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Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU
Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU
I’ve been talking about the Stop Killing Games movement for some time now, so important is its mission to me. This collection of volunteers focused on video game and cultural preservation is …Techdirt
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Yah it will get you Tankiepoints™ out the wazoo to say you pray for the collapse of the USA but with every other country's economy tied to the US dollar, that outcome will be less than ideal when you want to go to your local market and buy food or medicine.
I get downvotes when I remind people of this fact like I'm making an argument for something. Talk to your local leaders about why they have invested so much in the US, not me.
Can’t do that without revolution.
Which is still about a century away.
The vast, vast majority of this country who are only marginally invested in politics combined the needs of capital to secure that stability will override whatever political ambitions any leadership has in the long-term. All of the current crisis is still just a flash in the pan, it will pass, the pendulum will swing the other way and the cycle will continue. I've been watching it a long ass time, I have seen nothing yet that makes me believe the country will experience wide-scale change.
It's going to get more authoritarian broadly, it's going to have more unrest and reduced rights, particularly as the climate changes and the immigration situation gets a lot more inflamed as refugees start piling up to get in, but right now, unless a LOT of people make a lot of huge changes to their media consumption habits, we're going to see a rougher, nastier status-quo for decades to come.
The USA is a HUGE boat that turns slowly, it's not one country, it's 50. And because of that, small changes have huge consequences but only decades down the line. Few people who haven't actually traveled the nation really get the scale involved and what has to change before we see lasting change.
With every crisis, with every bit of imperilism that dies, the Statesian public becomes more aware of their chains. Media is only useful for giving people narratives they want to agree with, not for convincing people outright. The Empire is dying, and with it comes dramatic radicalization. Even looking at younger generations over time, communism is rapidly rising in popularity:
Quantitative buildup is reaching qualitative leaps, like heating water until it boils. It looks like nothing's happening until suddenly everything is.
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Nah, not really. A different (not necessarily better or worse, just different) world hegemony will just emerge
Aslo the transition gonna be painful (see: yugoslav war)
that's weird, they tell me that they are leftists and that if I disagree with them at all them I'm not a leftist.
Then they lecture me about how privileged I am and I should just shut up and listen to them because my any thoughts or opinions of my own are automatically wrong because they come from a position of privileged rather than oppression. And I point out I grew up working class from a low income family. Then they tell me to go fuck myself how dare I even talk to them since I'm clearly a MAGA supporter if I am working class, and I shouldn't have been allowed to go to college because clearly I'm so stupid for not being a 'real leftist' like them.
then i'm sorry that you've had that experience.
maybe try to organise a directory of local businesses/services/shared resources etc without discussing politics at all, if it's something that gets people in your locality upset.
if your area has to deal with some extreme weather & gets flooded, for example, ensuring that everyone can stay fed & have access to medical care will be a lot easier if the groundwork has already been done in advance.
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Can I redeem my Tankiepoints at a participating retailers whenever I want, or do they expire eventually?
Except that's bullshit. What China is actually doing is taking out land and resource leases for flat fees, and then moving their own people into the Africa country to extract the resources for pennies on the yuan.
USA wasn't doing any of that. They were mostly trying to tell African governments to stop being so corrupt and putting all sorts of limits and terms on aid service. But the leaders in the governments didn't like that. They liked getting big fat checks from China for resources they had no ability to extract themselves. China is more than happy to support corrupt and dictatorial governments, because well, that's what they are. They are also more than happy to sell them weapons systems and technology for lower costs and without the restrictions that come on the US/European ones.
It's colonialism. it's just the Chinese version of it. If you are support of authoritarian colonialism and exporting dictatorial governments over democratic ones, of course you'd see China as the preferred power.
The Saudis and other rising middle powers are also trying to get in on this game. Every nation to be a hegemonic power to the extent that they can.
The US Empire (and Europe as well) is the one installing compradors. No, the US Empire isn't trying to tell people to "not be corrupt," they want that so the comoradors sell out their countries and force austerity, privatization of nationalized industries, etc. This is how imperialism works, and is why the US Empire has hundreds of overseas millitary bases while the PRC has ~3. If you nationalize your resources, the US Empire tries to destroy you, because the US Empire depends entirely on this system of super-exploiting for super-profits.
BRI and the PRC's presence in Africa and the global south in general isn't imperialist. The PRC is expanding trade, but not dominance, nor does its trade deals come at the barrel of a gun. They trade with pretty much everyone, and support their allies, but this is not imperialism. To the contrary, the PRC is acting against imperialism.
- The CPC punishing Chinese landlords for improper treatment of Africans, mass arresting the landlords, passing reforms, and apologizing to the African Union
- China has forgiven over 10 billion in foreign debt
- Belt-Road Initiative: An Anti-thesis of Colonialism
- Evo Morales speaks on claims of "Chinese imperialism
- Five Imperialist Myths About China's Role in Africa
- Is China a Better Partner for Africa than Europe and the West?
- Challenging US Imperialism with Chinese Multilateralism
- The Fallacy of Denouncing Both Sides of the US-China Conflict
And many, many more sources back this up. It's no secret that imperialists have been trying to smear China into being "no better" than the west, but the reality on the ground is that partnering with China results in mutual development and cooperation, while partnering with the west results in stripped autonomy, underdevelopment, and exploitation.
As for China's democracy, it's actually better than the US Empire by a wide margin. Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and the CPC, a working class party, dominates the state. At a democratic level, local elections are direct, while higher levels are elected by lower rungs. At the top, constant opinion gathering and polling occurs, gathering public opinion, driving gradual change. This system is better elaborated on in Professor Roland Boer's Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance, and we can see the strong perceptions around this democracy:
This is despite the Three Represents system. Overall, this system has resulted in over 90% of the population approving the government, which is shown to be consistent and accurate.
Overall, you have a deeply confused notion of what's going on in the global south. The US is the world's largest empire and is colonizing the world, China is focusing on win-win economic development.
Support for government in China: is the data accurate?
Some have questioned the survey results. Are the skeptics right?Jason Hickel
Of the half billion or so actual joined-an-org-and-doing-work communists, the number who are fans of such a niche videogame category is basically a rounding error, and being a furry is even less common.
But I think I know every one of them.
Me too, but I also believe that collapse is a fundamental part of the natural cycles that govern everything in the universe. It’s hubris to think humans can exempt themselves from this natural system, and the belief that we can is a large driver of why we find ourselves here.
We can’t just skip collapse, nor can avoid it. Embrace its coming and celebrate what will grow from it.
Thats my fear. Imagine of the ppl that got trump in power got some nukes or like corpos?
Walmart or Amazon now a nuclear power is a terrible thought.
Yeah, bourgeois states would never ever develop infrastructure for market expansion and capital accumulation purposes (e.g. building up infrastructure in colonial states to facilitate exports + extract resources or undertaking massive projects such as the Suez and Panama canals), they would never ever nationalize nor have dominant national ownership of their industry for national bourgeois benefit or capital stability (like in Saudi Arabia, fascist Italy, various national oil companies), nor they would have high approval rates like seen in fascist regimes and economic boom periods (entrenched superstructures also make workers "approve" things that go against their interests). Maybe there's more DOTP's out there than I thought....
The idea that development of the productive forces is bad because it implies exploitation is inherently flawed, highly developed productive forces are the basis of socialized production to begin with
Productive forces by themselves are neutral, what matters is the underlying social relations of production. Capitalist mode of production presupposes exploitation via extraction of surplus value and market constrains, which is not only exploitative but also conflicts with the long-term worker interest that is production-for-use. Expansion of exploitation goes against working class interests, that much is hopefully obvious - you're not gonna find anyone but bourgeois or workers deep in nationalist superstructure being happy about their nation state having GDP growth.
On the other hand, a society that produces for use rather than for profit that doesn't have the exploitative surplus extraction mechanism - now that and it's growth is inherently in the interests of the working class.
