GarbageShootAlt

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love when real people in the DPRK spontaneously and with no other motivation want to have their country carpet-bombed by the US a second time. Good on the BBC for letting us know that the people of the DPRK yearn to be reduced to ash, since I know westerners are always so reticent about using their powerful military for that necessary task of promoting global good, for how great their responsibility is and how strict their rules of engagement are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Propaganda is not misinformation, it is "propagation" of an ideology. All news is propaganda, even news you like and agree with.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Most socialist states use taxes, but the DPRK doesn't because industry is run by the state anyway, so "taxes" are essentially accounted for before the salary is even set. We aren't arguing for some far off hypothetical communism but for socialist states that currently and used to exist in a capitalist global order

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There were also neoliberals in there, on all the same subs as the anarcho-bidenists and arguing parallel to them as long as the anarcho-bidenists didn't ever mention a positive alternative. Really makes you think.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

To be fair, some of the liberal complaints are just dogshit demonizing of states as autocratic when they do have functioning democracies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A huge amount of what you discuss is covered very explicitly in "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific," so I'll just offer the text and audio formats of that in case you are interested and leave you on your way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If people chose a ‘red’ government, and they are chosen through continued fair elections with no disingenuous means or force, all the power to them.

What would that look like? Specifically, let us imagine a world where it is true that Cuba or the DPRK or wherever does indeed hold free and fair elections on a regular basis, but that everything else about the world was exactly as you, I assume, admit it is (such as the vicious sanctioning and libel by western powers). From where you are sitting, what would the difference be? What sort of information would you be aware of, would you receive from where you are in the world and the media you consume, that was in any way different?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have some memory of you being reasonable when actually presented with arguments. I would strongly encourage you to try to actual talk to these people that you speak about in such strong pejoratives, perhaps by asking them non-presumptuous questions. I think you will find that they have more to say than you give them credit for.

The people running beehaw are extremely dishonest about this issue, citing "hate speech" as a reason for defederation with platforms that aggressively ban and remove hate speech, including the only instance I know of that actually displays pronouns with the username (Hexbear.net , which they preemptively banned).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The other person was calling them a supporter of fascism, no sense whining about them being "combative" when that's a serious accusation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No I never implied that at all

Emphasis mine

It originally was used to describe Leftists supporting authoritarianism while claiming to be leftist.

Get out of here with that bad faith nonsense

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The users from certain other instances are talking about it nonstop and trying to make it a wedge issue, so it's not surprising

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal

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