Leegh [he/him]

The real Ghost of Kyiv

“Brunch has costed you your strength. Electoralism has defeated you!” - Lenin, probably

I love how this meme has become a posting tradition every US election since the Chapo subreddit days.

Generally his video essays about Imperialism/ Settler-Colonialism are extremely on point and a great way to educate libs, but yeah his takes on AES can be hit and miss.

In regards to Venezuela, while their nominally socialist government definitely has its problems (even if you ignore the likely electoral fraud, Maduro has suppressed much of the Venezuelan left including the Communist Party, and his policies are largely social democratic in nature), as a Marxist who lives in the Global North, my first position towards Venezuela or any country in the Global South is to lift all sanctions and/ or stop Western intervention for imperialist interests. This is why we have critical support for imperialized countries.

What do you expect from the same country that thinks means “evil antisemitic hate symbol!!”

It’s like Germany learned nothing from the last century and is still trying its hardest to be on the wrong side of history.

The thing you’re forgetting though is that Kamala is ALSO a shitty candidate like Hillary and Biden was.

As others have already pointed out, she is the only candidate who polled worse than Biden against Trump. She’s nowhere near the level of charm and charisma Obama was.

At least half the country thinks she’s a Cultural Marxist that will destroy America (I wish). And her fanbase is nearly identical to Hillary’s was (suburbanite wine moms).

Of course her being younger, not part of any political dynasty, and also actually non-White could tip the scales in her favour. But we’ll see.

He is Bidone.

So the US gets all the greedy, self-centred Capitalists from China, while China gets all the rational, forward-thinking Scientists and Academics from the US? Cool.

The Forest.

Peaceful. Quiet. No people to bother me (great for Introverts). A place to get good sleep. Fresh locally sourced food. Perfect weather.

My kind of escape from this hell world.

According to this article China makes up 27% of Intel’s revenue (its SINGLE biggest market) and 15% of AMD’s revenue (its third largest). Will be interesting to see how badly this will affect the bottom line of both companies in the coming years.

Considering the US already bans Nvidia and AMD from selling their high-end GPUs to China, this ban was going to happen sooner or later. China just decided to pre-emptively do it so they can plan ahead for the phase-out as opposed to being caught off guard.

China leading a potential Linux revolution on the global tech industry would be glorious to see.

Further proof that Tankie is just the liberal version of “SJW” or “Woke”; a meaningless buzzword to describe anything left of them.

The zionist entity is not a Jewish colonial project, but an Anglo colonial project.

Isn’t this flat out false? My understanding of Zionism is based on the ideas of Theodore Herzl; that Israel was always meant to be a national, secular homeland for Jewish people. Fyi, this is the guy who is regarded as the ‘Father of Zionism’ by every Israeli leader ever and who organized the world’s first Zionist Congress. Yes Herzl, as a Jew living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was inspired by and wanted to employ Anglo/ European colonial methods to achieve this goal (Badempanada did a wonderful video on this btw), but to claim that Zionism was created solely by the British and was never spearheaded by Ashkenazi Jews trying to escape persecution in Europe is ignoring the historical materialist basis of Zionism and frankly strips Jewish people of having any agency over their actions or fate.

P.S: I am not trying to say Jewish people collectively support Zionism, there were/ are many Jews in the past and today who oppose Zionism on the basis of being anti-colonialist, anti-nationalist, or on a religious basis. However, I felt OP was portraying Zionism as something completely separate from the Jewish identity and history, and instead as something invented by Western Empires to divide and conquer the Middle East using guilt over historical anti-semitism as a justification, which is flat out false.