China hasn't made even the most gradual of shifts towards this, it's a full on market economy that maintains the exploitative relation and sometimes merely transfers ownership around, but this doesn't materially affect the relationship between the worker and means of production.
Mere promises for the "future plans" do not alter the bourgeois essence of the economy as it stands now in China, and I highly doubt that a state maintaining this essence that is in it's national material interests will one day just do a 180, completely go against those interests and abolish the current state of things.
All of the actual benefits are being given to the working classes on a steady and constant basis. Their quality of life has steadily gone up dramatically year over year, in a fundamentally far greater degree than social democracies offer by ratio, without bribery from imperialism.
This is true for literally most capitalist countries during its active development, or after WW2. It is also a blatantly anti-marxist socdem narrative, as the marxist goal is abolishment of current state of things rather than merely making things temporarily better until capitalist contradictions inevitably catch up and result in crisis.
Yeah, bourgeois states would never ever develop infrastructure for market expansion and capital accumulation purposes (e.g. building up infrastructure in colonial states to facilitate exports + extract resources or undertaking massive projects such as the Suez and Panama canals),
Except in the PRC, infrastructure projects are explicitly made to service both the overall socialist economy, and the lives of the working classes, at the expense of the domestic bourgeoisie. Your argument is essentially "the PRC has infrastructure projects, therefore it's capitalist," and considering I already demonstrated that public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the state run by the working classes, we need to re-examine these infrastructure projects. You are, again, confusing form for essence, and focusing on similarities while turning a blind eye towards stark differences. Again, making a mockery of dialectical materialism.
they would never ever nationalize nor have dominant national ownership of their industry for national bourgeois benefit or capital stability (like in Saudi Arabia, fascist Italy, various national oil companies),
Except in those economies, private ownership still remained principle. This is why I brought up Bismark earlier, and that I agree that nationalized industry isn't inherently a sign of socialism. That's why, as Marxists, we need to take the dialectical materialist approach and analyze not just individual elements, but the nature of the economy as a whole. Nationalization in the context of an economy where private ownership is principle ultimately is in service of the bourgeoisie. The Republic of Korea is dominated by giant megacorps like Samsung, LG, Hyundai, etc, despite having a strong bourgeois state, while the PRC is dominated by public ownership and SOEs with a proletarian state, despite having bourgeois ownership over small and medium secondary industries.
Again, since you seem to ignore your critical lack of dialectical analysis, I'll keep pointing it out every time it comes up. You are, again, confusing form for essence, and focusing on similarities while turning a blind eye towards stark differences.
nor they would have high approval rates like seen in fascist regimes and economic boom periods (entrenched superstructures also make workers “approve” things that go against their interests). Maybe there’s more DOTP’s out there than I thought…
Except the PRC's "boom period" seems to persist even in times of instability, and for many decades at a time, while fascist regimes have been flashes in the pan and boom/bust cycles in capitalist economies are regular. The highest approval rates in capitalist economies come in times of war, yet the PRC has been at peace for many decades and still retains this approval rate.
Again, since you seem to ignore your critical lack of dialectical analysis, I'll keep pointing it out every time it comes up. You are, again, confusing form for essence, and focusing on similarities while turning a blind eye towards stark differences.
Productive forces by themselves are neutral, what matters is the underlying social relations of production. Capitalist mode of production presupposes exploitation via extraction of surplus value and market constrains, which is not only exploitative but also conflicts with the long-term worker interest that is production-for-use. Expansion of exploitation goes against working class interests, that much is hopefully obvious - you’re not gonna find anyone but bourgeois or workers deep in nationalist superstructure being happy about their nation state having GDP growth.
This is a deeply confused analysis. The PRC has public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy, not private. Growth in production is essential for actually being capable of production-for-use, and this very problem was what caused instability under the Gang of Four. The idea that the small proprietors, the secondary, small industries, and the agricultural cooperatives need to be nationalized overnight is anti-Marxist analysis. You're using phrasemongering to try to paint increased industrial capacity as something contrary to worker interests.
On the other hand, a society that produces for use rather than for profit that doesn’t have the exploitative surplus extraction mechanism - now that and it’s growth is inherently in the interests of the working class.
The backbone of China's economy is production for use, though. Exploitation is a contradiction, correct, but trying to nationalize industry before it actually socializes is unnecessary from Marxist analysis, and delays productivity. You're making the argument of the Gang of Four, that being that it's better to be working in a fully nationalized economy as a poor worker than working in partially privatized yet ultimately socialist economy with more productive capacity and access to goods and services. Marxism doesn't posit that dogmatically nationalizing is inherently better because it gets rid of exploitation, but instead takes a scientific approach to analyzing production and distribution.
China hasn’t made even the most gradual of shifts towards this, it’s a full on market economy that maintains the exploitative relation and sometimes merely transfers ownership around, but this doesn’t materially affect the relationship between the worker and means of production
Utterly baseless claims, when the economy is dominated by the public sector and Five Year Plans guide the development of the economy. I've given you multiple examples backing this up, while you return with unbacked claims counter to reality.
Mere promises for the “future plans” do not alter the bourgeois essence of the economy as it stands now in China, and I highly doubt that a state maintaining this essence that is in it’s national material interests will one day just do a 180, completely go against those interests and abolish the current state of things.
China doesn't need to pull a 180, it's already a socialist economy gradually nationalizing the small and medium secondary industries as they develop and socialize. This isn't about "future plans," they are already socialist and already in the long and protracted process of transition between capitalism and communism, ie socialism. Nowhere in my comments thus far have I stated that they need to pull a 180, they need to continue their process of folding socialized production into the public sector and maintain the DotP.
This is true for literally most capitalist countries during its active development, or after WW2. It is also a blatantly anti-marxist socdem narrative, as the marxist goal is abolishment of current state of things rather than merely making things temporarily better until capitalist contradictions inevitably catch up and result in crisis.
Except this is entirely false. The capitalist countries during active devevelopment have not directed their gains towards the benefits of the working classes, and post-WWII the capitalist countries entered an era of even greater imperialism. This, in the context of a post about the US Empire (which you batted hard to defend under the guise of worry about the labor aristocracy there), is clear social chauvanism. Further, the idea that the PRC is only making things temporarily better until "capitalist contradictions inevitably catch up and result in crisis" is entirely unfounded, as I explained earlier the PRC has been in a period of stable growth without a boom/bust cycle for decades, far longer than the capitalist world.
Repeating it because you ignored this, and accused me of being anti-Marxist and a "socdem:" you confuse form for essence. You utterly ignore the principle aspect of the economy, and see presence of contradiction as evidence of subservient aspects as dominant. This error in thinking is derived from purely looking at similarities, and ignoring differences. Only seeing the general, while ignoring the particular. In other words, utterly maiming the dialectical half of dialectical materialism.
Yes! Noe that its collapsing, surely someone will sell me their house for $300! So they can buy someone else's house for $300?
How's that gonna work?
It cannot. The housing market needs houses that are affordable without ripping people off. I propose that corporations be given "tokens" in exchange for forcibly removing their ownership from all the houses they own.
By collapsing the housing market, the price for housing would also collapse.
Walmart or Amazon now a nuclear power is a terrible thought.
Given that the US government exists to make megacorps like that as powerful as possible, they already effectively are, they're just saved the inconvenience/expense of directly maintaining their own military and nuclear stockpile.
My bigger concern tbh is a post-balkanization Texas or Utah. Evangelicals and Mormons are a whole lot more likely to let the nukes fly to bring about the end times imo.
Support for government in China: is the data accurate?
Some have questioned the survey results. Are the skeptics right?Jason Hickel
your source is an opinion column.
opinions aren't facts. polls aren't truth.
fair enough, it's just a suggestion or jumping off point, what works in one area won't necessarily work everywhere.
best of luck organising some way to make sure people in your community stay fed etc in emergencies, however you do so!
