I would purge any self identifying information but otherwise it doesn’t really matter.
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yeah they have totally incoherent ideologies which are all centered around selfishness, and again, thinking they are smarter and better than people who don’t know whatever they know. They reinvent eugenics every time.
Your premise is that China had already achieved socialism and then went backwards towards capitalism but in reality they were a semi-feudal semi-colonized agrarian state, had a communist revolution, and began building towards socialism which is a process that takes generations. If socialism comes after capitalism and capitalism comes after feudalism, it means that with China being a feudal pre-industrial society during their revolution, they must enter into and move through a capitalist phase to develop and expand the means of production and socialize labor in order to create the conditions to build socialism. Socialism can not be built directly out of feudalism, just like capitalism couldn’t come directly out of slave economies.
The key is that the entire capitalist phase of China was controlled by a Communist party with the express goal of building socialism, unlike every capitalist nation without a dictatorship of the proletariat, where the express goal was to build capitalism in order to make money for the capitalists. It should be obvious at this point if you look at the metrics: Chinese people have a higher quality of life, more purchasing power, greater social welfare, and virtually none of the key social problems that the capitalist core countries have, despite the capitalist countries having vastly more developed economies earlier and vastly more resources readily available through colonial plunder and chattel slavery. China is very clearly run by true Communists because if not, they wouldn’t have any of these things, and would look more like India or any other nation in the Global South.
I know a lot of free software people and they are fascist, NED regime change type libs who think they are smarter and better than everyone else. Many of them have backgrounds working for the government in some degree or another, and then they move on to NGOs and the like.
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Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Thoughts on an app to organize boycotts?0·1 year agoAside from what has been said, it is important to keep in mind that the distribution of apps is controlled by companies that you would likely be boycotting (plus their allies) which could mean that the primary means of getting to people such as the play stores could ban the app and make it highly unlikely to spread very far. Having alternative distribution plans and back up plans for these types of scenarios from the outset would be wise
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Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Can a hidden body camera recording a racist event at work be used in court?0·1 year agoYou need to look up your state’s recording consent laws, but generally any place where there is “no reasonable expectation of privacy” is considered legal to record audio, even in states that follow “two party consent” frameworks. Depending on the work place, it could be argued one way or the other and only a lawyer familiar with your state’s laws could give a sure answer based on the specifics of your situation. A lot of states don’t have any limitations on recording though so if you are in one of those you are obviously in the clear.
They are thinking of Gazpacho, you are thinking of Gallego, and Gonzalo is the blue Muppet with a long nose
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World News@lemmygrad.ml•The west is coming to terms with the fact that they're not gonna get a regime change in Russia.0·1 year agoTBF sanctions have worked really well against Cuba, Venezuela, DPRK just to name a few. Smaller and isolated economies which have not fully industrialized can artificially be set back decades via sanctions, and while those nations still exist, we can’t pretend it hasn’t been an immense struggle for them which is almost entirely due to the sanctions. The US thought their war strategies against the Taliban and ISIS would work against Russia and they thought their economic attacks would work the same - not realizing in both instances that Russia isn’t a literal or figurative island with a fragile economy.
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World News@lemmygrad.ml•France joins China to condemn Israel’s attack plans, veering from US position0·1 year agoDoubt it, they are likely trying to win favor with China after sending more boots to Ukraine which I imagine Xi gave Macron an earful about. France is always happy to say something that “goes against the grain” but then still fall in line when the rubber meets the road.
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Palestine@lemmygrad.ml•US rapper Macklemore releases track about college protests over Gaza0·1 year agoFinally someone with a large platform fucking using it
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Palestine@lemmygrad.ml•Richard Dawkins accused student protesters of antisemitism at his panel event - then runs away from questions about it0·1 year agoAfter the word “eugenics” became recognized as a bad thing post WWII, the very large base of eugenicists in science and academia suddenly became “geneticists.”
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Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml•Why is the population of natives in the USA so low compared to other ethnic groups? The native population is 1.3%0·1 year agoThe USA is a settler colony which requires the elimination of the natives in order to take over as private owners of the land which had been shared in commons by the natives. If the natives exist there in great numbers, they can claim rights to the land, so they have to be taken out. The colonizers of the lands known as USA committed widespread genocide and enslavement of the natives in order to depopulate them, including intentional use of bio weapons. Other ethnic groups can’t lay claim to the land so their populations being high doesn’t really have the same problem as far as land claims go, aside from maybe New Afrikans although I don’t think most USAians are considering that claim seriously anymore/yet.
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Comradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•What documentaries would you recommend to a baby leftist?0·1 year agoThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Exterminate All The Brutes
aside from all the ones mentioned
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World News@lemmygrad.ml•Colombia Cuts Diplomatic Relations With Israhell0·1 year agoFor a brief second I thought this meant Columbia University and was quite surprised
- Jabril@lemmygrad.mlBannedtoLeftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations@lemmygrad.ml•Roderic Day talking about {Hexbear}0·1 year ago
I think there is a lot to say about the brain’s reward center motivating a desire for post engagement for any social media user, regardless of their size. Him being a content creator who likely has some inner desire for his work and theories or whatever he he producing to be spread would likely only increase the feeling of reward that the average user gets from a like or a share, since for him it might feel like praxis or education or something that would be extra rewarding. You don’t need to be well known or get huge engagements to have a subconscious motivation for more.
- Jabril@lemmygrad.mlBannedtoLeftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations@lemmygrad.ml•Roderic Day talking about {Hexbear}0·1 year ago
I think the problem with the nature of being an online content creator is that is drives people to be polarizing and harsh because that generates clicks. I’ve never been on social media since like 2015, especially twitter, so I get to avoid the results of such a cycle, but when any comrades clue me in on the latest online leftist gossip it always seems to be some form of this type of thing. Ostensibly principled or politically developed people consciously or subconsciously stirring up internet drama for clicks.
- Jabril@lemmygrad.mlBannedtoLeftist Infighting: A community dedicated to allowing leftists to vent their frustrations@lemmygrad.ml•Anarchist get bent0·1 year ago
Do you, OP, believe there is no such thing as class reductionism?
DSA is the true FEDiverse
I think the main idea is that the colonial state is going to wither away on its own because zionists are already leaving due to how unsafe it is for them to be there, and by the time a two state solution would be implemented, this will have already reached a point where those people will not return and anyone like them who remains will want to leave even more because they have had their colonial project taken away. This will lead to an inevitable one state for Palestine because all the euros will flee and Palestine will have a majority and keep gaining power in the area, while the colony is fully weakened, loses a lot of population, and by then maybe even a lot of external funding.
China having this position makes sense because they are trying to be taken seriously as a mediator and the two state solution is the closest thing to a good deal for Palestinians that is actually being considered at the moment, but the average communist position should absolutely be an end to the zionist state entirely. If China adopted a one state policy in favor of Palestine, they wouldn’t be included in any serious negotiating because that is obviously not something one of the parties in the negotiation wants to accept at the moment.