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Apartheid-South Africa copied the US reservation system, not the Confederacy.

Apparently, Israel has "tested" this co-called "ceasefire" more than 500 times now... at what point do these faux-journalists at AP think Israel will find the "ceasefire" to have passed all the "testing"?

Oh no, a liberal mentally masturbating to bog-standard liberal cope!

How far are you down the liberal-to-fascist pipeline, Clyde?

Still in the beginning phases, or are you almost ready to embrace your inner white supremacist?

How cute... a liberal trying to distance themselves from the fascistm that protects their precious status quo.

It's about as cute as it is predictable.

Go lick a pig's boots, lib - we all know you want to.

Don't confuse me with one of your cousins, liberal - after all, we know that the only real difference between a liberal and a fascist is that liberals don't like getting their hands dirty when it comes to imperialism.

That's why your precious liberal order keeps fascists around, doesn't it?

Apparently, they aren't Maoists but "Althusserian" - influenced by Louis Althusser, some French Marxist brainiac who murdered his own wife.

Being a Marxist-Lenninist or Maoist is one thing - but basing your politics on that of these almost universally creepy French academics from the 60s is downright cartoonish IMO.

You sucked that piece of copium dry a long time ago, liberal.

Is it now? Are you still blaming the Russians?

Yes. Who was it that put Trump in the Waffle House? People outside the US?

they’re not a random uprising that armed itself.

Is that what I called them?

not civilians grabbing weapons for a spontaneous revolt.

Again... is that how I characterised them?

This is an unserious comparison.

Where did I compare them, Clyde? I merely used them to demonstrate that suffering military reversal does not necessarily mean the end of an insurgency.

There are literally no examples of successful modern insurgencies starting as civilian uprisings.

There is no such thing as an insurgency ("modern" or otherwise) that doesn't start with civilian uprisings. No extant insurgency has "modern" roots - if that is what you demand an example off I'll simply write your demand off as ridiculous and not worth bothering with.

They did not wage an armed campaign against the Syrian state.

Somehow, I don't think Assad would have seen it that way if he had won the civil war.

It’s political optics that constrained the state.

Merely optics to you, actual political threats to them.

Besides, Mexico did crush them militarily. It took 12 days.

Again... not the first insurgency to survive military reversal.

Modern states can annihilate insurgents when they stop caring about optics.

Caring about "optics" is not the reason Russia suffered defeat during the 1st Chechen War.

Most insurgencies don’t start as peasant uprisings that get crushed and then re-emerge lmao

Complete mischaracterisation of what I actually said. Most insurgencies do experience military reversal at some point in their existence or other. And no...

you’re just using some romantic examples

...I never claimed there was anything "romantic" (whatever that means) about it.

but the second absolutely is not

You think people in the 3rd world voted for Trump?

The 90s is modern.