I think the point is that OP (rightfully in my opinion) realizes that that is not possible without a collapse that results in a revolution.
Our entire government and wealthy are wrapped up in defending their pedophilia. Invading US cities and kidnapping people (and foreign leaders). I think if you're not praying for a collapse at this point you are still comfortable enough to believe the lie that this system just needs "fixing" instead of a complete replacement. There is comfort in believing that. I held onto that belief for a long long time. Even knowing history was against that belief in every similar case. But it would only be for my own comfort to believe that at this point.
Careful what you wish for.
There be crooks wishing the same.
Ready with their next, worse, rigged game.
"Any other option will be just like me or worse" is the line that abusers use to keep others subjected to them.
I'm terrified of no longer being able to travel across the country without being hunted down, but I also know that the integral existence of the country is actively accelerating the polycrisis and making the world a worse place.
I would be willing to shift the burdens of risk from the whole world to just my country.
Putin also won the last election with 88% of the vote. That is a fact.
If you think that fact is truth, however, you're an idiot. Facts and statistics are often lies. I'm glad you believe in lies and the 'superiority' of the Xi's dictatorship. Go move to China then. See how that goes for you.
Putin did recieve 88% of the vote, the nationalists are popular in Russia. This is largely due to the nationalists kicking out western imperialists plundering Russia in the 90s, after the dissolution of the USSR. The CPRF is rising in popularity, though, especially as capitalism proves to be failing Russians.
You don't have any evidence backing up why you think the CPC is secretly unpopular. I've spoken to Chinese people, both currently living there and ex-pats, and they all have backed up that the Chinese government enjoys legitimate support. It's due to dramatically improving the lives of the working classes. You only have insults and vibes.
If I beat the shit out of you until you claim you love me, is that legit love?
According to you, it is.
You're right, but the other groups are usually actually actively working towards and succeeding at saboating the US's entire social discourse and putting oligarchs in power.
Tankies on the other hand don't really want to work that hard, or get it all out of their system posting AI-written manifestos on lemmy.
Within the empire itself, younger generations are increasingly in favor of communism.
As long as MLs don't hijack the revolution and betray the working class again, this is good news but the sharks are circling.
nor do they “betray the working classes.”
Are you suggesting they never expressed solidarity to the working class to begin with?
Oh it is, when we ask with bigger guns. The EU is ramping up, all those delusions about to fall appart.
Just need to get rid of the Quislings.
Ah, gotcha. When I hear "argument," I hear "debate culture," the kind of liberal bloodsports that focus mostly on rhetorical wins than finding a fundamental truth. I'm not quite using dialectics the way they were first formalized in ancient society, but instead more as a dialectical materialist. We can't come to a better understanding purely through the realm of ideas, such is the strategy of dialectical idealists, but instead we can be more cooperative in education.
As for my style, I do try to emulate the dialectical method of Marx, but I absolutely do not compare to him in skill. Practicing dialectical materialism as a method of analysis is a skill like any other, it takes repitition and intention to become more accurate. Regarding disposition, I mostly take from Liu Shaoqi's How to be a Good Communist, which helps me maintain revolutionary optimism!
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I'm sure the Tibetans and the Uyghurs agree with you too. The CPC enjoys their popular support too, even as it genocides their cultures in favor of the Han Chinese.
All that evidence of violence, oppression, and sterilization is just fake news bro! CPC is clearly just doing them a huge favor!
Uyghurs are not being tortured, sterilized, genocided, etc. Neither are Tibetans. Those claims originate entirely from Adrian Zenz, a US State Department-funded Christian Nationalist for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, itself a propaganda org.
The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective's Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is explicitly pro-PRC, but this is an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims.
I also recommend reading the UN report and China's response to it. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does.
Tourists do go to Xinjiang all the time, as well. You can watch , though it obviously isn't going to be a comprehensive view of a complex situation like this.
Tibet was a feudal slave society backed by the CIA. The PLA liberated Tibet.
Two excerpts from Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth:
Drepung monastery was one of the biggest landowners in the world, with its 185 manors, 25,000 serfs, 300 great pastures, and 16,000 herdsmen. The wealth of the monasteries rested in the hands of small numbers of high-ranking lamas. Most ordinary monks lived modestly and had no direct access to great wealth. The Dalai Lama himself “lived richly in the 1000-room, 14-story Potala Palace.”[12]Secular leaders also did well. A notable example was the commander-in-chief of the Tibetan army, a member of the Dalai Lama’s lay Cabinet, who owned 4,000 square kilometers of land and 3,500 serfs. [13] Old Tibet has been misrepresented by some Western admirers as “a nation that required no police force because its people voluntarily observed the laws of karma.” [14] In fact it had a professional army, albeit a small one, that served mainly as a gendarmerie for the landlords to keep order, protect their property, and hunt down runaway serfs.
Young Tibetan boys were regularly taken from their peasant families and brought into the monasteries to be trained as monks. Once there, they were bonded for life. Tashì-Tsering, a monk, reports that it was common for peasant children to be sexually mistreated in the monasteries. He himself was a victim of repeatedremoved, beginning at age nine. [15] The monastic estates also conscripted children for lifelong servitude as domestics, dance performers, and soldiers.
In old Tibet there were small numbers of farmers who subsisted as a kind of free peasantry, and perhaps an additional 10,000 people who composed the “middle-class” families of merchants, shopkeepers, and small traders. Thousands of others were beggars. There also were slaves, usually domestic servants, who owned nothing. Their offspring were born into slavery. [16] The majority of the rural population were serfs. Treated little better than slaves, the serfs went without schooling or medical care. They were under a lifetime bond to work the lord’s land — or the monastery’s land — without pay, to repair the lord’s houses, transport his crops, and collect his firewood. They were also expected to provide carrying animals and transportation on demand. [17] Their masters told them what crops to grow and what animals to raise. They could not get married without the consent of their lord or lama. And they might easily be separated from their families should their owners lease them out to work in a distant location.
[18]As in a free labor system and unlike slavery, the overlords had no responsibility for the serf’s maintenance and no direct interest in his or her survival as an expensive piece of property. The serfs had to support themselves. Yet as in a slave system, they were bound to their masters, guaranteeing a fixed and permanent workforce that could neither organize nor strike nor freely depart as might laborers in a market context. The overlords had the best of both worlds.
One 22-year old woman, herself a runaway serf, reports: “Pretty serf girls were usually taken by the owner as house servants and used as he wished”; they “were just slaves without rights.” [19] Serfs needed permission to go anywhere. Landowners had legal authority to capture those who tried to flee. One 24-year old runaway welcomed the Chinese intervention as a “liberation.” He testified that under serfdom he was subjected to incessant toil, hunger, and cold. After his third failed escape, he was merciless beaten by the landlord’s men until blood poured from his nose and mouth. They then poured alcohol and caustic soda on his wounds to increase the pain, he claimed.
[20]The serfs were taxed upon getting married, taxed for the birth of each child and for every death in the family. They were taxed for planting a tree in their yard and for keeping animals. They were taxed for religious festivals and for public dancing and drumming, for being sent to prison and upon being released. Those who could not find work were taxed for being unemployed, and if they traveled to another village in search of work, they paid a passage tax. When people could not pay, the monasteries lent them money at 20 to 50 percent interest. Some debts were handed down from father to son to grandson. Debtors who could not meet their obligations risked being cast into slavery.
[21]The theocracy’s religious teachings buttressed its class order. The poor and afflicted were taught that they had brought their troubles upon themselves because of their wicked ways in previous lives. Hence they had to accept the misery of their present existence as a karmic atonement and in anticipation that their lot would improve in their next lifetime. The rich and powerful treated their good fortune as a reward for, and tangible evidence of, virtue in past and present lives.
