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I just watched JTs video and didn't really see anything wrong with it, I don't think he's presenting it as this end all be all solution, just as a tool to get us to communism.

my understanding is MMT doesn't work in countries outside the imperial core because they don't have currency sovereignty. MMT theorists are basically describing the USA leveraging its dollar hegemony.

Ukrain was part of ussr back then so why should he fight on the nazis side

It's called collaborationism. Countries that are invaded often have people on the inside of that country who side with the invaders, for opportunist, ideological, and/or material reasons.

Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine - Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014

Part 1: A brief history of the OUN-B nazi-collaborationist faction from which current day neo nazis are descended (CW: images of pogroms, sexual assault, dead children, and the holocaust)

Part 2: A brief history of the OUN-B nazi-collaborationist faction from which current day neo nazis are descended (CW: images of pogroms, sexual assault, dead children, and the holocaust)

PDF of declassified CIA operation aerodynamic which leveraged ukrainian nazi collaborators against the soviet union after WW2

Even if he managed to flee to Germany they would have never even let him get such a rank, because he wasn't German.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)

The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) was a World War II Nazi Germany military formation made up predominantly of military volunteers with a Ukrainian ethnic background from the area of Galicia, later also with some Slovaks. Formed in 1943, it was largely destroyed in the Lvov–Sandomierz offensive, reformed, and saw action in Slovakia, Yugoslavia, and Austria before being renamed the first division of the Ukrainian National Army and surrendering to the Western Allies by 10 May 1945.

mr. evrart is helping me find my lost doohickey

look mr. dubois, I've got him eating out of the palm of my hand!

I'll call it That's Capital!

No liberal has learned anything from the holocaust except "history repeats itself", pretending it's a law of physics.

They sure seem to want it to repeat itself as many times as needed

Gonna rewrite Das Kapital, but as a Get Rich Quick book by simply removing all the passages where Marx says "this is bad btw and the proles should do something about it"

Generation is absolutely real and informs people's decisions and attitudes

to an extent but the bourgeoisie capitalizes on these differences to divide the proletariat. This episode of is pretty good:

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-38-the-medias-bogus-generation-obsession

“Baby Boomers are bloating the social safety net!” “GenXers are changing the nature of work!” “Millennials are killing the housing market!". The media endlessly feeds us stories about how one generation or another is engaging in some collective act of moral failing that, either explicitly or by implication, harms another generation. It’s a widely-mocked cliché at this point, namely the near-constant analyses detailing what Millennials have “killed” or “ruined” lately - everything from Applebee's to diamonds to top sheets to beer to napkins.

The first rule of drama––and by implication, the media––is to create tension. But what if tensions that actually exist in our society, like white supremacy and class conflict, are too unpleasant and dicey to touch––upsetting advertisers and media owners who benefit from these systems? To replace these real tensions in society, the media repeatedly relies on dubious and entirely safe points of conflict, like those between two arbitrary generations. It’s not the rich or racism that’s holding me back--it’s old people running up entitlement spending or lazy youth who don’t want to work!

In this episode we talk about why this media trope isn’t just hacky and cliche, but also subtly racist and reactionary.

I wish I could feel sympathy, but I don't.

My grandparents would already be homeless if they weren't borrowing money from me on occasion. Why? Because their social security doesn't cover their rent, their food, and their medical issues, despite them working hard their whole lives. Who cares what year they were born in? They weren't Reagan voters. Not that this should be the metric. They're proletarian. They're lesbians They're women. Therefore they're oppressed in a threefold manner, along class, gender, and sexuality lines. They're liberals, but I view that as a result of indoctrination by the bourgeois society. They're products of their environment. Indoctrination, as much as we hate to admit it, is another form in which the proletariat is oppressed, because they are mesmerized into fighting themselves by an anti-materialist and undialectical mode of analysis pushed by the bourgeoisie.

The Reagan generation did this to themselves, and the rest of us have to suffer with them.

Yeah. I'm paying money out of my pocket to stop my grandparents from becoming homeless while also paying to raise my child. I would be in much more dire straits if I weren't lucky enough to have stable employment in what is in fact a terribly unstable economic situation, further complicated by hyperinflation.

In any case I don't think the question of whether you feel sympathy or not for the "reagan generation" really matters and that this is a misfocused way of looking at it in the first place. It's actually very similar to how liberals draw lines between "red state" proletarians (who they insist deserve their suffering) and "blue state" proletarians (who they insist do not). Assuming you do not own means of production, assuming you do not employ others, assuming you do not accumulate the significant part of your income through financial assets like stock investments or mutual funds, you are a proletarian. Your class position is proletarian. Your parents and grandparents, assuming they weren't small business owners driven from the market, were probably proletarian. When we become old, I hope the revolutionary consciousness is more developed among the younger generations than it was among us, but if that is the case, expect some of them to say that we deserve death for not fixing the problems sooner, and be prepared to accept that as a consequence of being born when you were.

it's pronounced saliva yule cranberry

kkkracka identified

I see. and you used your calipers to determine I'm white?

PS: I'm not a cracker for realizing an employee who gets paid to pressure wash walls doesn't get to pick and choose what they do/don't wash off. Any employee who refuses to pressure wash "eat the rich" or "workers of the world unite" or "ACAB" off a wall is just going to get fired and replaced with someone who will.

it was never acceptable to be antifascist in the US. WW2 was not America going to war with fascism, but America doing damage control on the Soviet victory over fascism (an ideology largely bankrolled and allowed to fester by American and English capitalists in the first place) by setting up rat lines for nazis to escape through and laying the groundwork for NATO. England and America were just the USSR's fake friends for 5 years.