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10 months agoIt will have about as much effect too.
reverendz [comrade/them]
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13·10 months agoWell, you’re on the internet. And it’s pretty much just a series of tubes.
I went to Germany in '96, and was amazed how on time the trains were. If the schedule said “7:52 arrival” then set your watch by it.
Now? Not so much.
At this point, it’s startlingly clear that de-industrialization is wide scale corporate raiding.
Can anyone point to a country that de-industrialized and maintained infrastructure?
6·10 months agoThe quotes listed here sound 100% like the kinds of statements from Western Marxism that are evisercated in this article. Very good read which nails the “no country has done REAL socialism/communism” critique common among the western left.
https://socialistchina.org/2023/10/13/china-and-the-purity-fetish-of-western-marxism/
I gotta get the book the article is based on.
The unquestioned, purity fetish grounded, and Sinophobic assumption of Chinese ‘authoritarianism’ and ‘lack of democracy’ also prevents the Western Marxist from learning how the Chinese socialist civilization has been able to creatively embed its socialist democracy in “seven integrated structures or institutional forms (体制tizhi): electoral democracy; consultative democracy; grassroots democracy; minority nationalities policy; rule of law; human rights; and leadership of the Communist Party.”[4] It has withheld them from seeing how a comprehensive study of this whole-process people’s democracy would lead any unbiased researcher to the conclusion Roland Boer has arrived at: namely, that “China’s socialist democratic system is already quite mature and superior to any other democratic system.” This is a position echoed by John Ross (and many other scholars of China), who argues that the “real situation shows that China’s framework and delivery on human rights and democracy is far superior to the West’s.”
3·11 months agoThis explains why it’s virtually impossible to buy a “dumb” TV anymore.
Verhoeven has always been great with the satire.
Showgirls is brilliant if you realize it’s cutting satire.
I can’t imagine someone like Verhoeven getting allowed to make big budget Hollywood movies now.
My whole family is lactose intolerant or milk allergic. My son is too.
Having to navigate a no dairy diet at daycare or school is difficult.
As imperfect as Ba’athist governments were, they were objectively better than what’s followed.
I wonder if very many Americans even know how the US has systematically targeted and destroyed pan-Arab, socialist leaning governments.
It’s another case of white, European colonists committing genocide against an indigenous population.
20 years from now, it’ll all be “oh how awful” and they’ll make Dances with Wolves style sad movies about it.
Rape and possibly murder.
Sounds like good cop, bad cop.
I went back a couple times because no instance has really got a large MMA community at this point and reddit had an active sub on r/mma.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been away for a while, but it did seem like there was a lot of anger.
Tolerance is not a moral precept. Really good read.
Everyone forgot about the kids in cages too.
They remember when it’s politically expedient.
It’d be like saying, “bread is not a plant!”.
It’s made from pollen which is part of a: drumroll Plant!
Musk really must sniff his own farts.
Like you, I discovered CTH out of curiosity. It was so ridiculous and funny. Mostly, I was shocked at the attitude people had towards it.
I have since seen this pattern repeat. Leftist spaces are banned quickly. Meanwhile, libs hem and haw about free speech when it comes to openly fascist spaces and their views.
I already considered myself a socialist when Bernie ran in '16, but the viciousness with which the dems attacked him stayed with me. Meanwhile, they say things like “we need a strong republican party”.
The more I saw these things, the further left I got. Nothing frightens centrists more than the left. Not fascists, not dictators, nothing.
Am glad to have found this place! I missed the humor and irreverence at CTH. So many socialist/communist places are serious. It’s nice to take the piss every once in a while.
She has 4 ears.