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- 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:
Me: provides evidence from the CIA itself, directly related to the topic on hand
Another user: provides evidence that many/most ex-soviet citizens actually preferred Socialism vs the Shock Capitalism they experienced. (Read Shock Doctrine and Blackshirts and Reds)
You: nuh uhh! My great grandparents told me a story once!
How to summon the .ml warrior with this one simple step.
Yes indeed. I fight against misinformation and for human rights. I support and march alongside strikers. I confront Proud Boys and other fascists. I resist against ICE. I fight for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC rights. I am active in mutual aid in my community. I’ve helped put Progressives and Socialists in elected office. I’m organizing my community against fascism and capitalism that ruins our lives.
You? Well … what have you accomplished lately?
That we’ve actually still have accounts of those who witnessed and experienced it first hand.
Yes of course. And there’s Cubans in Miami who denounce Cuba. Nevermind that these people are all ex-land owners, factory owners, and capitalists who exploited the working class for their own benefit. Castro was kind enough to exile them instead of what Mao did.
Myth: Communism Killed 100 Million+ People
Debunked:
Death tolls often include WWII casualties, famines, and natural disasters, misattributed to communism.
Capitalist atrocities (Native American genocide, transatlantic slavery) dwarf these numbers.
Sources like the “Black Book of Communism” are ideologically biased and widely discredited.
Myth: “Communist countries have no food!”
Busted:
Famines (e.g., USSR 1921) were caused by war/sanctions, not socialism.
Socialist states often had better nutrition than capitalist peers (e.g., Cuba’s food security vs. US food deserts).
Capitalist countries waste 40% of food while millions starve.
A good book to read is Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee. So yea, read some books. Or rely on anecdotes 2 generations removed lol
Blocking you, I have no desire to continue this thread.
- 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:
Essentially, “He was bad, but not THAT bad, that’s just western propaganda”
www.cia.gov/…/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
“Even in Stalin’s time, there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the communist setup is exaggerated.”.
“tankies” though, amirite?
the list of excuses goes on.
A much more convenient excuse is that the USA is telling the truth about USSR while simultaneously executing millions of communists in South America, Africa, and Asia and lying about pretty much everything regarding anti-capitalism over the past century.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
Why would I change instances because people are misinformed about MLs?
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of rude people here are you kidding? People are rude to me just because I’m on lemmy.ml lmfao…
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2 weeks ago:
I guess. I don’t use Reddit’s AI. But Digg specifically billed itself as Reddit + AI. I got early beta access, and it was exactly that: Reddit + shitty AI summaries.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 2 weeks ago:
“we’re reddit, but with AI!”
I noped so hard away from digg
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 5 weeks ago:
I would argue, based on my perception of people who use and abuse those platforms, as well as data to suggest and confirm the above descriptors, that yes it is so wrong lol
I mean, you’re free to eat mcdonalds all you want, but let’s not pretend it’s a healthy choice in any way you measure it
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 5 weeks ago:
People don’t want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.
They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform … Apparently.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 1 month ago:
So are you for or against mass surveillance veiled as “child safety”?
- Comment on Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background 1 month ago:
It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 month ago:
Tiktok was THE platform for pro-gaza content and solidarity. Leaks from Congress proves this. It’s a shell of what it once was now that the US oligarchs are in control of it and have turned it into their right wing spyware platform.
Blocked for unironically using the word ‘tankie’.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 month ago:
Kinda like fediverse in general. That’s the price of a non-corpo platform
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 2 months ago:
cough Join SRA cough
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 2 months ago:
I have never once seen this in a controlled range environment.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 2 months ago:
Digg fucking sucks. It’s just worse reddit with AI bullshit.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
Just a brief skim of this and I’m already so lost lol. Thanks for the link though, I’ll have a more detailed read through later.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
Man, I’m pretty techy. I work in tech. I’ve learned programming, etc, I use Debian. but selfhosting seems so daunting, not to mention inconvenient. I need to get into it though 😓
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 2 months ago:
How do you plan on doing the revolution without a gun?
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” -Mao
“By any means necessary” - Malcolm X
“I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.” - Che Guevera
etc, etc…
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 3 months ago:
Ol double tap civvies Obama getting peace price…
All presidents are war criminals 😒
- Comment on YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it. 9 months ago:
It’s responsible for any successful socialist movement, so yea I’d say so.
- Comment on YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it. 9 months ago:
50501 is a liberal movement whose only goal is pre-trump status quo.
Lenin talks about the need for a working class Vanguard, otherwise these spontaneous protests/movements will always get co-opted by liberals and mainstream, and eventually fizzle away. We saw it happen with BLM, occupy, women’s march, etc
I don’t have any long term hope for 50501, but we’re using the momentum to recruit for DSA and workers movements.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 9 months ago:
Many departments don’t require physical tests once hired.
Most of the work cops do is domestic disturbance calls and traffic stops. There’s no reason to be physically fit for either of those jobs. Also, most people see the day shift and in nicer neighborhoods; again there’s really no need for physicality. Getting on day shift and good area means you’ve been on the police a while and “earned it” (or you have some clout), so usually olderish cops.
The young jacked mfers usually are on the night shift and in rougher neighborhoods.
Additionally, a bullet resistant vest and all the gear will make you look bigger/fatter than you really are.
So it’s kind of a combo of all that.
Also, ACAB