Rules (for thee, not for me) based international order…

What the fuck answer were they expecting???

Whenever “brainwashing” comes up, I’m reminded of this article: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

The writer uses the term “licensing”. Which I think is appropriate. We can show them that their entire society is propaganda, but they will brush it off as if it’s not proving anything, then embrace the term propaganda when it’s not part of their embedded culture. “Licensing”, because the libs and america have a license to do bad things, even while judging others for doing those same things.

You need to stop telling us what we believe. We don’t worship anyone.

I got perma banned for telling someone who asked what they could do today, that they could organize unions or coops, as that is at least something you can do besides just read theory (they were already doing that).

Oh my, considering the content of the comic, you should reevaluate your opinions.

Or go back to fascist reddit. Lemmy was made by communists, you don’t seem comfortable here.

Smooth brains are out today, aren’t you? You can go home now.

Fuck it. Go electric, call it the “Omnibus-EV 69420 super cruiser long range FSD edition” (FSD in name only, it doesn’t work and will never work), and Musk just might accidentally fund it himself!!

Damnit I read that backwards. I was like 300/month not to drive? Fantastic!

Ugh, now I’m sad.

Whenever you hear about those “the world is getting better and better every day, nearly a billion people have come out of poverty in the last X years” statistics, just know, all of those people were pulled out of poverty in China, by their (kinda) socialist government.

Few people if any come out of poverty in capitalist countries and countries imperialized from the West (rather, as many people fall into poverty as get out of poverty).

Socialism is pulling people out of poverty, feeding them, housing them, give them healthcare, etc. Capitalist nations keep the global south poor in order to exploit cheap labor.

It’s about trends and direction. The USSR back in it’s growth days pulled 300 million people out of poverty. This is a core feature of communism, to feed, house, and heal, every single person.

Yeah I’m all for hoping but I can’t call this tweet an “accurate prediction”. But I guess I lean on the pessemist side of things.

I promise I’m not making this up, but unfortunately I can’t find it today. In the time I had I could only find fascist rhetoric and some tangentially related posts.

I’m 99% sure it was either YouTube or a podcast. If I run into it later, I’ll come back and update.

Shoot I have to find it, gimme a minute.

Tldr: in order to work at Disney world they force you to live in their housing, eat their food, and they set all the prices, and they pay as little as they can get away with. They also have their own police force and they regularly silence (By slandering and destroying job opportunities) anyone going to the media about the conditions inside Disney world. This is legal because of their stupid exception they had as a separate government entity (that apparently Florida is revoking now).

I might take me a while to find as I have some IRL obligations at the moment.

EDIT: I think it was just for the performers. They promise acting accolades to people who are very passionate for Disney, and are willing to live under bad conditions to have them on their resume. Dang it having trouble finding it right now. If anyone knows what I’m referring too go ahead and link it.

Disney has destroyed copyright law, destroyed creativity, sucked all the monetary value out of their art, has the closest things to slavery in the US, and strong arms the government with their monopoly.

Republicans are dumb as shit, but even broken clocks are right twice a day. If anyone is defending Disney at this point, they are willfully ignorant or putting their heads in the sand. People who are that dumb are the ones that fall to fascism because they are too distracted by the shiny things their corporate overlords put on TV.

Fuck Disney and Fuck Disantis.

Lol you commented in the wrong place! And SocDems are falling for fascist parties sooooooo fuck SocDems, fuck fascism and fuck capitalism.

https://youtu.be/7ApjSrB6E1c

You use your money to influence politics so that you can make more money so you can influence politics better so you can make more money faster.

Whoever has more money has more power… Too make more money lol.

Nice, reasonable explanation comrade! Just in case anyone didn’t know, TheDeprogram has a good wiki page on whataboutism that covers this nicely as well.

But yeah, people will find that we communists do criticize socialist governments, past and present, and do find flaws in China’s system. You just have to come to the communist subs and read around, or ask honest questions. But on platforms like this, where obvious lies, biases, and if nothing else, just one-sided reporting is rampant, we need to balance out the rhetoric. Of course capitalist countries (past and previous) have jailed journalists and those that have pushed back against American imperialism. Native Americans, Middle Easterners, Mexico, are just a short list of those that we constantly oppress.

China keeps making the news because western media keeps putting them in the news, even if it is for things that the USA or western Europe is also currently doing (You don’t think the USA and Europe don’t ban websites, do you? Have they ever forcefully sterilized people? Yes. Have they ever taken journalists prisoners… obviously yes… Oppressed religions? Duh… The list goes on and on). Calling out these non-western nations for doing these things is simply adding fuel to the fire to create a monolithic opinion that the USA or Europe is the best place on earth.

If you are on Elysium, things looks pretty great, and you can look down upon the others and judge them easily, while extracting their resources and causing their struggles in the first place. Being taken out of your bubble feels really uncomfortable, but it’s the first step in learning.

Developers find some pretty good use out of it, but it’s not useful for fully building applications or anything. More like helping debug simple problems and predict reasonably easy code.

Regular people are using it as grammar checkers, but since it can explain grammar rules more thoroughly than other tools can, it’s more useful for learning why some rules exist.

I use it to summarize long articles. Right now I’m using Kagi the most for summarizing websites into small paragraphs so I can see if there’s more details I would like to read about in the article. Kagi actually has some good search features too, and it can summarize the top findings into an explanation. It’s a great starting point to search non-political and mostly non-controversial information.

Thank you for responding well once the confusion cleared up. We get a lot of trolls, so please understand that we fight misinformation constantly, and are quick to point it out.

Greetings comrade(s)!