I disagree, then.

Ukraine holds a position similar to Israel, as a forward outpost for the US Empire’s millitary without getting directly involved. Check Ukraine’s track record on UN voting in the last decade, since 2014.

Then what is?

It’s an RPG with an open world, not a looter shooter with RPG elements.

It’s more that those in the Donbass region have been fighting a war for their own existence against Kiev since 2014. Kiev has far more Nazis than a few small bands.

What are the problems with wanting production and distribution to be collectivized and oriented around needs, rather than profits? How is this comparable to Reddit?

That’s fair, haha.

If you’re a genuine believer then I can understand your despair at seeing a family member cast aside what you believe to be true, dooming herself in your eyes. If I were religious, I would be a disastrous wreck if someone I cared about took that path. However, punishing her, attacking her, or telling her that she will be damned forever will never bring her back to you, it will only solidify this division. She has made her choice.

What you can choose between is alienating her entirely, or welcoming her and respecting her decisions. If it’s the former, you will lose your sister entirely. If it’s the latter, you will retain your sister, and increase the chance she has a change of mind. Having people act cruel to her will only solidify her decisions, it is with kindness that you can change minds.

That all being said, accept that she will likely never return to Islam, whatever you choose to do. It’s her decision either way. Even if you treat her with enormous kindness, that only takes the chances from 0% to ~5% that she will convert to Islam. You have to accept that your choice is between having her in your life and probably never converting, or to have her gone entirely.

I wouldn’t say social media is a good space for intelligent conversations, haha.

NATO is a millitary alliance of imperialist countries, whose leading officers have often been high-ranking Nazis, such as Adolf Heusinger. The comparisons to the Nazis are apt.

Yep, it’s kinda fun that way.

The consequences of the slave trade still carry over today, and factor into neocolonialism and imperialism committed by the collective west right now. It isn’t just “something bad their ancestors did,” it’s a generational crime with generational consequences that shape much of how the world works to this very day. Reparations are necessary.

Ukraine is more of a vassal than one of the bigger imperialists, it’s used similarly to how Israel is by the US Empire. It’s itself being harvested for rare Earth minerals and shackled with tons of debt while at the same time being used to attack enemies of the west. Hungary is both a NATO and EU member state, it’s firmly on the side of the imperialist system.

Imperialism essentially is monopoly capitalism at its most developed stage, turned international. In the modern day, the US Empire is at the helm of this, with the EU and other NATO countries being used to protect this system of international extraction. By being in NATO, Hungary plays a part in defending this system, and by being in the EU, it benefits from imperialist spoils.

Usually when people leave reddit, many communists do come and find a much better place here. I think it’s good that we have a lot of left wing people here, and have little tolerance for right-wing and pro-imperialist views.

Many more communists and linux enthusiasts.

I mean, if a post says that the US has higher rates of starvation than socialist countries, someone jokingly references the “communism is when no food trope,” then you respond by suggesting there may be some truth to that, I don’t think it’s an “argument” to point out that socialist countries did achieve food security better than capitalist countries.

How so? All are dictatorships of capital that rely on exploiting the global south, or play a role as a vassal state for imperialist countries.

It’s not irrelevant, the idea that “communism is when no food” is wrong because they ended famine in a region where that was common.

It’s the last option they have, and it largely has been working to undermine Israel’s existence. Settlers have been fleeing at enormous rates and now Iran is destroying US and Israeli millitary structures, accelerating that.

After WWII, soviet caloric intake was higher than the U.S.