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In my book, it isn't "tankie" until they are the kind who claim all the authoritarian regimes that were never democratic to be "communist".
You can't have communism without democracy, that's the whole deal, it's in the freaking name, community.Claiming to be "communist" when your regime is authoritarian is like claiming to make soup without liquids.
You can replace water with other stuff like broth, or even beer and wine, to make soup. But you need a liquid to make soup. That's soup's whole deal. Without a liquid as the base, or if you take out all the liquid after doing it, whatever you are doing, whatever you call it, it ain't soup.
For example, portable soup may have "soup" in the name, but it isn't soup. It's dehydrated food. It may have been soup once, but it isn't soup. -
- There’s a big difference between ‘there’s Nazis in our military’ vs ‘our government is erecting monuments of Nazis.’
- It’s not even ‘almost a genocide.’ The US officials are trying to save face. The CIA and State Dept were training Uyghur extremists to destabilize the region, and they’re pissed China put a stop to it, and started rehabilitating the militants.
Your views seem to coincide with Russian propaganda.
You're pro-Russian and think Russia was not wrong to break international law by invading a sovereign nation. I would bet.
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And if you ask people if they're pro-Putin and pro-Russia and against Russian crimes against humanity, you'll get banned faster than you can say "Синдром вахтёра"
Goes for Lemmy.ml and some reason Midwest.social as well.
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In my book, it isn't "tankie" until they are the kind who claim all the authoritarian regimes that were never democratic to be "communist".
You can't have communism without democracy, that's the whole deal, it's in the freaking name, community.Claiming to be "communist" when your regime is authoritarian is like claiming to make soup without liquids.
You can replace water with other stuff like broth, or even beer and wine, to make soup. But you need a liquid to make soup. That's soup's whole deal. Without a liquid as the base, or if you take out all the liquid after doing it, whatever you are doing, whatever you call it, it ain't soup.
For example, portable soup may have "soup" in the name, but it isn't soup. It's dehydrated food. It may have been soup once, but it isn't soup.The thing is, AES states are democratic. They usually don't have competing liberal parties like Western countries, but instead a more comprehensive form based on electing delegates. For example, the USSR functioned like this:
For further reading, Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan.
Further, the "point" of Communism isn't Democracy to begin with. Communism is a prediction, not a perfect society created in a lab, of what will necessarily happen as humanity develops. Marx predicted humanity will move towards a fully publicly owned and planned economy with democratic control because industry gets larger and more complex over time. I think if you take away that Communism is based on analysis and not on some Utopia, you take away the reason why Communism makes sense to begin with.
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Nothing says genocide apologist like insisting every genocide has to be exactly like to Holocaust to count as a genocide.
How fun! Just call literally anything you want a genocide (like literally any war, drought, or prison) and then play act outrage when anyone asks you to have a sense of personal shame or honesty!
IT'S TOTALLY NOT LITERALLY A NAZI TACTIC
The "Double Genocide" Theory
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Oh wait, yes it is. It is literally a nazi tactic. You're doing a literal nazism.
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Trump isn't a fascist, y'all leftists are just over-reacting, stop watering down the term "fascism" /s
Trump is a fascist and so are you. He's just less of one because he could put his own personal political interests above doing a genocide whereas you were willing to lose an election to go full bore.
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Get the app: sync for Lemmy! It's amazing
I actually prefer appless. Straight web.
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Get the app: sync for Lemmy! It's amazing
does that have profile pictures and stuff? I use Voyager and feel like I'm missing the full Lemmy experience
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Oh, so turns out you can deny genocides then? Oh right, only if it's not the west making the accusation.
So you think you really want to argue Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine, all the warcrimes Russians are pulling, and you're gonna defend that by saying Russians are the heroically invading Ukraine to save Ukraine?
Guess you haven't yet understood the essence of Russian propaganda; deny and obfuscate, never actually answer anything.
Anyone actually engaging with any Russian propaganda knows it breaks down at the slightest touch.
