Cowbee
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Cheapest sandwiches 5 days ago:
Peanut butter! Cheap, high calorie, with fats and proteins to balance the carbs. You can get jelly packets or even ketchup packets in a pinch (not quite as bad as it sounds) to keep it from getting repetitive.
Also consider rice and beans!
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
I think you’re still not getting how fascism works. The party in power makes absolutely no difference on whether or not fascism is implemented, and the drive for fascism is related to the ability for the capitalist class to continue to effectively control the population, which decreases in times of economic duress, and which is necessarily a ticking clock in capitalism as it is unsustainable.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
Democrats getting elected doesn’t alleviate the risk of fascism, because as I said, it’s the capitalist class overstepping the legal boundaries. Democrats can legislate all they want against fascism (which they won’t do, let’s be honest), but the point is that capital does not care what is legal, and holds the actual power in society by owning the commanding heights of the economy. It can directly implement fascism without the consent of the DNC.
As for fighting it directly, a socialist revolution prevents the risk of fascism by taking the commanding heights from the capitalist class. In the case of fascism, socialist revolution is what can end it most effectively. In either case, armed struggle is almost certainly necessary, but it’s far cleaner before fascism actually is implemented than after.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
I think people generally think of themselves as progressive when they come here, and it might be their first run-in with revolutionary socialists. They get caught between their progressive beliefs, largely around the Bernie/AOC area, and this suddenly new group (to them) of people that despise reformism and the Democrats almost as much as the Republicans. It creates a lot of friction, IMO. And yea, Lemmy was and is made by MLs, which means we have a permanent foothold here.
Have you tried browsing hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml? Lemmy.ml has its own vibe because we don’t really defederate from anyone, but Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net are pretty good examples of what “tankies” are like when we aren’t getting into constant squabbles with liberals. You’ll see tons of queer people, a lot of passionate people, and a lot of normalcy, to be honest.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 6 days ago:
I suggest you go back and re-read it. It’s all there as I said.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
I recognize that the group called tankies is the group of people that supports the DPRK, PRC, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba, and I support them, so I belong to the group called tankies. I’m self-aware of that, so don’t pretend my support for these countries isn’t going to get me called a tankie.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
Not who you asked, but I want socialism, which requires a mass working class revolutionary party, a militant and class conscious working class, and instability within the capitalist class. The first two are directly actionable through joining socialist orgs like PSL and doing large amounts of outreach, agitation, etc. The latter is out of our control, no matter if the Democrats or Republicans win in elections, and is more a matter of course as capitalism decays.
Fascism isn’t something that can be elected. Fascism is when the capitalist class oversteps the legal boundaries and restricts the civil rights of the country, when bourgeois democracy is replaced with outright direct rule by capital. Republicans winning or losing does not actually increase or decrease the chance of fascism, because fascism is a response to economic conditions and rising socialist organizing outside of the legal system.
This is important, because it means Democrats winning does not stop fascism. Fascism is out of the control of the working class, and can only be prevented by socialism, and stopped once in action by fighting it directly. In either case, mass socialist organizing is both the vaccine and the cure for fascism, depending on the timeline.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
No?
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
No, nobody has said this, lmao.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 6 days ago:
It’s a pejorative for what you perceive as fake leftists, but in actuality are just the group of people that support the DPRK, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, and Laos. You perceive this support as a disregard for human life, because you view these countries negatively. The actual base of what makes a tankie is support for these socialist countries, though, your opinion on them is not the definition. In any case, by your definition the Black Panther Party were fake leftists with no regard for human life:
In reality, tankies are just the socialists that support the actuality of existing revolution, the Black Panthers being predecessors to the modern tankie in America.
- Comment on Texas Red Wave 6 days ago:
If only…
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 6 days ago:
No? You’re deeply, deeply confused about this entire conversation.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
Mark Tauger’s point doesn’t go against consensus, nor does he rely on the internal documents I referenced in addition. Further, I included many other sources, including Kotkin and Chinese scholars, which you continue to ignore. You have no clue what you’re talking about or what I actually said.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
No? This was an internal back and forth between branches of the CPSU. Scholarly evidence backs it up as legitimate. What on Earth are you trying to do?
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
Stalin did not “clear Stalin.” Stalin asked the Ukrainian communists why they hid the extent of the famine, and I included them hiding it as well.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
No? The CPSU investigated itself and found the Ukrainian communists that hid the extent of famine responsible. Do you think the comments from Stalin were fabricated? What’s your actual point?
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
One paragraph takes very little time to write.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
I respond to what I feel like. Sometimes people @ mention me, but I’m not a whimsical gnome or anything, I just browse by subscribed.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
How is it gaslighting when what you’ve said is public?
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
Hitler intentionally killed about 5% of noncombatants in Nazi-controlled areas of Europe. We aren’t including soldiers at all. Under Mao, around 2.5% of China died in famines that could be partially attributed to aggressive industrialization. Arguing that Mao was worse for mismanaging industrialization than someone that industrialized mass murder to deliberately kill undesirables is horrendous historiography. It isn’t a coincidence that Mao is near universally loved in China while Hitler is near universally hated in Europe.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
It doesn’t, actually. Have you read the report yourself? I recommend reading what Uyghur people actually have to say, as well as researching the validity/invalidity of the allegations. There’s absolutely no evidence of anything even close to approaching the kind of torture the Tibetan serfs and slaves dealt with.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
Creepy sexual harassment and homophobia. Touch grass.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
They both seceded in response to the president they elected seceding, then a civil war emerged. The people of the Donbass have the right to self-determination, not state repression.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
Weird homophobia on your part, and Xi Jinping isn’t a “murderous dictator.” China is a democratic country, with some of the highest perceptions of democracy among its citizenry in the world:
Further, China is not at war with anyone, nor have they been at war in many decades.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
Racism is okay if the target doesn’t like it, got it.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
I dunno, tell me why comparing a Chinese man to a yellow cartoon bear is funny to you.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
You should in fact reread this thread. I referenced Chinese scholars, anticommunist western scholars like Kotkin, and more. The archival evidence of Stalin being unaware of the famine isn’t Stalin making shit up after the fact, it’s a documented instance of the Central Committee being kept in the dark by the Ukrainian Communists and needing to deal with the consequences.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
I did in fact read it.
- Comment on YOU HAVE HURT THE FEE-FEES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE!1!!! 1 week ago:
I want a one state solution where Palestine is free. I want the war in Ukraine to end, with self-determination for the people in Donetsk and Luhansk and an end to the lives lost.
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 1 week ago:
I did read it, it did not disprove the single source it was meant to counter, and moreover it said nothing of the other half dozen I listed.