Selection two, shorter: (CW sexual violence and mutilation)
The Tibetan serfs were something more than superstitious victims, blind to their own oppression. As we have seen, some ran away; others openly resisted, sometimes suffering dire consequences. In feudal Tibet, torture and mutilation — including eye gouging, the pulling out of tongues, hamstringing, and amputation — were favored punishments inflicted upon thieves, and runaway or resistant serfs.[22]Journeying through Tibet in the 1960s, Stuart and Roma Gelder interviewed a former serf, Tsereh Wang Tuei, who had stolen two sheep belonging to a monastery. For this he had both his eyes gouged out and his hand mutilated beyond use. He explains that he no longer is a Buddhist: “When a holy lama told them to blind me I thought there was no good in religion.” [23] Since it was against Buddhist teachings to take human life, some offenders were severely lashed and then “left to God” in the freezing night to die. “The parallels between Tibet and medieval Europe are striking,” concludes Tom Grunfeld in his book on Tibet.
[24]In 1959, Anna Louise Strong visited an exhibition of torture equipment that had been used by the Tibetan overlords. There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay. So he took one of the master’s cows; for this he had his hands severed. Another herdsman, who opposed having his wife taken from him by his lord, had his hands broken off. There were pictures of Communist activists with noses and upper lips cut off, and a woman who wasremovedd and then had her nose sliced away.
[25]Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under the “intolerable tyranny of monks” and the devil superstitions they had fashioned to terrorize the people. In 1904 Perceval Landon described the Dalai Lama’s rule as “an engine of oppression.” At about that time, another English traveler, Captain W. F. T. O’Connor, observed that “the great landowners and the priests… exercise each in their own dominion a despotic power from which there is no appeal,” while the people are “oppressed by the most monstrous growth of monasticism and priest-craft.” Tibetan rulers “invented degrading legends and stimulated a spirit of superstition” among the common people. In 1937, another visitor, Spencer Chapman, wrote, “The Lamaist monk does not spend his time in ministering to the people or educating them. […] The beggar beside the road is nothing to the monk. Knowledge is the jealously guarded prerogative of the monasteries and is used to increase their influence and wealth.” [26] As much as we might wish otherwise, feudal theocratic Tibet was a far cry from the romanticized Shangri-La so enthusiastically nurtured by Buddhism’s western proselytes.
-Dr. Michael Parenti
Overall, again, you have no evidence here either. You have blood libel, and don't dare link any of it because you want plausible deniability. You're doing the same thing the west does in saying there's "white genocide" in South Africa, or "christian genocide" in Nigeria, or that Saddam's forces took babies out of incubators and left them on the floor, or that Hamas sexually assaulted babies. You're repeating western atrocity proaganda.
Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation
Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.Qiao Collective
everything is propaganda if it disagrees with your narrative. nobody's reality other than the reality the CPC tells you is real, is real.
I fully understand. thank you for re-educating me. I will now move to china and be liberated from my evil democratic notions that are oppressing me.
No? The CPC isn't committing genocide. I quite clearly gave you an example of a fundamental error by the CPC to disprove your notion that I accept whatever the CPC does, and now you're saying that that's more evidence of only accepting the CPC?
During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
- Dr. Michael Parenti (RIP), Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook
according to you any evidence i present is false because i present it. and according to you any evidence you present is true because you present it.
weird how that works.
you are just quoting propaganda. repeatedly. and claiming it's evidence.
then when i claim something as evidence, you claim it's propaganda, not evidence.
and around and around we go.
No no, see, they did make a bunch of claims as evidence. They may not have provided any sources for those claims and haven't proven those claims true. But they did provide a lot of claims and say that it is evidence of something.
That we require it to be more rigorous than that is not their problem
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While east civilization is kept under oligarchs and imperialistic assholes pretending to be "socjalist", exploited people in the east are pretending to be happy, that working class in the west will be in the same shit very soon?
Not nice :\
We should work together against imperialism, oligarchs, and exploitation.
You won't ever get it from schumer or Jeffries, but that doesn't mean the D is not still better than the R.
And if you can see that difference and didn't vote that way then I'm sorry for your learning disability.
It is thr joh of the democratic party to resist this. If they cant even get their own people to resist, it is either incompetence or it is willful and purposeful.
In either case, they are failures and should not be voted for until they actually fight for the people
I can also remember Joe Lieberman the villian and Al Gore the pre-eminent inventor of the internet and hanging chads and all that fun. I also developed a cool skill called appreciation for nuance which let's me see that having a break away group is still better than wholesale support of roving gestapo in major cities. Luckily, that's a thing we now have thanks in part to the "both sides are the same" heroic lefty crowd. I would even consider myself a lefty person except I can get my old ass up of the couch to vote once year and protest even a few more times.
The couch troglodytes of this com who post memes like this are lucky to have nothing to lose. You can rotate villains in a party, but that's still way better than a whole party of villains.
Maybe you can check your old ass perspective.
Sir, this is dbzero.
Were a bunch of "lefties" that constantly parrot right-wing talking points. Your extremely obvious harm reduction has no say here.
There's such a thing as progressing
Which we don’t fucking get with democrats. At best, we get the status quo. At worst, we get Nazi collaboration, which is what the current democrat party is. Nazi collaborators.
Shut the fuck up with this lesser of two evils bullshit. The democrats are fascists as well, they just aren’t honest about it like the republicans are.
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This is the system you have. If you don’t vote you’re part of the problem
Only voting you can ask to elected people to change things. Maybe ranked elections would allow more parties and candidates
Only [by] voting you can ask to elected people to change things.
How about we replace that system with one where we don't have to ask nicely to change things for the better?
So, add a recall election mechanism and let everything else play out the same?
Because most parts of the US would probably reelect the same candidate if an election was held tomorrow (literally the standard polling question).
Renaming things doesn't make them work better.
So, add a recall election mechanism and let everything else play out the same?
No, that's not what I said. I want to abolish rulers completely.
Council democracy isn't based on electoral parliament, but on general assemblies.
Council democracy isn’t based on electoral parliament, but on general assemblies.
Oh yes, so different.
I'm all about a federated commune of communes, seriously, but at scale how is that really much different? You can't have billions of people living on the planet, or hundreds of millions in a country, without some kind of coordination. It's not practical for millions of people to vote on every little detail, you've still got to have focused representatives to, at minimum, collect information into policy that can be voted on in the first place.
Really the only two options, barring authoritarianism, are direct democracy or some kind of elected representatives. Direct democracy doesn't really work for most considerable topics (agricultural production, electric grid installation, hospital equipment, etc.). Even if people knew enough about the subject to make informed decisions, most people won't bother engaging. So we're inevitably left with some kind of representative democracy, councils don't really eliminate the fact of electing representatives, or the consequences when certain demographics over or underperform at the polls.
Maybe you have gone last chance on midterms, maybe it’s too late and the system will only make the controlling party to win. Not sure. But if people refuse to vote, I don’t think they ever have the chance.
You don’t get it. Lefties didn’t vote and helped to speed up and increase the genocide. They helped the plan a lot by not voting and their hands has blood too, they can lie to themselves when they “washed their hands” but they had a choice and they prefer to let MAGA choose for them.
MAGA is voting, like it or not, and not voting only help them
Trying to Get Through the Day
Not every struggle announces itself loudly.
Some arrive quietly, asking only for a chance to get through the day with dignity.
We’re a family in Gaza, navigating life with very limited means.
Any support—no matter how small—can make a real difference.
Even reading or sharing this means more than you know.
Trying to Get Through the Day
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Not every struggle announces itself loudly.
Some arrive quietly, asking only for a chance to get through the day with dignity.We’re a family in Gaza, navigating life with very limited means.
Any support—no matter how small—can make a real difference.Even reading or sharing this means more than you know.
Trying to Get Through the Day
Not every struggle announces itself loudly.
Some arrive quietly, asking only for a chance to get through the day with dignity.We’re a family in Gaza, navigating life with very limited means.
Any support—no matter how small—can make a real difference.Even reading or sharing this means more than you know.
Archive.is/today down?
