Yep. You used to see some pushback on islamophobia, but now that’s considered anti-zionist and thus gets banned.

Besides the new influx of users, what does bluesky have that the fediverse doesn’t, feature-wise. Because ownership-wise it’s no different than twitter.

Never gonna happen, they’re our comrades in arms against the liberal servers.

This could be a good response anytime they blame other countries for something the US is currently doing.

This whole thing reeks of anarchist-style wrecking, and ppl elevating a relationship breakup to try to take down a nationwide party.

A somewhat similar scenario, is in the documentary No Stone Unturned, about the UK’s use of double agents as part of their war on Ireland during the troubles.

Basically a couple of terrorists murdered some innocent catholic civilians in a pub in a small town in northern Ireland. Turns they were loyalist terrorists that were active in the british army, and were being employed by the brits as informants. Its doubtful that MI6 ordered the attack, but as part of sweeping their counter-intelligence fuckery under the rug, they deemed these terrorists as untouchable, and protect them to this day. It took the victim’s families refusing to accept the brit’s explanations, and a lot of good journalists to discover who these terrorists were.

An old woman defends herself against a mugger.

Pacifist centrists: They are equally evil.

I feel like someone could write an essay for everything that’s going on here.

Hrm, must have not been running. That’s its only job.

Highly recommend setting up syncthing on at least 2 devices. Then you never have to worry, as it’s automatic.

It’ll be increased to 255 chars in the next lemmy release, and hopefully those error messages will be fixed.

We should also look at economies as having multiple, competing modes of production, with one usually being dominant.

The US definitely kept slavery in a limited form, and even though a few industries/products/services are produced with prison slave labor, it doesn’t come close to the capitalist sector.

Wage labor allows a higher rate of surplus value extraction by turning not just bodies, but labor power itself into a commodity. It also absolves employers of the need to feed, house, and pay for sleeping and non-work time of the person, now only needing to account for their active working hours.

Discovering this seemed to come along naturally with industrialization and more mobile capital requiring more mobile labor. Its part of the stable transition from feudalism -> capitalism, mostly starting in Britain and spreading to the rest of western europe.

1. You liked it and thought it was entertaining.

That’s it.

Hard mode is the Roger Ebert metric - did the movie do what it set out to do? IE, not judging it by your own standards, or what you wished the movie had or didn’t have, but by its own standard.

Will Durant - the story of philosophy. Only about western thought, but it’s very readable, engaging, and short.

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BlackRedGuard and a bunch of other ultras consider cuba “soviet compradors” or a “soviet colony”. But ya I agree with everyone else, ultraleftists have no consistent policy when it comes to who they denounce, which is usually why they also denounce each other with 20+ page long incomprehensible maoist diatribes.

SP: “Wait, communism isn’t when you kill peasants, boil their babies and execute socdem community organizers? I distinctly remember reading Lenin say to do this!”

Probably just western journos getting their articles done by the weekend. Most likely we’re going to see an exponential growth russiabad posts (we’re already seeing NYT op-eds calling Jill Stein a russian plant) until the end of the US election.

Excellent post, thanks for this writeup.

I’d also like to add this article, fully refuting the “Russia is imperialist” myth.