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  • Silver outflows from China to britain in 1800-1900 were over a billion silver dollars. This was exacted in war “reparations” and the opium trade which was forced on them.

    In the 250 years before 1800 China took in around a billion silver dollars from European traders in exchange for goods.

    So europe took a billion silver dollars worth of trade goods from China over 250 years. Then over the next 100 years Britain took all that money along with any trade goods. Essentially making all of china slaves for 350 years.

    In 1800 china’s populaiton was almost 300 million and britain was 11 million. So back of the envelope math says that Britain owes China 10,000 years of slavery. (i’ve never though about it like that but its fucking crazy)


  • I grew up pretty conservative too. All the right information (capitalism bad, elections and peaceful protest don’t change shit, politicians are liars, wars are made by the rich to get richer) was rolling around in my head in my late teens but so was all the reactionary bullshit and anti communist lies. They just took a long time to shake out into the conflicting sides of an argument.

    The tipping point for me was the Ukraine war. It was one lie too many. I’ve got a memory that doesn’t let go when it comes to media. So I never forgot that ukraine had a nazi coup. The liberal “democracies” openly supporting nazis was too much.

    All the nazi symbols that the msm didn’t know it was sposed to be blurring were like pins stabbing my eyes. Suddenly I could see that “both parties bad” wasn’t even going far enough. The entire system was built by rich white supremacists to maintain power. There is no middle ground there are fascists and there are anti fascists and all the western governments are fascists.

    After a short while I realized the only anti-fascists who have a plan to eradicate fascism and make sure it can never return are communists.






  • I’m not saying “no israeli civilians” were killed by the resistance on october 7th. I am saying that there was no organizational intention to kill civilians. I’m saying the the number is under 100.

    Human rights watch is a western puppet. The videos they got came from the israelis. The article has 3 incidents and the context surrounding the incidents is purposely missing. There is no link to the videos, so we have to trust that hrw’s analysis is correct.

    The 3rd story is the most telling re-read it. Every israeli in the article gets the “wearing civilian clothing” line except the person killed in the 3rd story.

    Put the whole thing together and you get a story of a soldier/security/police using a civilian as cover. He got shot, the resistance fighters stopped shooting when they realized the soldier was hit and the remaining person was a civilian covered in a soldiers blood. They lead the civilian away and another fighter finished off the soldier instead of leaving him to bleed out and die slowly.

    And that is the 3rd best evidence they could find.

    The other incidents near the kibbutz and shelter could have been idf commanders that had been intentionally targeted by the resistance. Or they could have just ditched their guns a moment before the video starts. We don’t know.





  • No. 1/3 killed on that day might have been military but it wasn’t the resistance that killed the other 2/3.

    There is no evidence that the resistance killed any civilians. Its likely they might have killed some civilians but the did not intentionally kill non-combatants. There are numerous videos and testimony of Resistance fighters being cordial and kind to the captives.

    The idf is directly and indirectly responsible for nearly every civilian who was killed. There is testimony from helicopter pilots that they fired on the parking lot of the rave as ravers tried to flee. There is video of israelis firing while calling ravers to come to them in effect using them as human shields. There eye witness testimony of idf firing on homes and vehicles that they knew had civilians inside. In some cases it was actually the perpetrator themself admitting to their crimes. There were over 200 resistance fighters who’s bodies were mistaken for civilians because they were burned beyond recognition along side civilians.





  • Agitation is the foundation of organization. There are plenty of leftist organizing things but they get co-opted by the liberals because the class consciousness isn’t there. With sufficient class consciousness in a population you can’t stop organization. It will happen nearly of its own accord.

    Maybe the next revolutionary leftist podcast will be the one that breaks out of leftist circles and starts killing liberalism.