Unless you have a large organization backing it or a very popular public figure calling for it in a moment of high public anger, all these General Strike efforts are a lost cause. That having been said, unionize or join a large organization so we can actually have a General Strike.

This is why I was glad that Kirk was the victim of the political violence he championed rather than some innocent bystander.

Au Contraire, my clothes chair is reserved for only the cleanest laundry.

I’m guessing IRL Jesus would have started rage flipping tables and whipping people with his belt.

Small town in Oklahoma…they’re probably blaming their misfortune on the people that sued.

Motherfuckers being wearing “Right Wing Death Squad” patches acting like thy care about tyranny

We were talking about Europe so I apparently wasn’t specific enough. Most countries in NATO let any capacity they had for large scale land wars wither after the cold war ended since they only saw conflict in small “police actions” in far away lands as being in their future. Things like Kosovo. And, to be fair, even the Russians (Putin aside) were confident that Europe was past large land wars too.

the big secret is that Democrats and Republicans are both on the political right and the mainstream media is owned by billionaires.

Some of us don’t “US bad, Russia good”. We look at each individual scenario, analyze it, and come to conclusions.

Ask Qaddafi’s victims how peaceful Qaddafi was

The main problem is the three big Empires on Earth: the US, Russia, and China.

Russian escalation came because Putin was feeling the pressure from Navalny’s anti-corruption campaign and other domestic problems. His popularity was suffering and successful military operations had always improved his popularity in the past (as they do for most national leaders). Coupled that with his Imperialist ambitions and invading Ukraine seemed like a win/win to him. Domestic concerns influence Geopolitics more than geopolitical concerns do.

An Alliance so aggressive that decades of peace lulled it into such deep complacency that they let their military capabilities atrophy? You’re being a try-hard

Didn’t Jesus walk the holy land convincing god’s chosen people to break their covenant with god? Sounds like Jesus was the Anti-Christ

Step 1: be an early adopter of new tech

Step 2: get insanely lucky

Step 3: use capital to hoard more capital

Step4: start an evil corporation to privatize spying and intelligence gathering

If I went around telling people Greta Turmberg was the anti christ…they’d lock me away

Have you heard of MAGA? Not sure they wouldn’t take you seriously.

NATO encroaching

*Free Nations previously invaded and/or dominated by Russia desperate to join the Don’t be Invaded by Russia Alliance

Utterly unimportant. I could spend all day coming up with better reasons.

The immediate issue is Russian Imperialism. US hegemony is only at play here in so far as it prevents Russian hegemony. That 2 Empires are having a pissing match should surprise no one.

You say that like there was a serious risk of nuclear war. But the issue wasn’t Ukraine, it was the rules based internation order that the US set up and benefitted from (despite also frequently breaking the rules)