Damn that’s way better then what Soros is paying me.

Keeping Lemmy Facebook.

Fix your lock so it uses the same key.

Those weren’t my claims they were claims of yours I repeated because it proved my point that those claims proved it was an imperialistic state based on marxism’s definition of such.

I can see how that would get confusing though.

When did I say that?

I know you accused me of it but after reviewing our conversation I can confidently say I didn’t say that.

The definition I’m using is the commonly accepted one and language matters because how else are you supposed to communicate concepts?

Even if Russia barely fails to meet your strict standards of marxist imperialism calling Russia an imperialist state isn’t incorrect though because the common definition of imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force which can hardly be argued that Russia isn’t actively doing both of those things.

The Marxist interpretation of imperialism says imperialism arises from the concentration of economic power in the hands of powerful monopolies and cartels within the capitalist nation which is pretty clear that it isn’t talking about monopolies on a global scale.

Being nationalist and deeply capitalist in an inwardly driven economy seems to fall squarely into the definition making Russia an imperialist state by the marxist definition.

If you’re changing the goalposts here from imperialism to the ‘marxist interpretation of imperialism’ would you disagree that a key characteristics of marxist imperialism is monopolistic capitalism, or that imperialism arises from the concentration of economic power in the hands of powerful monopolies and cartels within capitalist nation, which Russia’s oligarchs is a prime example of?

Russian imperialism.

What you didn’t tie your wife up in the basement for six months?

Lucky it took me six months to get the proper level of stockholm syndrome into my now wife.

Are you still friend zoned?

But when you start the journey with Rita Hayworth all bets are off.

Isn’t that the preacher zone?

I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.

That meal isn’t improving anyone’s life.

I think the third time I watched was the worse viewing.

My parent’s sex tape that I watched last year.

At least it’s not Harris, right?