During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
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As you know our enemy is both strong, and weak. Cunning, and imbecilic. An imminent threat, but also laughable pushovers.
The suspension of climate change talks would usually suck,
however, I’d say it’s a foregone conclusion that the US under :biden-fall: :good-morning: :trump-anguish: etc., was unlikely to commit to anything substantial anyway.
I mean I always saw myself as more of a warlord ruling former New England with an iron fist in service to China but pirate sounds cool too
Cold war 2 is online, hopefully the good guys win this time
Nobody gonna win cause climate change is gonna fuck America and China royally in the next 50-75 years
yeah, I can only hope that the “End climate change talks” point will soon be followed by “Sanction US corporations who do not meet Chinese climate change requirements” and then followed by “Sanction nations who do not meet international climate change requirements”
