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davel , to worldnews in As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour
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The people in powerful positions in the Communist Party got there because people voted them in. What’s hard to understand here?

You know who is the ruling class in capitalist countries, right? It’s the capitalists. It doesn’t matter how egalitarian the political system appears on paper, because de-facto the capitalist class rules.

davel , to worldnews in As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour
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Well it’s a one party dictatorship

Yes, the dictatorship of the party of the working class, or in other words a proletarian democracy.

Meanwhile, whether one party or two or a hundred, we have a dictatorship of the capitalist class, or in other words a https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/bourgeois-democracy-what-do-marxists-mean-by-this-term.

davel , (edited ) to worldnews in Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague
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I already gave the last 10 years’ evidence upthread: lemmy.ml/comment/9989886

Also, 100 years old my ass:

After the Orange revolution of 2004 Stepan Bandera was declared a “Hero of Ukraine”. Even a postage stamp was issued commemorating him. During the 2014 Maidan coup, a huge poster of Stepan Bandera hung on the stage. Few in the west had ever heard of Stepan Bandera or the OUN back in 2014. Now in 2022 the world is on the brink of nuclear war and the global economy is collapsing all because CIA and other western intelligence agencies have been using Ukrainian fascists as proxies for nearly 80 years. In Parts 3 and 4, I intend to trace the history of the OUN and its ideological heirs through the Cold War and post-Cold War eras up to the Maidan coup and the Ukrainian civil war.

davel , (edited ) to worldnews in Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague
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Why don’t you? ildu.com.ua

The Intercept, 2022: Foreign Fighters in Ukraine Could Be a Time Bomb for Their Home Countries Two killed in the Ukrainian Army’s International Legion may have been neo-Nazis.

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davel , (edited ) to worldnews in Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague
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And yet Ukraine’s Nazi problem never ended, and remains to this day.

davel , to worldnews in Russia's GDP Surges to 7.7% in February 2024
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GDP growth is fascism 🤡

davel , to worldnews in Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, warns Prague
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Lovely.

The History of Fascism in Ukraine Part I

With the war in Ukraine raging, it is time to trace the history of fascism in Ukraine. Once believed to be an anachronistic Cold War relic, the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) has emerged as the most successful post-war fascist group. Politicians around the globe shout its fascist slogan “Slava Ukraini”, a phrase that originated with the League of Ukrainian Fascists, was adopted by the OUN and popularized by Stepan Bandera while he and the OUN were on trial for the assassination campaign the OUN were waging in Poland.

It was at the Warsaw trial that the OUN first started using the slogan “Slava Ukraini” publicly in combination with the Roman (Nazi) salute.

History of Fascism in Ukraine Part II

Jews were forced to sing communist songs before being shot or they were forced to shout Slava Ukraini before being beaten to death.

davel , to technology in The Miseducation of Kara Swisher
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Edward Ongweso Jr. is one half of the This Machine Kills podcast. Every other episode is available for free on many podcast apps & sites: podtail.com/podcast/this-machine-kills/

davel , to asklemmy in Why are tech company's so interested in my boring ass data?
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Not to dispute your general points, but Cambridge Analytica’s actual effectiveness was shown to have been way overblown (as was RussiaGate in general).

davel , (edited ) to asklemmy in Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.
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I’m aware of the history, but didn’t know it still lingered. Maybe it’s a regional thing. I haven’t run into this in the metropolitan Northeast or metropolitan West Coast regions. But also I’ve been atheist my whole life, so the topic has seldom come up.

davel , to asklemmy in Why do people say "Catholics and Christians" in (USA) when Catholics are also Christians, as if they refer to it as a different religion.
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I have never heard anyone say that. Presumably they say it because they don’t know any better.

davel , to memes in Quotes of great men
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A guy born on third base telling us how to score a run.

davel , to linux in recommendations for desktop Lemmy client?
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Companies pushed for us to install their apps on our phones so they could force ads on us and extract (meta)data from us that they couldn’t from our browsers.

Cory Doctorow: How lock-in hurts design

More than half of all web-users have installed ad-blockers.

This is why services are so horny to drive you to install their app rather using their websites: they are trying to get you to do something that, given your druthers, you would prefer not to do. They want to force you to exit through the gift shop, you want to carve a desire path straight to the parking lot. Apps let them mobilize the law to literally criminalize those desire paths.

An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to block ads in it (or do anything else that wrestles value back from a company). Apps are web-pages where everything not mandatory is forbidden.

Seen in this light, an app is a way to wage war on desire paths, to abandon the cooperative model for co-innovation in favor of the adversarial model of user control and extraction.

And now this corporate brainworm has infected our desktop environments, even Linux ones. Just say no.

davel , to worldnews in Israel bombs Iran's embassy in Syria, kills commanders says Iran
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😬

isntrael amerikkka

davel , to worldnews in Israel bombs Iran's embassy in Syria, kills commanders says Iran
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How the fuck do you use a building to move weapons? Is the embassy on rails?

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