He ends a bunch of his tweets that way, he’s very strange.

May the US Empire crumble to dust, its only vestiges a dark stain on human existence for future historians to look on with disgust.

Nah, you can keep it, it’s good context! Plus it ended up being funny.

Lmao, same.

@umbrella@lemmy.ml is a comrade, they meant the latter.

Complaining about “tankies” and picking fights as soon as you could isn’t nuanced at all, which is why you weren’t responded to with nuance.

Even the harshest critics of the DPRK acknowledge that it has universal healthcare, housing, pretty much no unemployment (if any), and at this point, food. The Arduous March is over. That doesn’t mean the DPRK is a magical paradise or anything, but that’s in a state that was bombed into oblivion and was the target of genocide. If the US adopted more DPRK economic policies, then it would indeed see the improvements Yogthos listed.

I don’t really think you’re owning anyone here, it’s just coming across as you jumping to insults when you’ve been confronted with an alternate viewpoint instead of trying to do any research or understanding. You just jump to “Marxism bad, Marxists unintelligent.”

The creation of a single, secular state with minority protections. Former Israelis could stay, but the people of Palestine that were oppressed for a century will be, at least for a time, the driving factor of reconstruction. Any terrorist cells made up of former IDF would be rooted out, but former Israelis that comply with the demands of Palestinians would not need to be deported, most likely.

Ah fair, maybe pile in some execution vans and Stalin’s copiously large spoon

In this case, it makes sense. The DPRK has minesweepers, a strong relationship with the Russian Federation, and a desire for on-the-ground experience for its soldiers. There’s absolutely no reason for them to send prisoners, especially as it would be less effective and more costly.

Anything is possible if you just make shit up and assume anything the DPRK does is cartoonishly evil, rather than taking Occam’s Razor and having any attachment to reality.

Probably mine clearing specialists. Mines were heavily used during the Korean War, the DPRK certainly has had experience with clearing them out.

Yep, 100%! The only solution has always been a single, secular Palestine, with minority protections. That’s what the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and many Palestinian liberation groups have advocated for for many decades.

Israel has been a genocidal settler-colonial project since its inception, and will continue to be even if Netanyahu was publicly hanged. Israel has never truly been defensible since its inception a century ago.

France, the US, and the UK have all reportedly been found defending “Israel” from Iranian missiles and drones, they are already involved. It seems like this very well could escalate.

The US Empire needs far-right states to serve as footholds, it can’t just rely on aircraft carriers to project hard power. Israel is a land-based aircraft carrier. Now, I agree with Yogthos, the Empire has weakened its industrial capacity and genuinely is a paper tiger, it can be flashy for a quick period but lacks the necessary industry to pivot to a wartime economy necessary for protracted war.

My point was about the USSR being democratic, which is historically true. They held elections, decided economic decisions collectively, and extended democracy not just from the realm of deciding which bourgeois politician or party represents you to the economic and political sectors governing policy and direction. A simple “they weren’t dude” doesn’t disprove historical fact.

Unless, of course, your parameters for deciding if something is democratic or not is decided by vibes, there’s really no reason to call it undemocratic. As an overall measure of material functions of democracy, the USSR was more democratic than the major powers of the allies and axis during World War II. They certainly had flaws with their democracy, hence the inclusion on my part of Zhenli’s essay, but these flaws weren’t because they had the “wrong recipe,” but because democracy is a material structure that needs to be built.

As for the “tankie” jab, I’m not going to apologize for being a Marxist. I agree that they were the most important force in World War II, but I disagree with your characterization of their democracy, hence why I offered sources for you or onlookers to read into to learn more. The opening of the Soviet Archives has only affirmed these primary sources as accurate, and the Zhenli essay helps us reframe how we think about building democratic structures in general.

Iran is a flawed state, certainly, but if Israel succeeds then they will succeed in killing far more women and queer people than the Iranian state could ever hope to execute, along with cisgender folk, liberals, etc. This is pinkwashing. As a queer person myself, this type of rhetoric is just Imperialist apologia, the path to queer liberation of Iranians would be dramatically pushed backwards if Israel succeeds in destroying Iran.

Further, yes, Iran is necessary to stop the genocide in Palestine at this moment. When Western countries are all condemning Iran and backing Israel, it is the Global South that backs Iran. Gazans are cheering, Yemeni people are watching the bombings of Tel Aviv on the big screen. Israel has been the single greatest obstacle in queer liberation in the Middle East as the fomenter of chaos, genocide, and destabilization.

Why is it that queer liberation happens in some countries, and not others? When does it happen? Social progress is a product of economic development and liberation of the Working Class. Bombing Iran and creating a failed state would result in thousands of deaths of queer Iranians, children, and many more.

Do some self-crit. You’re caping for Israel and advocating for the country doing the most to oppose genocide to collapse.

What would that look like? Trying to help Israel destroy Iran, allowing the US and Israel to sweep in and commit genocide against them like the US did with Iraq? The Iranian state is what currently stands between the people and utter devastation, even if that state is flawed, without it the people of Iran have no destiny to speak of. If revolution comes to Iran, it should be on Iranian terms, not on westerners whose regimes benefit from Israeli aggression against Iran.

A low bar it may be, but as you said in the beginning, a toppled Iran would end up like a toppled Iraq - utterly devastated and all of the flaws that existed pre-Iraq War seem like beauty marks after the genocidal US invasion.

People need to chart their own destiny, free from terrorization backed by the US Empire. Without that pressure, social movements in Iran have more room to breathe without fearing rocket-fire from Israel.