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dessalines ,

That probably fits as a legal assault in many countries. So messed up.

dessalines ,

YES

They would have burned me as a heretic in the middle ages.

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Just like calling someone a “witch” or heretic in the middle ages, a “barbarian”, or “savage”, or “commie” or “pinko” in the 20th century, these terms are less about the actual meaning, and more about a demonization, scapegoating, or a power relation between the dominant class, and a group they seek to malign and rally their people around.

Creating a useful enemy promotes group bonding, unity, a sense of strengthened identity, and self worth.

“Tankie” had a meaning that generally referred to non-pacifist leftists (or those that agreed with using violence to defend socialist projects), but now it just means, “any leftist I don’t like”.

It functions in the exact same way that “commie” did in the the McCarthy era, as a xenophobic and western-supremacist scapegoating of socialist countries, and an internal purging of the working-class communist movement.

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It’s additionally useful because it deters people from reading or engaging with the worldwide communist / socialist movement.

If someone uses this term, this is what they’re doing without realizing it:

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dessalines ,

Organizing a union? Pushing for higher wages? Defending your people from reactionary aggression?

Not voting? Don’t hate the US’s main enemies, like Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Syria, Palestine, the DPRK?

Believe it or not, tankie.

dessalines ,

I def recommend against starting with das kapital, at least until the advanced / intermediate stages. Its a slog, and not really the best introduction.

Here’s a Marxism study plan, with a good number of audiobooks / audiobook torrents for them.

dessalines ,

I really recommend asking this question on lemmygrad or hexbear, bc you’ll get really good in-depth answers about the nature and differences between what’s labelled as “democracy” in capitalist countries, vs the reality of whether citizens of a capitalist dictatorship have anything resembling democracy.

dessalines ,

No probs!

dessalines ,

I just don’t see the point of using lemmy unless they’re a leftist in the first place.

Reddit already exists, and has a much bigger userbase that’s already pro-US and heavily anti-communist.

If it’s just because reddit took away the app treats, that’s kind of a sad reason to use an explicitly anti-corporate software, but I’m sure there’s a chunk of ppl on lemmy don’t think much past that.

dessalines ,

That makes sense. lemmy.ml won’t be the one to defed from any of the larger servers, because we want to promote an interconnected fediverse, even if it does mean a lot of cross interaction and potential fights between pro and anti-communists.

Other servers are free to defederate if they wish, obvi its up to a server-owner to run their server how they see best. Even if there’s more rifts in the fediverse, I’m not too worried… the long-term trend though will be towards instances that connect with the most people, and don’t shut themselves out.

dessalines ,

Ahhh it got me too.

dessalines , (edited )

Does anyone have the full video link, that shows the entire interaction? Youtube keeps censoring / removing it.

EDIT: Finally found it! Not on youtube of course. The CNN one cuts off all the important parts.

Tank man full video

dessalines ,

Youtube keeps removing the full video, every link I used to have of it is gone.

dessalines , (edited )

That one cuts off right before the interesting part. When he keeps climbing up and down the tank, having a conversation with the crew, tries to stop it a 2nd time, and then gets rushed off by bystanders without incident.

dessalines ,

Finally found it! Not on youtube of course. The CNN one cuts off all the important parts.

Tank man full video

dessalines ,

I’m considering locking / removing this thread, because of the massive number of orientalist comments and articles being posted. Redditors have no idea how racist they’re being right now, its completely unnacceptable.

dessalines ,

Do you realize what a racist bubble you’re in, that you think people in the PRC are locked up for saying something about the June 4th incident?

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dessalines ,

Does a debian version upgrade require an OS reinstall?

dessalines , (edited )

List of US atrocities.

dessalines ,

It’s hard to quantify, but the US instigated or had a hand in causing most of the largest mass-killing events of the twentieth century.

To give just a single example, the CIA was the main driver behind the anti-communist massacres in Indonesia in 1965. 500k-1M people killed.

Or operation Condor, another anti-communist CIA-led program in several latin american countries: about 60-80k people killed, and 400k imprisoned.

A larger list of US atrocities is here.

dessalines ,

These movies are heavy, rich like red wine, but very good.

dessalines ,

Morena is a pretty solid party overall, and we should treat socdems in the global south differently from their counterparts in the imperial core.

