Valbrandur

Lemme quickly get banned from this community.

Love to see people like these coming here with this type of quotes as if they are going to be crucified and become martyrs under the shining light of true and righteousness for speaking THE TRUTH.

No, dude. You are just going to be laughed at.

In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

• Michael Parenti

I am completely sure that China is indeed spending god knows how many millions in building more solar farms in a year than the US has built in their entire history so people like Jake from Minnesota can be convinced that China is actually a pretty cool place.

Do you people ever listen to yourselves?

one side wants to quit NATO

Finally, we found it

The Ghost(writer) of Kyiv

artificially intelligent killer drones owned by the bourg?

With the power of kung-fu fighting.

Maybe it’s best not to make up sci-fi scenarios and instead work with what we have here and now, or at least with the predictions we can make solidly regarding the immediate future. Sure, Marx’s analysis is not independent of all contexts, but to determine that you need your context to exist in the first place.

Both are true, but Marx’s quote references revolution as a social and historical phenomenon and Che’s quote talks about an individual’s approach to revolution.

“Don’t install this app! It’s from a Chinese company! The Chinese gubmint will steal and collect all your data!”

Even if it was true why do liberals care so much that a government from a country on the other side of the globe could have any data about their person? Do they really think that the CPC holds any amount of power over some kid living in Iowa?

I barely care that a government thousands of kms away can have any of my info. What I care is that that info is in the hands of a government that has the power to actually carry out any actions or reprisals against me.

Why’d you have to go and make things so bomb-plicated?

Inshallah

I’m really, really fucking tired of ERB reducing complex sociopolitical talking points to two crackerized talking head caricatures rapping at each other.

That is because ERB is not about an educational channel dedicated to teaching sociopolitics: it’s a humor channel about rap battles between either historical figures or fictional characters that got popular more than a decade ago for putting Darth Vader to rap against Hitler and Lincoln against Chuck Norris. As with other youtube fades of the era like Smosh, Nyan cat and The Annoying Orange, I don’t find it funny, not at least since I left middle school, but we gotta be fair nonetheless and understand that it’s just a silly series of videos aimed to entertain, not to educate nor to make an academic exposition of political themes.

no piggy poop balls

i doubt it

When challenged

The challenge in question:

Seriously. How much do you get paid for shilling China so hard? And where do I sign up?

An excellent display of the western liberal’s attempts of initiating a “good faith discussion”, for everyone to see.

Seriously. How much do you get paid for shilling China so hard?

Dude, you endlessly post about how awesome China is.

When a communist with a politically-oriented account who posts on communist communities of communist instances makes primarily posts in support of communism and communist countries (any explanation for his motives is beyond the comprehension of the limited and finite human mind, he must have been paid by someone to post that comment):

1. Turn off Mac.
2. Throw Mac into the nearest garbage can.
3. Get a computer with literally any other OS.

1. Close your browser.
2. Go to C:/Windows.
3. Move the folder “System32” into your Recycle Bin.
4. Right click over the Recycle Bin icon.
5. Click over “Empty Recycle Bin”.
6. Restart your PC.

Do not search “trotsky sexting” on google and click on the first link to the r/teenagers subreddit

Worst mistake of my life

You see, humanity lives in a perpetual cycle of “fuck-around” and “find-out”

Promoting itself to redditors as an alternative to Reddit was Lemmy’s greatest mistake.

You say you are “atheist, but culturally christian” because you are agnostic but try to love your neighbor and fight for the poor.

I say such because I don’t believe in god but I live in a catholic country that has eight public holidays of religious origin where people don’t go to work (I’m just very lazy and every day in which I don’t see my boss’ face is a wonderful day).

We are NOT the same.