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The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970

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  • The recommendation is ‘workers of the world, unite’, not ‘workers of the world, move somewhere that’s less shitty’.

    The Chinese public would be more grateful if we overthrew our ruling class rather than moved to their country, for the simple fact that capitalism is a global phenomenon that harms both the international proletariat and the people’s republics.
























  • According to Star Wars reference books, the population of the Death Star was 1.7 million military personnel, 400,000 maintenance droids, and 250,000 civilians, associated contractors and catering staff.

    (Sources herein.)

    Anyway, the Death Star was a giant military base, whereas the Islamic Republic of Iran has an overwhelmingly civilian population, and it has no interest in global (let alone galactic) domination. So this is an uncompelling equivalence.

    Besides, Carlson was likely more concerned about the expenses. Having a general idea of something’s population size is important for understanding how difficult or expensive conquering it will be. It seems that Cruz missed the point here.