Yeah, ‘leftist’ Politicians that have this kind of stance infuriate me to no end.

If you’re anti Ukraine and pro Russian you’re not Anti-fascist. And if you’re not Anti-fascist, are you truly on the left?

If the problem is anti-americanism, I can understand that, but the solution to that is supporting Ukraine even more, so they don’t have to depend on the US.

I believe you’re talking about Proxima Fusion? I’m optimistic, although I have absolutely no understanding of the material. But one can hope!

It’s impressive how confidently incorrect you are.

https://youtu.be/O7LvhSQ5Te4?is=TmbZ8L83lGaEz3HZ

A good video on what constitutes Democracy, of which multiparty elections absolutely is a core part.

But this will be it for me. I wish you well in life.

then I started learning things

Apparently not about democracy. I’ll ask again, when was the last time China held a general election which allowed opposition parties?

Most of those aren’t real lol

Sure, and those definitely aren’t just Ji Jinpings political enemies that he is eliminating, as is usual in an authoritarian state.

And yeah, no. That’s not what Electoral Democracy is. Or when was the last time a different party with different ideas was elected to Power in China?

Honestly, the lengths tankies go to in order to convince themselves China is a Democracy is insane. Literally 1984 DoubleThink.

It would be extremely naive to think that the wealth doesn’t influence Party Politics in China.

And there is no democracy in China. Electoral Democracy is one of the core pillars of Democracy itself, without it, it simply isn’t democratic. For that to be true in China there would have to be elections where everyone gets to vote.

By that definition most ‘western’ countries are controlled by the working class too, with the addition that literally everybody in the working class gets to vote.

How exacty is the working class controlling the state in China?

Ahh so thats where the term mint condition comes from?! Guess I never connected those dots.

I understand where you’re all coming from, but at the same time I do believe you can be proud of things you’ve done nothing for.

For example I don’t see anything wrong with being proud of a family member for beating addiction or running a 5k etc.

Edit: Phrasing

Yeah, I migrated from voting for green to Volt aswell.

I think the Green Party, at least where I’m from, represents my beliefs quite well but are really lacking when it comes to the european project.

Really looking forward to seeing what we can achieve with Volt!

Ah another European federalist, love to see them in the wild!

I’ve felt more alligned with Europe as a whole than with the respective European regions my parents come from for a while now.

I will be joining Volt, since they seem to be the first serious pan-european Party with the goal of federating Europe.

I believe european federalism is also the right movement to counter all the nationalism on the rise in Europe.

You are actually joking, right? How do you defend against succession? They’re trying to leave and you’re stopping them.

You defend against a violent seccession supplied by Russia. There was no democratic process. Or are you arguing countries aren’t allowed to defend their terrotorial integrity?

And as for the natural gas, I am talking about gas reserves that have been newly discovered in the past 20 years. They haven’t been developed yet, so they obviously don’t factor into how much Ukraine is producing now. Why do you think the Orange man was so adamant about having rights to those reserves?

So maybe you’re the one that needs to read up on geo politics, because you clearly don’t.

The only one moving further from reality is you on your mission to bootlick russian fascists.

Don’t bother with him.

He’s so deep into the Authoritarian/tankie rabbithole, that he hasn’t realised he turned into a fascist imperialist by pleading that countries shouldn’t have sovereignty and that the forceful relocation of a peoples against their will is a good thing.

Are you honestly saying Ukraines defence against a violent seccession, possible only do to Russian instigation, is attempted genocide?

And of course Ukraines eastern natural gas reserves are one of the reasons for the invasion, thinking otherwise is just naive.

Why? Is countries having their souvereignty and agency not enough?

Least of all eastern Europe might not hate Russia as much as they do now.

So you agree that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is imperialist?

Exploitation of a nation for labour and resources.

Because it’s exactly that.

What they should have done is let countries keep their sovereignty. Or are you saying that ecomonic competition with the west is a valid reason for what Russia did to eastern Europe?

Ahh got it, thanks for clearing it up!