Lehmuusa
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- Comment on Sex Education 5 days ago:
Just came by to say that these two fit together very beautifully!
- 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:
Yes, and that’s precisely the reason many instances have defederated from lemmy.ml.
- 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:
What would an intelligent person, by your estimation, take fault with in Marx?
The dictatorship of the proletariat was a horribly bad idea. It’s a dictatorship. And brings the consequences of a dictatorship with it. I would dare to blame Lenin and also Marx for that crap.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
When you figure out a better way to do that, get back to me.
Here goes:
ImageA similar jump from around 1949 to 1980. In China it seems to have begun around 1930, with WWII causing a dent. In Finland the same had begun around 1880’s. But the development between 1949 and 1980 is very similar, only: without concentration camps! (…since 1918.)
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
why you elected to make a statement that seemed to limit itself to a binary of fascist/"tankies”.
Because that is the subject we are talking about. We are talking about to what extent tankies are similar to fascists.
Also, I do not think temporarily holding a percent of an ethnicity in an internment camp is enough to call something a genocide.
Temporarily, not. But anything that forces people to have to lose their national or thnic identity is genocide. We are not talking about any temporary internment camps here. (I’m not sure if temporary internment camps based on ethnicity have ever even existed…)
to provide relevant comparison of similar examples that were not fascist nor “tankies”.
If they do not support using a country’s military against its own population nor are fascists, how are they relevant to this discussion that is intentionally limited to those two groups?
First of all…..how is the US not a democratic country?
Uh… Read the news maybe? WTF kind of question is this? How is it a democratic country?
Just off the top of my head Canada has a brutal history of suppressing their native inhabitants that endures to the modern age. Both france and the UK also had interment camps during ww2.
No idea of what’s been going on in Canada. POW camps don’t really count. Nor any camps where the goal is not the removal of an ethnicity or nationality from from a region. The question about Israel’s democracy is an interesting one that I need to ponded more!
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Precisely the colonies that were gradually colonized in the 16th to 20th century.
Just like French and British colonies are still colonies even if they were colonized centuries ago, Russian colonies are still colonies even if they were colonized centuries ago.
The eastern parts of the Russia only really ended up under Russian rule after the Transsiberian railway was built.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Some knew some English, partially I used the rudimentary Turkish I know, partially I used a Mandarin to English translator tool. Mostly I ended up being hosted by people who knew some English.
It ended up being a mix of Turkish, Chinese and English in the end.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
I believe at the point they have already become tankies, no good goal exists anymore. They only seem to work to defend what they have already achieved. And that is oppression.
I’m not sure socialism or communism can ever be made to work, but at least Marx and Lenin made it much more difficult to ever get there by demandinfmg we do the opposite of the goals of communism in order to get communism. People who are okay with cleansings and repression will cleanse and repress.
You don’t really go through the chore of reading Capital without really wanting to change the society for better. And because Marx, the death of communism, preferred violence and is convincing with his way of argumentation (at least if you’re a bit stupid), those who read the book until the end, end up forfeiting all good goals and will go for repression.
Tankies are people who used to want good things and fairness. And then they converted from that into tankies.
A strong leader will always lead you into a Russia. Into a quagmire.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Do you think the current colonies of the Russia somehow appeared out of thin air? All of the Russia’s current territory has been Soviet territory in the past. All of the Russia’s colonies were of course also Soviet colonies.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Listen, FUCK the IAEA you could see those Iraqi chemical weapons factories with your bare eyes
Hehe, and how many were actually found after Iraq had been succesfully invaded? Correct.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I did not mean to imply that.
But yeah, I would imagine that their countries were pressured into this by some kind of a trade deal. Just like a Christian country can help undermine another Christian country for personal profit, a Muslim country can help undermine another Muslim country for personal profit.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
You could also compare it to things “democratic” countries have done. America for one has had decades of segregation based on ethnicity and has had concentration camps for ethnic minorities, not to mention a genocide against indigenous peoples.
Yes, you can. Generally, any country where an ideology goes over individuals’ well-being tends to do this shit. China does, USA does as well. Not terribly surprising.
1/6 on camps is a LOT. It does fulfill the definition of genocide.
What makes you think that USA is relevant here? I am not from USA. USA is not a part of China, nor the other way around.
This is not my attempt of a whataboutism, just trying to illiustrate that unjustifiable national policy is not unique to socialist or democratic capitalist governments.
Show me a democratic country where this happens. You’re giving me China and USA. And there’s also the Russia. But is there actually a democratic country where people are handled they way countries such as USA and China do?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s anything that can only be achieved by that.
But generally in China the CCP is who decides about everything that happens in the country. Being religious is one of the things that are against the official template of how a person should be. Any religion is a problem, but a nation as religious as Uyghurs is considered a problem.
And of course: Just look at the clocks. Any clock in the Uyghur areas is showing the local time, not Beijing time. Only clocks at railway stations, police stations and such show the Beijing time. The people there are far too independent for Beijing’s liking. Or yours.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
US is a shithole country. I wouldn’t go there if they paid me to. I do not care of what US is or is not. For your US-centric, well, you: USA and China are two wholly separate countries. US doing something does not mean that China is automatically good/bad as a result of whatever dumb thing the US government decides to do.
