brain_in_a_box [he/him]

The entire length and bredth of liberal international theory is wholly contained in that “our glorious soldiers, their barbarous hordes” image

Actually you can

Funny how it’s never called a terrorist attack when Israel, or any other western country, strikes an airport (or a hospital, or a school, or anything else)

Why read theory when you have YA fiction?

they have the same right to build a state as the Palestinians have

Lol, try telling Israel or Germany that Palestinians have a right to a state, you Nazi bitch.

The US is helping Israel annex Gaza and West Bank as we speak, spare us the “opposing nationalist land grabs” nonsense.

Working towards justice means working against genocide apologism and American exceptionalism.

Nazi shit.

Foreign powers unilaterally divided the country in half, and the actual country itself just has to accept it?

Yeah, they should only operate in good countries, like the US.

As ever, actual Jewish Holocaust scholars agree with us

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-double-genocide-theory

Not by “assigning a slightly different definition”, just by applying the definition consistently, rather than using the standard.

Is that from the same anime as your last line?

Like trying to reframe my argument as “rich country good, poor country bad”?

No reframing needed, that was just your argument.

You’ve tried to dismiss my argument by misrepresenting it.

So what exactly is your argument?

This level of insecurity shows how shallow your beliefs are.

Lol, what anime did you crib this line from?

No, it’s that saying one place is worse doesn’t make it so.

Correct, you saying Cuba is worse doesn’t make it so.

Human development index and quality of life studies put the US ahead of Cuba

“Rich country good, poor country bad”

Cuba has better healthcare and lower cost of living, but Americans aren’t on rafts to Cuba.

“Rich country good, poor country bad”

One of the problems with enacting good and lasting change in the western world is that life is pretty darn good on the whole.

Yes, because the West ruthlessly exploits the global south to prop of it’s own standards of living. This is why serious socialist revolutions have mostly only occurred in the Global South.

It could be a lot better, but just shouting that the US is bad is mindless propagada. Be better than that.

Real bad faith framing of your opponents argument there; be better than that.

So once again, your argument is “rich country good, poor country bad”

“Rich country good, poor country bad!”

Very astute political analysis there

That doesn’t change the context at all. Dissent from the capitalist class is still dissent.

You’re spun around, flipped upside-down, and confused as can be.

Very compelling, but have you considered

Tankie is a term that specifically refers to one particular kind of communism

No, it’s used to refer a wide, vague blob of vibes, just like the word woke. The people who use it can can do use it to refer to all kinds of communists, most anarchists, and anything to the left of Elizabeth Warren in general.

that try to impose communism through the use of force.

As opposed to the kind of communism where you ask nicely for revolution? Have you actually read any Marx? I guarantee he was not a pacifist.

You can be a communist and not be a tankie

By your own definition you cannot, let alone by a definition of tankie that describes how libs actually use it.