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It would require that each billionaire sees themself in Brian Thompson, when in reality, they see in each other only another obstacle to their own accumulation

Fun fact, the Finnish Army still has the Jäger Battalion which was originally formed to counter the Reds in the Finnish civil war. It was trained by Imperial Germany, who elected the German emperor’s brother as King of Finland. This never materialized since the German Empire got rekt, but just goes to show how the reactionaries literally wanted to return Finland to monarchy.

12 years after Bernie’s campaign for $15/hr. 12 years of high inflation, no less

war is a crude form of politics, and another form of competition. the contradictions from war waged by a socialist state will be many.

Blanket statements about war being a crude form of politics tends toward dogma and not material analysis.

Reminds me of Mao’s “political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” speech. “We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

Modern China is quite different from Mao’s China, but I think it is still true that there are conditions under which war is a necessary activity for a socialist state. One of those conditions would be acts of war imposed on that state by other bourgeois states. If Mao had not insisted on the necessity of war in revolutionary China, I don’t think we would have a socialist China today. The threat on China today is only increasing, and military force will inevitably have to be used to counter Western aggression.

I am not advocating hawkishly for war. It is not automatically the correct strategy. Nor is it automatically incorrect. War is a reality imposed on socialist states that has to be dealt with on its own terms.

Don’t pay the taxes and send the money directly to the needy instead

I meant the VPN option. The alternate account definitely works; I’ve been using that method for years. I don’t think VPN changes your app store.

Free Peach

That’s not British poo. Beans and mash would not support self-standing, solid turds

True. I would recommend the vanilla method to most people though, and it’s the only option for iPhones unless you want to jailbreak.

Does this work? I moved countries, and my app store still depends on the country associated to my account. I think it has to work this way, or else you could not receive updates while traveling.

I made an alternate account precisely so I could download banking apps that are only on the app store in the country where I live, while maintaining the apps I had from the old country.

You definitely shouldn’t create an alternate Google account with the non-US country. That way, it would be trivially easy to switch accounts in the Play Store and download stuff from outside the US store, such as dangerous apps like TikTok.