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Works for me. Is the domain blocked where you are? Or is your browser/vpn/etc making the page fail to load?
I don't know of anything that comes close to archive. today. Web.archive.org if you're lucky will work for your site.
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Are you using a VPN?
It's always been sketchy for me but it almost never works when I use VPN.
Just a heads up: according to this post, Archive[.]is/.today/.ph is currently serving up malware to visitors, essentially using your traffic to DDoS another target.
From the linked thread:
The DDoS attack runs as JavaScript code in the browser of visitors of archive[.]today websites. Effectively this abuses the devices and abuses the devices of visitors for the attack. Effectively this abuses the devices of visitors for the cyberattack, which makes it a lot more challenging to block on the recipient’s side. Someone knowingly participating in a botnet may also be guilty of Computer sabotage" according to § 303b StGB in Germany or similar laws.This is currently still ongoing, as visiting the CAPTCHA sites still delivers JavaScript code for the DDoS, to access the targeted site many times. Most commonly used content and ad blockers like uBlock Origin should already be filtering this by default, but we can’t expect everyone to use them, especially on mobile devices.
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I guess forking is an easy way to benefit from others' work.
I'm wondering if there is any game developer that chooses this fork knowing that it will likely not keep up with upstream features and fixes.
I am a godot user and it seems to me that Godot it pretty much under heavy development and so...
Just some Foss drama, I stay away from that.
I've never heard of this before. Nice to have other variations. redotengine.org/ I wonder why they forked Godot. Also they don't like to mention it at all it seems: docs.redotengine.org/en/stable… only at the bottom as
© Copyright 2024-present by the Redot community, modified from an original work by Juan Linietsky, Ariel Manzur and the Godot community (CC BY 3.0).
If I were a game developer, I would probably stick to Godot unless there is a really good reason for relying on this fork. One has to trust them fully.
Redot Engine – Home
Redot Engine is an open-source game engine that enables developers to create stunning games with ease, offering powerful features, an active community, and a seamless development experience.www.redotengine.org
Some nob on twitter was having a whinge about all these "woke games" that use game engines because they're too lazy/unable to code them themselves.
Godot vague-posted a response saying, "apparently game engines are woke now?" And asked people to share their "wokot games." Ensue further whingefest, complaining about discord mods, yadda yadda. Long story short, a project created out of anti-woke spite isn't one I'd rely on.
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Godot Engine User Blocking Controversy / #Wokot
Godot Engine Blocking Controversy refers to a controversy surrounding the community manager for the game engine Godot blocking users on X / Twitter and, reportedly, GitHub over negative reactions to a social media post in support of indie games with …Philipp (Know Your Meme)
Should I grap the 1000th star?
GitHub - lumen-oss/rocks.nvim: 🌒 Neovim plugin management inspired by Cargo, powered by luarocks
🌒 Neovim plugin management inspired by Cargo, powered by luarocks - lumen-oss/rocks.nvimGitHub
I'm being hyperbolic but I do genuinely dislike Luarocks.
Everywhere I've used them I'm met with issues. May they be incorrect versions being downloaded, Luarocks just not doing anything but giving no error, or the worse problem none of the packages working correctly. Client using luarocks for windows and it not working or the correct Luarocks just having a fit on windows too. Glad for wsl2 when a client needs me to use windows
Lua can be quite hyper specific to each usecase too. It's supposed to be. This leads to a disconnect between the generic packages and the Lua code used for neovim, the love engine, Warcraft and Roblox Moding, or whatever.
Lua does have inherit issues that make package management difficult. Each version of Lua is intended to be its own segregated ecosystem. This is a major strongsuut for Lua as it can change wildly while devs can know their version will be supported, and stay stagnant (on purpose). However, this hurts the package ecosystem as it can be difficult to support each Lua leading to an even smaller number of packages.
I've never had a good experience when using luarocks or anything that requires Luarocks.
There are few things more infuriating to me than when a package manager doesn’t work well.
Like, that’s the job. That’s why you’re here. I get why dependencies are hard to calculate but that doesn’t make it less annoying when the software is bad at it.
I haven’t used Luarocks but I feel like Ruby had some serious package management issues before RubyGems became more stable (a long time ago), and it was so annoying.
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This doesn't surprise me. It's pretty clear that a whole foods plant based diet is the way to go if you're serious about your health. (I'm not. I'm vegan, so I get some of the benefits, but I also eat like crap, lots of processed meals and other such garbage, so I'm not super healthy)
But yeah, if you want your cholesterol to decrease, the easiest way is to switch to a whole foods plant based diet!!
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The problem with a lot of these papers is they use intermediate endpoints rather than actual hard end points. They're making the assumption that decreasing LDL is a good thing. That's an intermediate endpoint, nobody actually cares about their LDL, they care about their health span and lifespan.
Spoiler: LDL and Cholesterol in general is not a disease, it's poor metabolic health that is the actual cardiovascular problem.
I.e. doi.org/10.3390/metabo14010073 Oreo cookie treatment lowers LDL cholesterol more than high-intensity statin therapy in a lean mass hyper-responder on a ketogenic diet: a curious crossover experiment
This stunt paper illustrates how silly it is to focus on a intermediate metric. Oreos are not health food, I should hope that is obvious
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Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust
GitHub - microsoft/bf-tree: Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research.
Bf-Tree is a modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index in Rust from MS Research. - microsoft/bf-treeGitHub
Iran, China and Russia sign trilateral strategic pact
In a dramatic geopolitical development this afternoon, Iran, China and Russia formally signed a comprehensive strategic pact, marking one of the most consequential shifts in 21st-century international relations. While the full text of the agreement is being released in stages by the three governments, state media in Tehran, Beijing and Moscow have acknowledged the ceremony and described it as a cornerstone for a new multipolar order.The pact comes against the backdrop of decades of growing cooperation between these three states. Iran and Russia earlier concluded a 20-year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty designed to deepen economic, political, and defence ties, and to blunt the impact of Western sanctions — a treaty that was signed in January 2025 and entered into force last year. Meanwhile, Iran and China have been bound by a 25-year cooperation agreement first signed in 2021, aimed at expanding trade, infrastructure, and energy integration.
What makes today’s signing significantly different, and newsworthy, is that it explicitly combines the three powers in a coordinated framework, aligning them on issues ranging from nuclear sovereignty and economic cooperation to military coordination and diplomatic strategy.
This agreement does not – at least from the initial public texts – constitute a formal mutual defence treaty akin to NATO’s Article 5, obligating one to defend the others militarily. Past pacts between Iran and Russia always carefully stopped short of a binding defence guarantee. Instead, the pact appears to link three major powers in a broader geopolitical coalition defined by shared opposition to Western military dominance and economic coercion.
Central to the agreement is a unified stance against reimposition of sanctions on Iran tied to its nuclear programme under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Tehran, Beijing and Moscow have previously issued joint statements rejecting European attempts to trigger “snapback” sanctions, and have declared the UN Security Council’s considerations of the nuclear deal terminated.
This trilateral pact is therefore as much about diplomatic leverage and strategic narrative as it is about concrete defence or economic mechanisms.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260129-iran-china-and-russia-sign-trilateral-strategic-pact/
I support the right of every instance on Lemmy to build how they want, transparently. As you can see my main account is on .today and not .world or sh.itjust.works.
But no, not literally. From join.piefed.social/features/ - this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:
Authoritarian Inoculation – Feature to reduce the impact of authoritarian propaganda.
I have some real concerns about what's considered authoritarian, considering...
Default Blocks – Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and Nazi instances are blocked out of the box.
A call back to my lunchroom analogy.
Low Reputation Indicator – Identifies consistently downvoted users.
Oof. That's some social credit sounding shit right there.
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
I wonder how it does that? I hope that's not just a hokey word filter.
Features - PieFed
Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons.PieFed
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I support the right of every instance on Lemmy to build how they want, transparently. As you can see my main account is on .today and not .world or sh.itjust.works.
