MnemonicBump
@MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on there's a Costco at the other end 20 hours ago:
They’re real
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Really? Because even before Trump, things were sliding into authoritarianism around here pretty quick. Maybe pre-9/11 USA? But honestly, that was our biggest period of economic exploitation of developing countries. As long as I’ve been alive, I cannot think of a single time my home country has been a good guy on the international stage.
- Comment on "you should come to…" 🤚you're obviously already in hell 1 week ago:
Pretty sure that’s Mads Milkelson
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Thank you
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You can’t even answer that you were right about? I’m sorry, I just feel sorry for you. So sorry
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Right about what, exactly? Again it’s like you’re having a conversation with yourself.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Also a fascist police state
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
So you’re a deeply unserious person, then, and this has been a waste of time? That checks out
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Again, it’s like you’re having a conversation with yourself. You reduce your self to ad hominem and don’t actually reply to anything that I’ve said. That’s why I said it seems like you’re embarrassed
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You’re embarrassed, aren’t you?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I did not. If that is what you took out of it, then that’s one you. I was specifically referring to the number of people who participated, and you challenged the “hundreds of thousands” part ( I suspect because you couldn’t t challenge anything else of a actual substance?)
I literally said > you don’t seriously believe that the CIA was able to convince hundreds of thousands of Hungarian citizens as well as virtually every socialist party in Hungary to fight against their own better interests, do you?
Which is apparently the part that you’re hung up on
That is separate from when I said > And even if true, how does that in any way take away from the thousands of Hungarian civilians killed or maimed?
Which, I suppose could imply some victimhood if you literally didn’t know what an uprising was, but that wasn’t the part about “hundreds of thousands”, so I’m assuming you were talking about the first part, which again, doesn’t contain any “words or phrases synonymous with the word victim” so I’m just confused, I guess, as to exactly where you got that from if it wasn’t from the conversation you’re having with yourself.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I never said anything about “victims”. If that’s was your assumption, that’s on you. I said there were hundreds of thousands of people who participated in the uprising. Whatever assumptions you’re making are based on a conversation you are having with yourself
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
“Crumble” is a an interesting way to describe an ongoing and active revolutionary project
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You do what Rojavans did when they had a fascist uprising like the Islamic State, I suppose.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 week ago:
I’m not trying to be an asshole, my evidence is anecdotal, but widely approved but other people in the front-end customer service business. It’s not a value judgement. Assholes are just in a state of… becoming? Most of them are just ignorant. But it takes one to know one, I guess?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
At least 200,000 people were exiles as a direct result, so yes, hundreds of thousands participated
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I’m not saying historically things weren’t better in some regards (the USSR is the only country I know of to jump from feudal to industrial in a single generation, and that’s huge), I’m saying that right now things would only be mildly better.
Realistically, if the US somehow had a socialist revolution tomorrow, and going to be siding with whoever wants to further the revolutionary project.
But that’s to say nothing about the many many proletarian anarchists in the Ukranian Free Territory, that certainly did not join with the Marxists after the revolution
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
The CIA had interests in seeing the weakening of the USSR, obviously, but you don’t seriously believe that the CIA was able to convince hundreds of thousands of Hungarian citizens as well as virtually every socialist party in Hungary to fight against their own better interests, do you? And even if true, how does that in any way take away from the thousands of Hungarian civilians killed or maimed?
And that doesn’t remotely touch on the Prague Spring
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Here’s my take: I would rather live in an authoritarian communist state than and authoritarian capitalist, or fascist one. But I would strongly prefer that I have no masters ruling me against my will, willing to use the full violent force of the state to repress me the second that the power structure feels challenged, no matter what form it takes. A communist state would just be mildly better than what we’ve already got. Which is why I advocate for a strictly anti-statist approach to socialism
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
But they’re just… Not only anti-western. They are specifically pro-authoritarian and label anyone who criticizes that point of view as a “liberal” (even if that label makes no sense except in their own personal special definition). And then in other posts, the very same people call for the eventual violent removal of liberals. It doesn’t take a genius to see one thing is connected to the other.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I do, but “the UK” didn’t come up with that. Leftist living in the UK did. So that’s kind of irrelevant
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
I guess we just disagree on what we consider to be oppressive. The term “tankie” was invented by UK leftists to criticize other leftists for their support of the USSR’s use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution and later in the Prague Spring as well. Therefore, any communists that defend the use of oppressive tactics are tankies, it’s really not that hard, and it’s not anti-leftist.
I don’t know what to say about how you haven’t seen it yourself, since it’s prevalent in essentially every online leftist space. Maybe you choose not to see what you don’t want to?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Who are “they” that changed the words? Because “tankie” didn’t come from a Western Imperialist state, and it is not remotely the “new commie”. I’m proud to call myself a communist, but I would never call myself a tankie, because I don’t believe in authoritarianism, no matter who is in charge.
You seem like a good person with their priorities straight, I don’t believe you deserve to have a master
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 week ago:
I doubt anybody clawed themselves to anything. People rarely are able to change their class just by working hard. It almost always takes a generational wealth transfer of some sort
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 week ago:
I still had a point. People just don’t like being called out
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 week ago:
It’s the way you view the world when you grew up dirt poor, and continue to be dirt poor despite doing everything that you were “supposed” to do to have a comfortable life and realize that you will never own a home or retire (literally the only things I’ve ever wanted since childhood) because you’re in that perfect sweet spot where your COL will always outpace you wage increases, even if you switch to a better job every 2-3 years. Am I bitter? Yes. But I’m not going to pretend that people that make upper six figures, own multiple cars and homes are in the same class as I am just to make myself feel better.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 1 week ago:
The middle class is a myth in the United States. Has been for a long time. The rest of the western world is not where I live, so I don’t really care about how they live.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 2 weeks ago:
Affordable to whom? People who have high enough paying jobs to actually save and are also able to take time off from work? That’s “plenty” of people, sure. But they’re all assholes. At least here in the U.S.
- Comment on It's about the *option* 2 weeks ago:
I’m not trolling. Rich people just piss me off. Everybody else is doing things “very inexpensively” and and still not affording those trips.