• pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      5 days ago

      It’s a NAFO symbol for some reason

      E: I guess feds took some random meme and slapped it onto their shitty propaganda

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    The ongoing genocide and some people’s denial of it has taught me that some people are never going to recognize something as a genocide unless 1) they are literally experiencing it themselves or 2) an institution that they trust tells them to believe something is one.

    Granted, I was watching firsthand account info come in early, among other things, so that made it easier for me to discern and I guess some have probably not seen that part. But still, the confidence with which some people are in denial about it is enough to stagger me. I think some of it is just good ole western chauvinism liberal arrogance because it’s one thing to be uninformed and skeptical, it’s another thing to confidently believe to the contrary; to be a denier. And I’m not talking about from the sort of person who would tend to be a neo-nazi or the like, but somebody who obviously means well and yet is so stubbornly wrong about something so important.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      6 days ago

      I think some of it is just good ole western chauvinism liberal arrogance

      Another part of it is that most westerners alive today have spent their whole lives saying and being told that all that bad stuff happened in the past and that everyone’s more civilised now. Slavery, colonialism, genocide, these aren’t core aspects of capitalism, they’re things that people used to do before ‘everyone’ suddenly realised that they’re wrong.

      So when looking for ‘an institution that they trust’, the list is very short because (a) believing the institution means revaluating everything and (b) they’ve also been told not to trust many institutions or any institution that requires point (a) to happen. It’s easier to take names off the list than add them.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    MAGA is dead. Trump and Elon just burned out their entire base over night, they underestimated how badly the white supremacists would react to the idea of allowing in more immigrants.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      6 days ago

      The consequence of MAGA being elected with a mandate is they feel like they don’t need to march in lock step anymore. They think they’ve won, permanently, so now all the contradictions within MAGA are coming out.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    In the Netherlands we have a famous nonstop radio program of the 2000 best songs of all time from christmas to the beginning of the new year, voted by the public. I like listening to it, but I’m always bothered by how little diversity there is in the list. It’s all mostly old rock, and there’s almost no people of colour in it. Most of the songs are in english as well and just a few in dutch. We have a large north African population in the Netherlands so where is Cheb Khaled? And we have a large Turkish population so where is Tarkan? And there’s not enough hiphop. Kendrick and De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig need to have more songs in there.

    But at least Hind’s Hall by Macklemore got in, at place 822, and it’s being played tonight between 10 and 11 o’clock local time. You can listen at nporadio2.nl

    • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      6 days ago

      They censored the webcam lobby lol. Pathetic.

      I try to get people like Hef or Fresku or Winne & Feis in there every year but it doesn’t work. It’s a white people’s list.

      • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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        6 days ago

        They also didn’t introduce the song or talk about it at the end. They simply let it play and ignored it. The dj is Moroxcan so I expected more of him.

  • Darkerseid@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 days ago

    what do you think about this comment?

    Absolutely nobody can argue with 400 million people out of poverty in 40 years.

    Of course it’s revisionist, though. Even official ideology says it is.

    And at this point, it’s also clearly state capitalism. The vast majority of goods and services are produced and distributed for profit via the market. Having a decent chunk of this done by commercially-oriented state owned firms doesn’t make it socialist.

    I don’t blame them for having done this- it’s almost impossible to survive, let alone thrive, in the capitalist world-system as a socialist state.

    But a country with a higher gini coefficient than the US, absolutely rampant consumer culture, rampant labour exploitation, ruling classes composed of investor-bureaucrats, state enterprise executives, and straight capitalists, a huge speculative bubble real estate market (which has paid for local government budgets in recent years), and urban middle classes fixated on entrepreneurship and making money…none of these things are socialist.

    OK, so maybe they had to crank up the capital accumulation machine for now so they can build real socialism later? Sounds great, except you’re now placing your faith in the millionaire and billionaire capitalists at the top of the party to just dissolve themselves in favour of the working class some day. Good luck.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
      6·
      5 days ago

      what do you think about this comment?

      The comment identifies several features of SWCC that warrant close analysis. But the criticisms are very abstract, which may distort things.

      I assume the comment is about China? I think to unpack the challenges that China is facing and it’s successes and failures on the road to socialism, the criticism needs to be more specific. Otherwise, the risk is making conclusions that don’t follow from the argument. For example:

      Sounds great, except you’re now placing your faith in the millionaire and billionaire capitalists at the top of the party to just dissolve themselves in favour of the working class some day. Good luck.

      The conclusion suggests the CPC isn’t aware of the issues and doesn’t have a plan for them. That might be the case. But it might not. We need to know more to say for sure.

      Starting with such an abstract view of the country misses any safeguards, contingency plans, restraints, even faults, etc. Is it faith in rich capitalists or faith in a socialist system of socialist checks and balances?

      Additionally, the level of abstraction kind of obscures the what, the why, and the how. Consider the following:

      I don’t blame them for having done this- it’s almost impossible to survive, let alone thrive, in the capitalist world-system as a socialist state.

      What does it mean to be a socialist state in a majority capitalist world? What has China done to navigate that world and control it’s domestic capital? Why and how?

      I also think I’d frame it the other way – I’d start from a more positive position, that China’s officials deserve praise for building socialism. They haven’t simply survived. Many other paths would have meant simple survival for the ‘state’. It just seems a bit strange to frame China’s development potentially deserving blame and as doing the bare minimum that it took to survive. Again, I think this stems from the level of abstraction.

      Abstraction is useful but it follows from concrete analysis of detail. Otherwise, I agree that China’s rise is unconventional and I look forward to seeing how it deals with the latest contradictions.

    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 days ago

      “Revisionism” refers to changing the fundamentals of ML, China did not do so.

      “State Capitalism” literally is early socialism, if done under the DotP. And the CPC considers China in the early stage of Socialism.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    11 days ago

    An Arab travel youtuber I follow posted a picture with Jolani in Syria on Instagram and the comments are all Iraqis flaming him for posing with a murderer of Iraqis lol

  • commiespammer@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 days ago

    I can’t be the only one who gets pissed when people go “muh why isn’t china launching all their nukes at israel!!! So disappointing!”

    • o_d [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      11 days ago

      China could do more for Palestinians. The fact that they continue to trade with Isn’treal is disappointing. However, those who strongly criticize China don’t understand that Chinese policy is a manifestation of the desires of its population. The CPC won’t do anything that is not supported by a large majority. They have a non interventionist policy because that’s what their population wants. China isn’t the one enabling Isn’treal to carry out its genocide and it really isn’t their responsibility to put themselves at risk to stop it.

  • sevenapples@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 days ago

    The holidays got me feeling lonely again. I try not to dwell on it too much and keep doing things I enjoy, but they feel empty without someone to share them with.