davel , 2 months ago to asklemmy in Why is there no global language that at least nearly half the world speaks (3.5 billion, I'm talkin', including non-native speakers)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world

Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion.

So you’re right: one quarter of people at most. Nonetheless that’s remarkable. Too bad it’s due more to subjugation than cooperation.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/674f8e18-4ffb-4bdf-b6f6-a04c79459d25.png

davel , 2 months ago to memes in some people on this platform

Bruh, they literally picked people from bread lines and threw them into the gulag.

[citation needed]
Do you even think critically about the cold war propaganda we were fed? Why would you pick people out of bread lines and put them into gulags to feed them there? That would mean you’d have to build more gulags and get people to staff them. Why would you do that unless you’re a cartoon villain? It makes no sense.

Not to mention the majority of clergy for just being christian clergy.

I have no great love for clergy, especially when they side with tsars against a worker revolution.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in some people on this platform

If ever there was a real world example of Newspeak, it is how—thanks to class war and three red scares—the working class no longer even has a word for socialism. So now welfare capitalists like Bernie Sanders call themselves socialist despite never calling for the abolition of the private ownership of the means of production. It’s an amazing achievement of the capitalist class’ propaganda machine.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in Self-Made

bootlicker

davel , 2 months ago to memes in Self-Made

Your account is as old as mine. By now I’d think you’d know better.

Oh right, we had this conversation just last week: sh.itjust.works/comment/11375618

So I shouldn’t expect you to know anything.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in Self-Made

Appropriate username is appropriate.

izutsumi-idea !nonpolitical_memes

You know where the block button is.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in freedom!

Anyone who disagrees with me is MAGA!

fucking liberals

davel , 2 months ago to memes in freedom!

What, defeating the Nazis? Breaking free from Emperors, Western imperialism, and Japanese imperialism? I’d say those needed to be done, yes.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in freedom!

To be fair, most liberals don’t understand taxation, ether, which is why neoliberalism lumbers on, the zombie ideology it is.

• Your [US federal] Taxes Pay for Nothing
• Why The Government Has Infinite Money

davel , 2 months ago to worldnews in The BRICS nations, originally comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, are looking to establish a new reserve currency backed by a basket of their respective currencies.

This article seems to imply that this would be just another currency, but I suspect it’s a Bancor-like unit of account for international balance of payments, and not a currency for everyday transactions.

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to memes in some people on this platform

The boxer rebellion was 50 years before the Chinese Communist Revolution. The CIA’s own unclassified reports show what people in gulags were fed. Why would they choose people at random? That would be dumb. Nazis, kulaks, other prisoners of the revolutionary war, and common criminals were in gulags.

davel , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to memes in some people on this platform

By millions murdered, you don’t mean people who died in the last famine in China after centuries of famines, and you don’t mean the last famine in the region that became the USSR after centuries of famines, right? Famines that happened during or soon after the bloody revolutions overthrowing the tsars and emperors, under which the previous famines occurred?

davel , 2 months ago to memes in some people on this platform

Average imperial core Cold Warrior understander.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in some people on this platform

The history of socialist movements shows that it is. Rosa Luxemburg was right over a hundred years ago.

davel , 2 months ago to memes in China Bad

Ignorant? Do you imagine that we haven’t been exposed to exactly the same imperal core propaganda our entire lives as everyone else here? Generally speaking, we know everything that you know. The only difference is that we took the time & effort—and had the intellectual honesty—to learn more.