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- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 month ago:
is there a resource i can look into this with, searching the term “dengost” brings up medical, adding philosophy also serves strange results and adding china brings up dentistry in china :/
- Comment on [Kind of weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 1 month ago:
Good thanks, reading Orwell’s lessor known books, getting a tan and sold newspapers for my political party at the rail drivers picket line.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 month ago:
To be honest its a Frankenstein’s Monster of a political philosophy so maoist maybe too narrow of a term, maybe itll fit with the 1989 Tiananmen square protests but not sure. Not a historian just know China isn’t cookie cutter socialist/Marxist/Leninist/Stalinist…
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 month ago:
paradoxoftheday.com/differences-between-marxism-l…
Its a heavy read but but insightful.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 month ago:
maoism*
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 1 month ago:
No ones truly anything, nationalism is a horrid thing and sorry people have treated you as they have, its more they’re own insecurity then anything to do with you.
- Comment on Rip Striker 2000-2024 😭 1 month ago:
I liked your use of pink, and your glorious name. Rip striker
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
You need to cross post this or something, and keep research as your an asset to humanity!
Would love to hear more of what you’ve found.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
My right wing uncle just yesterday posed this question in reverse oddly enough, it was a jarring conversation, soon ended when I pointed out the plentiful admittions of hateful rhetoric the right have spouted.
His information comes from YouTube personality’s and I take great pleasure in researching the shit he regurgitate and showing him my finding with carefully selected source as unbiased as possible. in a way I feel sorry for the working class right winger, misguided, fueled purely by escapism and negative emotions then peddlers with skin in the game wrap them up with crazy notions of patriotism and conspiracy
- Comment on [Weekly thread] Men over 30, how is your week going? 2 months ago:
Goof thanks, how’s yours?
- Comment on Ross: April updates on campaign to stop game destruction 2 months ago:
Signed, hopefully the partition gets noticed
- Comment on high energy 2 months ago:
What cunt wrote this
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
Sounds like primitive communism, its dreamy but wouldn’t take much for a few tribes to consolidate power leading to a form of feudalism and class issue between different tribes.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
This is very true, a knife isn’t inherently evil.
Though some systems are more susceptible to manipulation, dictatorships, free market capitalism and feudalism are some of the worst culprit’s.
Which is why I believe no system that is conceived by humans will ever be not exploited.
Sadly whilst we occupy the word in clusters of people we must have a system of governess
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
I agree with your last paragraph in particular, I think if we ever want to have a hope of capitalism, communism, or socialism it starts with teaching people “the cheapest option isn’t the best.”
i am glad you can take something from that, sadly while your doing your part in society it still leave others to be exploited and a few smart consumers wont stop this. capitalism is by design repressive, while it exploits me and you some what the people in Afghanistan, China, South America to name a few beer the true brunt of it. suicide nets around Chinese factories, opium doubling in Afghanistan since us meddling as well as political in stability and South America is treated like a stopping ground for the rich where they’ll own holiday homes hotel pricing locals out or run plantations.
i campaign with the socialist party, help with protests and union action, eventually i hope for international reforms.
if you’d be interested in hearing more about socialism id be more than happy to talk.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
personally, communism in a capitalistic world is very hard.
Cuba wanted to break away from American capitalists and gangsters using Cuba to store money and exploit the Cubans for sugar plantations then the US sets embargoes, Cuba maintains its independence and manages to get its literacy level up to 1953—56% 1970—88% 1986—nearly 100% implemented free social health care with newly built hospitals and students had to work in small towns and villages for part of they’re doctorate. but American meddling was constant with the Cuban missile crises which laughable America clutched they’re purls whilst having setup nukes on the USSR’s doorstep as if that wasn’t threatening.
Cuba has sadly remained under the sanctions and is struggling to stay afloat.
its important to view economics outside of our place of living, while western life is so so although homelessness is forever on the rise but outside of these countries life is different and the people are very much exploited by capitalism whether through ford or amazon, this is why we live the way we do.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
Facebook isn’t shy from governments surveillance either.
this debate wont be answered in till documents either leak or become old enough to be declassified like what happened with some of the cold war documentation otherwise we’re arguing points of conjecture.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
communism is not innately authoritarian same with libertarianism and capitalism instead its bad actors that make it so and once bad actors get involved then communism is not meeting its definition. china is a weird one where its communist in name alone with its hybrid economic system and repressive regime which goes against core principles of socialism/communism. i think the death of the USSR which had lead the revolution as well as the many western embargoes on socialist countries have soured relations.
if your interested in podcasts id like to recommend you listen to blowback as it follows US hostilities against socialism/communism. i believe its on several platforms
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
you make a good point that Tiktok is doing some shady stuff but meta were court covertly collecting data from Snapchat through unknowing users devices.
should Facebook be banned or at least forced to sell? this is why the fiasco is coming across as anti-communist, an extension of cold war hostilities.
IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass
Tiktok offers no financial incentive to America unlike Chinese exports, apple are not about to pay a reasonable amount to create an iPhone in America, china is in a pretty good position with its fabrication and engineering, consumer products or even solar panels are far superior to what America can make on a similar budget.
Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.
this is because you view things through a capitalist scope, i am guilty of this too. Facebook as linked in the above article does the same.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
i am not talking about a tipping point, i was focused on the geopolitics in my original comment.
Anti communist? With everything else we buy from China would you argue America to be pro communist?
this is the tipping point to be anti-communist? maybe but i’ll be honest, i dont know what you mean by this, the fight against communism has been a steady state of proxy wars, embargoes, surveillance and propaganda campaigns, so i would definitely say banning tiktok sits within embargo and propaganda.
How about all the US social media platforms that China won’t let in? yea socialism is apposed/untrusting of capitalist products, usually seen as exploitive by the communist this is due in part to the never ending revolution.
Is that “anti-capitalist?” 100%
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
socialism has always been anti capitalism. socialism is based on principles like international revolution and a highly configured economic structures whereas capitalism is extraction of capital which western countries have been doing in china as much as china will allow but this isn’t what i am arguing.
something to keep in mind is that we don’t buy tiktok, similarly to meta and alphabet (google).
brief easy to read history of cold war activity.
Cuba and North Korea (the forgotten war) are both good to look in to. i hope the history can bring context to my previous statement as geopolitics is never as it seems.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 months ago:
I do wonder if this is america being anti communist as history has shown before. Not to say China is actually communist but the economic system is hybrid socialist/capitalist and China is catching up or surpassing america so with this said what’s to say america starts using this tactic against more of chinas Chinese owned exports?
Beyond that america has meta which has done much the same as tiktok, targeting youth, furthering mental health issue, spying, anti trust and coverups yet they get a slap on the wrists.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Society has collapsed.
I bring back slightly big stone and chalk.
- Comment on Decade-old Linux ‘wall’ bug helps make fake SUDO prompts, steal passwords 2 months ago:
I read the article figured was a silly question so did sudo rm -rf