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Finally reading To Kill a Nation by Michael Parenti, and finding it very enlightening. I really have no background knowledge of the fall of Yugoslavia, but have been very interested in it recently. There are definitely parallels to the Ukraine war now. It's a very beneficial read on how the media can distort reality to favor the west's narrative.

There are a lot talking about German land in various countries, sounds like some Nazi shit to me but I admittedly don't know enough about the topic.

This one has to be satire right?

John Stephen 1 day ago It's difficult not to feel great sympathy for these gentlemen.

Here was a group of people - educated, elevated, and better bred than their fellow countrymen confined to a middle class lifestyle despite their superior social status.

I hope that these people can be put back to the position that clearly they are pre-ordained to be in.

Long live the aristocracy and our social superiors!

Found this absolute gem in the comments:

Phyl Osophical 1 day ago

An interesting article thank you. A loss as they have endured continues to impact families for generations.

We knew a family who were dispossessed of their property as described. With no compensation they went to Rhodesia and saved enough to buy a farm, grow crops again and made a comfortable life for themselves and their children too. There, as Zimbabwe, they were dispossessed of their land again.

Dispossessing farmers, with no concern for the economic damage, loss of jobs, or vital food security, is a medieval practice.

The data I have seen points to new US military recruits, at least in recent years, being predominantly "middle class" basically to say they aren't people living in poverty, but are not coming from notable generational wealth either.

It is hard to get exact data, but I have seen multiple sources suggest that the $50k - 100k household income bracket is the biggest for military enlistment. Like this study for example

The people that I knew growing up who have since gone into the military (and I no longer have contact with) did it because someone in their family was in the military, none of them were poor. I think the whole propaganda and perception of the military being a force for good and virtuously defending the country plays a much bigger role than the money aspect, even though that perception, as we know, is extremely inaccurate.

I have read this response from Boots, but I don-t find it very convincing personally. Per his point on Megan-s relation to her father, Larry Ellison stepped in to directly manage the company in 2018 due to financial trouble, and also provided the financial backing to get it off the ground in the first place. Sure she isn't her father, but she will take his money and help with running her business.

Idk maybe I really am naive and being undisciplined, but something just does not sit right with me with the argument, "I have to make art that goes towards funding zionism in some way because there is no alternative."

Saw a guy I got a socialist/anti-fascist tattoo from posting online in support of Graham Platner.

I just can't believe how after such a long and documented history of US subterfuge of the left, people will just fall for this guy so easily

Unfortunately, this movie was produced by Annapurna pictures, a company owned by Megan Ellison, daughter of sixth richest man in the world, David Ellison. The Ellison family is one of the foremost supporters of the Zionist project and have contributed directly to the oppression and genocide of Palestinians.

No matter how leftist and Marxist the movie is, nothing can justify collaborating with such people in any capacity.

What is virtuous about colonization? Palestinian Jews, Muslims and christians lived together before the Zionist entity and can again under a single state, without Jewish supremacy.

Hypothetically, if right wing bourgeois, like let's say the PayPal mafia, were to run supposedly progressive candidates to infiltrate and wreck the American left, wouldn't it be the guy who went overseas for American imperialism several times, has a Nazi tattoo, and proudly worked for Blackwater??

Based on Platner's past Reddit posts, he seems EXACTLY like a guy who would think going undercover as a leftist for nefarious purposes is really cool.

If American progressives can fall for this guy, they would fall for anything.

Hundreds of think tanks developing new indexes to rank settler colonies + Europe above the rest of the world

It almost seems like cooperation is not only a viable form of economic progress but a superior one to the capitalist competition of the west...

Does anything expose the white supremacist "social democracies" of Europe better than this?

Every time I talk to a liberal about socialism, they always pull out the Scandinavia card, but those countries can't even bring themselves to see Africans as real people.