Yeah I can really see why you get that alot

First time I'm saying that to a non-LW user.

You get that alot ig? I can see why.

Such a fucking redditor jesus christ. Why even come to Lemmy at that point? Just stay on reddit

Kinda impressive tbh as irrelevant as this is, mandarin's pretty hard to learn as a second language

At least she's wearing gloves!

In addition to Cowbee's comment, the Prolewiki article on Socialism expands on it.

• Socialism for Beginners

• How Capitalism Robs The Developing World

• What Exactly is Liberalism? (no, it's not about being "woke")

• “Yeah Capitalism Is Bad… But What Can We Do?”

"Human nature" is formed by societal norms, which are in turn formed by the present mode of production and thus material reality. Humans aren't racist by nature lmfao, such a dumb right wing assertion.

• "But What About Human Nature?" is the Dumbest Conservative Argument

Simply put, materialism — as opposed to idealism — is the idea that everything we do and experience as a society (our history, culture, politics, etc) is shaped by the material reality around us, rather than ideas.

"Material analysis" in this case therefore means analysing politics and history through this lens. And it's a fundamental component of socialism/marxism.

::: spoiler Simple diagram of how our material reality shapes our society ::: ⠀

• Socialism For Beginners (Video)

• Dialectical and Historical Materialism
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Yogthos is insulting liberals because liberalism is an idealist ideology that always eventually gives way to fascism when a capitalist state is (inevitably) in decay.

You have singlehandedly united hexbear and .world in shitting on this video. Great job honestly.

Would be hilarious if they weren't told what kind of video the sponsor section would be in. Doubt any of Hakim's viewers will click on that.

This. If you actually want positive change, go out and join a socialist org to take direct action. In capitalist states — specially imperial core ones — elections are just an ad campaign that won't bring any positive change for workers on its own.

Elections will, however, gradually shift to the far-right as long as liberals/capitalists are in power (see: overton window).

Typical liberal rejecting any shift to the left in favour of fascists.

It's great that the LFI managed to come this far even within a liberal framework, but real change has only ever come from organizing and applying pressure from outside the capitalist system to overthrow it. This should be a signal to french comrades to start organizing for that.

Watching the video would help. Basically, it's a barely-held-together coalition that won't last for very long. Meanwhile the far-right has massively risen in popularity over the last few years.

Calm down bro 😭 it's a reasonable thing to point out when presented with "Our ability to destroy is the trait that has powered our rise"

Maybe could've done without the "The fuck are you on?" though I guess

Nazi Germany existed for 12 years and led to some of the most genocidal, bloodthirsty populations in history.

"Israel's" very existence is built on the continued genocide of Palestinians, and this occupation has existed for 76 years. It makes sense then that its population is this bloodthirsty, having festered in a fascist state for this long.

Yes. After all, this would definitely harm BRICS countries and not the US.

Is it also "left wing" to bypass congress to send weapons to a genocidal state faster? Or denounce the ICC for actions against that state like in the post you're commenting on?

Studen loan

Education Dept. announces highest federal student loan interest rate in more than a decade

It's not as bad as the shitlibs on .world at least

Or on literature.cafe apparently?

? Of course there is opposition between the left and the right. What does that have to do with two right wing genocidal capitalist parties?

On brand for .world users to defend a fascist in these comments

"Trolling" is when you put a picture of someone with something that they agree with

Don't worry, he completely agrees with the move as you'd expect.

Biden denounces ICC for ‘outrageous’ implication of equivalence between Israel and Hamas

The Biden administration on Monday forcefully denounced efforts by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants for top Israeli officials and Hamas leaders, saying the court’s efforts put the terrorist organization and a top US ally on equivalent footing.

And why would it matter if it's a rep or dem doing something specifically? They're the two parties of capital and instruments of the capitalist class; one cannot exist without the other. It doesn't matter which one specifically has been doing the most recent fascist shit.

Dems and reps are equally part of the ruling capitalist class and are the parties of capital. There is no real "opposition" between the two aside from optics.

And as you'd expect, Biden does of course agree with this move like another user mentioned.

Being pedantic and defending fascists is also very hot right now among shitlibs apparently

Replace the caption with any of the other shit biden specifically has done that they mentioned if you're this much of a redditor

Shitlibs being pedantic and trying to defend fascists is always hilarious, even if expected

Very common actually

TIL China's Chunwan/Gala is the most watched television program in the world. Damn.

Acknowledging the downvotes doesn't make this comment any less cringe or misinformed lol

This is the best "treatment" a capitalist shithole can give for mental health.

We live in a dystopia

Cutting Through the BS on Xinjiang by BadEmpanada is highly detailed with sources in the description.

You could also watch through the countless videos of people travelling through Xinjiang on YouTube and seeing... that it's just a regular place in China.

Xinjiang also gets more foreign tourists than Spain at over 250 million a year, so you could genuinely just go there and see for yourself lol; there's no more restrictions on travel there than any other place in the country now that Covid is mostly over.

Seems like both the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim countries in general that have sent delegates to Xinjiang agree western propaganda about it is false too ¯_(ツ)_/¯

The only ones propagating these claims are imperial core countries that have actually invaded and colonized Muslim nations as you'd expect lol

I like how this zionist author is trying to draw parallels between the Palestinian resistance and the separatist group the US created in Xinjiang through Afganistan lmao

Claiming both are "Islamist terrorism", which is an ironic thing to say considering israel's support of their fellow US proxy

They won't, not now anyway. The Soviet Union went as far as to fund wars against "israel", but China is clearly far more interested in Socialism In One Country and forming amicable ties with the rest of the world — including the capitalist shitstates — rather than spreading socialism like the USSR did.

Not necessarily a bad thing since I understand where they're coming from (and we know which of the two have managed to prevent a capitalist counter-revolution), but god I wish they did a bit more sometimes.

Genuinely aggressive Chinese sanctions on "israel" would cripple it in months combined with Palestinian resistance, but it also would create hostility with the US, signal to the Global South that they're willing to sanction states that don't do what China wants like the US does, and damage their reputation of being a peaceful superpower that they've been building for the last few decades.

It is, as China repeatedly keeps showing.

...and pretty much every single developed country in the world that have gotten there through state investment and subsidies.

Reddit could've been so good with him at the helm...

I'd also expect there's more and more people propagandized by capitalist media in post-Soviet states as time has passed since capitalist bastards took it over. People who have not lived under socialism or experienced the massively decreased quality of life from the privatization forced on those countries.

Though fortunately it seems like the Russian capitalists have not managed to succeed in this, with more and more people identifying with the USSR than the capitalist Russian Federation in recent years.

Hard to do that at the heart of the revolution I guess. Maybe Russian communist parties could use that to become more revolutionary, specially with Russians able to see the stark difference between Russia under capitalism and China thriving under socialism. Doubt that'll happen while Putin is in power though.

Yet more proof that being "anti-tankie" or whatever just means being a shitlib

You can archive it through archive.is you know, or just use the firefox extension

They would be condemning the Viet Cong for using the exact same strategies Hamas does (taking hostages, using tunnels and guerilla warfare, etc) and having the same goal of driving out an occupying force to reunite their country, yet they had the audacity to pretend like they're antizionist.

Campus protests and the pigs dispersing them are also paralleling the Vietnam war.

The blue team is slightly better at pinkwashing their imperialism though