ideology, so the goal should be to introduce one to them.

Your flakes have been bongled.

Modern munitions are terrifying.

Divorce him two or three times as a threat. Just enough to keep him in line.

Things that happened in the American South post Reconstruction. African American rights were taken away by force from the KKK, who installed their own governments.