You can go to communism Island if you want

Despite all the propaganda, there is no place right now on the face of our planet that is under communism.

bit [sic] I’d rather have capitalism, thank you

Well, aren’t you fortunate, you already have all the capitalism you want, anywhere you go. Choke on it.

there are plenty of Muslims in the surrounding states that believe Jewish people are evil

plenty of non-Muslims too

I’m not american, but if I could change one US president from the past, it would be Reagan. A good part of the fuckery we see today (i.e. rampant neo-liberal late-stage capitalism) was enabled by him

Usually by the citizens.

I wish we could…

A state that sees it’s citizens as a threat is broken by design

there are very few places in the world where this doesn’t apply

and needs to be changed fixed

by whom?

I quite enjoy this blog: The Luddite, an anticapitalist blog by a guy/gal who does IT. Owner doesn’t post frequently but it’s always a good read whenever a new text is up

Nobody who survives those societies into middle age cares enough to help one another or even organize for their own betterment.

Many are just too exhausted to do anything while slaving away, just trying to get by. Any effort to organize is sabotaged by those in positions of power. The system actively works against us…

I had no idea. Thanks for sharing

The use of an euphemism doesn’t really change what happened. The previous regime fell and a new one was installed in its place.

“what we have seen from China is the single biggest increase in military capability and build up in conventional sense, by any country since the end of the Second World War”

WTF? The USA alone outspends most of the world combined in this area but somehow China is the threat? This guy should at least remove the american balls he’s gargling before spouting something like that

applicants are first and foremost deciding if it works

not that I agree with OP but this is the same fallacy of “voting with your wallet”, this kind of boycott simply doesn’t work long term, applicants eventually find themselves out of options and increasingly desperate as time goes by

Well duh. You can apply for asylum without a passport. Now try to bridge the ~8k miles from Russia to Ecuador without one, while trying to avoid being deported to the USA, and see how far you’ll get. Best case, you’d be stuck for years in some embassy like happened to Julian Assange.

But there are many diplomatic avenues to get from one sympathetic country to another for a legitimate asylum claim.

So you say, without providing any proof such avenues exist.

Look at this serious and credible threat! Wow, I guess Xi Jiping is quaking in his boots right now

Putin captured him to use as a pawn against the US

This is not how things happened. He got stranded in Russia when the USA cancelled his passport, he was en route to Ecuador (at the time they had a government that was willing to give him asylum).

wow… lots of NATO countries in this list, huh?

It’s hilarious too that it count countries liberated from nazis during WW2 as if they were being invaded to be annexed (implied by your “continental imperialism” quip). There’s lots of other questionable ones in your list too (Vietnam? invaded by the USA!)

Also, Russia != USSR, but who cares about facts if they stand in the way of a good ol’ Russia bashing, right?

Someone should explain to him why NATO exists.

it used to be because of the URSS existence, hard to tell why it still exists 34 years after it fell

None of your proposals would work for long, they only touch symptons of the real problem. We should be dismantling capitalism. It’s the system itselft that allows the massive unequality we see around us, and it’s by design.