It is of course absolutely horrible that people have to flee their homes in the face of war. I empathize with any Ukrainian family that has directly suffered as a direct consequence of the Russian invasion and the infliction of this suffering is why I can’t be completely in support of Russia’s actions, which I realize is a controversial take here.

But unlike this KKKlanadian whose view is clouded by racism & ignorance my empathy extends to all the victims of the conflict - including the ethnic Russians that were being slaughtered in the Donbas for the eight fucking years between the US-backed coup and the Russian intervention. See, I might not agree with Russia’s decision to invade but I do understand why that decision was made and I can’t fault them for it in the slightest even if it results in what I think is unnecessary amounts of death and destruction. The West may have baited Russia but Russia didn’t need to take that bait. Regardless, when your own people are being massacred just across the border I can understand if it’s hard to watch and not do anything. Honestly I’d probably have made the same decision if it had been me.

But of course the thought of them never crosses his mind because his entire worldview is filtered through the despotic Western narrative control of privatized media. The traumatization of an entire nation only matters when it’s a Western-aligned nation; with no thought or care for those on the other side. Does he harbor the same resentment for America after the horrors we brought to Iraq and Afghanistan? Almost certainly not.

If you’re going to have empathy for human suffering it can’t be restricted by the borders of nations, the boundaries of cultures, or the extension of languages. That just makes you a fucking racist hypocrite.

“Venezuela is a distraction from the Epstein Files!” is just liberals betraying the fact they’re ignorant of all the previous attempts at regime change in Venezuela since Chavez took power. They think this is a Trump plot and not an American one.

I’m just completely unphased by this stuff by now tbh. The depths of depravity the ruling class go into behind closed doors really is just the worst thing you can imagine. The secret lives of the capitalist class are literally just Salò or A Serbian Film unironically. Like they’re actually exactly that evil. These are literally the people who run the West and once you understand & internalize that you can’t do anything but strengthen your resolve against these sadistic perverts and everything they stand for.

Once met a Polish nationalist who unironically thought Russians were Swedes LARPing as Slavs and using the Rurikids & the origins of Novgorod as evidence.

Racism really does make you dumb.

Wonder if he’ll feel the same if the bombs are dropping on his own head.

No this is all civilian/personal vehicle stuff. They’re common cars too; not luxury cars.

I sincerely doubt the plant manager is behind it. He isn’t the one releasing orders nor does he create the schedules.

I doubt the plant is closing as it’s also the corporate HQ. It wouldn’t be closing unless they were moving buildings or shutting the whole company down, and they wouldn’t be able to hide either of those things.

See, they claim it’s to “build up inventory for two days” but this goal seems unattainable and also hadn’t been attained prior to me working here. Allegedly they hadn’t worked OT for some months before now too which is why I don’t buy that excuse.

For as long as I’ve worked here we’ve never been two days ahead of schedule.

Maybe. I can at least vouch for the plant manager; he hates the overtime too as he’s required to come in and since he’s salaried he doesn’t get overtime pay.

It’s more likely a corporate decision.

woke holidays be like “Merry Marxmas and a happy New Queer” or smth idk

Remember kids: it’s not cultural appropriation when a bunch of white people steal a bunch of brown people’s culture because they share the same religion. 👍

Even if I didn’t know you lived in Europe and not the US this comment alone could’ve convinced me lmao.

It is very much the opposite here; the wrong person finding out you’re a commie can actually get you death threats or even actually result in being physically attacked. Vegans, at worst, will just be mocked.

You can get paid for being a Marxist?! What the fuck man I’ve been doing this shit for free like a chump!!

I was looking for a definition.

Not surprised you didn’t have one, just disappointed.

What do you think imperialism is?

Exactly!

dawg how fucking rich do you think we are

most Americans would be homeless if credit cards didn’t exist

wearing an unironic wolfsangel to own the commies is peak liberalism

I wish there were more communist video essayists who didn’t primarily talk about politics but instead discussed stuff like history, writing, gaming, guns, etc. Literally anything that isn’t politics, really.

There’s nothing worse than when I’m enjoying a good critique of some trashy media and then the person in the video libs out and compares the villain to Stalin or makes that stupid “haha commie no food” joke or starts complaining about how evil, sinister China is planning evil, sinister things because the company that made the media is Chinese or something to that effect. It takes me out of what was otherwise a good, informative video and whacks me with severe mental exhaustion.

There’s all these video essayists out here promoting their liberal or fascist ideologies while simultaneously focusing on topics that aren’t explicitly about political theory, political science, current events, geopolitics, etc. and I’d like to see communists doing the same thing like a Marxist explaining the rationale behind why Soviet firearms developed the way they did, or picking apart how cyberpunk settings don’t work even if they look cool as settings, or just discussing the history of ancient civilizations like the Achaemenids from a dialectical materialist perspective or stuff like that.

Like, I enjoy what Hakim does and all. It’s very important work of course. I just feel like it might be easier to expose people to Marxist ideals through discussion of pop culture and the like and then use this as a jumping point to funnel people down the rabbit hole of actual political theory. Also it’d just be nice to sit down and watch a video about how to write villains and not have one of the examples used be fucking Stalin of all people - I actually did click on a video discussing this exact topic and deadass the video opened with the essayist talking about how “some people don’t get punished for all the harm they’ve done” (paraphrased) while showing video of Stalin and I had never clicked off a video so quickly in my life. I audibly groaned.

I’m just tired, boss. I’m just tired of libs and fash dominating every discussion about everything. I want to be able to consume the thoughts and feelings of other people discussing things I’m interested in without them having shitty political takes about how Obama is a “cool guy” and a complete misunderstanding of historical socialism up to the point of treating the Holodomor as a serious narrative and not a complete invention of Nazi propaganda.

I don’t not want politics in my videos that aren’t about political subjects; I just want the politics to be GOOD.