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- Comment on What are your thoughts on people who say hate speech is free speech? 5 days ago:
The American model of free speech is anything but. It’s a narrative cover over reality.
The US government has always and will always choose what speech is unacceptable and repress it. They have been doing so for centuries. They have killed so many people for speaking. They have entire departments dedicated to media manipulation and censorship. They have vast financial incentives organized by the government to limit speech. There have been at least 2 open purges of communists and a third purge is burgeoning as we speak.
The American model is not actually that the government should have the power to limit speech but rather that the government will limit violent speech if it goes against the government’s goals and will protect violent speech if it supports the government’s goals. That’s why white supremacist hate speech is protected in the US - no because America is a shining beacon of free speech but because America is shining beacon of white supremacy.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 1 week ago:
It’s not about whether or not you’d be fine with it. It’s an explanation for why bosses want everyone back in the office. Yes, there’s an emotional narcissism to management across the US, but I don’t think that’s enough to explain the RTO phenomenon. It’s more likely driven by the fact that a collapse of commercial real estate value would destroy so much value in the economy that every executive would lose millions, and some would lose billions.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 1 week ago:
Letting those businesses fail means allowing commercial real estate values to bottom out, and that means all the securities that are backed by the value of those assets drop in value. It would be a massive financial destruction event.
- Comment on The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week 2 weeks ago:
It’s commercial real estate value
- Comment on Do you think that the MK Ultra program actually shut down? 2 weeks ago:
The release from Gabbard covers 30 countries. Some of the Ukrainian sites were former Soviet labs. Some were not. All of them, it turns out, were housing deadly and dangerous agents, the extent of which was classified, and some were engaged in gain-of-function research on highly dangerous pathogens with no oversight. That’s what we call a bioweapon skunksworks.
- Comment on Do you think that the MK Ultra program actually shut down? 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’re craving for connecting is interfering with your connecting.
- Comment on Do you think that the MK Ultra program actually shut down? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, absolutely. Gabbard literally just revealed the existence of over 100 bio labs in foreign countries, including Ukraine. There’s literally nothing the US government isn’t doing to try to advance every aspect of their fucked up agenda. Epstein himself was convinced he was breeding better humans and he was literally protected by US intelligence
- Comment on why are all social medias based around western values? 4 weeks ago:
The reason homophobia is rampant in Africa is because of the West. European colonizers were the first to criminalize same-sex relations in Africa. Prior to that, there were small pockets of homophobia and transphobia, but Africa was predominantly genderfluid and sexually fluid, just like everywhere else in the world before Westerners came and fucked it all up.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. All of that money should be returned, plus interest and penalties, and THEN reparations needs to be paid and that’s JUST France. The US stole immense wealth from Haiti and needs to return it, with interest and penalties as well.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
This exactly. Once you start actually engaging with history in earnest, and breaking down the narratives we’ve been fed our whole lives, it becomes impossible to see the world in the same way.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think Haiti is paying reparations to France any more. I believe Citi purchased the debt from France, and Haiti was paying Citi the reparations until 1947.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Also, what the hell would it mean to you for one country to “care about” a continent? You’re basically doing the meme:
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Holy shit? You think this history is whataboutism? The OP said “I don’t have a dog in this fight [because I am from Africa]” and the commenter said “[you should have a dog in the fight because of China’s behavior]”
Hello? Reading comprehension? How does establishing that OP should have a dog in the fight because of Western history in Africa become “whataboutism”?
This is thought termination at its finest
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Are you literally just going to ignore the entire other half of the post asking about why people are anti-western and saying they don’t have a dog in the fight because they are from Africa? Are you that committed to attacking your political opponents that you can’t even see the words that aren’t about your desired debate position?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Anyone who disagrees with my worldview is a tankie
Who’s the tankie? The person saying that China hasn’t bombed anyone in over 35 years or the person saying “I don’t know why they hate the US so much” when the US attacked over 15 countries with tanks, bombs, drones, and missiles over the exact same time period. Might need to check yourself
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
China looks less bad in comparison because it hasn’t dropped a bomb in a conflict since 1989. It hasn’t fired on boat since 1988. The US criminal justice system manages 10x more people than the Chinese criminal justice system with more than double the recidivism of China China doesn’t engage in structural adjustment programs like the IMF does and they forgive billions in loans unlike the West. There are grandparents alive today who were subsistence farming when they were 5 and are now experiencing consumer robotics and self-driving cars. China looks good because of reality, not just because the US is recently doing bad things.
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
I love that you think Africa’s dog in the fight is because China is strategically investing in Africa and chasing mineral and strategic resources when nearly every single African country’s borders were defined by the West, when entire countries were created and colonized by the West, when the US is actively bombing multiple countries in Africa and has been for decades, when the West was literally torturing, raping, kidnapping, murdering, and mass murdering Africans all over the content for centuries, when many African countries are economically subjugated by Western countries to this day by control over currency, predatory loans and structural adjustment programs designed to create dependencies, etc.
Africa’s dog in the fight between the West and Asia comes primarily from the West’s total subjugation of the continent.