I don't want to take up the whole page with this, so I'll just list the sub-headers;
Prohibited weapons, Abduction and deportation, Attacks on civilians, Unlawful wanton destruction or appropriation of property, Attacks on hospitals and medical facilities, Destruction of energy infrastructure, Destruction and theft of cultural heritage, Torture of civilians, Use of human shields, Sexual violence, Looting, Forced conscription, Mistreatment of prisoners of war, Genocide
We all know Ukraine is the good side. They may have some baddies on their side (one battalion of crazy fucks), but Russia has way more companies filled with rapists, thieves, murderers taken out of prisons and shipped to the front.
Kindly fuck of to the front lines to feed the drones so we don't need to hear from you anymore.
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Point to where I'm believing yanks.
I think anything even remotely implying that you don't fully buy into the insanity that is Russian propaganda is "believing America about anything".
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If tankies are right wing, liberals are right wing, not to mention those who are actually right-wing outside of your head-canon, who is not right-wing?
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Your views seem to coincide with Russian propaganda.
You're pro-Russian and think Russia was not wrong to break international law by invading a sovereign nation. I would bet.
This strikes me as much of the root of the problem here, of why immature and uneducated people are drawn to fascism. You all treat it like team sports.
You really can’t even imagine opposing Russia while also opposing Nazis. Or you’re just a Nazi looking to groom people into the ideology with Russiaphobia.
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Welcome to lemmy newbies, here is your first official feud post.
Solidarity amongst the instances! We will not be divided!
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does that have profile pictures and stuff? I use Voyager and feel like I'm missing the full Lemmy experience
I can see profile pics on the mobile web version
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.world needs a targeted marketing campaign, we just need to point to the very public mod log. The mods at .world do all the work for us lol.
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And if you ask people if they're pro-Putin and pro-Russia and against Russian crimes against humanity, you'll get banned faster than you can say "Синдром вахтёра"
Goes for Lemmy.ml and some reason Midwest.social as well.
I'm still not banned and I have been critical of both nations. Everybody Sucks Here
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I would argue FOSS is more akin to cooperative anarchism or library economics. Murray Bookchin
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This strikes me as much of the root of the problem here, of why immature and uneducated people are drawn to fascism. You all treat it like team sports.
You really can’t even imagine opposing Russia while also opposing Nazis. Or you’re just a Nazi looking to groom people into the ideology with Russiaphobia.
I'm a Finnish person with detailed understanding of Russia.
We literally fought Nazis and Russia, both.
I constantly criticise the US for it's growing fascism. I also heavily criticise my own country for its authoritarian tendencies. See unlike you, I don't have a preferred flavour when it comes to injustice. I'm disgusted by it all.
So your attempt at generalising is really ironic here. You are literally doing what you blame "others" for doing "treating it like team sports". But you can't accept a single criticism of Russia. And would NEVER admit to the WELL DOCUMENTED war crimes they've pulled during their ILLEGAL INVASION of a sovereign country with some ridiculous excuse of "we are invading them to save them from Nazism and install our dear leader".
"ideology of Russiaphobia"
First of, it's "russophobia". Secondly, no, pointing out facts about Russia, like their endless amount of war crimes isn't any sort of discrimination, вахтера.
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Different leftists have a different idea of what constitutes the "State" and what "Statelessness" looks like. For Marxists, the State is the oppressive elements of class society like millitarized police and armies that can only go away once the world is fully publicly owned and planned, and becomes classless. Anarchists however have an issue with hierarchy, rather than class, and want full decentralization and horizontalism. For a Marxist, Anarchism isn't "stateless" as it retains class distinctions (each commune is interested in its own success), Anarchists obviously would see Marxism as not truly stateless.
This difference is why a lot of conversations go nowhere between some Marxists and Anarchists.
i generally lean ML, but both of these are stateless to me? isnt this really about horizontal vs hierarchical power?
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Can we just defederate and be done with it?
Why do you need your admins to block .ml? If you don't like what you see, that sounds like a you problem, not a us problem. Since you need your hands held through this process, I have made this easy guide on how to do it yourself.
Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.
In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.
This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.
This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click "Settings".
At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says "Blocks".
Here you will see "Block user" "Block community" and "Block instance". Click the down arrow below "Block instance".
This will open up a search bar. Type "lemmy.ml" and click it after it shows up.
That's it! You've blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don't need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!
But wait, we aren't done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under "Block user". Now type "UltraGiGaGigantic" Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.
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