it has been done when 30-50 percent of our people live in poverty
A rat done bit my sister Nell.
(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell.
(and Whitey’s on the Moon)
I can’t pay no doctor bill.
(but Whitey’s on the Moon)
Ten years from now I’ll be paying still.
(while Whitey’s on the Moon)
Assuming you’re not talking about anarchists: Liberals are incapable of averting the effects of capitalism because they support capitalism. Their ambition is limited to setting rules that ask ticks to only drink a “reasonable” amount of blood.
How would our minds not being governed by this universe imply free will?
If anything, I’d assume the you don’t have free will if your actions weren’t chosen from experience, but were controlled by a supernatural ghost.
Consciousness has nothing to do with it, observe in this case means “affected something we can measure”.
wtf when half the workers are willing to just walk, why isn’t the union stepping in?
all it takes is your want to destroy capitalism
Someone’s internal desires are irrelevant here. Someone who doesn’t actually practice theory is apolitical.
marx himself, [was] materially bourgeois, but they didn’t oppress the proletariat
You mean Engels. Marx was a journalist/writer. Engels owned a factory and did exploit the proletariat.
But all this is missing the point. We live under capitalism. Subjecting yourself/family to extreme poverty is not going to bring about the revolution, and will prevent you from various methods of supporting it.
I still can’t believe they’re writing those comics without any irony.
They read exactly like what we’d do as satire.
Yeah, there’s a huge network of far-right media run by/targeting Chinese diaspora, some of which filters back into mainland China. It’s how BLM got roughly translated into “black people are expensive” in chinese media.
But whether chinese people made that connection or not is irrelevent, this isn’t about chinese people on wechat, it’s about westerners on reddit who absolutely did make that connection.
This is why disabling downvotes is good. Make those cowards show themselves.
Racists who know enough not to talk openly shouldn’t be able to passively influence discussion either.
Pawb.social and Blaj are defederated if you want other instances are that are still mostly LGBT+, but liberal/anti-communist.
You really shouldn’t uncritically accept anything Ukraine or Russia says about the war. Of course they’re going to say the other side is targeting civilians while we only attack valid military targets. Don’t you remember Libya? Iraq? Afghanistan? Bosnia? We know how the news operates in these situations.
Russia abducted more children than died in the “people’s republics”.
This is misframing refugees fleeing into Russia as abduction. These aren’t moustache-twirling villains.
Then there will no longer be people the Ukrainians regard as Russians in Ukraine.
I use all 3.
If it’s very short and there’s 2 or more in a row, I’ll put it all in one line.
If there’s a bunch of nested if statements, I’ll use the second.
If neither of those conditons, I’ll use the first.
I don’t like the framing of people believing what they’ve been told by teachers, parents, and the media all their life all being gullible imbeciles.
Some of them even examine both sides to get a full understanding of the issue, by watching both CNN and Fox News.
No idea. I can see why they’d do it if someone was giving out invites to tons of people who literally do not seed, but you can’t expect everyone to have a good ratio since they must all average out to 1.
I think most of the talk is just to encourage seeding.
It’s fundamentally impossible for everyone to have a positive ratio.
gulag (death camps in Siberia).
The number of people sent to the gulags was never as high as it had been under the tsar, nor were it’s death rates. If you look up any data on the subject, you’ll find your conception of the USSR’s justice system is entirely fictional.
It also explains how he confiscated small farmers’ land and made them work as slaves, sending their yield to the government, which lead to the famine of 1934 you’re talking about, and killed 5 million.
And then I suppose Stalin ate all the grain himself? Maybe ask yourself how you got tricked into believing a gov’t seizing and distributing hordes of grain during a famine was a bad thing.
Every one of your points are either abjectly false or wild distortions that would take too long to look up each one.
There’s criticisms to be made of Stalin without making shit up.
Even if you include ‘killed by police’ (or, in some cases, killed by militia) this stands true.
Over the last decade, police in America have killed at least between 950 and 1250 people a year.
The actual numbers are probably higher because police don’t report all the people they kill, so statisticians are limited to searching news stories that contain the relevant data.
only after killing basically everyone that knew how to do anything: Doctors, Lawyers, Farmers, etc. Leaving the country in tatters and the government free to be run by one person, who would go on to commit awful such atrocities that it made the whole history of the tsars look like childs play in comparison.
This is false. Life expectancy and conditions in the USSR increased dramatically after the civil wars (excepting the famine of 1934 and WWII).
They certainly didn’t manage to industrialize faster than any country in history by killing “basically everyone that knew how to do anything”.
There’s people who say that in a non-mocking tone? I’ve always heard it like “We’ll be home/it’ll be over by Christmas!”