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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • As the US deliberately starves the Cuban people, solidarity activists launch campaign to send flour

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  • Please cite me where I state that I support this policy?

    I hate when people try to be slick, and it's even more annoying when they suck at it:

    Well it's a one party dictatorship, and . . . the responsibility lies on the Cuban leadership.

    All this ignoring that you are misrepresenting both Cuba and the effect of the sanctions.

  • White House Agrees To Ban Pride Flags At US Embassies In Spending Bill Deal

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  • It really makes you feel like harm is being reduced

  • Appreciation post for db0 admins in light of .world blocking /c/ piracy and similar /c/'s .

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  • Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China

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  • Were the trade unionists the ones immolating unarmed soldiers and stringing up their corpses?

  • What's Wrong with Grover Furr?

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  • I appreciate the bump and the very salient fur intel

  • What's Wrong with Grover Furr?

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  • The Great Purge is something that takes a year off of my life every time I read more about it because it's such a fucking rabbit hole. Yagoda, probably the second most "prolific" killer among heads of the NKVD after Yezhov, was uncontestably a member of the opposition bloc. What does that mean for the charges of "wrecking" while he was head? How many people died because of deliberate sabotage? What about Yezhov, who received similar charges? The information on the Yezhov case, for example, is to this day not fully public and there remain ambiguities (e.g. was he actually tortured?).

    I don't know, but it makes information difficult to sort through because suddenly you can't do the liberal historian thing of dismissing Soviet claims out of hand and making up your own account.

    I feel myself having an existential crisis every time I talk about this because I sound like a 9/11 truther but, like with 9/11, there's a lot of shit going on here . . .

  • Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China

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  • see Tienamin Square

    I'm looking it up, and I don't see any "Tienanmin Square". Could it be "Tiananmen Square" that you're thinking of? The one protesting government corruption? Where unarmed soldiers were burned alive? Where Christian sickos were trying to get students in the line of fire to create atrocity propaganda? Surely there must be some confusion here!

  • Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China

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  • I can't quite tell if this is a parody, the trade union bit makes it seem sincere, but the self-importance to think that lemmy is too left for China to allow is just amazing.

  • Germany Looks to Stop the Far Right From Assuming Power

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  • VOTE THEM OUT

    Can I persuade you to actually read Luxemburg, instead of just embodying the West German co-opting of her? Specifically, I'm thinking of Sozialreform oder Revolution?

  • Germany Looks to Stop the Far Right From Assuming Power

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  • I don't think it's especially productive to kill people when imprisoning them is easy, as it would be with the resources in America, but I don't see why you are clutching your pearls this hard at a butcher of countless thousands being killed.

  • Ukraine war: G7 threatens sanctions if Iran sends Russia ballistic missiles

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  • Neoliberals yet again refusing to consider someone could disagree with them and still be sane, instead resorting to calling all opposition crazy or paid actors.

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  • And everyone shouldn't have to hold up the conversation to preemptively explain what the word means to those who don't already know

    Well, if you know that the person doesn't know, giving definitions can be a helpful way of setting up your argument, but obviously these lemmitor assholes are just wasting your time.

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  • You could use "corporatism" which has kind of taken over that definition in common language

    No one says "corporatism" in the real world. The better suggestion for an "alternative" is to just say "capitalism", because that's accurate enough.

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  • Dictionaries do not exhaustively discuss topics and the scope of meanings of terms, they give you a colloquially-oriented summary of what they mean to help you, for example, parse a conversation that uses the word in passing.

    John Locke being a liberal isn't an "alternative fact", you're just a troglodyte.

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  • Take it up with oxford

    My point is that you are misusing the dictionary as a replacement for actually knowing about a subject. People still call John Locke a liberal, and they do it because fields have definitions that aren't colloquial.

    This discussion is about the current meaning of Liberalism in today's political context.

    Look anywhere outside of America and it readily refers to sniveling market-fetishists. In America it only implicitly does because everyone is a market fetishist.

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  • Is it though?

    Yes, it is responsible for those things, like when we say smoking is associated with higher risk of lung cancer.

    In the common consciousness?

    Moving the goalposts. Good job observing that liberal propaganda takes credit for good things and not for bad things.

    Though outside of America, you get a much more accurate view of the term because liberal means "sniveling, centrist, market-fetishist" in most other countries.

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  • If one is trying to define liberalism against feudalism, that definition is fine, but it's just redditor sophomorism to act like a dictionary is a replacement for an actual historical or academic definition of a political tendency.

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  • Democracy is (in part) when you tell the fascists to eat shit, yes.

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  • It's basically just "classical liberalism and neoliberalism", and whether politically illiterate Americans use that word that way doesn't matter very much from an analytical standpoint, because in political science, history, philosophy, and even just popular discourse in most other countries, the term "liberal" mainly has that meaning.