I took this as one of the clues that he’s from the mirror universe. In that universe, racist imperialists are celebrated.

The best possible outcome from my perspective is for the Iranian socialist state to re-emerge. As anti-imperialists, we can respect the Islamic state for being a thorn in the US Empire’s side. But the real victory is and always has been the emergence of a workers state that could lead the region into an era of socialist republics.

It’s just the new version of the Nazi party. Co-opting the language of socialism worked for Hitler, maybe it will work for them.

They painted flames on the side. Now it can outrun a hypersonic missile.

“Temporarily embarrassed billionaires.”

Probably need to take the opinions of scholastic theologians (apologists) with a grain of salt. What he’s seeing is a reflection of the material reality that religious prohibitions are tools of the ruling class to control the proletariat. The ruling class rarely subjects themselves to their own prohibitions, so therefore they felt more free to ignore the church whenever they felt like it. Homosexuals exist in bourgeoisie families in equal proportion to proletariat families. It’s an aspect of human behavior that has nothing to do with class. It’s relation to class has only to do with the fact that certain privileged classes are just more free to live their lives as they see fit.

Numerous people are rotting in federal prison with life sentences for possession of marijuana. Biden could use his authority to release thousands of detainees today. Instead, he wants to criticize Russia for imposing a more lenient sentence than the same person would have gotten in the US.

Well written, comrade. This deserves a Marx’s coat award.

Not really. DS9 has a plot thread where O’Brien inspires Rom (a member of a hyper-capitalist species) to form a union and go on strike.