Yes. I would, if they were still mad at the present german government.

Yeah. Honestly I forget exactly what I said, but it was around the time I was calling people out for talking a lot of smack on the internet, and not actually advocating for effective solutions that were actually doable instead of what I saw as effective solutions that no one would implement, ie killing healthcare executives.

I mean, somewhat. But it was in a context that was not advocating for their deaths. So eh

I’ve been banned from reddit when I talked about how murdering health care ceos and executives would be effective

Considering how ml keeps only temp banning me instead of perm banning, I would say it’s significantly less than reddit

Being able to block legislation by being 41% is NOT the same as being able to control the other 60%. There’s certainly a point where that becomes an issue but I don’t think 40% is it. The far bigger problem in the Senate is how a senator from a population of 500,000 has the same power as one from California

There’s nothing inherently undemocratic about requiring a 60% majority as opposed to a 50%

Yeah, like pretending genociding Ukrainianes is because of nato

The second is that it only includes atate actions meant to take territory in an official capacity, while many imperialist actions have been carried out under the auspices of private companies like Haliburton, Dole, the United Fruit Company, and the Dutch East India Company.

For the record, my stated definition does not limit it. When “especially” is used in definitions, it’s not stated as a limiter but rather to show it primarily applies to as such.

which is neither unprovoked nor being done to expand Russian territory

This is a fundamental disagreement. Especially in regards to saying it’s not to expand their territory as a goal.

One interesting thing I find with lemmy. Is equating ownership existing with capitalism. Presumably because that’s how it’s portrayed in communist literature.

aggression with an expansionist agenda.

especially by a country and especially unprovoked.

Economically or militarily.

D-day wouldn’t be included because the goal wasn’t expansion. Though I would be very surprised if the usa and Europe hadn’t perpetrated many acts that should be included during the full course of the war.

And of course you can get into the argument of cultural imperialism as well

The Marxist definition is strictly different, not a clarification. The Marxist one posits only capitalism can be imperialist, something I would say is strictly incorrect

Marxist does not get to exclusively define what imperialism is. A more standard definition is far more reasonable to use. However, your comment is very informative to me, I’m glad you took the time to write this out

No goalposts have moved dude

Ok but the person above just denied that a square was a rectangle

Nato is not a risk to russia, and never has been. Nato is a defensive alliance. The only way they’re a risk is if russia plans to attack them first. Anyone suggesting that nato provoked it is on something

Invading for territory gain is absolutely synonymous with imperialistic tendencies

Russia isn’t imperialist

Why do you think they’re invading Ukraine. Sparkles and rainbows?

They got a whole hell of a lot more than “some” and your metaphor is ridiculously over simplified and not applicable

Absolutely not. It’s not a one way street, Israel is exerting large amounts of bribes and influence to push the states in such a way

Yes. But that’s not perpetrated by the states, especially not with how many nations support Israel, so it is not correct to call it a genocide by the states