My point here is that piefed.social has pretty simular culture to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.
I have some real concerns about what’s considered authoritarian, considering…Oof. That’s some social credit sounding shit right there.
Its much simpler than that. Lemmy has a spam problem. People coming in to just make shill communities selling a service or product or spamming advert posts across communities.
They usually get downvoted, but I can use Piefeds admin tools to filter for downvoted posts by new accounts. This usually catches most spammers like that. I can then ban them from piefed.social and pass that on to Lemmy admins.
A lot of Day 1 trolls are caught like this too.
I understand, not always, but most heavily downvoted accounts tend to be people looking for fights everywhere, people with long community and instance banlists etc.
4chan Filter – Flags content from 4chan for review.
This can be turned off by other instances.
And there seems to be some confusion in some of the excerpts there because it is mostly referring to what piefed.social does, and not incumbent on all other instances to do so. It also looks unfinished.
My point here is that piefed.social has pretty simular culture to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works.
So not "literally." That's the point I argued with.
Lemmy has a spam problem. People coming in to just make shill communities selling a service or product or spamming advert posts across communities.
I browse by subscribed. I support the right for everyone to choose what they see with minimal persuasion. I don't see this problem, if it exists.
I understand, not always, but most heavily downvoted accounts tend to be people looking for fights everywhere, people with long community and instance banlists etc.
I can make my own decisions about people without a flag next to their name. I vehemently oppose this feature.
This can be turned off by other instances.
My lunchroom analogy applies here. Users should be able to make their own minds.
And there seems to be some confusion in some of the excerpts there because it is mostly referring to what piefed.social does, and not incumbent on all other instances to do so. It also looks unfinished.
As I just said: this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:
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There is, quite literally, zero direct evidence of what I posited. Evidence exists, sure, but only by understanding the context around the behavior patterns of the devs and the swarm of very dedicated Piefed missionairies. There is no smoking gun of them directly saying that the primary purpose of their software is to degrade the commons in order to deny "tankies" a space where they can talk mostly amongst themselves, nor will there likely ever be.
Given radlibism and anti-tankie hysteria is universally socially rewarded for aiding the empire in isolating and crushing its enemies, don't let them dictate the terms of engagement by framing of discussion in terms of whether tankies are "evil red fash" or not. Any dissenting opinion you express thereafter will be dismissed as "authoritarian apologist" and trigger bystanders' cognitive dissonance by making this a repeat of every insufferable "tankie vs. anti-authoritarian" debate. You cannot convince the rabid cold warriors that their tragedy of the commons / EEE behavior is politically detrimental to the entire left during a period of rapidly encroaching fascism because they hate us more than fascists, and yearn for our destruction. Us being hunted down like dogs would be preferable to us having our own sovereign, but isolated platform broadly deferated from liberal instances.
Call into question their trustworthiness, their intentions, their development practices, their ability to play well with others, and specific objectionable lines of code.
Be level-headed, objective, and non-ideological in your critiques. That way, when they inevitably derail discussion with their political screeds, they (rightfully) seem like a weirdo, and you have shown yourself to be the reasonable party.
Ask them why they should be trusted to be good stewards of their power over the ecosystem, especially given how many lines of code are simply baking in moderation of whatever pattern the main dev finds annoying. The devs are actively attempting to use their position as a platform developer to impose their whims over discussion at large...exactly their rationale why tankies shouldn't be trusted with developing the fediverse! Channel their fearmongering into seemingly apolitical scrutiny into their existing behavior.
IMO the best way to counter the shilling is by criticizing the project on technical grounds.
Piefed is a sloppy, poorly thought out pile of staples and hot glue haphazardly developed in pursuit of a bulleted list of (poorly implemented) features that they can cite when trying to one-up Lemmy.
Most of their actual "features" are implementing some frontend enhancement, often as an API change incompatible with the broader fediverse. They are making their software less compatible, adding technical debt for one-off features, and putting in virtually no effort to implement things in a responsible, future-cognizant way.
Given they reimplemented a Rust backend in Python, just to facilitate
If architecture for their own project is an afterthought:
- why would you want to give them more sway over the trajectory of the entire ecosystem?
- why would you want to administer a server with little consideration for standards, compatibility, and API stability?
- why would you want to worry about integrating your project with a backend that doesn't bother adhering to community developed FEPs?
- why would you want to join a server that is less interoperable with other server types than others? is it worth not having the entire context not render properly on other platforms?
Without getting into ideological grounds, this is enough to turn off software devs, sysadmins, self hosters, and end users...as well as those of neighboring projects. Enough to make even their fellow ideologues more apprehensive to choose PF over Lemmy.
Anyone who has any interest in proper software engineering, code quality, or long term maintenance would find Piefed's development to be appauling. If these people knew the piss poor quality of the dev team's practices, they would be self-motivated to counter the 24/7 shilling by the Piefed devs and its stans. There will be no shortage of opportunities to point these things out.
"attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.
The math here is hilarious.
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So not “literally.” That’s the point I argued with.
I don't see how it's inherently some sort of hugbox, as you claim.
I browse by subscribed. I support the right for everyone to choose what they see with minimal persuasion. I don’t see this problem, if it exists.
Good for you. But I am thinking at an instance level. Spam is actually a problem on platforms like this.
If Lemmy was to triple in size tomorrow, it's base tools wouldn't be capable of dealing with it.
I can make my own decisions about people without a flag next to their name. I vehemently oppose this feature.
I just meant purely in terms of admins being able to see it. Whether or not it shows for users is another matter.
As I just said: this is the main site for piefed, not just .social:
Yes, I know. But it's not clear that all of the content there is meant to be specifically telling other owners how they should run their instance.
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Didn't say it was a hugbox, said it fosters division.
I don't know whether piefed has less spam or not, and whether that's by volume or percentage, and why. I haven't seen any evidence favoring either platform.
There is no way Lemmy would triple in size in a day. Why would they build for something that would never happen? That's like ordering three pizzas for a party when you only need one.
I still oppose the low-karma feature on moral and ideological grounds. Voting is easily manipulated, so any system based on it is also easily manipulated.
It was clear to me that site was for piefed.
Are you talking about you insisting that allowing America to topple yet another middle eastern government will somehow usher in a people's revolution?
Only idiots believe the war propaganda about Iran
I'll ask you again, since you don't want to answer: How are Lybia and Syria doing?
Only Idiots Believe The War Propaganda About Iran
It is not okay to be a grown adult in the year 2026 and still believe US regime change interventionism in the middle east will lead to positive outcomes.Caitlin Johnstone
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you insisting that allowing America to blah blah blah
Not what I said, not what I support.
And you can fuck right off with your Australian shithead whitesplaining Iran. Go read what Iranian comrades have to say about their country. If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.
How are Lybia and Syria doing? Why are you so afraid to address the consequences of what you support?
Because i know you won't click the link:
There is nothing you can say to me to convince me that US regime change interventionism in the middle east is a swell idea.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that the Trump administration is telling us the truth about Iran.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that the mass media are telling us the truth about Iran.
There is nothing you can say to convince me the people who just spent two years incinerating Gaza have kind-hearted intentions for the Iranian people.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that protecting Israel is a good and desirable thing that westerners should support.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that the empire-like globe-spanning power alliance that is loosely centralized around Washington should be in charge of our world.
There is nothing you can say to convince me that I should help the US and Israel manufacture consent for a regime change war by criticizing the Iranian government in the middle of a frenzied war propaganda campaign.
It is not okay to be a grown adult in the year 2026 and still believe US regime change interventionism in the middle east will lead to positive outcomes.
It is not okay to live in a post-Iraq invasion world and still not understand that we are being lied to about Iran.
It is not okay to have lived through what these monsters did to Libya and still believe forcibly toppling the Iranian government is a moral and just cause to get behind.
It is not okay to have just watched these freaks turn Gaza into a gravel parking lot pervaded by the smell of rotting corpses and believe they have noble intentions for the people of Iran.
