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I’ll never really know how much the US’ complicity in genocide factored in to the decision.

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I’m not optimistic that that will happen under the next Biden or Trump administration. US corporate media avoid mentioning China’s HSR, but they can’t keep things under the rug forever.

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Our capitalist class and their bought politicians are sitting with our profits in their Scrooge McDuck swimming pools.

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I’m not sure which bootlickers you mean—the politicians? Many of them are wealthy in their own right, and almost all of them rely on wealthy donors to get into office and to hold it. It’s one big club, and we ain’t in it. [Princeton] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

This isn’t a recent development; it has ever been so. “Bourgeois Democracy”: What Do Marxists Mean By This Term?

(Meta) So many questions here are not open ended. Does anyone care?

There are a significant amount of questions here that do not follow the criteria in the sidebar, especially “1. Open-ended question” and “5. An actual topic of discussion”. It seems some folks want others to do research for them, or to troubleshoot some random issue....

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Good question; it’s not my place to answer. @ada, @tmpod, @Cloak?

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules

Community rules against the laws of thermodynamics 😂

How to install Libreboot in 2024?

Hi all . I currently have version 2023.06.25 installed, stable. Tell me how to install the latest version 20240612? I see a lot of changes here codeberg.org/…/d8bcd5c7044e28c6e20778ea25f6b90709… If I understand correctly the mechanism for introducing blob objects has changed, how can I check the ROM after I run the command $...

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How to install Libreboot in 2024?

That’s an oddly specific question. When else but now? Did you arrive by time machine?

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Barcelona is a diverse economic engine; it’s not a tourism monocrop town. It doesn’t need your patronage.

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Did you think I wouldn’t notice you creating alt account [email protected] today for the express purpose of following me around and downvoting? I guess I really hit a nerve. How embarrassingly petty.

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Because it’s a fascist, Western settler-colonial state that is committing genocide as we speak, and has been ethnically cleansing the indigenous peoples for the last eighty or so years.

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Both have historically not been cared about by whom? The BDS movement is almost twenty years old. The UN General Assembly has been continually reaffirming the Palestinian people’s right to armed struggle against their oppressors over 50 years. Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish American son of two Holocaust survivors, has been writing about this ever since his doctoral thesis in 1988.

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Lemmy is open source software, and the lemmy.ml instance in particular—the instance you are posting to—is especially focused on open source software development, so you shouldn’t be surprised that many people are talking about open source software development.

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You can’t say whatever the hell you want, actually. For example, “No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.”

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Russian propaganda and calls for violence.

Rolls eyes

op is either a fed, a fascist or both.

On first impression, OP seems to be a “patriotic” kkkanada and a mod for !ukraine where “sympathy for enemy combatants in any form is prohibited.”

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MBFC has entered the chat 🤡

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And now you’re pointing us to CIApedia. This imperial core LIB bingo card will get filled up in no time. What’s next, Bell¿ngcat?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YkPnwoYyE

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It’s amazing that this gets any downvotes at all.

Washington Post 1991: Innocence Abroad: the New World of Spyless Coups

“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA,” agrees [NED cofounder Allen] Weinstein.

New York Times, 1997: Political Meddling by Outsiders: Not New for U.S.

The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.

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Downvoters, it’s not too late to do your part im-doing-my-part ildu.com.ua

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Hard to say en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:Scheme_(programming_l…

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Filed as not a bug. That’s capitalism working as intended.

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This is as confusing as your downvoted post, which was downvoted for being confusing. You might work on your communication skills.

Actually, looking at the modlog,

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The purpose of a system is what it does. The way that capitalism is advertised to work and the way that it actually works are quite different. To understand how it actually works, one might turn to Marx, Lenin, Sweezy & Baran, and Michael Hudson.

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: so suggesting genicide is ok?

Have the Zionists ever done a number on people.

Reporter and @SatansMaggotyCumFart, what if I told you a people is not a state?

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I know, and sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you did.

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Whenever you’re feeling powerful just remember one thing…
Your pubes are going to turn gray.

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Permabanned as of two days ago hexbear.net/modlog?page=1&userId=25623

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blob-no-thoughts Anyone to the left of me must be a right wing troll.

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Watch them defend capitalist Russia as though the Berlin Wall never fell

[citation needed] Literally ZERO Hexbears are confused about Russia being a capitalist state.

watch them deny genocide of Uyghurs

Indeed, watch me deny US psyop bullshit. The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just a few weeks ago.

