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KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
KurtVonnegut [comrade/them] @ KurtVonnegut @hexbear.net
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  • Abolition actually started with legislation which caused a violent uprising from the fucking Confederacy

    Wrong. You are not just wrong, but you are violently racist.

    Abolition started with slaves freeing themselves. Nat Turner. Harriet Tubman. Without people like that, the Civil War would have never happened, slavery would have never ended.

    John Brown was inspired by Nat Turner, and he literally worked hand-in-hand with Harriet Tubman, who seriously considered joining him in his violent raid on Harper's Ferry. John Brown went on illegal (and violent) raids into the south to free slaves and then illegally transport them to Canada. John Brown murdered pro-slavery men in retaliation for their murders of abolitionists in Kansas. Do you think what John Brown did was wrong? Do you think arresting and executing John Brown was a good thing? Do you think Sherman's march to the sea and the violence he committed against southerners is a bad thing?

    I don't expect you to have the correct response, because you are a violently racist, anti-black person. You honestly believe that rich white dudes sitting in a room writing some words on a piece of paper had a bigger effect on ending slavery than black people who actually put their lives and bodies on the line to free themselves (displaying your internalized white supremacy).

    Please educate yourself. Start by reading The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by the fantastic author Gerald Horne. Or maybe you're too afraid to read this book, because it's not written by a "safe" old dead liberal white man.

  • The entire earth's waters are under the USA's jurisdiction, didn't you know? Maybe you should read some more CNN news stories about China's evil navy trying to take over the South China Sea from the USA, who obviously should have more control over the South China Sea than China does. And the Israeli Navy is just another branch of the American Navy, which has the second largest air force in the world (after the American Air Force).

  • Slight correction: Stalin never robbed a train. Georgia pre-1917 did not have many passenger trains (the Russian Empire did not industrialize its peripheral territories very well). Stalin did help in robbing a stagecoach full of money headed to a bank, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1907_Tiflis_bank_robbery

  • We need some Firefly emotes on Hexbear. Especially the combination of the USA-Chinese flag.

  • I was answering his question, not trying to be hostile. I did not insult him at all. Just voicing my opinion.

  • Where is this imperial core you keep mentioning?

    Probably start with where all the giant battleships come from: https://www.businessinsider.com/magnitude-of-us-naval-dominance-2013-11

    Why does the USA need all those battleships if they're not doing imperialism? Are they just cosmetic battleships? Just for shits and giggles?

  • ... Do you think workers in a car factory don't get paid until someone actually buys the car they helped build? All the devs have already been paid!

  • I think it is important to take a critical look at past tragedies

    Those who care more about past tragedies than current tragedies don't care at all. They're just looking for some excuse to feel self-righteous.

  • Lib - "Markets make everything cheaper, which is good."

    Leftist - "But if there is a labor market, won't that make labor cheaper?"

    Lib - "Yes, and that is good."

    Leftist - "How is that good?"

    Lib - "It leads to more profits."

    Leftist - "But why is it good to have more profits?"

    Lib - "Because a good country is when corporations make profits, and the more profits the corporations make, the gooder the country is."

  • Markets have brought more people out of poverty than anything.

    Yes, just like the Irish people who were "helped" by the free market in the 1840s. Or the Indian people who were "helped" by the free market in the late 1800s. You might be interested in this book by the late, great Mike Davis which completely refutes your ideas with hard evidence that the free market can be used (and has been used) as a tool of genocide: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7859

  • You should e-mail that to the presidents of Cuba, Venezuela, and China, to show them the error of their communist ways.

  • Gob, go run to the opioid store and buy mommy one fentanyl.

  • If you are more angry against some poor people addicted to opioids than you are against the billionaire oligarchs who made their money off of addicting millions of people to opioids... you might have a severe case of myopia.

  • the genocide against ukranians

    Which one? The one in the 1930s caused by capitalists or the one in the 2020s caused by capitalists? I take both seriously, and I want the current one to end.