davel

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Ukraine claims its sea drones sank a Russian warship. Moscow says Patriot missiles downed its plane

Of course we haven’t read any of it: you’re a sock puppet /s

If this were any other instance than lemmy.ml, the mods would probably have deleted your comments already.

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China'

And then there are those who don’t get whacked or politically persecuted, only cancelled. The people who got Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction wrong are still prominent today, while those who got it right have never worked in the industry again, like Chris Hedges and Phil Donahue.

Like, of course US journalists toe the party line: you get promoted for doing it and you get permabanned like Chris Hedges if you question it.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in Exiled Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: 'Censorship in West exactly the same as Mao's China'

It’s like Julian Assange is memory-holed already.

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in US officials: "We realize that efforts, implied or explicit, to shape or change the PRC over several decades did not succeed"

I’m pretty sure you already made this point earlier in the thread, or perhaps in some other thread.

We Marxist-Leninist do think that China is an Actually Existing Socialism. Whether Western propaganda uses the term to its advantage is not our concern. We don’t at all agree with these “informed people” on whether China is a good place to live. Those people get their understanding of China from Western propaganda.

I think your conceptualization of socialism is a utopian one, which Marxists reject. This is why Engels wrote Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and Lenin wrote “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder.

Also, totalitarianism is a bullshit term created by Western propagandists in order to equivalate socialism and fascism. Hannah Arendt came from a petty bourgeois family and was a paid propagandist.

The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited

U.S. and European anticommunist publications receiving direct or indirect funding included Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, New Leader, Encounter and many others. Among the intellectuals who were funded and promoted by the CIA were Irving Kristol, Melvin Lasky, Isaiah Berlin, Stephen Spender, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Dwight MacDonald, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and numerous others in the United States and Europe. In Europe, the CIA was particularly interested in and promoted the “Democratic Left” and ex-leftists, including Ignacio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Anthony Crosland, Michael Josselson, and George Orwell.

If fact, almost all of the “Western left” was captured by the imperial core propaganda machine: Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

Can you substantiate this claim?

From our own Western propaganda, you hear and credulously believe that Chinese workers have no say, and now the burden is on me to prove that they do have a say. If you really want to know, you’re welcome to look into it yourself. You might start with The East Is Still Red, which is short and provides a lot of references.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in They must have had great chemistry together

I don’t doubt it. I’m not sure what we would have done if we’d intended to have kids.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in They must have had great chemistry together

It’s true that as a lemmy.ml admin, I’m not going out of my way to make this an inclusive space for traditional family values. I have different priorities for whom I make this space inclusive.

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to securitynews in CIA Vault7 WikiLeaks source sentenced 40 years (convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material)

Thank you for calling me out, but I don’t think I fucked up. Your rash of posts received downvotes on lemmy.ml because our users don’t want to be spammed. You’re just wrong about what we consider to be good etiquette. Not every reddiquette translates to here.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in They must have had great chemistry together

I don’t think I’m responsible for other adults’ reactions to my life choices or my lived experiences.

davel , 5 months ago to memes in They must have had great chemistry together

My wife & I never even discussed whether she should or would change her name. She’s not my property.

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to securitynews in CIA Vault7 WikiLeaks source sentenced 40 years (convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material)

Welcome to getting six lemmy.ml posts deleted by admins.

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in China is reportedly scrubbing the internet of negative coverage of its economy

Just because one’s house is one’s largest purchase doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an investment vehicle for which one can hope to get an 8% yearly return. China has a lot of public housing and is creating more, which in turn suppresses private housing prices. China to increase govt-subsidized housing in 2021-2025

davel , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to worldnews in ‘A race against time’: Taiwan strives to root out China’s spies

I prefer to let liberals be wrong about things, but this is some brainworms

davel , 5 months ago to memes in When you are privileged equality looks like a downgrade.

crackers are still flagging this post lmayo

davel , 5 months ago to memes in Lemmy-world is literally 4chan for Liberals, Radlibs, NATOists/NAFOists, SocLibs, (Right-Wing) SocDems, LibDems, Neoliberals, and BlueMAGA

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7c8911ac-45e1-48ef-aa89-4d15a77f65ce.jpeg antelope-popcorn

davel , 5 months ago to worldnews in China is reportedly scrubbing the internet of negative coverage of its economy

Citations Needed podcast:

• Episode 150: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part I)
• Episode 151: How Economic Jargon and Cliches Make Cruel, Anti-Poor Policies Sound Sterile and Science-y (Part II)
• Episode 191: How Media’s Use of ‘The Economy’ Flattens Class Conflict