Even so, the presence of a capitalist world hegemon is the biggest factor stifling anti-capitalist movements at the moment.

Even if the end of US unipolarity leads eventually to unipolarity for another capitalist power, the transition period in between these two situations will have a higher revolutionary potential and can prevent another capitalist world hegemon from ever emerging.

Just like the posts about Ukraine losing are nothing but Russian propaganda

/s

This is too broad a topic to have any meaningful discussion on in a comment thread, but I’d start with a few things:

1. Are you looking for new perspectives, or are you looking to debate? The former implies you’re willing to change your stance, the latter does not.
2. Define “capitalism”, “communism” and “good”. As a minimum to starting such a discussion, everyone participating should be on the same page regarding the topic, but these are terms that have wildly different meanings for a lot of people (not so much on this instance).
3. Pick a specific theme to discuss - what do you support most about capitalism? What is your greatest issue with communism? Anything you’re specifically interested in? As I said, it’s a broad topic, so in order to have any constructive discussion, it needs to be narrowed down.

Sounds like what some of them pesky tankies predicted a year ago. Yet again

10 years ago: millenials order too much avocado toast at the brunch restaurant, of course they’re poor

Now: gen Z make too much avocado toast at home, of course they’re poor

Ngl, your lists are lit

Amazing, been looking for something like this. Thank you!

Ah, thankfully I don’t live in the US

Neither do I, yet I still encounter these types 😬

I got called a vatnik irl for pointing out there are neonazis in Ukraine and that Western media reported on them before 2022

I would’ve thought so too if I hadn’t met enough of these irl already

Not just any people, Telegraph readers

Does working for an ML think tank make you a tankie²?

And if your job is to clean the fish tank… are you a tankie³?

And it’s usually the same people that make appeals to nature wherever they can, not just when defending capitalism. Funny how easily they contradict themselves

The risk is that other EU countries would adopt similar policies and create long-term problems for Taiwan and its 24 million citizens to freely determine their future.

More like create problems for the US to freely determine Taiwan’s future

Serious question though, can it still count as self-determination? Afaik the pro-reunification/pro-PRC side has been suppressed for decades, especially at the start of the occupation, and Taiwan is constantly bombarded with anti-PRC propaganda, all thanks to the US

If we pretend history doesn’t exist and we do what libs did e.g. in Gaza assuming it all started on Oct 7, then sure, people want to separate from the PRC, they should do it

But this ignores how they got into that position and what “independence” entails (becoming another Ukraine). You get pushed into a direction and then you’re made to think you got there of your own accord

Unfortunately, the damage has already been done. Despite plenty of evidence that these are baseless claims, ask the average westerner about this topic and they’ll say with certainty that it’s a genocide

This is the second deranged piece they put out on this topic, after this one (probably the same thing though, given the dates).

The United States needs strategic clarity toward Taiwan, including an explicit pledge to defend Taiwan from an unprovoked Chinese invasion

Ok cool, so that means they won’t lift a finger, right, because it says “unprovoked”? 🤡

prevent a conventional war that could escalate

consider extending its [US] nuclear umbrella over Taiwan

So they recommend avoiding conventional war and threatening to fire nukes first - sounds like them admitting (again) that they can’t beat China in a conventional war. Yet they’re so unhinged and trigger-happy about nukes.

plan for possible US nuclear use, and help prepare Taiwan to operate effectively after a nuclear detonation

Fucking ghouls. Basically “Make sure we can still use the island for military operations after we get it glassed”. They’re ready to irreparably damage Taiwan even more than they’ve enabled in Ukraine.

Just how much influence does the Atlantic Council have over NATO decisions? From what I heard, it’s fair to say “a lot” but I couldn’t find much info. Do these people end up taking important positions in NATO?

Whoever wrote that vile piece of digital toilet paper must’ve initially added two lightning bolt emojis next to each other before it got redacted

Nah, thanks for taking the time to write all of this. It’s a lot to unpack and a lot of it is relatable to where I have lived, even though not always to the same extreme

You can add the Eastern/Balkan EU countries to the list unfortunately. Plenty of people here looked up to the US as some shining city on a hill even before the fall of the Eastern Bloc

That’s not too bad, almost sounds like Buenos Aires