- Comment on How do you explain protocol to a 5 year old ? 5 weeks ago:
Start with non-computer protocols. What’s the protocol at a restaurant?
Patron: Open the door and enter. Wait 1. If host currently busy Restaurant (Host): please wait. I will be right with you.
If host currently not present Restaurant (anyone): please wait, the host will be right with you.
If wait 1 times out Patron: excuse me, we’d like a table.
If host available and not busy Restaurant (Host): Hello and welcome. Wait 2 if wait 2 times out Restaurant (Host): how many are in your party?
Patron: Hello. We would like a table <state number of guests>.Or think about parliamentary procedure for bringing a motion to vote and voting on it.
These are protocols. They are all around us.
Computer networking protocols are so named because they are analogous. They define how to exchange information to accomplish a specific task. For IP, it’s a protocol for routing information packets across an unknown number of computers to a destination computer. For TCP, it’s a protocol for how a computer should send information packets and how a computer who is receiving those packets should acknowledge them.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
No, the networking layer connects the backend to the front end.
Think of it like a restaurant. You have back of house and front of house. Back of house is where the food is stored, prepared, and plated. Front of house is where customers enter, make a reservation, sit down, and place their orders. Waitstaff move orders from front of house to back of house and they move plates of food from back of house to front of house.
- Comment on Do you think all billionaires deserve to die? 5 weeks ago:
Billionaire is a role. They don’t deserve to die. The role deserves to be abolished
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Member_states_of_the_Arab_Leag…
22 countries? All of them? Including countries like Libya, UAE, and Saudi Arabia? No. That’s a really big claim and you’re going to have to provide evidence for it. I highly doubt all of them could be convinced to not break rank just because of some trade deals when Europe and the US and UN are deeply invested in pushing the narrative.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
www.cia.gov/…/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf
Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist’s power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team
Source: The C.I.A.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
And is that definition one where absolute power is concentrated in a single individual or a small group of between 3 and 10.
Post martial law, none of these countries were dictatorship by that definition. Not a single one of the people the West calls a dictator had absolute power outside of either the revolutionary war period or the crisis of WW2.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Sorry. I made a typo and have just corrected it. Yes, it looked like you were saying that only MLism called for a DotP.
The idea that implementing a DotP was brutal is a narrative. Brutal compared to what, is the question. Because what all of those revolutions have in common is that the ruling class was already extremely brutal. The DotP reversed the brutality and made it very obvious to people because it wasn’t interested in masking it. But the reality is that all the DotPs saved more people than it killed.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
You were the implying that bad things would happen to the diplomatic observers from the Arab League if they didn’t parrot the required Chinese propaganda.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
So when the CIA said that Stalin wasn’t a dictator but rather a captain of a team, and when the entire constitution of the USSR allowed for recalling of politicians, and when they built very complex voting systems that dwarfed anything the West has ever done? And when Stalin tendered his resignation 3 times and the bureaucracy rejected it three times? And when he died owning almost nothing and as a national hero? And when Kruschev took office despite being deeply opposed to Stalin and leading a faction that opposed Stalin’s faction?
Remember that Kruschev was appointed the same way every prime minister is appointed, by election from all the other ministers in the central committee.
The central committee was in turn elected by delegates who in turn were elected by the people.
So no, the USSR was not always a dictatorship. But more to the point, it was less authoritarian than the USA
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
You have a misunderstanding. Your first comment stated that Marxism-Leninism calls for a DotP. When confronted with Marx’s position, you said that ML and Marxism are not the same, indicating you believe that Marxism does call for a DotP. This is incorrect. Marx coined the term in 1850 when he was writing about the French Revolution.
Yes, Lenin produced the first functioning theory of revolution and found himself in the conditions for revolution to actually occur. And what he found was that the revolution was immediately under siege from the West (even the US invaded) and that the previous power structure was willing to engage in terror campaigns to destroy the revolution. This has been demonstrated to be the way revolutions always go, and in fact is how prior revolutions, like the French and the American revolutions went, and the Haitian revolution if you want a non-white example.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Clearly you think that dictators are whoever the US says is a dictator. Chavez, Maduro, Xi, Putin, Kahmeini, Stalin, Kruschev, and on and on. Never mind that all of these people entered office through competitive politics with multiple possible contenders. Never mind that they all failed to obtain some offices they strove for. Never mind that they operated within full blown bureaucracies with rules of law, regulation, standard procedures, and distributed control over massive swathes of the government. Never mind that these governments have various factions, some have various parties, all with electoral mechanisms both popular and ministerial much like European democracies have.
Fidel Castro immediately after the revolution was a dictator - his dictates were law. Lenin immediately after the revolution was a dictator - his dictates were law. Mao immediately after the revolution was a dictator - his dictates were law. But after the revolution? Outside the periods of martial law, normalcy returned to every single one of these countries with peaceful transitions of power through constitutionally defined mechanisms.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
You clearly have never seen the direct and lengthy criticisms of China produced on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml. We debate over this all the time.
