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.

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.

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

You aren’t causing hexbears any problems, smooth brain libs are looking for a reason to cry to their admins. You got caught in the fire. If they don’t defederate it will be some other fake contravorsey they’ll come up with next week.

Though it is tough to know when someone is targeting people, or governments. I guess I always lean on longer posts myself. Just in case.

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)!

Not op, and I agree, but wanted to clarify what I think is that commenters thoughts and why they might have said what they said.

The point is that they don’t know what it’s like to not have running water, and they just can’t mentally put themselves in the position of someone who doesn’t have it, making it hard to emphasize and thus, fight for the rights of those people, instead of, for example, caring about if they have a new car every 3 years (or funko pops as the deprogram guys joke about).

Cartoon propaganda occasionally worked like a broken clock :-P ( to proactively explain for those that don’t know this one too: broken clocks are right twice a day by dumb luck)

Even papa Parenti was kicked out of his faculty position for his opinions. Truly progressive movements have a history of being oppressed in the imperial core.

I also hope someone can rally the crowd like he used to be able too, but in the modern era.

Too real :(

:-P

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Wow it’s like you are in my head. I was engaging with a group recently on another forum and felt the whole “I tried to give a good faith argument, but got called a tankie right away then a slew of baseless attacks on my character for no reason, and by people who clearly didn’t read what I wrote”.

It’s fucking exhausting, and actually it is nice to just chill here and read memes and laugh at some shit because I just need that time to cool off.

Oh shit, I guess I missed that chapter in the manifesto. Got some catching up to do.

/s for good measure

I couldn’t help myself on this one.

It really is true that you can lie 20x before someone can prove your first lie wrong. And quipy responses are usually seen as “correct” because of how short simple answers feel so “enlightening”.