Liberals still go on and on about it when talking about Biden. Just saw a clip of Sam Seder doing so.
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If the gloves come off because Zelensky gets got, Putin and basically all the high ranking officials in Russia could reasonably expect to be targeted in response.
Not assassinating leadership is a long-standing rule/tradition of war. Hell, in most of historic European war-making, knights would wade through the ranks of common soldiers slaughtering without mercy, but could generally expect to be captured for a ransom rather than being killed themselves (it was far more than just their armor which protected them).
It's nice to be able to treat war like a game, and not have it put your own life at much risk. Turns the meat grinder into a nice, tidy little chess board you can place friendly little bets over.
Everyone, everywhere, at all times should fight against the U.S.
Should some unranked Iraqi soldier have fought against the U.S., or followed the orders of his commanding officers (who, by the way, probably received a literal briefcase full of cash or gold from a CIA operative) to stand down?
The mirror image of the plan to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, which was a Biden plan originally, that Trump executed on, and then Biden finished executing. I always think it is hilarious when liberals point to the embassy thing to try to claim how much more of a zionist Trump is than Biden.
For the second time you are going sectarian. I will state my position and you can fuck off with that shit: I am an anarchist; I don't consider anything any nation-state does to be legitimate. Period. I have already stated quite clearly that I understand leftists may differ in this.
Now, back to the point: the anti-war position, where Hasan Piker is concerned, is being completely misrepresented. It is not anti-war for a USian to say Russia needs to back off. That is the opposite of an anti-war stance.
Class war is war
No, it's not. Not in the sense the anti-war movement is talking about. Class war is not a war waged by nation-states, but describes the struggle of the global working class against capitalists and their system of capitalism.
And PFLP isn't waging such a nation-state war; it is fighting colonialism and colonialist genocide. I would tell them to keep on fightin'.
The bit about whether those in Russia should oppose its war-making in Ukraine is what I mentioned at the end of my comment, where leftists may differ (but rarely even comes up). I intentionally didn't launch into the sectarianism like you did; I just acknowledged and described it. Again, either way we should be able to agree on whether Hasan—a pundit, resident, and political actor in the U.S.—should push for the Empire (U.S./NATO/Ukraine) to back down. He should.
I'm pretty sure it's just called "NASA", actually.
I mean, communism would be even better, of course. But doing better than SpaceX is nothing particularly revolutionary in itself.
This isn't true at all. Leftism is inherently anti-war. Hence, "no war but class war".
The problem is where the anti-war stance is misrepresented. Unless it is coming from someone inside of Russia (and possibly countries positioning themselves as allied to Russia), who has a chance of possibly affecting Russia's ability to carry out the war through direct action and other political involvement, the stance that the solution is for Russia to back down is not an anti-war position; it is the exact opposite; it is the pushing of the "de-escalation through escalation" bullshit. It is a chauvinistic "our side will never back down" death pact.
The stance of people in Ukraine, the U.S., any NATO country—anywhere that potentially has influence over the Empire, really—must be to push Ukraine to back down in order to be authentically anti-war.
There's also the more controversial leftist argument over whether states can be authentically anti-imperialist. But that's really going to be a matter of whether you support the position I alluded to above for people who have potential political influence over nations which some people would consider "anti-imperialist nations" (due to the intermeshing of imperialism and class conflict, and also the fact that the Empire inherently has more power over, and responsibility toward, the prosecution and ending of wars than its targets). Like, that more controversial position comes up in the rarely seem question of whether Russian leftists should be cheering on and supporting the Russian military in nationalistic zeal, or trying to get Russia to negotiate and back down with as much fervor as Western leftists try to do so with U.S./NATO/Ukraine. We should all be able to agree, at the very least, that those who have the slightest chance at influencing the Empire to back down should do so. And that 100% includes Hasan Piker, who lives, acts, and practices social punditry within the U.S.
Sorry: fixed to original video (xcancel -> Twitter) in my original comment, rather than someone reacting to it (YoutTube).
This just in: Matthew Miller is still an absolute, whiny, slimy, shit-faced little weasel (apologies to weasels).
That's right: even as he's admitting "Israel has committed war crimes" (oops: make that "almost certain"), he's telling us how he wasn't lying about it, because he was only communicating the "government's official position", and that the war crimes aren't Israel's state policy, and that it's basically like in any other "war/conflict", and telling us that "it's not a genocide" and "it's an open question" whether Israel will hold its goons accountable.
When will this shitbag just die in a fucking fire already?
He was never not bent over. Even as he was spitting fiery words for show, his state HIghway Patrol was one of the first agencies on the scene quashing protests.