[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 101 points 11 months ago

Also without open source the capitalist tech sector would collapse

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Tankie" is to liberals as "woke" is to conservative liberals and fascists.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 78 points 1 year ago

Stuka username claiming others aren't concerned about Ukrainians lmao

Remind me what the nazis did in Ukraine again?

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OP determining whether to believe the US about socialist movements

us-foreign-policy

Also look up double genocide theory and stop trivializing the holocaust by calling communists fascists.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

to prevent Iranian influence from growing and to suppress violent Islamic fundamentalism.

Lol, Iran is more moderate than Saudi Arabia and bombing and starving populations is how you create radicals.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 70 points 1 year ago

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ukraine has plenty of opportunities to win. It could have chosen to chart a more balanced position between the EU and Russia.

I mean they tried to but they got couped by the US for their troubles.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, Ukraine is really going to retake those two oblasts and Crimea. It will all be worth all the hundreds of thousands of lives thrown into the meatgrinder instead of honoring two ceasefires or negotiating a new ceasefire when that happens.

jokerfied

Real Hitler in his bunker energy, except instead of Hitler youre a nazi in some other country not directly involved coping about how Germany can still win.

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 113 points 1 year ago

For more information, research "surplus army of labor", "primitive accumulation", and "accumulation by dispossession".

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago

Remember when Obama saw the largest transfer of wealth away from black US citizens to the wealthy in the history of the United States?

Remember when he set the precedent that it us cool to assassinate US citizens in the open (as opposed to covertly) without trial?

Honestly I get being mad at "Obama's biggest controversy was the mustard"

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. Flying in the southwest zone isn't aggressive

  2. Both countries agree that the territories they occupy are both China

  3. Taiwan is literally a settler colonial state that massacred the indigenous inhabitants when the KMT retreated there

[-] ThereRisesARedStar@hexbear.net 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Begging my population to have kids instead of doing anything to address the conditions that make it impossible for enough of them to have kids

Oh yeah

Move over material analysis, It's idealism as politics time

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It is 2023 and DSA can't get its act together about apartheid being bad.

Christ.

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