And “we” did not justify invading Iraq and Afghanistan. The rally against the war in Iraq was probably the largest rally there has ever been in Finland, for crying out loud!
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Please link some reference to this.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
Well, your source is shit.
And so is the video linked. You can also use your own logic to notice its fallacies. You don’t get just anyone invited to a soccer match. It’s an important situation for propaganda, so you only allow people there who know what truth to say if anyone asks. And what kind of face to show. Ones that know what will happen to them and their relatives if they fall off the line.
I don’t know why you believe the “dude trust me” guy on the video. Nor why I should trust you, dude.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
I did watch the first three minutes. Everything he shows is true, everything he explains as interpretation is just full of shit.
“Why?"
Well, for the same reason Soviet Union was doing the same to its colonies. Or why France was doing the same to its.Blargh, the guy’s eaten the hook with bait and floater.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
My experiences with Uyghurs differ from yours. I was backpacking in Kazakstan and China and the repression was easy to notice with bare eyes. The Uyghurs wouldn’t be that scared of a 7-year-old Han-girl if there was no repression.
How was your visit to East Türkestan?
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 2 weeks ago:
I completely agree.
And now, when writing this… Argh. Uyghurs. You absolutely cannot compare it to what Nazis did, but if you compare it to what other fascist countries died then yes, that’s quite some consequence.
I still would not write an equal sign between fascists and tankies, though.
In the end, tankie is a type of a socialist, and one becomes socialist through a will to do good. Being a tankie is some EXTREMELY fucking ill-advised way to do good, because the result is indeed very very bad. But you don’t really become a fascist in order to do good. You become a fascist because you think you are worth more than others.
I think being a tankie is about the goal being more important than the means – all the way to an extent where the means completely obliterate the goal. And being a fascist is about deciding that being limitlessly selfish is okay. One is at least trying to have a good goal. The other one is just… “Everything for ME and MY TRIBE, all others should DIE!” But in the end, what’s being done to Uyghurs is just horror. Being thrown into a concentration camp and being subjected to various inhumane experiments is already on a very high level of evil to have to experience.
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 2 weeks ago:
We are in a community called “no stupid questions”. Your “fuck you for giving someone useful information” is not in the right place in this community. Please copypaste your comment to something under .ml and then remove it from here. Thanks!
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 2 weeks ago:
What’s the thing on the upper right corner of the key with number 3? Could it be the apostrophe? Try AltGr+3 and see what happens. Or maybe it’s Meta+3? Meta is the key between left Ctrl and left Alt. You can also try AltGr+Shift+3.
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 2 weeks ago:
Where does it not?!
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 2 weeks ago:
And then you don’t have dead keys.
You press `, then you press e. You get è without needing a specific key for that. The standard Finnish keyboard can do at least the following: ãẽĩõũṏñṽēūȳīōāḡȫǟǖŵêŷûîôâŝĝĥĵẑĉẇėṙṫẏıȯṗȧṡḋḟġḣȷŀżẋċḃṅṁẉẹṛṭỵụịọạṣḍ̣ḥḳḷẓ̣ṿḅṇṃțșȩŗţşḑģḩķļçņẃéŕýúíóṕáśǵj́ḱĺźćǘńḿẁèỳùìòàǜǹm̀ěřťǔǐǒǎšďǧȟǰǩľžčǚň
If I disable deadkeys, I lose all those characters. Many people on this planet have names that require those, and it’s a bit stupid not having them. Pressing space every now and then is not that much of work :)
Oh, and indeed: On the Finnish keyboard ~ is a deadkey. You get it by pressing the “^~ key together with AltGr, then pressing Space.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
Huh? At least if hate speech is clearly and strictly defined in the law, this is the same as asking “Should owning a weapon without any controls be a civil right? I know it already is but should it be?”
In most countries hate speech is illegal. Anything else would be outright moronic.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s true. Although, not by much. I remember that in 1990’s there was still plenty of distrust towards them, as they were seen as nazis. Nobody wanted Germany to become strong. The 1990’s began 45 yeqrsnafter WWII had ended, and while the trust had been almost recovered, it was still not intact. I’m not sure if it’s even now: Germany is the biggest reason we didn’t support Ukraine militarily as much as needed back in spring 2022. They wanted cheap gas and were ready to accept horrors in the name of political realism. It’s hard at least for me to not see a connection between that cynicism and what the same cynicism led to in 1920’s and 1930’s.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s absolutely correct, I agree!
But, it won’t return our trust towards USA. That will take decades, no matter what. Dethroning Trump is a good beginning. Or beginning of a beginning. But actual permanent changes would need to take place, amd I don’t really see them 8n the horizon.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, thanks for the heads-up! I edited the comment now. And know to be careful with this in the future!
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
There are legislative bodies that exist precisely for changing such laws. Make an exceptional law that is valid for only this one time use and then hire new judges, some of which are allowed to be among the ones fired.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
So, basically one NATO member is saying that it will not honour its commitments if Spain ever gets attacked?
And maybe this means that all official documents will have to be delivered to the Spanish by some other NATO member state?
A suspension that suspenses nothing. Hooray.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
That would decrease my trust. It would look like they are doing nothing to learn from their FAFO.
