all of the people who were part of Anonymous who were worth a damn at hacking back in the day work for the state department now. The movement could very likely have been a psyop, given how many high-level hackers from that era there are on government payroll.

I stand in solidarity with the gay furry hackers.

The simplest explanation is that the American “left” is rightwing, because they’ve been told that actual leftism is bad.

We’re only told about leftist ideology or politics in the context of “these bad people in the past did bad things”, and many Americans refuse to actually tackle those lies. because of this, no one in the American “left” is willing to be anti-capitalist in any way that actually matters. Nor are they willing to use materialism in their dialectics, because their political education comes from Liberalism, so they’re more willing to listen to right-wing talking points and integrate them into their views.

This is why you’ll see Americans who’ll call themselves “leftists” pair a statement for working rights with a statement against immigration. Or you’ll see them decry the horrors of fascism, then support whatever new war NATO has wrought.

me when a fellow ML says “tankie”;

me when literally anyone else does;

“made them the dominate voice”

bro, tankies made lemmygrad for tankies

once again right-leaning proletariats show that they’re still better than any Western politician.

It’s almost as though the people who actually live and work with certain things know more about it than liberal politicians. I would, of course, prefer if they’d use class consciousness and advocate for a leftwing solution to the green deal. But I can’t really change reality.

The TLDR version of this history;

Lenin and Stalin were colleagues, and there’s not much that actually supports any sort of “beef”. The thing that’s usually used is this letter, wherein Lenin complains about Stalin. There is reason to believe that the letter is faked by devious actors, but even if it is real, it just reads as venting. Taking “Lenin hated Stalin!” from the letter is like assuming best friends secretly hate each other because one of them made a post while upset on social media.

Stalin was a staunch supporter of Leninism, and stayed true to Lenin’s ideals of the Soviet Union while expanding the theory to fit the geopolitical situations that unfolded under Stalin’s time as chairman. Foundations of Leninism is a summary of Leninism written by Stalin himself, who wasn’t much of a writer.

The whole thing seems to be propaganda by Trots and Anti-Communists to pose Stalin as an evil dictator who illegally took power of the Soviet Union for his own benefit, against the will of Lenin. But the reality is Stalin was democratically elected into this position and staunchly upheld Marxism-Leninism and led projects that benefitted the entire Union and her people. Stalin is a beloved figure by not just Russians and Communists in the western-sphere, but by people in every corner of the world for good reason.

trot to fascist pipeline showing itself again

gotta love (sarcasm) that my people tied the political ideology of Zionism in with their faith and ethnicity, so now braindead liberals think they’re the same.

Zionism is as far from the Mitzvah you can get, they’re about as Jewish as American Christians are Catholic. (which is to say, not very much at all)

comrade mouse

publishes a statement with propagandist statements in it

claims their universities pursue the truth

If someone is being harassed on Lemmy, we can figure out who’s doing the downvoting and ban them. Bring the issue up with a site admin.

Personal opinion time, I strongly disagree with removing downvotes on LG because it disenfranchises comrades who lack time or energy for comments.

sure if you disagree with something you should leave a comment explaining why. But the person who’s too burnt out from living under capitalism isn’t going to want to do that, and the person with executive dysfunction who just wanted to scroll for a minute wouldn’t want to either.

In my moderation and in my leisure scrolling, I know what kind of discourse a post is just by looking at the point total. If it’s upvoted well, it’s usually good shit. If it’s downvoted to hell, the poster either needs an explanation or mod action. This also helps the average scroller, if they see a post or a comment has been downvoted a ton, they’re probably not going to pay much attention to it. Also, from a first-person perspective, if you said something and got more downvotes than up, it’s probably time to self-crit. That’s a valuable tool.

TLDR: downvotes are valuable.

Oh look, they’re repackaging Cold War anti-communist propaganda to once again fearmonger against entire groups of people & justify atrocities against them.

Israel is trying to claim they didn’t do it after getting shock and horror from the west, but they’re the only people who could’ve done it. And if it wasn’t them the only other logical option would’ve been the US, and that’s a much bigger fish to fry.

this whole ass colonizer country is trying to “nuh-uh” warcrimes.

**update, MSM is trying to say Hamas’ “incompetence” did it. You can’t make this shit up, MSM is trying to uno reverse card their way out of admitting that Israel is objectively evil.

It’s hilarious to me when even the most staunchly anti-communist economists have a more rigid understanding of Socialist markets than Maoists do.

Maoists and Trots are literally the same, the only difference is which Socialist superpower they chose to invalidate.

I did just a little bit ago.

Their take on the conflict in Palestine follows the logic of Zionist organizations, and generally, they show that they don’t know much about the world outside of their narrow Western perspective. So, good fuckin’ riddance.

the one instance I’ve hated the most has been .world, solely because 9/10 times when there’s a pending report, that report was about a .worlder saying some horrible shit. and that .worlders will report our comments and posts for “violence advocation” when all we’re doing is discussing the conflict.

I mean, if you knew who H3 were and didn’t know they had terrible politics, you didn’t know who H3 were.

They have said more than once that they’re pro-Israeli, Hila (if I’m not misremembering) was born there. Ethan is Israeli-American (again, if I’m not misremembering). It’s really not a shock that these two horrible people had horrible takes.

this comment not having downvotes means the people downvoting probably didn’t even open the post. If they read it they used the preview.

That’s what you call bad faith engagement.