I have to point out that in medicine we use the derivatives from cocaine, novacaine, lidocaine, benzocaine etc as potent short/medium term anaesthetics. Drugs like these make dental extractions for example relatively painless today. Pure cocaine was used previously but was far more toxic to the liver and had a much higher incidence of allergic reaction than its modern derivatives.

The Israelis hate this solution more than any other as they know that if there was one state, they would be outnumbered and outvoted by the Palestinians. This is why Israeli rhetoric towards the Palestinians “breeding like rats” is so vile, they know they are outnumbered and another reason they are so eager to carry out their frequent mass killings or their more recent genocide.

Israel will resist this move as much as any of the others. Israel was created by the UN as a settler colony for European Jews nearly 80 years ago. There has been nothing but bloodshed ever since, it’s time to admit the Israel experiment was a failure. I will never understand why the Jews of Europe were not given a piece of Germany for their new state instead of a piece of Palestine that these Jews had no social or cultural connection to.

This guy has obviously never seen my hat with a built in fan.

S/ obviously we are all going to cook as these heatwaves get more common.

Just listened to a great episode of Behind the Bastards on this they call themselves “Rationalists”. Their bible is a Harry Potter fan fic, seriously mad stuff.

You have given us the answer to the “are we the baddies” question at least. Your morals clearly lie in the dirt like the rest of the Zionists. The video is just as unfunny as republican humour in the states, punching down at the oppressed, never good comedy.

What comforts me is the knowledge that Israel is unsustainable in the long term, utterly reliant on the support of a notoriously fickle USA. The recent New York election has seen all of the candidates backed by Mamdani winning against Zionists. Being a Zionist is now poison in US elections. If America withdraws support for Israel, Israel is suddenly surrounded by all of the counties it has been bombing and attacking. Israel is massively outnumbered.

The only music then will be, From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Compassion to the degree you are trying to force on me is overrated. The EU is currently experiencing what bleeding heart compassion gets you, uncontrolled migration and a beligerent neighbour who mistakes kindness for weakness. I hope the EU has seen the error in their ways and seems to be waking up to the issue.

I do not understand what you mean when you say I

should be nowhere near a violence monopoly.

This statement makes no sense to me. I understand the concept of states having a monopoly on violence within their borders, one could even describe the USA having a near monopoly on global violence. I have never heard the term being used as you have, maybe a loss in translation?

You use the abstraction of russia to include people who are not self identified russians, this boar headedness is dangerous

Again more context is necessary to understand who you are talking about, is it the Chechens or the Buryats? Or is it the Bolsheviks I was discussing in the last comment.

If it is the subjugated people’s of the Russian empire to which you are referring, they have the option of fighting for their freedom. These people seem more interested in fighting Ukrainians for Putin’s gold, they deserve what they get in my view.

I am ok with being a nationalist if that is what you are describing. I believe the vast majority of the Russian population supports the war and Vladimir Putin. There are very few in Russia opposed to the war and even less doing anything about it. It is impossible to somehow exclude these people from the effects of sanctions so they must live with what their brothers and sisters do in their name and the consequences of this.

You somehow think that I personally owe the “good” Russians something but that Russia does not have to take responsibility for its own past actions? It sounds like you have no moral consistency and make up rules to suit whatever your current agenda is. The Bolsheviks formed and ran the USSR, Russia is the successor state to the USSR. Russia accepted all debts and assets of the former USSR and is its officially recognised successor state. Russia does not get to take credit for all of the USSRs achievements while disowning all of the horrible acts like the Holodomor.

The betrayal of Makhno set anarchism back in order to preserve the vertical power structures the Bolsheviks ended up keeping as part of their “communist” government. The Bolsheviks embody Russian culture that has been present since they gained independence from the Mongols, I suspect the years of subjugation played a part. Endless expansion, lying and betrayal is the culture of Russia. The world will not miss the Russian empire after it collapses.

Since you are the one so abhorred by the deaths of children and the deaths of 36 on October 7th can you use the same logic to demonise Israel. Israel has murdered at the lowest estimate 20,000 and the upper end 50,000 Palestinian children. This means Israel has murdered 555-1389 times the amount of children that Hamas has.

When you are slaughtering children at hundreds to thousands of times the rate of a terrorist organisation like Hamas to the tune of 10s of thousands of children how do you and the “moral” IDF not stop and ask yourselves, “are we the baddies?”

You absolutely are.

There are very few in Russia who are against this war for the right reasons. It is a myth that this is Putin’s war and the poor meek Russian people are just going along with it. The vast majority in Russia are chesty thumping nationalists who support the war whole heartedly.

You are betraying all of the people who are against the war or are avoiding making themselves into nationalist cogs

I am betraying no one, I owe nothing to those people, again why do you think I personally owe these people I have never met anything. They were betrayed by their own leadership, stop trying to pass the blame onto me.

I have no hope for any anarchist revolution in Russia since they betrayed Nestor Makhno. Russians only know how to bow down to a strong warlord.

The substance of your critique is what stands out as opposed to the critique itself. It is a common pro Russian talking point to dismiss the effectiveness of the sanctions on limiting Russia’s ability to wage war. The reality is that sanctions have only started to work now that the Russian state has started to run out of the 300 billion or so dollars of liquid funds to support the war. Russia’s current months long at this stage collapse is the result of sanctions starting to bite.

The majority of the Russian people support this war, fuck them, they deserve what they get. Why do you expect me to show more responsibility to mankind than the Russian people? That is your expectation, I genuinely do not give a shit about those warmongering pricks.

Da, comrade I shit in bucket before war, I shit in bucket after war. My brother Ivan went to SVO, he lost both legs but brought home real toilet for shit, great success!