I don’t care if you are making your pro-regime change arguments from a right wing anti-Islam perspective, from a liberal humanitarian pro-democracy perspective, from a left-wing “solidarity with our Persian comrades” perspective, or from an “oppose all tyranny equally” anarchist perspective. Your arguments are shit, and your position is wrong.
The agenda to oust the Iranian government is about dominating the planet in general and the middle east in particular. You might think it’s about something else, but you are wrong. It’s about power and control, and all your fanciful notions about freedom and democracy for the Iranian people will be instantly subordinated to those goals. If this isn’t obvious to you, you’re an idiot.
The goal is not to bring freedom and democracy to the Iranian people. The US and Israel do not permit democracy to thrive in the middle east unless they can control its outcomes, as they are working to do right now in Iraq. The US and Israel are not popular enough in the middle east for the people to be allowed to control their own government.
The goal is to either install a puppet regime in Tehran, or to balkanize the nation into multiple independent states which can be easily controlled, or to plunge the entire state into unmanageable chaos like they did in Libya. None of these plans advance the interests of the Iranian people.
If you support Trump’s regime change agendas in Iran, then you support inflicting this upon the Iranian people. That’s what you get under the best-case scenario. Under the worst-case scenario, you get a hot war between the US and Iran which unleashes horrors you cannot possibly imagine. It will make the Iraq invasion and all the fallout therefrom look like an episode of Spongebob.
There is nothing you can say to me to cause me to support this. Call me a traitor. Call me a dictator lover. Call me an antisemite. Tell me all you want to tell me about how mean and bad Iran’s leadership is. I won’t care. I will dismiss you, because you are my enemy.
Anyone who supports war with Iran is my enemy. Anyone who would want to inflict such horrors upon the human species is an enemy of humanity.
I promise I will not be moved on this. I like to keep an open mind, as the saying goes, but not so open my brain falls out.
I would tell you to learn from your mistakes, but you're not even at that stage yet. You're still too defensive and high on propaganda and half-baked Idpol to even admit your mistakes.
How are Lybia and Syria doing?
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We can both play that game.
Statement of the Worker-communist Party of Iran on the new round of the uprising of the people of Iran
[The text in this section is a statement issued by the Worker-communist Party of Iran on January 5, 2026, regarding the recent mass protests by the Iranian people.] Protests that began on 28 December 2025 following the Tehran bazaar strike, in opposition to rising prices and the severe economic situation, have grown broader and more radical by the day. Chants of “death to the dictator” and calls for overthrow have shaken the streets of large and small cities alike, once again drawing global attention to the struggle of the Iranian people to free themselves from the Islamic Republic.
These protests are a continuation of previous struggles, and it is specifically the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution that has once again taken to the streets—this time under different conditions and with an even stronger emphasis on “life”. Attention is now focused on how this revolution, in its new phase, will chart its path forward, and on how the people of Iran, by defeating the Islamic Republic and taking control of every aspect of life themselves, will shape a new chapter of history.
The latest protests are unfolding amid a dramatic deterioration in living conditions. For many people, there is no longer any room for patience or compromise, and as a result ever wider sections of society are being compelled to enter the struggle and settle accounts with the ruling power. On the other side stands an Islamic Republic weaker and more crisis-ridden than ever, with no economic or political answers to offer, and still reliant on bullets, prisons, executions and the machinery of repression.
For the revolution to overcome the Islamic Republic, it must bring an ever broader social force into the field and make greater use of levers such as nationwide strikes and a general strike—measures that are extremely difficult for the state to confront. The widest possible sections of the population, in cities large and small and across neighbourhoods nationwide, must actively join the revolution, while simultaneously engaging in sustained and varied forms of protest: demonstrations, night-time chanting, neighbourhood control, and attacks on state forces and institutions. Workers in industrial centres, teachers, nurses, retirees, public-sector employees and students can—and must—play a far more decisive and central role.
Strike committees, neighbourhood control committees, mutual aid committees and revolutionary coordination networks must be formed wherever possible, preparing the ground for the mass expansion of the political movement and readiness to deliver decisive blows to the Islamic Republic.
But the revolution does not confront only the Islamic Republic and its repression. Another danger threatening its advance and victory lies in efforts to steer political developments in Iran through deals from above—preserving the foundations of repression, dictatorship, religious authority and the state apparatus—whether through media manipulation, public opinion engineering, or direct and indirect intervention by foreign governments, so that they remain limited to merely the passing of power from the hands of one capital owners to another. In the presence of a revolution of this scale, such efforts are often presented in the name of the revolution itself, even as its supposed outcome. In reality, they serve the interests of the ruling regime and work against the revolution.
A clear example of this danger can be seen in the activities of monarchist forces. Through deception and propaganda, issuing death threats, intimidating opponents, engaging in thuggery, abuse and misogyny—in short, by modelling themselves on Trump-style fascism—they seek to eliminate rival figures and leaders who enjoy popular support, aiming wishfully to claim uncontested leadership. This delusion works to the benefit of the Islamic Republic and to the detriment of the people’s revolution. As a result, the struggle to overthrow the Islamic Republic has today become inseparable from the struggle to neutralise and defeat this home-grown, Trump-style fascism.
The Woman, Life, Freedom revolution in Iran must, even before its final victory, entrench its human principles—such as unconditional freedom of expression, organisation and political activity; the abolition of the death penalty; and the dismantling of all forms of misogyny—so deeply in Iran’s political culture that no one can cross these lines without being exposed and isolated. Confronting attempts to clip the wings of the revolution, impose top-down deals, or manufacture artificial leaders likewise depends on the mass participation of millions in advancing the revolution across the country.
Opposing all forms of attempts to cause divisions among the peoples living within Iran’s geography; reaffirming Woman, Life, Freedom as a unifying slogan; rejecting all forms of dictatorship and state power imposed above society; insisting on demands that uproot the machinery of repression and suffocation; enforcing a total ban on execution, torture and imprisonment; and defending unconditional freedom of expression—these are all essential to strengthening and deepening the revolution.
Under current revolutionary conditions, collective effort and direct action to confront livelihood issues—from strikes and struggles for wage increases to protests for public services, the formation of medical mutual aid groups, cooperative funds, child-support initiatives, environmental rescue groups and other forms of solidarity—also take on political significance. In these areas too, the revolutionary movement is compelled to exercise direct popular power, even before fully displacing the ruling political power, depending on the balance of forces.
The revolution does not manifest itself solely through street protests, neighbourhood control or strikes. It can also take shape through revolutionary actions by workers in water, electricity, hospitals, telecommunications and other institutions, aimed at alleviating or resolving people’s immediate problems. This points to a broader truth: for full and comprehensive victory over the Islamic Republic, the current revolution must not only undertake revolutionary economic and welfare measures, but also move towards socialism—towards placing social production and distribution under the control of direct popular institutions.
The new phase of the Woman, Life, Freedom revolution has brought the prospect of victory over the Islamic Republic closer than ever before. At the same time, it makes clearer than ever that decisive victory can only come alongside the defeat of all reactionary, traditional and backward forces that promise the people a return to the past, to despotism, servitude and inequality.
Down with the Islamic Republic!
Victory to Woman, Life, Freedom!
Long live the Socialist Republic!
'cept this one doesn't come from an Australian white shithead 🤷♀️
The game of pointing out the obvious consequences of supporting imperial American regime change operations? Sure, except you don't seem to want to play it at all. Despite your desperate efforts to avoid it, it's actually very simple to play. All you have to do is answer the following question:
How are Lybia and Syria doing after their US-led regime change?
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Me: I like apples.
You: Oh you like citruses? What about these oranges and clementines.
You can make a commie out of a yank, but they'll still be a yank.
Why are you so afraid to answer the one extremely relevant question that will reveal whether supporting the toppling of a designated US enemy's government in a time of war is a good idea or not? Is it maybe because you know the answer won't look good for you? Is that why you immediately turned into a petulant teenager whining at me to "fuck off"?
