[-] [email protected] 6 points 31 minutes ago

Can't fucking believe I'm living in the timeline where fascism is accompanied by tweets written like a trashy Holywood movie

[-] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

What were the unions (soviets) like, to what extent could a simple worker participate in democratic centralism, and were most workers participating or was there a lot of indifference to it like you see with people nowadays?

Also what was free speech freeze-peach and political dissent really like for a working class person? I understand this is inherently tied to the period we're talking about and how much internal class struggle the state faced.

Thank you comrade grandfather gold-communist

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Also aren't wolves pack animals?

[-] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

anything I don't like is a Russian bot

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Considering the huge defense budget, official war economies, and defence projects being given to companies all over Europe, I don't believe it's just posturing.

Europe is invested in this imperialistic war and they want to get their share of the pie at the cost of as many Ukranians as it takes I guess.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Uh hey boss, any chance I could work a lot of overtime today? No need to pay me even

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Even if the USA wanted this war over, at this point I think Europe itself would start WW3 just to keep the war economy flowing.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

just as bad

start taking over outposts and giving them to him instead

I wonder what that reminds me of horsepoo-theory

[-] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Despite the bit of horseshoe theory, I like the way he describes how these fascist ideas take hold.

All it takes is for someone to be disappointed in something, and there are plenty of things to be disappointed about in capitalism, and to be politically and historically uneducated. When there's no mental resistance to that propaganda, it's as easy as seeing the same meme multiple times for someone to associate a thing they hate with something completely irrelevant, while ignoring the real systemic reasons that lead to that disappointment. After that it's a slippery slope, dog whistles lead to actual ideology, and the ideology eventually leads to real life action as well. And in the end, some person will have been completely ruined because they disliked a stupid fucking videogame and couldn't notice the real reasons.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Liberal activism kombucha-disgust

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Not sure if a reference to mao-wave but cool in any case

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Yesterday streets all over Greece as well as other countries too flooded with people to fight for justice for the 57 lives that were lost in an "accident" that workers were warning against for years. No safety measure was working, many of them not implemented at all, and it was then pinned on the human error of just one person. Recently it was uncovered that 30 of those people did not die from the crash, but from the chemical explosion and fire that erupted afterwards, resulting from the illegal substance carried by a passenger train, something that is still being denied by the government. This is all a result of many different governments over the years privatizing and selling out the public train system to capitalists.

Since then, no justice has been seen despite the huge public support for it, instead the state is actively trying to hide evidence and slow down judicial processes.

Several politicians and "journalists" had come out condemning the upcoming protests, and saying that justice is served in the courtroom and not in the streets. The people have answered and proved they won't forget this until we see them behind bars.

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I tried to find a Pravda referencing this view on homosexuality being the root of fascism but I couldn't find it, and it really makes zero sense for this to be ever said by a communist party

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In light of recent events which have really been blown way out of proportion, I would like to suggest a system to help us reach democratic decisions for these kinds of things, since for me at least, one of the most highlighted issues out of this was the fact that users were completely in the dark about the problems until they were simply notified about the decisions taken to solve them.

My idea is to initially have a normal post where the problem is described in detail and the admin/mod team can possibly suggest a course of action a priori, and discussion is then made where the users express their opinions on the stated problem and course of action if there is one, along with their suggested solutions.

Then the post gets locked and it enters a voting stage, where a group of actions can be voted upon, preferably with Yes/No answers, and a deadline for this stage to end.

Then the results can be viewed by everyone, and the admin/mod team can decide how to move forward.

I realize that this complicates administration, but I hope that implementing such a system will help make this easier to do compared with trying to reach a consensus by discussion alone.

Obviously this should mainly affect meaningful changes to the site, we don't need to make a whole voting process in order to rename a couple of emojis.

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There's this leftist influencer called dantethehater who usually has some pretty good takes and some nice content on China.

Lately he was calling for everyone to vote Kamala by the logic that organizing will be easier under the Dems. Critically endorsing a neoliberal government that funds genocide is already cringe enough but at least it had a reasoning behind it.

Now he is making posts referencing the fact that the Greens could not have possibly "stolen" the election based on their numbers, and being sarcastic about it saying that everyone who voted them is "loudly irrelevant". That's mega LIB shit, he isn't even trying to blame this on the Dems yet.

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