Objectively speaking, the US nuking itself would solve a lot of the world’s problems.

Mostly I’m just being flippant as a way to cope with a very real fear that I am going to die.

The IDF are known torturers and murderers, any testimony from the people they interrogate is essentially worthless as evidence.

It’s already in decay. A fascist turn would just destabilize society so much that the country breaks up into independent warring state-regions in a civil war. The US will probably nuke itself.

Those at the margins of the world will be saved from the long arm of the United States government.

It’ll be pretty bad for US Americans though.

Imagine not being excited for the collapse of the US government.

Anything is better than the garbage. Pretty sure.

It’s low priority for sure.

Technically you can grow them with corn, but the US doesn’t do companion planting so 🤷‍♀️

Pumpkins are pretty low on my priority list, but entertainment isn’t really a good reason to throw useful stuff away. It’s a waste of water, waste of growing space, waste of fuel for harvest and transportation, and obviously a waste of food.

It’s still waste even if the primary purpose is wasteful.

It’s a soft science, like psychology. You can take a scientific approach even if empiricism is more difficult.

The USSRs failure proves that their own approach was wrong. We can learn from it, because socialists learn from the material results of policy. That’s scientific.

China isn’t merely a functioning country, it’s the fastest growing economy on Earth despite being backwards and feudal and colonized only a little over half a century ago. It’s an incredible and unprecedented achievement. You can’t ignore this.

And sure, politics can’t be purely scientific, because nothing human is ever pure science, but it is possible to use a scientific approach to figure out what works and what doesn’t. This is why socialists call their politics a science.

Liberals refuse to even attempt to make their politics scientific. They believe politics is just about doing what you think is right based on faith i.e. moralism.

Except if you look at China today it clearly worked. It’s an evidence based scientific approach to politics. No faith necessary.

Meanwhile, religious people can’t prove anything and have no evidence for anything and have to take everything on faith.

I never claimed they’re peaceful. They want to kill settlers and IDF goons and they want to destroy the Israeli occupation. Hardly peaceful.

But that’s not genocide. That’s just people’s war.

You honestly think citizens should be publicly punished and shamed for purely strategic reasons? I somehow don’t believe that.

I think Party members should be disciplined and forced to follow the Party line. Regular citizens who aren’t involved with politics shouldn’t be held to the same standards. If you want to be member of the Communist Party then you must subject yourself to the democratic center.

They don’t really hold every single Chinese citizen to the same standards as Party members these days. It’s unnecessary.

Sounds like a moral imperative to me tbh

It’s strategic because the goal is to advance the Party agenda. A moral imperative is just saying it’s the right thing to do, but that’s not what democratic centralism is about. It’s a strategy to hold Party members to a Party line and advance the Party’s agenda.

You’re trying to frame this as moralism but it has nothing to do with right or wrong. It’s about what works.

It’s strategic, not moral. The Communist Party of China has 99 million members. Without democratic centralism it would just be a big club of communism fans, not a Party.

Once there’s an agreed upon decision, every Party member must uphold it for the strategic advancement of the Party agenda.

Words mean things. 😜

Okay, so, I think I understand your confusion.

I am not proposing pacifism. Violence and so-called “authoritarianism” aren’t inherently fascist. Fascism is a specific political project.

Okay, that’s about following the Party line and the strategy of democratic centralism. What the Party decides is what the membership must respect and uphold.

I am not a member of the Communist Party of China. They wouldn’t want me anyway lol

Hamas isn’t lead by the people it was lead by even a decade ago. Their more recent 2017 charter is pretty explicitly not genocidal, they are anti-Israeli and explicitly not anti-Jewish.