The only good cop

Isn’t this close to what maoists are talking about when they mention New Democracy in the global south?

As in, much of the national ruling class in the south are basically just middlemen for western capital, so even though they benefit greatly from that arrangement, the southern elite don’t have any independence to act in their own interests to the extent their western can.

So, they ally with the leftist from a nationalist and liberatory perspective, which can easily overlap with the working class and peasants.

In the west, such a class collaboration would just become fascism or coopted by the ruling class, but since the southern elite can’t act in their elite class interests, they find themselves closer aligned with the workers.

Or am I completely wrong? I think ive read this in Eruptions And Continuity or whatever that book was called many years ago.

I’ve thought about it a lot, and I’m almost confident enough to try to make a prediction. Keep in mind, I’m not a guy you should take predictions from.

In the liberal worldview, Ukraine doesn’t actually exist. Like so many other things in the liberal (as in, pro-capitalism) mind, things like Ukraine occupy the same network of hollow symbols and concepts that only gets invoked to Argue about and obsess over.

Similar symbols in these networks are undefinable and hollow concepts like “freedom” “liberty” “freedom of speech” and so on.

It’s not a war to them. Not really, it’s a spectacle to observe, with narratives and thunderous rhetoric of “victory” and “bravery” and the best thing about the symbolic Ukraine is, that’s all it requires of you. Watching it, like a TV show and gush over your favourite characters like zelinski, putin or Ivana Jagoff.

Even if the actual, real life Ukraine were to fall, it wouldn’t register as a defeat, because that’s incompatible with the symbol of Ukraine and the virtues assigned to it.

“Ukraine” if totally defeated, would still exist as a symbol of bravery and victory to these delusional libs, even as the surviving nazi mercenaries go amok and start terrorcampaigns all over europe as revenge for getting “stabbed in the back.”

Norwegian janitor here. I can afford healthcare, but not a family.

Every day I grow firmer in my belief that the internet was a mistake.

I do. I never shit at home. Always on the job, and always at least half an hour every time.

Sometimes I chug a glass of full cream just to be certain my lactose intolerant ass will annihilate that toilet for at least an hour. It also gives me an excuse to leave early when I’m pale as a ghost and looking like I’m six months pregnant from all the gas in my guts.

I’ve reclaimed so much surplus value, im considering buying a fucking kayak or something, even though I don’t need one.

“You are without doubt the worst pedo I’ve ever heard of.”

Depp: “but you’ve heard of me.”