They’ve had decades of dehumanizing their fellow citizens and are eager to employ military tactics and authoritarian rule to a population they see as sheep.

Well, that IS the whole reason for having police in the first place.

They certainly did not face the full force of the US military.

Neither will the people in the US. That’s how civil wars work - half the military might just decide to join the other side.

You’re thinking of the Korean War. The best pilots the Vietnamese had was Vietnamese - and they were damn good, too.

For now.

Yes. An unpaid one.

If it takes that much effort to get them to share it simply becomes far more energy-efficient to off the whole lot of them.

Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?

Nope. Killing a billionaire parasite doesn’t make one a murderer - it merely makes one a credit to the human race.

P.S. this topic is highly controversial

Not really.

Because there was never anything communist about these states in any way whatsoever.

Communism is a state (as in a social, political and economic condition, not a government). None of these states ever reached this condition, and, therefore, was never communist. And, one could argue, that their development literally went the opposite way to what could be called communist with a straight face. As the anarchist Bakunin famously said, “the people’s boot is still a boot.”

This is why the Maoist-types call this shit “democratic centralism,” which is essentially just double-speak for “what the party says goes.”

This does not make the idea of communism invalid - but it’s still as perfectly vague as ever, unfortunately.

Scratch a fascist and a liberal bleeds.

Why do you need to imply I have some racist agenda here?

This you?

Putin has singlehandedly caused more death and suffering than anyone else.

I’d suggest NOT giving him more liberalism, since that has already demonstrated the predictable outcome.

The (so-called) “War On Terror” unleashed by George Bush has caused about 900,000 dead. That is just the death DIRECTLY caused by warfare and not the far, far greater number of people dead through indirect causes such as starvation and disease as a result.

Or does it only count in your book when the people dying “look like us”?

Putin is a scumbag, but he still has a long way to go to even beat George Bush Jnr, and he doesn’t even scratch the paint on Henry Kissinger’s record levels of crimes perpetrated against humanity.

Putin has singlehandedly caused more death and suffering than anyone else.

And your proof of this is… what?

I almost never see the kind of hateful, nasty, and mean comments directed at him

Because Putin is not a product of the US. Trump is, and, to a large extent, so is Musk.

Handguns are there because you lack the upper body strength to fight off an attacker.

That’s not what firearms are. They are killing tools. Plain and simple. Not “self-defence” tools. Killing tools. The US military does not provide it’s personel with firearms to “self-defend” themselves from rape.

4B stops no rapist.

How does a handgun stop a woman from marrying a rapist or ending up in a relationship with one?

Your understanding of the term “self-defence” isn’t based on reality.

Th 4B movement isn’t a political statement. At this point, it’s simply self-defense.

Practically/virtually no one believes the phrase “your body, my choice.”

It is “practically/virtually” the ideology of pro-rape right-wingers everywhere. Why the fuck do you think they spent so much effort to crush abortion rights?

I’d like to pet it with a .50 cal.

Boning 8 year olds is tradition.

For whom? You?

It’s almost like national boundaries were designed to control the movements of the poor, but not the rich.

Must just be my imagination, though.