“American capital is not capable of such evil, it must be the machinations of the evil easterns”

I can’t understand how there are people who genuinely believe this argument. “Newspapers can publish anything with no responsibility as long as it says the word opinion”

since 2000, the United Nations tells us, the risk of violent death has fallen even further, to 0.7 percent

Oh, so they’re only counting violent deaths, of course. You see, when you’re killed directly in war it’s very bad, but when you’re enslaved and starved because of colonialism that doesn’t count, because I’m a white author in the west!

Ten thousand years ago, when the planet’s population was 6 million or so, people lived about 30 years on average and supported themselves on the equivalent income of about $2 per day. Now, more than 7 billion people are on Earth, living more than twice as long (an average of 67 years), and with an average income of $25 per day.

Oh no, not the Steven Pinker analysis… This bullshit peddled by Gates is proven to be ridiculous because it only counts forms of consumption earned from income and not from other sources, the latter being the prevalent forms of consumption in pre-capitalist societies… Wherever capitalism arrived in the previous two centuries through colonialism, we can analyze skeletal remains from before and after and it turns out that people were shorter and weaker after capitalism arrived, meaning poorer lives and lower nutritional values… But we surely ignore this because it’s not technically a violent death!!

After Napoleon’s defeat in 1815, this was precisely what the world got. Britain was the only industrialized economy on Earth, and it projected power as far away as India and China. Because its wealth came from exporting goods and services, it used its financial and naval muscle to deter rivals from threatening the international order. Wars did not end — the United States and China endured civil strife, European armies marched deep into Africa and India — but overall, for 99 years, the planet grew more peaceful and prosperous under Britain’s eye.

Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, absolute imperialist scum. “Peaceful and prosperous”? Fuck you a million times, genocidal piece of utter shit.

Their premise is effectively that war consolidates power and minimizes violence at scale inside the unified territory afterwards

So, the fascist “pax Romana” and its contemporary equivalent “pax Americana”. Nothing new, does the article call it by its name?

In Spanish:

http://www.clarin.com/deportes/hongchan-quan-chica-10-clavados-china-14-anos-compite-mantener-madre-enferma_0_r_U69p9xV.amp.html

What they did do was notify Sri Lanka

We have literally no source for this other than a western analyst speculating about it, what are you talking about?

And why are you bringing up Venezuela?

Because a country not showing any kind of problem carrying out repeated war crimes will continue to carry them out?

I don’t know all risks they may or may not face while surfacing outside of Sri Lankan waters

Yet you’re quick to speculate about airstrike capabilities of Iranian air forces as an excuse for US submarines leaving Iranian navy personnel to die in the water, using a western analyst’s speculations in a clearly US-biased article.

From the linked article:

These rules apply to naval warfare and require belligerents, so far as military circumstances permit, to assist survivors at sea.

In practice, however, submarines face particular challenges in fulfilling this obligation. Surfacing to rescue survivors may expose them to significant risk. You also can’t usually fit a large number of survivors on a submarine.

If a submarine cannot safely surface to rescue survivors, it may instead facilitate rescue by reporting their location to other vessels or authorities.

“Surfacing […] may expose them to significant risk”. Tell me which risk the submarine was facing in Sri fucking Lanka after sinking an Iranian boat.

Wheater or not the sub was in danger in that region is ultimately speculation. It’s possible the ship sent mayday back to Iran, who could have sent aircrafts. Regardless of probability, it is a possibility

Tell me which strike aircraft model Iran possesses that can travel the thousands of kilometers from Iran to Sri Lanka and then back without refueling on the way (Iran, unlike the US, doesn’t have military bases in half the planet). This is bullshit speculation, and the “possibility of air strikes from half an ocean away” argument would render this law of rescue entirely useless forever. Tell me, which risk of retaliation was the US facing when striking and murdering fishermen off the coast of Venezuela and leaving them to die?

The article notes that Sri Lankan rescue ships were quick to arrive at the scene. Possibly due to the US sending a message

Again entirely speculation. Let’s see the country of origin of the author. Oh, it’s an Aussie defense analyst, I’m sure this is totally unbiased and not a propaganda piece to defend western attacks to Iranians!

What ousted them was communism fighting back, but yeah

China’s life expectancy in 1962 was of 51 years, and in 2025 it’s 79, just 3 years shorter than Finland. Considering that China’s urban population is just 2/3rds of the country compared to 85% for Finland, I’d say they’re pretty much there comparing the difference in level of development.

I guess increasing life expectancy of 1.5bn people to European levels in 50 years isn’t socialist enough for you?

Dumbass liar fuck. Per World Bank data, 100% of Chinese people have access to electricity since 2014, and as of 2020 over 91% have access to running drinking water.

I like China, and this is not fake, just news from 2020. Athlete in question I’d Quan Hongchan

Nothing in the content of that tweet is refuted by your link, everything in the tweet is factually true. The “rules of warfare” comment refers to leaving the survivors to die only to be rescued by Sri Lankan forces, instead of helping them as they are mandated to do. The submarine was under no risk being in that region, and by avoiding helping the survivors, it committed a war crime.

Tell us, what else in the above tweet is false? The military exercise? The Iranian boat being unarmed? The US pulling out of the exercise to carry out an attack against unarmed members of the Iranian navy? All of that is true. Why are you making such a fool of yourself to defend the Epstein coalition?

Any day now

Bullshit. China is the pioneer in battery technology for years now.

China has the battery production technologies and capabilities, the electric motor production, an unbelievable economy of scale, and insane levels of automation in their EV Factories, those are the main reasons behind their pricing and not “subsidies to destroy our industries”. Most subsidies, AFAIK, were tax cuts to purchases in China.

Russia supports Iran, but this war is a win for Russian interests. It erodes the international order, stamps out rebellion in Iran, boosts oil profitability, reinforces their stance that the neoliberal world order is a threat, and weakens America.

Fully agreed, but that’s all America’s doing. If there’s any implication that Russia somehow controls America while being its nemesis, it doesn’t make much sense.

Russia is actively giving military aid to Iran and vice versa, what are you talking about?

Neanderthal were more homo than Peaceful Sapiens

Uttering “fuck Hamas” in 2026 is the definitive evidence that you need to read theory. You’re spreading Zionist propaganda.

From a Marxist-Leninist: there are some Marxist authors contesting the emphasis on the “dialectics” part of dialectical materialism. Paul Cockshott is a good example, you can search for Cockshott’s criticism of dialectical materialism, maybe if the concepts don’t stick to you you could have a more Newtonian materialist view