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Glad I’m not the only one thinking that

suck Putin’s dick

I’m going to disregard whatever a homophobic bigot wants to talk at me about

I half think that’s the whole reason the FBI keeps these white supremacist groups around and supported.

It’s not only demeaning because it’s so obviously bullshit, it’s, it’s… also paternal or something.

I get that exact sense, like I’m being lectured by a disappointed parent.

If the media aren’t even talking to us, but the caps, could that fact be why online libs are so consistently arrogant and dismissive?

Believing a lie like OPs piece means adopting the language too, and the imagined position of power that comes with it. It sounds just like how their bosses talk.

Threatening that lie also threatens their imagined position of power. Their arrogance is mental protection from the chains that bind em.

I think you nailed it. This also is basically how you create an outlet for frustrations with material condition, directing them naturally to outlets that support capital.

I think it’s that, and also that these publications are written for the exact people their language is targeting. So it normalizes the kind of dialogues they’re having behind closed doors and helps shape the direction of that dialogue as well.

The Economy is great actually! (For the Wealthy) If we force regulations on the market to make the working class conditions better that will harm the Economy! (For the Wealthy)

Edit: And of course anything about the Economy is infested with neoliberal brainworms

Every time I read a fucking comment like this I get whiplash when I realize you aren’t talking about the USA here, lmao.

Just a point of clarification,

It got so bad that hexbear literally defederated from the entirety of blaj because their anticommunism was borderline noncery and the admins weren’t doing fuck all about it.

Hexbear defederated not because of their anti-communism, but because of their egregious moderation failures that made Hexbear users feel unsafe.

…we have come to the conclusion that the 196 community on lemmy.blahaj.zone has made the fediverse an unsafe space for our queer, disabled, neurodivergent, non-western, and other marginalized comrades on this forum, and we will be defederating from lemmy.blahaj.zone until we can be confident that this will not continue to be an issue.

https://hexbear.net/post/369410

I remember a lot of discussion about the “paradox of tolerance” when that was ongoing, basically the idea that if you tolerate Nazi’s in your bar, you’ll quickly have a Nazi exclusive bar.

If I recall right from some language studies on the effectiveness of those gamified apps, you’re usually better off with a night course at a community college. I’m really impressed with your dedication!

I finished Palo Alto and found it to be really well written and interesting. Currently reading Vulture Capitalism, it’s a recently published book too like Palo Alto and I’m roughly 1/3 through it. I think after this I want to dig into some Michael Hudson books, either Killing the Host or Destiny of Civilizations.

I’m currently halfway through this book and I would highly recommend it.

Hours later, once they confirmed the pair were Ukrainian, they treated the injured troop’s crushed leg, provided him with food and cigarettes, and helped him evacuate.

Implying they would have withheld care if they were Russian

It loosely reminds me of the Foundation Sci Fi series. In the novel, a Mathematician creates a new field he calls psychohistory, basically a mathematics of sociology, vaguely dialectic materialism. Using statistical laws of mass action, it can predict the future of large populations, and the first thing he sees is the inevitable collapse of empire.

I think your 95% is probably too generous. Westerners are intensely chauvinistic, “why learn from China’s struggles when I already know they’re completely wrong” is the starting position, from there you don’t have much room for understanding and growth. Whether that’s from boilerplate libs, Ultra’s, Maoists, or even ML’s.

There are a lot of deeply unserious people who call themselves Marxist-Leninists but it becomes pretty apparent that they have a fragile grasp on theory and are just as reliant on being spoon fed narratives as the libs, probably why they uncritically parrot NATO propaganda. And that’s the most generous I can be, I think there’s also a strong component of racism baked in there when it comes from the global western left.

From this excellent essay

These myopic and short-sighted “left com”, “ultra-left”, or modern “Maoist” types love to denounce modern China as a betrayal of socialism, without considering that it is the failure of the Western left to do successful revolutions in their countries which made it necessary for existing socialist states to adapt to the global conditions of entrenched neo-liberal capitalism.