FlyingCircus
@FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 6 days ago:
The US murdered over a million civilians in Iraq.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 1 week ago:
Fascism is a social disease that is injected by the bourgeoisie into the petit-bourgeoisie during times when capitalism is in crisis. They do this through propaganda and economic warfare like austerity coupled with tax cuts for the rich. This results in an economic downturn that hits the “middle class” the hardest (relatively - poor people are also fucked, but they had less to lose in the first place). Economic woes coupled with divisive and authoritarian propaganda and — boom — fascism.
So how do you stop it? Well, ultimately by dismantling capitalism and removing the power of the bourgeoisie. Otherwise fascist crises will just keep being manufactured.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
I think it’s more likely that the ruling class owns both the USA and Israel, and use them together to accomplish their goals. AIPAC is just the mechanism of control and Zionists are just the useful idiots.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
You’re right that there is no evidence that the “Holodomor” was a genocide, while there is plenty of evidence that the guy who coined the term had Nazi affiliations and was specifically looking to smear communism.
It’s still possible to blame Moscow for the famine. After all, they were in charge. But you also have to acknowledge that it was the last famine Ukraine experienced, in a long long history of cyclical famine. Meanwhile, under capitalism we still have famine in places in Africa because it’s not profitable to stop feed poor people.
The history of communism is a history full of mistakes with the occasional bad actor. However, compare that to the history of capitalism, which is a history full of bad actors occasionally making mistakes that let the good guys to get a win.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 2 weeks ago:
I mean technically communism has never existed because it specifically refers to a stateless, classless, and moneyless society. Socialism is the intermediate step where workers control the means of production in order to build communism.
But most people leave pedantry in the classroom and understand that the two terms are basically interchangeable in everyday context.
And FYI, the strongest economy in the world right now is socialist.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 2 weeks ago:
Socialism and communism have had far better outcomes for the majority of people. Not without mistakes or abuses of power, but even if we take the most dubious and exaggerated of accusations of communist atrocities at face value, they still pale at the casual everyday waste of life under capitalism.
- Comment on This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes 2 weeks ago:
Every school in the country has always been used for indoctrination, misinformation, and propaganda. It’s just what capitalists have to do to convince everybody to support a system that benefits the rich at the expense of everyone else.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 weeks ago:
I just bought a FP6 with /e/os installed by Murena in the US and it’s been great so far except that RCS isn’t supported by /e/os so group texts don’t work. Which is honestly a huge issue that is causing enough social friction that I’ll probably revert to an iPhone soon.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for your answer! I feel like that makes sense on a global scale, but mightn’t local and regional scales be more impacted? We already know that the transpiration from forests affects rain patterns, and the forests don’t need to be huge either.
Also, some ecosystems might be particularly vulnerable. For example, redwood trees actually absorb most of their water through their leaves from fog and mist. Could a local humidity harvesting plant potentially pull enough water from the air that the osmotic pressure is reduced below what redwoods need to absorb water? I suspect the answer is actually no for this particular examole, but my point is that powerful technologies like these must be thought through, especially if someone is claiming zero side effects. The time is long past for humanity to learn a little caution with potential climate changing technologies.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 3 weeks ago:
At mass scale, could taking enough moisture out of the air affect local weather patterns?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
ROFLMAO this guy literally just equated landlords with minorities. Oh won’t someone think of the poor landlords!
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
Wait, you guys have read Capital? 😂
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 1 month ago:
If Trump had gotten his way the first time, we’d be in a fascist dictatorship that is 9 years old now instead of one.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 month ago:
Fascist tankies? Tell me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda without telling me you’ve huffed capitalist propaganda. Y’all are miseducated af
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 month ago:
I am an ML as are most communists.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 month ago:
I’ve been accused of being a tankie, and I think he’s great. But obviously the McCarthyites of Lemmy would rather create a straw man than listen to anything a red has to say.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 month ago:
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 month ago:
Well, Google is an evil megacorp, so not really surprising.
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 1 month ago:
Yes, except they’re not leveraging your data for advertising, they’re leveraging it so they can manipulate your political views and keep you from finding solidarity with other working people.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 1 month ago:
The people the West labels as terrorists have been exploited and oppressed for generations. They don’t have the resources to get into Israel and perform meaningful acts of sabotage. Actions like that are better coming from the citizens of Israel who still have a conscience. They could look to groups like Palestine Action, whose sustained sabotage efforts against an Israeli weapons manufacturer lead to the closure of at least one factory in Britain, and led to Barclays bank divesting from the company. Of course, now Palestine Action are labeled as terrorists for that…
- Comment on Slay Girl 2 months ago:
Someone one on Lemmy is going to suggest exterminating the tankie ducks now.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 months ago:
I dunno man, killing a genocidal maniac makes someone a hero in my book.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 2 months ago:
LOL If companies were honest we’d have a socialist revolution within 48 hours.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 months ago:
Capitalism is a mode of production where the means of production (ie. capital) are owned by individuals who then use that ownership to exploit workers for their surplus labor value to turn it into profit.
Contrary to popular belief, “true capitalism” does not require free markets.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 2 months ago:
This is also what the DNC wants. Vote socialist.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 months ago:
This has deliberately been done to us. The atomization of our society serves no one but the capitalists (who are the masters of ICE).
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 months ago:
The Black Panthers had so much success at preventing police violence by simply showing up with guns when the cops came that Reagan made it illegal to open carry in California.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 2 months ago:
Yes, obviously.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
All good points, although I think multiple things can be true, especially when a narcissist like Trump is calling the shots. I suspect he saw the non-renewal as a threat he had to respond to with a disproportionate show of force, and Venezuela happens to tick that box too.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
The backbone of the petrodollar is the deal with the Saudis where they agreed to exclusively trade oil in USD. That deal is no longer in place. Furthermore, Iran is reaching rapprochement with the Saudis, and the Trump tariffs have destroyed US trade credibility. The geopolitics of oil are shifting, and not in the US’s favor.
This is the real reason the US wants to steal Venezuela’s oil now. Their global oil hegemony is no longer enforceable through soft power.
So the petrodollar may not be dead today, and it may cling onto life for another decade, but (to my view) the writing is on the wall.