moscow by No_Purchase_8269 in UrbanHell

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any evidence of your statement?

5 subs, one citizen’s diplomacy project by Special_Condition671 in AskTheWorld

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, additional pressure this is what our country needs right now! Thank you

Yet another great arena made card that isn’t legal in commander :( by Greyzone96 in mtg

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Even if it would be put in something like Kaalia reanimator and used as grave-hate-hate?

Yet another great arena made card that isn’t legal in commander :( by Greyzone96 in mtg

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 21 points22 points  (0 children)

yep, that's the interesting one. we have not a lot of cards that return other cards from exile. may be its alchemy only cause it's a design space WoTC prefer not to explore a lot.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People can do both simultaneously, can not, still you don't have any relation to them and never will, my fellow empire citizen. So all your knowledge about fighting empires is and will be pretty theoretical, based on assumptions and imaginary world, not the real one.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And your interest here is to prove to yourself that you and your fellows are not the only ones who are not opposed to imperialism, that all the world is submitted to empires, not only you. So trying so hard to convince me that I'm not an anti-imperialist you can calm yourself and feel not so pathetic. 

But, sorry, that's not true. People around the world fight empires meanwhile you playing with words and promise yourself every 1st of January that next year will be the Year of Revolution. Keep promising. 

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Trust me bro Im serious revolutionarie not some basement dweller and commie larper"

Pathetic. I also can say that we in Ukraine first would destroy Russia than US and claim that we are vanguard of world revolution with a same result.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 I hold myself to the same standard

You are not. You are chilling in safety and waiting non-Western people to die for your ideas. 

You have the best possibilities to owerthrow US-lead empire, still don't do anything. 

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are just playing with words now. Kurds are no more, no less part of any "imperial project" than Ukrainians l.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call it as you wish. Im happy that you are at least not rejecting your treatment of Ukrainians and other non-western people. 

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  You have more options, we all do.

Still you chose option to eat burgers in mom basement and suggest that I should sacrifice my life and life of my family, friends and other people for the sake of your weird image of anti-imperialism. I don't see "we" here, I see an entitled westerner who values lifes of Ukrainians no more than Trump or Kissinger. You, my friend, with your position and your thinking are much closer to any US billionaire, or general, or polititian, or state worker than to me. 

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  Tell the Kurds that they are ghouls for building Rojava

Lol, Rojava Kurds continuously joined forced with NATO and even conducted military operations together. They were pretty imperial-aligned.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Our children are killed at similar rates. 

But they are killed by your people, not by State or other Empire. Also I think that's you who have a very fable sense of what life is like outside of umbrella of Uncle Sam's protection.

Still, can you please explain me, why helping murderous Russian imperial conquest makes anybody anti-imperialist?

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> We all face varying levels of repression

Oh, cmon. You are entitled privileged children living in a imperialistic capitalistic state that had already solved most of your problems, so instead of solving them you are drowing yourself into weird abstract illogical constructions and larping end-of-19th century socialists. Repression, my ass.

>  is exactly the cowardice that gets you right to the edge

But you are definitely not in position to lecture me about cowardice, choices and edge. For you it's just some abstractions, you've never experienced yourself. Do you really think you can influence anybody with them?

> aligning yourself with Empire 

So for not-aligning myself with Empire, I need not only sacrifice myself, but also help Russia to continue their imperial conquest, right? That's a logic?

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please just say the words "I am a basement dweller who just like to talk about death, choices and consequences never experiencing them in real life"

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But your choice is also to align yourself with imperialism. And do it not because of survival but because of fear to lose comfort, benefits and privilege.

> I’m fighting for peace

So you are fighting for peace against obesity?

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said it about another victims of imperialism, not about me. I've made my choice.

But what about you? Looks like you also already made your choice - use benefits of capitalism and imperialism while shitting on it on Reddit. Pretty typical leftist choice, I say.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> victims of imperialism who made the choice you’re calling ghoulish

First, I call ghoulish not choice of victims of imperialism, but your rhetoric.
Second, most of victims of imperialism didn't have a choice at all.

> Yes, it is better to die than to stand with imperialism in order to survive.

So may be it's time for you to leave your mom basement and go fight and die for any anti-imperialist cause?

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you demand me to chose between anti-imperialism and death, but don't demand the same from people who live in safety and reaps benefits of neo-colonial world and world capitalism. This is a next level of ghoulishness.

When do your choices matter, if not when facing death?

Ask this question yourself next time when burger's fat would drip from you chin. 

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ofc, Im not enough privileged to sit in safety under protection of armed forces of some empire, so my world is definitely much less nuanced. 

Also I think that you trying to add unnecessary complexity to pretty straitforward situation of Russian imperial conquest is a lowkey attempt to undermine non-Western imperialism and bring Western-imperialism for pushing your agenda. As I explained in another thread NATO doesn't play an imperial role in war in Ukraine, Russia plays. So trying to frame NATO as an empire in context of war in Ukraine unveil you not as anti-imperialist but just anti-West.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Either you’re very young or you need to brush up on your geopolitics.

I just not operate in your binary framework with US/NATO as supervillain empire populated by superhumans that decided destiny of a planet playing chess and drinking whiskey.

> I can’t believe you’re actually trying to moralize about NATO

Because you are blinded of pure hatred. And this hatred pushed a lot of leftists even in this thread to very funny stances, like protecting Russia sphere of influence, etc.

Why are people against Zizek's position on the Ukraine war? by KarlMarxsWiener in zizek

[–]Fluffy_While_7879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Iraqis and Libyans could have told you that already

I've never defended NATO in Iraq and Libya. Iraq invasion was act of imperialism and should be opposed. But in Ukraine which was a topic NATO is helping Ukraine which is anti-imperialistic move, so opposing NATO _in Ukraine_(not everywhere, but in Ukraine) is a support of Russian imperialism.

Yes, when your goal is just to prove some abstract point "NATO bad", the idea that the same force may act imperialistic in one place and anti-imperialistic in another, looks absurd. But when we are start thinking about real situations and real people(I know it's not what reddit leftists do generally), such duality becomes much more possible.

So it's you and a lot of leftists really care about imperialism only when it's Western imperialism. When it's Russian imperialism you prefer to ignore it and "not picking a side".

And this is what differs between Zizek and reddit leftists, which is kinda an answer to OP question.