The point I bring up is that the peace terms are just going to get worse. The only way Ukraine turns this around is expanding this into a great power war, which is insanity, especially in the age of nuclear weapons.

This is so gutless. "Well sure I'd prefer unicorns and rainbows but KILL KILL KILL"... just say what you really mean and stand by it.

Polling conducted by the European Council on Foreign Relations in January in 12 countries suggested that only 10 per cent of voters think Ukraine can win. Some 37 per cent thought that a compromise was most likely and 19.5 per cent thought that Russia would win in the end.

It's important to note that Nazi Germany mobilized something like 18 million people over the course of the war and saw over 5 million military deaths. When Stalin suggested that the Allies would need to execute 50,000 Nazis after the war, he was talking about a small sliver of Nazi leadership and those most directly culpable for atrocities.

Oh yes, the left has never protested against the crimes of the USA

You know, you're right. A better version of this meme would be the first world leftists complaining about U.S. imperialism when it happens... then still lining up right behind the State Department when anyone fights back.

The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

I don't know. You can waste a lot of effort on convincing people of the need for security, establishing significant security, not weirding people out in the process, and actually sticking to it, only to find out that it's not as good as you think/it's yet another program with some sketchy back door built in. Or you do everything right and there's a fed in your group in person, a tactic they've used for at least a century. Or there isn't, but a serious adversary can piece together who's in the group and when you're meeting based on public posts and phone data.

This isn't saying orgs should take zero steps on information security, more that you're never going to be able to hide a domestic political group from the U.S. government. Expect leaks and wreckers from the start and you can set up ways to minimize their harm.

Hard to tell how much is pro-Palestine, how much is actual anti-Semitism, and how much is simple self-preservation/people who actually thought they would be "defending their country" when they joined the National Guard. It's also possible (assuming this is real, of course) that, like many higher-ups, this general does not actually have his finger on the pulse of the people under him. If he does, we don't know if this is localized to his troops or present more broadly.

If one doesn't know high school-level history well enough that "this guy fought against Russia in WWII" doesn't set off a million alarm bells, they have no business being in government.

If their defense is "I was told to clap like a seal, I did, and it turns out I was applauding a Nazi," same thing.

Yep, the man himself

The pure (libertarian) socialists' ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

Tells their users to follow the rules = it's a ruse, they're trolls

Tells their users to troll = see, they're trolls!

Says nothing = they aren't even trying to stop their users from trolling

This is what we call an unfalsifiable orthodoxy.

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