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I remember actual military aficionados & and veterans alike roasting the movie for depicting US soldiers anachronistically using modern gear & kit.
An intentional design choice as like all American war movies it’s supposed to be pro-military.
As property owners the petite bourgeoisie benefit from capitalism, yet they are naturally disadvantaged in the capitalist system when compared to the haute bourgeoisie. The natural fate of the petite bourgeoisie in capitalism is to develop small business ventures that will then be bought out by bigger businesses at the expense of the small capitalists that own those small businesses. This is the competition of the “free market” in action. Socialism isn’t the solution as they lose the privilege of bourgeois class status under socialism and so fascism was born as a solution whereby the liberal order established by the haute bourgeoisie is subverted & usurped so the petite bourgeoisie can seize control of the capitalist system.
Of course what actually ends up happening is that the haute bourgeoisie infiltrate and coop the burgeoning fascist movement when the threat of radical Leftism emerges and grows; this is why big capitalists always end up coming in to bolster fascist movements, spread their message, and finally take over in the role of leadership eventually pushing the petite bourgeoisie out of power in the very movement designed to empower them.
This happens because the the bourgeoisie as a class are motivated by individual profit and have no collective identity. Even if they’re class conscious - and they often are - they rarely display an actual sense of class solidarity and the illusion of such is driven entirely by a desire to protect their own self-interest; not because they care about each other. Thus the bourgeoisie are just as likely to be at each other’s throats as they are to unite in suppression of the proletariat.
this translation reminds me of the “world is a fuck” meme
Yugopnik has zero chill and I’m all here for it. He’s always been my favorite of the trio because of this.
I am no longer having a bad day. 🙂
Paying taxes to a country you don’t even live in is insane.
KGB ball licking unit
The clergy are simply acting in accordance to their class interests.
Socialism is compatible with most religions & their doctrine unlike literally any Right-wing ideology. Yet the clerical class and the institutions have consistently been in support of and in collaboration with the forces of reaction and opposed to the forces of progress. They did this in Spain and Russia during the early 20th.
The clergy which owns property, keeps slaves, profits from war, participates in government, and belongs to a dogmatic & hierarchical dictatorship is naturally at odds with the laity; the majority of religious people. There is a direct correlation between the divide of a priestly class & the common faithful and the divide between property owners & the working class, respectively. The same systems of oppression are in place so that the ruling minority retain control over the exploited majority, but unlike the bourgeois the clergy don’t hide their tyranny behind a faux democracy. They are openly abusive & manipulative and it’s not because of divine will or a sense of piety but rather of material interests.
This of course isn’t the fault of religion itself but rather the fault of the hierarchy which exists in many religious institutions and exist explicitly to control the laypeople and is responsible for all of the abuses against them by the priests. This is why the class struggle needs to be brought into the churches, temples, etc. to drive out these opportunists and return spirituality to the people from whence it originated.
Honestly this may end up being an even worse disaster than Afghanistan. I don’t think the empire can endure yet another unjust war; Venezuela could very well end up the final nail in the coffin for American hegemony - if not in the world at large then at least in Latin America.
yeag yeag yeag
Their idea of keeping women “safe” involves chaining women to the stove.
When you’re raised in a society that encourages men to view women as property, sex objects, baby makers, or something to mock it’s fairly common for the average man to belittle and infantilize women. I’m never shocked by it anymore, just disappointed.
Many such cases, unfortunately.
Disagree on the US specifically. If anything the USA was the original fascist state.
I think material conditions should determine whether a nation needs to be liberated or not.
It’s not a liberation if they aren’t oppressed, nor is it a liberation if the “liberators” are just going to oppress them in the same way.
Okay the cat part is kinda cringe but they have a point: Israel can indoctrinate as many children into being murderous pedophiles as it wants but there will always be those who escape the programming. Most of them will probably end up as liberals who think they can UwUify Zionism into something progressive but some particularly based individuals will be able to see through that bullshit and recognize the white supremacist settler-colonialism for what it is: the same fascist beast that murdered their grandparents in gas chambers.
That being said it’s entirely fair to assume any Israeli you meet is not that self-aware. Most aren’t and probably will never be.
Looking up OP builds for Cyberpunk 2077.