Centrism is literally the position that all of the genocide committed by your society is totally fine and acceptable and nothing needs to change. You’re headed for the worst of all possible scenarios for you. But the rest of the world will eventually dismantle the Eurocentric empire, and that means rematriating wealth and land to the people it was extract from. Necessarily that means all of the Eurocentric world will regress financially and regress in terms of influence and power, but that’s what’s required for healing.

No culture has a monopoly on greed.

I didn’t make a moral argument about virtues and vice. I made a material argument about history. This is not a response.

Humans are gonna cornhole one another until the earth gets swallowed by the Sun.

And for the last 600 years the North Atlantic has been doing it to 80% of the world under a minoritarian regime that has overseen the devastation of the planet, multiple genocides including several that are still ongoing under the rule of the West, and the extraction of wealth from every part of the planet and concentrated in the hands of the ultraminority. We can reverse that by ending the reign of terror that is the West’s dominance of the world.

if your political movement includes reparations, then be prepared for fascists to win against you, bc people just won’t go for it. Not when they’re more debt saddled every year and their children’s future looks ever dim.

Don’t worry. The people you’re talking about are far and away the minority and if they decide, again, to go fascist, they will eventually be dominated by the majority and crushed.

It’s gonna be really funny when the US realizes that it can’t expect other countries to transfer their wealth to the US when there’s no more wealth to transfer because they’ve been extracting it for a century.

Jesus Christ read a fucking book. Russia was invaded twice through its border with Ukraine. Want to guess who did it and why?

The first invasion was Napoleon, of France, of Western Europe, of the North Atlantic. Why? Because it would be beneficial to the Western order to control the resources, eliminate competition, and subjugate the people.

The second invasion was the Third Reich, of Germany, of Western Europe, of the North Atlantic. Why? The same reasons as Napoleon plus two more. One, because European fascism arose in response to the successful creation of the world’s first workers’ state, the Third Reich was hell bent on not merely controlling Russia but also ending the project for worker states. Second, because the Third Reich sought to replicate the great success of the USA in subjugating natives and blacks and extracting hyperprofits from them without giving them opportunity for revolt and wanted to apply the same program to the Slavs of Eastern Europe and Russia.

In both of those invasions, Russia was under an existential threat and lost a massive number of lives. Both of these invasions were across the border with Ukraine.

Now we have NATO, helmed by the USA (who the Third Reich emulated) staffed originally by literal Nazi officers as part of the USA’s leave-behind project which distributed Nazis all over Europe, as part of the larger pattern of the USA’s participation in the Nazi project through Operation Gladio and Operation Paperclip. Now we have a nuclear army staffed by Nazis by the country the Nazis emulated that trained Nazis and used Nazis and voted against condemning Nazis and currently has Nazis marching publicly domestically and has been arming and funding Nazis for decades. And that nuclear army has been expanding its presence and logistics and supply chains and recruiting and training operations across Europe and after training and arming Nazis in Ukraine for years and after supporting a coup and hand picking the leader to take the place of the democratically elected leader, after all that, NATO finally has a chance of moving its military presence into Ukraine.

And you don’t think that represents an existential threat to Russia? You think the motivations of Napoleon and the Third Reich are gone? You think the economics and geopolitics have changed so much that no one could possibly have any further interests that would lead them to attempting to subjugate Russia?

Read. Do everyone a favor and stop putting your ignorance as though it’s a position and read something.

No other country in the history of humanity dropped nukes outside of tests. No other country nukes civilians. No other country nukes civilians in a country that was surrendering. There is no way around it.

I’m not talking about the existence of subs in non-native waters. I’m talking about surfacing a sub and announcing it’s presence in South Korea as a sabre rattle. Russia didn’t surface subs off the coast of Florida, it didn’t surface subs in a port in Mexico. Because Russia isn’t trying to get in a war with the USA. It’s the USA that keeps expanding its military presence every year, believing it has the mandate to establish a command center for each region of the planet, using slogans like “the border is everywhere” to organize it’s border patrol, and expanding the presence of its nuclear capabilities into 80+ countries.

No, there is no comparison.

I think you have no idea about history. There is only one empire that subjugated 80% of the world population and that’s the European empire. No one comes close, not Rome, not the Vikings, not the Normans, not the Chinese, not Genghis Khan, not Japan. Europe alone has dominated the globe for 600 years. What you call “the entirety of human civilization” is actually only white European society. Africa did not extract trillions of dollars from Europe. China did not extract trillions of the dollars from Turtle Island. The Aztecs didn’t extract trillions of dollars from Siberia.

