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[–] 68 points 5 months ago (42 children)
  • [+] -109 points 5 months ago (41 children)

    They are trying to co-opt May Day and neuter it

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  • [–] 66 points 5 months ago* (28 children)

    FYI to others: I have this tankie from Lemmy.ml tagged as believing China doesn't ban images of Xi as Winnie the Pooh, lol.

    All I ever see them be is antagonistic, sowing apathy, defeatism, or trying to egg people with stochastic rhetoric (but never themselves, of course).

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    There’s more than a few of these around. They start shit on otherwise seemingly normal posts for no reason, and often have a couple (friends? Alts?) to give them a couple upvotes to keep them afloat. IDK why they seem more prevalent lately and they’re only there to be dicks and not actually engage.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Because foreign adversarial governments who want to see the demise of the west have access to the internet too.

    Seriously, to think the FSB and the CCP's CPD aren't on lemmy is to delude oneself...

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Guess I’m surprised that any of them would waste time on Lemmy/the fediverse. It doesn’t have enough clout to seem to be worth the effort.

    We absolutely have trolls and there was pretty much no possibility at all that there wasn’t some kind of State monitoring going on, but active organized State Trolls seemed a stretch. There are far more popular platforms to manipulate the denizens of.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Waste time? It's not the oligarchs in those countries doing it. They siphon the wealth of their nations like parasites. They can afford to pay a few peasants to operate their troll farms, where one person can direct thousands of bots at a time.

    There's an entire office building in Petersburg devoted to cyber/psyops. True, they probably focus most of their effort on more popular platforms like reddit, xitter, tiktok, facebook, and instagram. They're definitely on telegram, maybe even whatsapp and discord. I wouldn't be surprised if they're even on irrelevant artifacts like quora and yelp.

    But to think they're not on the fediverse, just because it isn't as popular as other platforms? Please. They'll leave no stone unturned.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    you people are doing nothing... yet you feel other people are doing nothing. What comes after trump is even more dangerous. Hope is a noose... action leads to satifaction.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    I have them tagged as a Troll

    They have only ever commented in Politics, World News, and occasionally Late Stage Capitalism

    Since their account was created and over 1000 comments, they only talk in a derivative tone about political shit, in only 3 communities. That's a bullshit account if I've ever seen one, or they just have a shitty personality... either way, their opinion is moot to me

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  • [+] -15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Maybe your time would be better spent worrying about your own country?

    Traveler threatened with jail or fine had phone forcefully searched and was denied entry after bald photo of JD Vance found.

    Only state approved journalists allowed in White House press pool.

    Pentagon removes internal press media offices.

    Protestors charged with terrorism for wearing black clothing and handing out pamphlets.

    US builds concentration camps for those disappeared by masked secret police, after killing citizens in street.

    Masked secret police collecting DNA, face scans, license plates from peaceful protestors, for use in creating a database of "domestic terrorists".

    Trump wishes to imprison additional US citizens in El Salvadoran gulag after sending 280 immigrants.

    Police arrest and attack citizens with chemical weapons, batons, and projectiles, injuring over 300,000 people per year.

    US bankrolls, supplies, and provides troops to apartheid state conducting genocide.

    But China (7000km away) is big meanie and if I can't have pooh photo (if I ever travel 7000km to China (which I hate because pooh photo)), I will literally die.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Are you assuming that commenter is american?

    Also, nobody here is claiming that america is good. We're literally here to discuss how drastically things in the US need to change.

    The comment you're replying to was calling out the hypocrisy of someone trying to detract from the protests going on. Denying the authoritarianism of one country doesn't help oppose authoritarianism in another. Two mutually antagonistic governments can be authoritarians at the same time, and it's perfectly valid to criticize both.

    So your long list of facts, while they would be relevant as a top-level comment had you framed them as "reasons why we're protesting," are really just a thinly-veiled red herring that you're attempting to use to defend someone who's attempting to derail conversation about the protest movement.

    Are you in, or in the way?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I focus on the devil I know... I mean the left is still on its knees and is yet to learn how to walk. Shorthand: Get your house in order. ..... israel is commiting a genocide but chynah so mean. 🙁💧 I am so ready to go to CHINA

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Necroposting to resurrect a dead argument that was bad-faith derailing from the start?

    You're on a post that's literally about people protesting the US government, so I don't see why you feel the need to rush in and defend China.

    Multiple state actors can be repressive, by the way. Go ask anyone in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Tibet, Xinjiang, or hell even Vietnam what they think of the PRC.

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  • [+] -52 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Its the fragile little bird again. Hows that boot taste?

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Damn dude, you ever reconsider a position after being ratio-ed that hard?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Explain why you think a general strike is neutering workers?

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  • [+] -13 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    A 1 day event is not a general strike, it's a performance

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    A sustained general strike requires widespread strong unions with the ability to keep workers paid and fed for the whole duration of the strike. It's not something you can just decide to do on a whim, it requires years of preparation by a disciplined labor movement that has already trained those muscles. This 1 day strike isn't ground-shattering, but it's a start.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    half steppin gets you k!lled... meaning it diffuses the idea of fighting back. We tried that already... actually no you didn't but you put on a good show

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    While you are correct, we cannot skip steps in developing class consciousness. A 1 day general strike is better than a 0 day general strike. A 2 day strike is better than a 1 day.

    You leftist ultras was to forsake progress in the name of idealism.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Nationwide protests

    Tankies on lemmy: "That's performative! They need to do a general strike!"

    Protest organizers organize a general strike on international labour day

    Tankies on lemmy: "they're co-opting and neutering international labour day!!1!"

    What the fuck do you think they should do on may day, twiddle their dicks and doompost about capitalism?

    It's a fucking general strike, organized by a decentralized movement of civil sector and labour organizations! How in that twisted and dissonant mind of yours do you justify calling that "co-opting" and "neutering" the labour movement?!?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    go watch netflix and get some fast food

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Huh? Dude, you're pathetic. Are you seriously going through an entire month-old post just to respond to every comment trying to stir shit up?

    The bullshit you're spewing doesn't even make any sense.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    That's what Labor Day was for. You seem very confused. Did you get hit in the head recently?

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    May Day is for recognizing labor. The US oligarchy is using that date to redefine what that day was designed for by using terms that are gaining reactions in the US, coopting them so they can neutralize the impact. They are doing to labor what MAGA communists are doing to neuter communism with disenfranchised conservatives.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    So what do you propose people do then?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    You will notice that the people like that will never have an answer for this question.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    says the fed or useful idiot... lemmy is for news and bitching and memes and learning.. not to leak opsec.. They also told you... you need to clean your eye ears.... it need to be longer (thats what your mom said) and organized via militant labor unions in which we don't have. We are in uncharted waters or modern day feudalism. Really what is disheartening is denile delusion and hope.

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