It truly does, thanks

After some searching, there is an online money transfer program called wish here in Lebanon. If I can transfer some money at a local OMT, am I able to send it to you? However, I would need to find the time to go there so either this weekend or the next and there’s a pretty decent chance that I won’t be able to for reasons beyond my control.

We can talk on matrix if you would prefer my user is @Williama:genzedong

Hope the best

Edit: the reason I can’t do PayPal or other international money transfer programs is because they are unavailable in Lebanon

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains”

-Rosa Luxemborg

That is my matrix username

I respond to a someone probably exploring communism asking about a term with an emphasis on the deleting of certain posts spreading misinformation, which might miss guide the person asking the question into some kind of vaushist “leftism” or turn them off from exploring marxism. The specific posts spreading misinformation are claiming a very accusatory claim used by western imperialists to make a government look bad, which in a less fortunate country that is just developing, could be the result of support for a coup to put in a puppet government. Whether you support that claim which is objectively false (https://tankie.tube/w/p/kFZ2joQah4kmt2KSpzPHtb?playlistPosition=6&resume=true <-- is an entertaining starter with sources) is irrelevant when people think these people spreading such disinformation are some kind of heroes.

On the behalf of OP, what’s with the “division of Syrian interpretation and Iraqian interpretation?”

On a more personal note, how then does this differ from Pan-Arabism in general since Gaddafi and Nasser both lead an anti-imperialist state capitalism, which you described for Ba’athism.

Do you have any book recommendation on Syria under Ba’athism and the civil war, Iraq under Ba’athism, Pan-Arabism/Arab Nationalism specifically in Egypt under Nasser and Libya under Gaddafi, and Socialism/Communism in the Arab world in general from Marxist-Lenninist preferably Arabs? I’m very interested however all books on such topics is Nato bullshit coming from western liberals.

Come on lib send me the Tiananmen Square video of tanks doing the things you claim they do. @Williama:Genzedong

Some answers haven’t “disappeared for mysterious reasons”, it’s for spreading misinformation. If you disagree then come on, send me a video of the “horrendous crimes committed by China in Tiananmen Square”. I fully consent. @Williama:Genzedong. Surely at least one of the “victims of the massacre” would have recorded something the “ruthless military regime” and their oh so very “despicable acts of massacre”.

If you and other libs are annoyed that the devs are “tankies”, then go back to reddit.

This is amazing news!

I’m glad the fsf is actually taking it upon itself to create more solutions especially since it has become increasingly irrelevant throughout these years and sadly been replaced by the corporate “open source” hellscape.

We need free software, not “open source” corporate bullshit. Open source was invented in the first place as a way to get people from being radicalized by the free software movement, since it would take money out of their filthy, greedy pockets.

I thought you were, so that’s why I asked you lol. Anyways, you’re 100% right. Workers blaming other workers that seem “different” as if there’s some kind of “normal” is hilariously ignorant until the working class starts attacking each other resulting in a kind of bourgeois illusion of “division” of conservative liberal and progressive liberal like in the US of crackers. In summary, it’s not something to be ignored.

positive leftist news, the deprogram podcast, comrades, and memes are a great escape from the doom and despair we usually focus on

Fascinating. From responses, I’ve realized it’s more of an interpretation matter rather than a strict bigotted message. If you don’t mind me asking, why did you leave evangelical Christianity and into what? I come from an already pretty secular upbringing, so I lack the experience of being in a religion to begin with.

thx

That’s a great view of religion. I believe most anti-religious discussion stems from a lack of understanding of the different interpretations of religious text, instead solely concentrating on the literary meaning as well as the predominant interpretation as a representative of the religion as a whole. You answered my question as well as many others on religion in an excellent manner. I also live in a predominately Muslim nation, but here in Lebanon I sadly haven’t seen such growth in community. If you don’t mind me asking, where have you seen the growth? Also, since we’re talking about interpretation, we have evidence of evolution and the big bang severely contradicting the religious explanation. Do you always take it in the sense of interpretation there?

Yea, the material circumstances surely are at play. My material circumstances is Lebanon where pretty much any sexuality not heterosexual is criminalized and highly unaccepted. From conversations had, it’s way easier to get through the less religious types. I come from a Muslim upbringing, but excluding most of my mom’s family, those that aren’t secular hold non-sectarian beliefs in the sense of a God and some Islamic-focused beliefs even though they would call themselves Muslim. Discussions with these types of believers will very quickly result in “What’s next, a dog?” or something like that, but after some very basic education they get a more neutral view and maybe later on, if they’re younger, a more accepting view. That’s not to say there aren’t any accepting Muslims from homophobic countries, they’re just very rare.

I haven’t heard that viewpoint before. As you mentioned, usually when the story is told, there’s a huge emphasis on the queer part which in their eyes usually justifies homophobia. I’ll re-read the tale and try to look at it from that angle.

I am aware of the internationale. I’m collecting others. Till now I wrote down the Worker’s Marseillaise and March of the Enthusiasts from recommendations. The only communist party I’m aware of in Lebanon is the LCP and it hasn’t done anything since the civil war, so it’s not really something to honor

The progress in AES while the west debates how “tylenol causes autism”

Is it a missing feature that can be contributed to or this way for a reason?

I don’t know where you live, but where I do, many usually uneducated workers, peasants, and petty bourgeois think it’s normal to throw rubbish everywhere. Even educated peoples, which are usually well-off seem to have the same problem, so while building and planning such projects, which in my case is a communal garden, take it as an opportunity to make such basic concepts normalized and encourage more community building along side political agitation. In my experience, the youth are usually the most prone to radicalization, so focus on planting seeds there.

Hope the best

Best political songs playable solo on paino?