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genocidal, zionist positions

jesse-wtf What are you even talking about? brainworms

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How is this not c/nottheonion he asked rhetorically.

What do you all check instead of the news?

I’ve realized that I check the news several times a day but not because I’m curious about what’s happening on the grand scheme of things, but because my brain wants to check something that keeps changing with new, evolving information. It fills a slightly different niche than social media, and I don’t watch sports so I...

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@yogthos, obviously.

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Friedrich Engels, 1872, https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_authority

Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is. It is the act by which one part of the population imposes its will on the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannons — by the most authoritarian means possible; and the victors, if they do not want to have fought in vain, must maintain this rule by means of the terror which their arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted a single day if the communards had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Should we not, on the contrary, reproach them for not having used it enough?

Therefore, we must conclude one of two things: either the anti-authoritarians don’t know what they’re talking about, in which case they are only sowing confusion; or they do know, in which case they are betraying the proletarian movement. In either case, they serve reaction.

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I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

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An anticommunist breadtuber (but I repeat myself) debunks Engels 😂 Anarchism, unlike Marxism-Leninism, has yet to succeed in the real world for more than a few months. We will welcome anarchists’ lectures once they’ve proven their theory in praxis.

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Anarchism’s lack of success to date is historical fact, and I think that’s reason enough not to take the time to engage with some Burgerland anarchist’s video essay.

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thurston WATCH MY VIDEO YOU COWARD

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Your interpretation of this meme is very funny. It has nothing to do with Biden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Rheinische_Zeitung

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We don’t want another Stalin or Mao.

Speak for yourself.

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To ask that is to understand neither fascism nor communism.

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Thank you for Merriam Webster’s definition of fascism; now I am enlightened. jagoff

I don’t know why I wasted so many hours studying communism and fascism when I could have simply looked them up in the dictionary.

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Those topics are not banned in China, actually. It’s Westerners who are themselves propagandized into believing that they are.

People who live in Five-eyes states don’t understand how propaganda works in their own countries, despite it not being a secret. Here are some uncontroversial Wikipedia entries on it; standard stuff that’s taught in schools of marketing, public relations, political science, history, and journalism.

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Westerners are propagandized to the gills about Xinjiang/the Uyghurs and the Tiananmen riots and Tibet/the Dalai Lama and Falun Gong/Dafa, for example. All of those were or still are CIA/NED/other US three-letter-acronym projects, BTW. The Dalai Lama was on the CIA payroll (perhaps he still is); the US funded and organized terrorist cells in Xinjiang; the NED funded and helped organize the Tiananmen “revolutionaries” and Falun Dafa.

All it does when someone posts that garbage is show their ignorance. Like that copypasta is some magic spell. Just embarrassing.

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irrelevant tangents

How people in the imperial core are propagandized is not an irrelevant tangent.

straight uplying.

You accept Five Eyes corporate media uncritically because you don’t understand media, which I tried to explain, but you decided that it was an irrelevant tangent.

you don’t honestly engage at all

I don’t have all day; I’ll address two.

Xinjiang/The Uyghurs

The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just a few weeks ago.

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The blueprint of regime change operations

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

Tiananmen riots

It’s not a football match. You don’t have to pick a side and defend it no matter what.

It’s not; I’m not; and neither do you.

Edit to add: I’m certainly not picking “our” side. I mean, have you seen our side? The side that’s providing political and material support for an actual genocide as we speak?

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you’ve yet to address it except to make the courageous claim that there is no censorship in China.

I never made the claim that there is no censorship in China. That would be a ridiculous claim to make considering that there is indeed censorship in China. There is censorship in the West as well, though it is of a different character.

Edit to add: Chinese people aren’t afraid to discuss the Tiananmen riots, as smug online Westerners seem to enjoy believing. That’s ridiculous. But Westerners smugly believe it, in fact it seems as if they want it to be true.

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You’re looking at it.

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Sometimes even realists and historical materialists wake up on the wrong side of the bed, and aren’t in the mood to answer the same question again, especially when it’s often asked in bad faith.

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To be fair, they may have gotten all their understanding from the Council of Foreign Relations and the Atlantic Council until three days ago, and my info-dump is about a week’s worth of reading 😆

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