next comes Taiwan, South Korea

Ok. Cool, good.

Oh shit. I'm going to go make accounts on lemm.ee when I want to do a bit from now on. It really adds a layer of authenticity when pretending to be the worst person you can imagine.

I told them that what they called Western hegemony is different from the rules based order. They said the rules based order is Western hegemony. And I said I agreed. That is what I am saying. Real Western hegemony is a rules based order. And they said yes, that is what we are trying to get rid of. And I said no, but we don't even have that right now. We need more Western hegemony. And everyone at the same time was like "nooo" we are socialists, we are against Western hegemony. Socialists oppose Western hegemony. And I said but not social democrats. Social democrats are the socialists who support NATO.

And I saw someone accuse my post of strawmanning.

Step 1: Create a reverse Cuban missile crisis

Step 2: Sell weapons to nazis

Step 3: Take advantage of the chaos of war to use the IMF to loot the country

Step 4: ???

Step 5: Democracy

Wow, is this some sort of Moscow-funded Russian disinformation bot farm instance? Russia is an existential threat to the US and we have to draw a line somewhere. This war is about democracy. A democratic Ukraine vs fascist Russia. If we don’t stop them in Ukraine, democracy is over.

how has media so successfully gaslit people into believing that the ukraine was ever even successful at being a liberal democracy? i guess all that rampant corruption that was covered by liberal outlets suddenly stopped being a thing when the SMO started

Libs know exactly ONE thing about history - that Chamberlain tried to appease Hitler by letting him take the Sudetenland, and it didn’t stop him - and think it’s some universal truth that applies in every situation.

etc etc etc fucking etc.

Suck. It. Bitches.

people who type like this deserve gulag

The guy who banned opposition parties and suspended elections and installed by a coup is a defender of democracy?

Why invest in democracy when you can invest in democracy manifest?

This is domino theory. It doesn't look good on paper, and it has lead to incredible amounts of war and death and destruction in the real world, including WW1. Many also argued that domino theory would lead to a bunch of democracies in the middle east after a democratic utopia was created in Iraq. No real world application for domino theory has been found.

If Ukraine isn't open to Western investors then maybe Taiwan won't be either. Then South Korea. Then Poland. How will my boss's boss make a steady 15% on his capital if that happens?

This is an investment in democracy.

It's such a perfect line because it reveals their total neoliberalization, the entire monstrous, bloody affair of war is justified by a potential Return on Investment.

Libs are so desperate to have a cause. They want Biden to be the new FDR, they want a new arsenal for democracy, they want Putin to be Hitler, and so on. It's all hollow.

This amazes me

It's funny that

It's hilarious that

I really like it that

starting a sentence like that hides the reactionary rage!

uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

Democracy is when you expand NATO to encircle former soviet nations, and basically tell them outright "if you don't join us, willingly, and allow your economies to get privatized, deregulated, and hollowed out by foreign direct investment and IMF loan debt, you're gonna get balkanized" and then proceed to use one of the most traumatized and nations in Europe (Ukraine) as a staging ground for the CIA to send millions of dollars to reactionary militias so they can start a civil war by burning a bunch of separatists in a union hall to death, and then proceed to pit former soviet nations against each other in a completely avoidable and unnecessary war... and the more you do all that, the more democratic it is.

something something international rules based world order

He forgot the clap emojis?

Calling war, death, and killing an investment is pure financebro brain. And a lot of financebros are thirsty for (vicariously experienced) bloodshed.

It’s funny, they believe anyone who disagrees with them to be some sort of paid operative, but we believe anyone who disagrees as an uninformed numbskull

And they care so much about Ukraine, Poland and South Korea, that's so nice.

Maybe they could help Mexicans and Native Americans as practice.

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What amazes me is still the complete disconnect. I literally want someone like this to go talk to some homeless person, or someone that just lost their child to a psycho with a gun or even the average person in your average [insert bullshit retail job here] clearly struggling to pay rent or whatever that the 50 billion or something in Ukraine is a fucking investment in democracy.

Motherfucker invest into something tangible at least once for starters, like I am pretty sure your average human being next to you(assuming you're actualy real and actualy spends time outside not some NAFO loser in a basement LARPing as some "democracy holy warrior" or something) could give you a list and I'm sure 99% of the time it wont start with some piece of shit missile worth 50k a pop to some random Ukrainian teenager in a trench somewhere or 50 million per plane that can't even fly etc.

"Democracy" Jesus fucking christ.