AMLO for example is pushing hard against the US extradition of Julian Assange, even playing the the collateral murder video when some New York Times journalists started throwing shade. Morena also recognizes Palestine and is closing doors to Israel, against the wishes of the US.

Great to see the people of Mexico continuing to support Morena and reject liberalism, this is a great day.

dessalines ,

Morena is a staunchly anti-liberal party, they’d never have a chance in the US.

dessalines ,

Ya for sure! Its exciting times, her election is not something that could’ve happened even in the 1990s.

dessalines ,

Gotta disagree, the book is extremely entertaining, and has an element of satire that’s missing from the movie. I agree that the movie is one of the best ever made tho, and I’m not sure which one I like better, because it’s so well done.

dessalines ,

They’re almost too different to compare imo, but both the book and the movie are top-tier.

dessalines ,

I just went through my entire favorite movie and show list and couldn’t find a single one. I can only find ones where the adaptation is great, because it limits its focus while still keeping the overall spirit of the original. Or ones that tell a very different story, but manage to do it well.

Dune, all quiet on the western front (1930s one), total recall, it’s a wonderful life, blade runner, I claudius.

dessalines ,

Paul Verhoeven really upped the ante on that one.

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dessalines ,

TNG > TOS too. But yeah all three are great and not telling the same story or anything.

dessalines ,

Haven’t seen what we do in the shadows, but fargo would be a tough call for me. Both the film and the show are wonderful.

dessalines ,

A hexbear or lemmygrad user could better explain this one, but its a deep-cut satirical comment on how nations that market themselves as “free” (but aren’t), promote philosophies that group and demonize all their enemies into a single camp, and prop up writers like Arendt, who was one of the main ideological peddlers of western moral supremacy during the cold war.

Losurdo has a lot of good articles on this and Arendt specificaly, and also Gabriel Rockhill has some good articles about this too.

…archive.org/…/Domenico Losurdo -- Towards a Crit…

dessalines ,

No probs! I also recorded that one recently as an audiobook here. torrent link is also there.

dessalines ,

Epic amounts of cope.

“Why are my enemies working together to avoid my sanctions!!!”

dessalines ,

There’s a saying: the dying serpent always bites. Empires usually die a slow death by overextending themselves in war.

I wouldn’t be too worried in this case though, the economies of the US and the PRC are so intertwined, that US capitalists have more to lose than to gain by starting a hot war. The war hawks know they only have a few more years of military (specifically naval) superiority, which is why they make a lot of noise that it’s now or never. But the PRC thankfully played the long game, and even accepted some trade deals that weren’t in its favor, in order to tie their economies together, to prevent war.

dessalines ,

I’m rewatching cosmos rn, and am gonna watch contact again when I’m finished. Such a good movie.

dessalines ,

My favorite video game, but gotta agree, 9 times out of 10 Max Payne is losing to Major Payne.

dessalines ,

Excellent

dessalines ,

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dessalines ,

People did improve society, they made Matrix and XMPP.

The seatbelts already exist, you just need to use them.

dessalines ,

Not just South america, but generally most countries south of the equator, outside the imperial core, who are making most of the products for the world while being paid miniscule wages.

dessalines ,

They’re a giant middleman getting everything you put into html forms unencrypted.

That includes all your usernames, passwords, and everything you submit via text boxes. Do not trust any site that uses cloudflare.

dessalines , (edited )

Cloudflare has been around for over a decade and doesn’t do anything nefarious with my data and have never shown any intention of doing so

Citation needed.

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dessalines ,

There’s no proof they aren’t doing anything nefarious with that data right now, other than company statements saying, “trust us”.

People default to trusting giant corporations first it seems.

dessalines ,

You have no proof that they’re “good right now”. The big five corporations were forwarding data to the NSA for years before the surveillance leaks exposed them.

Your privacy default should not be to trust an MITM, ever.

dessalines ,

Trusting US corporations by default rule

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dessalines ,

en.wikipedia.org/…/2010s_global_surveillance_disc…

dessalines ,

Appreciate the humility, thx.

dessalines ,

None of the above is easily possible, a lot of us do it.

dessalines ,

I’m not sure if this is ironic bc I’ve been exposed to too many irony-poisoned comments lately, but cloudflare exists to profit off your data. They’re not there to help you, your data and its trends are the product.

dessalines ,

No probs! Yeah it’s wild that a lot of people not only using cloudflare sites, but also running them, don’t seem to mind that cloudflare is hoovering up everything.

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