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Any society is authoritarian, it depends who wields it.

Left anticommunists moment

Dictatorship is when bad country, democratic is when good western country

Capitalism worked under Eastern aggression

Right, the countries that invaded the USSR in its nascent years, constantly tried to assassinate leaders of progressive movements, couped most countries on Earth.

Communist economic sanctions, Communist covert actions

The projection lol

and a propaganda apparatus far more widespread than anything from the West.

As that joke goes, a CIA and KGB officer meet at a bar. The CIA officer says to the KGB officer “You’ve got a good propaganda machine!”, the KGB officer replies “Well, yours is unbeatable.”

The CIA agent responds with “What propaganda? In the West we don’t have propaganda.”

hi lib

what happened to the marketplace of ideas

I wanted to cross-post this to lemmy.ml’s memes community, but you did that already. The libs are coming in, beautiful lmao.

Seems like it. There’s even a “better dead than red” reply, incredible lol

Democracy is when the US does a coup and the country is ruled by Azov and Pravny Sektor, lol

Alrighty, thanks!

Were these on Bilibili or other Chinese social media?

Can already see the libs being like “Xi Jinping personally threatened them with a gun and told them if they don’t put this disclaimer in every video they’re going to re-education” lol

I want to join this reading group so I can read theory more consistently and discuss it with others. Though I definitely plan to read more than 30 minutes a week. Currently, I’m reading The Materialist Conception of History by Plekhanov

It seems it was a mistake. They’ve changed the paragraph to:

World War II reached what is now Ukraine in 1939 with a Soviet invasion into territory then controlled by Poland in western Ukraine, at a time when the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were in a military alliance. When that pact broke down in 1941, Germany attacked Ukraine from west to east.

As the invasion began, factions of pro-independence Ukrainians fought with the Germans, while other Ukrainians fought with the Red Army against the Nazis. The tide of war changed in 1943 with the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad, and the Red Army then fought the Nazis in Ukraine moving westward.

Was fun while it lasted I suppose. I wonder who those “pro-independence” Ukrainians were.

There’s a risk […] that Zelenskiy will be forced into negotiations

Oh well, quite mask off

Yeah I saw the patch upstream, though emojis are used way less here than on Hexbear, I suppose it fits the “culture” here better though, it’s more serious in a way

Yep, tried explaining that but he said it’s still more “free” than in muh evil authoritarian 1984 lol, cannot talk with these people

We need badges