It's really very straightforward. I'll even simplify the question for you.
Did US-led regime change make life for the people in Lybia or Syria better, or worse?
Take as long as you need champ.
Is that why you immediately turned into a petulant teenager whining at me to “fuck off”?
I don't, that's just me in my normal everyday state 🖕
And I won't argue from a standpoint that's not mine. So, yeah, "fuck off".
that’s just me in my normal everyday state 🖕
How sad for you
And I won’t argue from a standpoint that’s not mine.
Oh cool, so you don't support US-backed color revolution in Iran after all?
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How sad for you
I'm fine with it 😊
Oh cool, so you don’t support US-backed regime change in Iran after all?
Iranian people don't want that, they are aware of the ramifications of their actions, and I'm not arrogant enough to believe my pale ass knows better than them from the confines of my shithole western country.
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Why do would anyone want to hitch their wagon to such a thing?
Cause sublinks burned out as an alternative?
You seemingly don't know better, judging by how eager you are to support the exact same imperial ventures with the thinnest possible coat of "this is totally what the people of the country we're targeting want bro" paint slapped on. Were you also posting about how "Venezuelans are celebrating" earlier this year?
How are Lybia and Syria doing?
I listen to people. People say what they want. I say "these people want that".
I listened to Venezuelans. Venezuelans pro or anti Maduro overwhelmingly said they didn't want that. I say "Venezuelans didn't want that".
Kill the yank inside of you please.
Edit: Fuck, I'd respect you more if you could admit that there's a grassroots movement going on in Iran right now, but that it doesn't align with what you think is the best move in the geopolitical game.
Nice line of bullshit, very convenient for your western leftist imperial pretenses of solidarity. Unfortunately, recent history has shown these pretenses to be exactly as anti-imperialist as the bloodthirsty empire they ultimately serve, which is why you desperately avoid acknowledging Lybia and Sryia. Just a shot in the dark: I'm guessing you also support the nazi puppet government in Ukraine.
Did regime change in Lybia and Syria make life better for the people there, or worse? You try to avoid this question like the plague, and I won't let you.
Saw the edit?
Just a shot in the dark: I’m guessing you also support the nazi puppet government in Ukraine.
Ukrainian people actually. I'd like them to not have a boot on the neck, whoever wears it.
You avoid this question like the plague, and I won’t let you.
And I won't give you satisfaction, as hard as you may type 🤷♀️
"Teehee you can't make me face the consequences of my ideology!"
You run from the mention of Lybia and Syria because you're fully aware that taking even a cursory look at the outcome of what you support reveals you to be both full of shit and an intellectual coward🤷♂️
You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran because it would make you a bad big poopoo 🤷♀️
We'll reach double rainbow soon at this rate.
You tell me, my superior USian friend!
Fuck, rainbow rendering is broken...
Look at the upvotes and downvotes dawg
Eww, stop with le Redditor speak 🤢
And good call on the edit. Made you sound too much like an internet tough guy 🤣
Maybe if you use more emojis, they won't put it in the newspaper that you got mad
Oh hey by the way, how are Lybia and Syria doing?
You already saw the extent of my shamelessness when it comes to waddling in the mud. You can't me not use emojis 😏
Oh hey by the way, how are Lybia and Syria doing?
I asked you, enlightened burgerian person to educate me, and I'm still waiting.
Didn’t say it was a hugbox, said it fosters division.
Does it? I don't see how.
I don’t know whether piefed has less spam or not, and whether that’s by volume or percentage, and why. I haven’t seen any evidence favoring either platform.
Piefed gets the same spam, but Piefed can catch the spammers and report them to Lemmy admins easier. That's what I mean here.
There is no way Lemmy would triple in size in a day. Why would they build for something that would never happen? That’s like ordering three pizzas for a party when you only need one.
Of course it wouldn't. My point was I am thinking of scale here when looking at these admin tools.
I still oppose the low-karma feature on moral and ideological grounds. Voting is easily manipulated, so any system based on it is also easily manipulated.
Well public voting on the fediverse mitigates that as people using alts or engaging in brigading can be often caught, are often caught, and community and instance banned for it.
It was clear to me that site was for piefed.
It outlines his philosophy, but he doesn't state he will enforce the same ideology on other instances with some iron fist.
If I can use DeepL to translate Persian, so can you, yanks.
In English, the language is called Iranian. Some people use Farsi, which is Iranian for Iranian.
If you see someone insist on Persian, don't listen to that person. They are a Nazi every single time.
I don't think you are a Nazi, but I'm convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you've heard someone say "Persian, Iranian, it doesn't matter, they mean the same thing", and that's at first a very convincing argument, no reason to keep looking for patterns. But when you look for patterns, it becomes undeniable. It's like people who insist on saying Burma or Rhodesia or Saigon.
The reason those people prefer the name Persia, is because it implies that the country belongs to one ethnicity and culture. It's trying to lesser the other peoples of Iran.
"Farsi" is technically Iranian for "Persian", so when translated it might seem like that's already happening. But the difference is that people in Iran understand the context and history, and so while they use that name to describe the language, since that's an accurate description of what the language is and how it came to be the lingua franca, people in Iran wouldn't use it to mean the country or the broader Iranian identity.
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Thanks for correcting and informing me.
I don't think you are a Nazi, but I'm convinced one has your ear and has been successful in pushing away Iranians. I know you've heard someone say "Persian, Iranian, it doesn't matter, they mean the same thing"
No, no, nothing as sinister. In french, my mother tongue, Iranian is called "persan", and DeepL calls the language "persian", so, both things led me to that blunder. No malice, only stupidity.
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Ahahaha delicate Rimu didn't just ban me, he deleted my account on his server.
Good.
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I mean the admins banning op for no reason seems much worse?
You avoid acknowledging the grassroots movement in Iran
You misspelled “astroturf.”
You’re not listening to the people. You’re listening to comprador plants.
- Accented Proxies: Imperialist Weaponisation Of Diaspora Voices
- Citations Needed podcast: US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center
- The blueprint of regime change operations — How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
- "Why Don't You Criticize Iran??"
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Seems like ml users don't have more than 3 neurons to activate and think this through. Don't wonder too much if no instance wants to federate with you.
About Nutomic, it's because it comes from a marxist, as I said I expect better out of him because of that, and because I had trust in him. Having used Lemmy for years when his transphobic views surfaced, I felt betrayed.
About Rimu, he doesn't get a pass. Cowbee made me aware of what he said, and I won't be using Piefed as a result.
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It increases division for all the reasons I already outlined. If you don't see it that way I don't know how to explain my point of view any better than I already have.
I don't see any philosophy, I see a list of reasons the developer of piefed believes their platform is better than Lemmy. Yes, each instance can adjust those settings, but they go into it with these heavy-handed suggestions straight from the developer. From the wording, anyone joining the fediverse for the first time through Piefed comes in associating those instances with nazis. I think that's intentional.
You can't say if people with alts or who brigade are often caught. And, "often" is not "always," which means voting can still be manipulated. Hell, even if you caught everyone with an alt, votes can change by community or the time of day. An opinion that gets lauded in one community might be downvoted to hell in another. Better to not have a flagging system, let people have their own opinions without labelling "bad" users.
Accented Proxies: Imperialist Weaponisation Of Diaspora Voices
Interesting! But I genuinely make it a point to listen to people living inside the country. Iran in this case. And go out of my way to find texts that are seldom translated into any language I could read more easily. I appreciate how fortunate I am to have easily accessible translation tools; they help break that big educational barrier between my underclass ass and the world.
Citations Needed podcast
It's in my AntennaPod playlist.
The blueprint of regime change operations
I'd say this doesn't teach me anything I wasn't aware of, but it's a good nonetheless.
"Why Don’t You Criticize Iran??"
Sorry but no.
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