OhHiMarx

I feel like this is the actual purpose for most CIA funded activities, they were just too obvious about it

Going out of your way to demonstrate how stupid you are

I agree, the Democrats can do literally anything (up to and including supporting genocide) so long as they're marginally less bad than Republicans and we should support them for this reason. This strategy has no foreseeable consequences and can only make things better in the long run.

Be well!

Did you actually think you'd somehow lessen or half-way justify FUCKING GENOCIDE because of the intricacies of realpolitik? Are you serious?!

Get increasingly and never-endingly fucked.

Stop being the chud, then. EZPZ.

BladeRunner: 2049 gets better and better with every viewing. Even more so if you've read Pale Fire, which is referenced a few times in the movie. A masterpiece in every way.

It isn't sci-fi, it's space fantasy.

I don't need to provide an alternative to point out that something is bad. I don't need to follow the hyper-liberal norms and practices that you're so fond of on sites like reddit, it simply is not a requirement.

It's a strange twist of logic you have that no one can have an viewpoint counter to yours without providing you an alternative to your liking. Grow the fuck up and learn how to be critical of news sources, or at least how to find sources critical of them. If you're so good at reading and research and understanding it really should not be an obstacle for you.

You come into this thread high and mighty about your (self-perceived) knowledge and wisdom only to spout ignorant nonesense in reply after reply and then cry when people call you out on it. Intellectually, you are a coward; emotionally, you are a child.

Here's my counter tl;dr for your reddit-brain: Get fucked.

There's not a lot of reason to read Capital unless you're academically interested in all of the details therein; there are good summaries and explanations of that work that are less cumbersome and more relevant to our current time. I'm not saying people shouldn't read it, just that it's pretty dense and not really something that should be considered absolutely mandatory for understanding.

Much of what Lenin wrote, however, is a different story. State and Revolution, for example, is short and easy to read and understand. Even someone who has trouble reading could finish it an afternoon, it's like 100 pages. Just reading 10-15 pages a day - which should be trivially easy - will have it finished in no time. It's hard to believe someone couldn't get through a dozen pages of it at a time unless they're very lazy.

Ah yes, the famously non-ideological and trustworthy AP and NPR.

Marginally less bad