KoloradoKoolAid75
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3·7 days agoI still remember the Napster case. They should’ve disbanded after Jason Newsted left their sorry asses.
ST is more crossover than thrash, that’s why I wouldn’t add them. My big four would be like this:
- Megadeth
- Exodus
- Testament
- Overkill
I also think Rob made a successful financial decision, but his musical career took a nose dive; he entered the band when the boys were done with music and became their own tribute band.
I’ll get stoned to death, but I’ll say Metallica.
Yes, they popularized thrash metal and metal genre as an extension.
Yes, they’re the best-selling metal band.
Yes, Ride the Lightning and …and Justice for All are great albums—they’re on my favorites list also.
No, they’re not “the best metal band of all time”. I’d even say they’re one of the weaker bands in the entire thrash metal genre. I’d rather listen to Exodus, Testament, Annihilator, Destruction, etc. than to listen Metallica, if I don’t crave one of their songs particularly.
3·8 days agoI had to double-check to see if you wrote “democrat centrism” lol. Too much liberal brainrot poisoned my reading comprehension.
True! An organization/vanguard must have a code, preferably a Marxist-Leninist one; it should refuse the people who don’t fit in at all, and purge the ones who actively undermines the objectives. But it shouldn’t purge people left and right because they oppose some minor policies.
We should never forger our first objective is abolishing capitalism first. Then we can bicker back and forth about the type of socialism we want to build.
We should attract those groups before they become Bernie-bros.
By “communism” do they mean the real deal or social democracy? Because the latter one will lead them to square zero.
33·12 days agoAverage Hanjian behavior
I don’t care if people keeps their religions to themselves. Actually, some of those people are/were very nice to me even when they knew I was an atheist.
But the sad part is, the majority of the religious people behave like mujahedeen in Türkiye, and the current administration supports and pushes this behavior.
I try to stay away from those tools, but some of them are in my extended family and I can’t cut them of for financial and emotional reasons. At least they don’t bother me with it.
Shame on the protesters who didn’t wreck that stand. Idgaf if you’re “just trying to earn some money”, this is just you being an obnoxious petty bougie.
I know you asked where to move, but I confidently can say stay away as far as possible from MENA region until we achieve the revolution.
By “Westward” do you mean keep sucking to the imperial core?
Turkey is a semi-peripheral comprador country since WWII, any attempt to get out of this was suppressed in a bloody coup. Even if I’ll be wrong (please let me), and the AKP and Erdoğan dynasty gets overthrown, the next government will be a comprador conservative one, instead of current comprador reactionary one we have.
The thing is, Erdoğan is a result of a long violent history. Turkey was boiling down since the end of WWII, we had too much coups and conservative/reactionary politicians. Erdoğan is the next/last point of the Greater Middle East Project. He just derailed the things too much the country can’t sustain itself anymore.
The main position of the military is filled with his thugs who knows jackshit about military. It’s proven many times with the Turkish border operations. The corruption runs too deep in the government, the economy can’t feed all the leeches anymore. If a civil war breaks, it’ll happen between the different cliques of the government. I talked about it in another reply in more detail.
The breaking point is his health. The moment he’s gone, his party and family will dissolve, and since they behave like feudal lords, they wont back from putting the county in a bloody conflict for their gains.
Kurdistan is secure under Erdoğan and AKP. They’ll give the Dicle and Fırat rivers, the main water sources of Turkey.
Inflation is no problem for him, they’re handling it using working class’ money.
Turkey is a major trading partner of Israel, don’t believe the government rhetoric about Palestine. We sell drones to Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict, Russia started to attack the Turkish trading ship on Black Sea after many ultimatums about the drone trade. NATO don’t give a rat’s ass about it as long as Turkey isn’t directly invaded.
I answered on another reply. It may be a distraction created for BRICS, but any armed conflict will ruin EU also.
This is going to be a rather long text, so buckle up.
TW: Human Rights Violations
Knowing he is nearing the end of his life, Tayyip Erdoğan wants to hand over his seat to his son, Bilal Erdoğan. He takes his son with him to every meeting and rally he attends. This situation has caused serious backlash within the AKP and its ruling partner, the MHP (AKP and MHP are gangs in the guise of political parties). Because Bilal is genuinely incompetent and everyone knows it except himself, they are orchestrating operations to suppress these dissenting voices.
Currently, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Erdoğan’s sons-in-law, Berat Albayrak and Selçuk Bayraktar, are strong opposing candidates. Since the Albayrak and Bayraktar families are Erdoğan’s biggest domestic supporters, there hasn’t been a serious operation against his sons-in-law yet, but they are seriously undermining Fidan. Operations have been launched against all companies linked to him. Turks are a football-obsessed nation, so to distract attention, Fenerbahçe’s president, Sadettin Saran, and Galatasaray’s former director, Erden Timur, were detained; Beşiktaş’s manager, Sergen Yalçın, is also at risk of detention.
There has never been a serious opposition party in Turkey, but recently even this moderate opposition has begun to face pressure. The CHP’s (Turkey’s founding party) presidential candidate, Ekrem İmamoğlu, is currently in prison and being tried in a kangaroo court.
For the legitimacy of his rule, Erdoğan has, in his own words, “given whatever they wanted” to the USA, EU, and Russia. Recently, there has been a terrifying mining rush in Turkey. Especially since foreign companies face no oversight in Turkey, they are constantly opening new gold mines. Forests are being burned to open these mines, and then, because there are no safety measures in these mines, cyanide leaks occur. All state-owned companies have been sold to foreigners. The latest plans were to sell TCDD (Turkish State Railways) and BOTAŞ (Petroleum Pipeline Corporation). Additionally, due to water resources being recklessly allocated to factories, mines, and agricultural lands a severe drought is occurring. And again, the blame is placed on the public again. I won’t even go into air pollution; lung cancer has increased significantly, especially in some regions.
The torment inflicted on the public is boundless, so I’ll be brief. Taxes are increased excessively, salaries are kept unnecessarily low. While the 2025 minimum wage is 28,075 TL, the hunger line is 30,143 TL, and average rents are 23,805 TL. My natural gas bill in December was 3,160 TL, of which 1.4% is ÖTV (Special Consumption Tax, as if heating is a luxury) and 15.3% is KDV (Value Added Tax, a tax taken to exploit the working class). Meanwhile, state officials are taking away million-dollar tenders in threes and fives and “avoiding taxes.” The education and health systems have collapsed, food and goods are low-quality and expensive, and it goes on. Anyone who tries to oppose this, whether through protest or by voicing their reaction on social media, is unlawfully imprisoned and subjected to torture in prison. I am one of them; I don’t want to go into detail, but I was caught during a protest and tortured at the police station—the ACL in my right leg tore. Later, my lawyer got me out through pulling some connections, but I will never be able to seek accountability for what I experienced. Unfortunately, there is still a 30% segment that is blindly loyal to this man, and their opinions can never be changed.
Despite rapidly declining birth rates, there is still a serious population problem. I am not anti-refugee, but there is no justifiable side to accepting refugees blindly, whom the EU doesn’t want, into your country for money when you can’t even take care of your own citizens. Moreover, Erdoğan took all the mujahideen trained and then abandoned by the USA and NATO in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Xinjiang, brought them to Turkey, and keeps them as his private paramilitary force. Most of the types unleashed on the streets on July 15, 2016 “coup attempt” (biggest theater play of Turkey), were these people.
They lost their cool after the Moscow concert.