yogthos

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to memes in Comrade Picard

It’s typically the same people who couldn’t define what Communism is even if their life depended on it.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

a salad bowl is probably a good analogy for the mental capacity of NAFO trolls

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

Pretty sure removing spines has been US doctrine for the “rules based” world order.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension'

No, you see, it’s only threatening when Russia talks about their nuclear weapons.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in U.S. as many as 15 years behind China on nuclear power, report says

by politically neutral you mean having biases that match your own presumably

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in U.S. as many as 15 years behind China on nuclear power, report says

pretty sure you just made that up

yogthos , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to asklemmy in What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

Sure, VPNs are marketed as a security measure, but for most people, the security benefits of VPNs are negligible. VPNs can be useful for hiding your browsing activity from your ISP or for appearing to be in a different country in order to access streaming services, but VPN companies make a lot of misleading claims about the security benefits of their products. For example, some VPN companies claim that their products use “military-grade encryption,” but this is just a marketing term and most websites already use encryption.

Tom Scott did a pretty good video discussing this in more detail www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

yogthos , 1 month ago to asklemmy in What popular product do you think is modern day snakeoil?

VPN services

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to technology in U.S. as many as 15 years behind China on nuclear power, report says

Couple that with the deteriorating economic situation in US and rampant racism. People are finally starting to see burgerland for the shithole it really is.

yogthos OP , 1 month ago to worldnews in Key global powers fail to sign up to Ukraine peace summit communique

I think that you are not interested in peace in the first place but in Russia winning (correct me if I’m wrong). You have right for your own vision for reality (at least in some countries…).

I’m explaining to you that there is no reality where Russia does not win this war. This is has been understood by anybody with a functioning brain even before this war started. Plenty of people in the west warned against NATO expansion into Ukraine precisely for this reason. Here is what Obama had to say on the subject all the way back in 2016:

Obama declares Ukraine to be not a core American interest and that he is reluctant to intervene in the country, because Russia will always be able to maintain escalatory dominance there. “The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do.”—President Obama

www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/…/473151/

People who still can’t understand that the west can’t defeat Russia in Ukraine are simply not engaging with the real world.

I don’t to want to try to change your mind but at least take into consideration that this whole conflict is not as black and white situation as you trying to show. There is no such thing as the objective truth. And everybody lies at least at some degree.

There absolutely is such a thing as objective material reality, but you are correct that everybody views reality through their own subjective lens. That doesn’t mean that objective reality doesn’t exist however, or that people can’t come to a consensus on what is actually happening in the world.

In case of the war of Ukraine, regardless of what people believe currently, they will eventually be forced to grapple with the fact that the west lost the war. And I sincerely hope that at that point at least some introspection will happen from people who’ve been cheer leading the war from the western side. I hope you will ask yourself what this was all for, and whether it would’ve been better to avoid the war.

The genocide in Gaza is incidentally another example of an atrocity directly facilitated by the US. The only reason Israel is able to conduct mass murder is thanks to material support and political cover that US provides. This makes the US a direct participant in the genocide.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

15% of UK households went hungry as of February this year, I’m pretty sure 12.5 BILLION pounds could’ve done a lot of them, but instead that money was spent in Ukraine. theguardian.com/…/health-emergency-15-of-uk-house…

The deplorable regime in UK doesn’t give a shit about its own people, let alone Ukrainians.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in China's Xi accused the US of trying to trick him into invading Taiwan, but said he won't take the bait

Assuming this conversation even happened.

yogthos , 1 month ago to worldnews in Birmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcy

imagine thinking that spending billions on a proxy war does not have anything to do with the domestic decline in UK 🤡

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

You have been discrediting the accomplishments of anarchists while I have been acknowledging the accomplishments of marxists.

I’ve been pointing out that anarchists have not managed to put their ideas into practice on any appreciable scale while Marxists have done this. Ultimately, what I’m telling you is that anarchists need to show how they can actually make their ideas work and withstand the challenges that they face in the real world. This is a problem that anarchists have not been able to solve in my view.

You say that it’s the fault of Bolsheviks that anarchists didn’t get their way in USSR, but there’s no reason to believe that anarchists would’ve fared any better against the capitalist invasion that followed in 1918, or against the nazis a couple of decades later. In fact, the centralization of power that you decried was ultimately what allowed USSR to rapidly industrialize and come out victorious in WW2.

Meanwhile, I completely agree that the socialist projects that Marxists managed to build are not without their own problems. Yet, I think they are a strict improvement over capitalism as imperfect as they may be. My view is that the threat of fascism is very real and that it grows by the day, and in face of that the left should focus on using tools that have been proven to defeat fascism in the past.

yogthos , 1 month ago to memes in for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there

Revolutions require a critical mass of people to come together, and sometimes people who have different vision for the end goal find opportunities to work together as Bolsheviks and anarchists did. Lenin wrote extensively on the subject of when alliances should be formed. MLs don’t have a problem working with anarchists, recognizing that there are common interests and that a time may come where such alliances may need to be rethought. The hate largely comes from the side of anarchists who refuse to work with MLs and spend their time trying to discredit the accomplishments of existing socialist states.

It’s also worth noting that the reality in the west today is that both MLs and anarchists are an insignificant political minority. If the current system does end up collapsing in the near future, then fascism is the most likely outcome. While the left bickers, the right is rapidly growing in power in vast majority of western countries.