There is only one society that has done this and is still doing it and it’s the European civilization that is anchored in the North Atlantic.

You claim reparations will never happen, yet ignore that reparations we’re paid to slave owners when they lost their slaves. In Haiti, it was cheaper for the French to buy 50K new slaves every year than it was to keep slaves alive. They worked 10s of thousands of slaves to death every year. When the slaves finally revolted and killed all the French on the island, the French levied a debt on Haiti to cover the cost of reparations to the slave owners. That debt is still being repaid.

So don’t tell me Europe can’t make reparations happen because it can and it has done so. The North Atlantic empire is a white supremacist empire that has been dominating the global majority to the enrichment of the ultraminority and has done so through the invention of structural racism, racialized capitalism, and monopoly imperialism. They chose to ensure reparations go to the minority white slave owners and steal those reparations from the very people they enslaved.

Did the Vikings, Normans, and Romans maintain their power or did the British empire ultimately rise above them to become the new empire? Are you saying that if black people want reparations they’ll need to raise an empire and sack Britain by force to get it? I’m not sure you want to manifest that.

Are you fucking serious? You really can’t be that fucking daft.

The debts incurred by the British Empire from buying the slave’s freedom

Yo, what the actual fuck!? This is literally what the claim is. The British government paid back all the slave owners for their loss of human property. Meanwhile, the slaves themselves were kidnapped, tortured, raped, stripped of their language, their religion, their culture, their history, their dignity, their family, their children, their labor, their sanity, their liberty, and they get worse than nothing. They get “liberated” into a legal regime that explicitly denies them the same rights as everyone else, a legal regime that assume everyone is starting on even footing with equal opportunity, a legal regime that refuses to prosecute crimes against black people, and a legal regime that commits crimes against black people.

Trillions of dollars were appropriated through slave labor. Trillions more were extracted directly from the African continent. And you want black people to be happy that Britain thought slave owners should get reparations for their loss of human property but that slaves don’t deserve reparations?

You are fucking disgusting.

Because you don’t just have a coup after having a stroke of insight from a night of binge drinking?

It’s a movement led military units that have deep political and intelligence connections. They know a lot of things that aren’t going to be admitted by the West.

There is only one country that used nukes against a live target, ever, and they did it twice, to civilian population centers in the middle of active peace negotiations.

There is only one country with nuclear capabilities deployed in over 80 countries under its direct control. There is only one country that has unilaterally pulled out of every nuclear treaty in history. There is only one country that publishes news articles about and has leadership in press conferences talking about winning nuclear war and about developing mini nukes. There is only one country working to undermine the MAD doctrine. There is only one country that just sent a nuclear-armed submarine to one its vassal states as a show of willingness.

No one seems to be to be too worried about how much bloodlust we’re seeing from all sectors of the USA and Europe.

My god you really do believe all this capitalist bullshit. Listen, things have material and labor inputs. Those material and labor inputs could be applied elsewhere, so there are opportunity costs. But the idea that the solution is to create extraneous services that can only be afforded by people who are hoarding our medium of exchange is missing the forest for the trees. If the real problem was that we didn’t have enough paper money to pay for shit, the communists have a great answer for that and it’s called abolishing private property. End of hoarding.

Now we have all the paper money we need because no one is hoarding it. And yet, and yet, we still have labor and material inputs and those inputs could be used elsewhere.

So NOW, under communism, we get to make decisions not based on what sociopathic hoarders want but instead based on what society needs. Do we need to figure out the safety challenges for gold plated toilets on Mars, or should we maybe focus on some other aspects of space research. Because if we follow what the sociopathic hoarders want, we’re not getting efficiency, we’re getting maximal waste.

No, it doesn’t. It speaks directly to it when it mentions the things it supports about space research. It then goes on to say what it doesn’t like, which is space imperialism, space warfare, and space privatization for profits. Learn to read.

Wait until you learn about the falling rate of profit! Oh I’m so excited for you!

Something about if you die in an accident the payout could be larger than if you survived.

It’s not that. It’s that they can deny the payout if you broke the law.

You do realize that law enforcement is limited by jurisdiction and national law enforcement reports directly to the executive of the country. This is how the USA handles hosting criminals, and even electing them.

Great question. What do you think the answer is?

I don’t think you understand how unfree information is in the West. The West has the oldest, biggest, most well funded, and most effective propaganda machine in the history of the world.

There is no way you’re going to get money to a sanctioned state. Focus on revolutionary defeatism.

Is that why G20 decided not to sanction nor condemn Russia this week?