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But I thought that capitalism was about freedom? I thought that we didn't have to construct barriers to keep people from leaving?!-/s

I'm trying to order nukes off of Ebay but I'm having trouble.

Then again, no one's accused me of having nukes, but I like to be prepared.

I've read that he was somewhat of a dick towards sub-saharan southern African countries, but that could have just been a misunderstanding/slander.

I've also read that he supposedly financed one or more armies of fundamentalists that would often rape civilians, or that he allegedly had a dungeon where he would sexually assault women, but I'm 99 percent sure that both of those claims are neoliberal horseshit.

What I DO know, is that he was a brilliant man and a motherfucking titan of a person. A true badass.

He greatly took after Mao, and was "friendly"-ish with the USSR and I think China.

He helped fight the Eurocrakkker colonizers in Africa.

While I mostly agree that "great man theory" is horseshit, I don't think anyone can deny that he was a true titan of a person.

Liberated Libya from a U.S. backed dictator, instituted a form of socialism (even though Libya was more secular than neighboring countries, I don't like that Libya supposedly had an Islamist bent to it. I don't mean in culture/society, I mean like the law) but besides that, Libya under his ba'athist leadership seemed like it had a lot in common with the Soviet Union.

Local democracy and democratic control of the means of production, with the guiding hand of the state preventing capitalist overreach, and very high living standards for a continent ravaged by imperialism for centuries, and he helped fund numerous national liberation and socialist groups and revolutionaries.

This motherfucker built a whole ass aquifer that crakkkers said was impossible to build, until it was destroyed by NATO, unfortunately.

I like to think of Gaddafi as being like Libya's/Africa's Fidel Castro. A larger than life gentle giant.

My one major complaint, is that I think that he gave up Libya's nuclear weapons way too easily.

I understand that the west had their boot on Libya's throat, and having millions and millions of people and many countries and movements depending on him would likely cause any person to have serious psychological/mental stress on them, coupled with lessening of sanctions, I understand why he did it.

I know I'm rambling, but I feel a slight attachment to Gaddafi because he reminds me so much of my grandfather.

And it's fucking horrible and anger-inducing that he was overthrown, tortured and murdered by Libyan gusano terrorist NATO-financed nutjobs.

May he rest in power. Africa and the world isn't the same, without him.

99 percent of the time, the only problem that liberals have with the Vietnam war was that the U.S. lost, not about the suffering and death of millions of innocent people, or the fact that the U.S. tried to overthrow Vietnamese democracy and socialism.

Beautifully put comrade

I remember reading that too.

He said that he was surprised at the relative lack of regulations in Soviet cinema, especially in regards to violence.

The only thing you couldn't do, was advocate for the overthrow of socialism

You have way more faith in them than I do.

My chicken's hands are always at the correct angle.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall and listen to that conversation.

George Lucas is way more based than most of these liberals that claim to like Star Wars.

He admitted that the Rebel Alliance vs the Empire is an allegory of the Viet Cong vs the U.S. military, and that he himself is a communist sympathizer.

Mirror's Edge is fucking awesome. I prefer the 2016 version's city than the 2008 game's, though

I think that China has more or less single-handedly saved the world, and just in-time.

Obviously, history is made by people and productive forces, and it's an hyperbole to say that China by itself saved the world. And nothing is locked in stone.

But China has done an extremely fucking excellent job over the past several decades, and managed to get it's hands and tentacles into every orifice of the capitalist's, to prevent socialism from being destroyed. China's policies have been lifting hundreds of millions of people, likely even billions, as the BRI advances, out of poverty, and fights back some of the worst excesses of capitalism.

And crucially, it's China's socialist model that is leading the charge in renewable energy/green technology, at massive goddamn scales, and is exporting and selling all of this to countries all over the world, especially the global south, allowing them to further develop and wrestle off the chains of capital.

While there is still a really long road ahead, and we shouldn't be complacent, I think/hope that the toughest part of this socialist/vs capitalist war is already over. It would take multiple acts of god to even slightly slow China down, and I doubt that even they would make a dent in China's heroic leadership and resolve.

And while climate change, pollution, environmental damage and ecocide will unfortunately likely remain a problem for a long time to come, China's initiatives have severely reduced the potential warming of the Earth, and just in the nick of time, to prevent the worst of the worst of the worst from happening.

If the CPC had waited even just a decade longer to begin it's process of revolutionizing green energy/renewable technology, A.I., microchips, I would be even more suicidal than I currently am.

It fucking horrifies me how easily China could have been successfully sabotaged/invaded/destroyed, and humanity likely being doomed, and global runaway climate change failing to be mitigated by China, and the green revolution/4th industrial revolution never kicking off or being delayed by just a few years, if Xi Jinping hadn't come into power and further mobilized the proletariat, or if Deng's gamble didn't pay off.

I hope to move with my family and I to China and be granted asylum/refugee status, and we're exploring our options.

But even if it doesn't pan out, I have an extremely small amount of solace, in the fact that China has likely already won and outmaneuvered the imperialists, before the war could turn hot. Socialism is the inescapable future.