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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - Schrödinger's Nuclear Program - COTW: Iran

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  • What? This was an American vessel (registered in Florida) attacking what is essentially the Cuban coast guard. While it may have something to do with drugs or human trafficking, it could also be a botched US provocation op. What I don't see is what this has to do with people leaving Cuba.

    Also that 25%, even as the high end of a potential range, is absurd. A quarter of the population of Cuba (~3 million) gone? Cuba's population is dropping, including but not solely due to immigration, with a 10% drop since 2020 being a reasonable estimate. 25% over the last 3 or 4 is not.

  • Tankie and PROUD, come @ me lemmy liberals

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  • I don’t pretend to know everything about Leftist theory, but it doesn’t seem complicated.

    Well at least you can admit that much. But that admission, while surprising to no one here, essentially invalidates the rest of your following comment, not to mention most of the others you've posted in this thread. You don't have to know "everything" but you do have to know something about the topic you're trying to speak on, which you've made clear you don't. You don't seem to know anything about leftist theory, and saying "it doesn't seem complicated" reveals that is in fact the case. It's like saying "I don't know everything about biology, but it doesn't seem complicated." It's just a vapid statement on its face.

    There is a certain well known phrase that you should consider taking to heart: "No investigation - no right to speak." In other words, if you haven't bothered to take the initiative and time to learn about the topic you're trying to expound on, don't try to expound on it. All you will do is reveal your ignorance and make people who HAVE taken the time and done the work to educate themselves roll their eyes at you in frustration, which is exactly what has happened here. Go read some books (at the very least) and then come back. You call yourself an anarchist but you don't even know what actual anarchist thinkers and theorists have accomplished, discovered, argued for, etc beyond slogans apparently. If you want to have even the tiniest hope of developing a credible, realistic, non-batshit political framework for yourself, let alone one you advocate that other people should adhere to, you are going to have to learn about the others that already exist, particularly those with centuries of hard work built upon by many individuals not just through their own education and intellectual rigor, but also through literal application in the real world. At the absolute very fucking bare minimum least you need to "lurk more."

  • Tankie and PROUD, come @ me lemmy liberals

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  • Did I hit a nerve ?

    Ah, "hit a nerve," the age-old adage of the smuglord redditor child. No, you merely took a shit on the floor, and just because the adults in the room were disgusted by the stench, that doesn't mean you were onto something.

  • Protestation

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  • It depends on how much of your surplus labor your employer is stealing. It varies by many factors, not the least of which what kind of work you do, and very importantly, where you are in the world in relation to the imperial core, but in many cases, yes it is absolutely that much more, potentially even worse. But the graph isn't meant to be read as an absolute metric, it can't be since the size of each circle will vary so much depending on an individual's circumstances. Rather the image is meant as a generalization to express some economic facts, basic Marxist principles that too few people understand.

  • Exclusive Resort 🏨

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  • Yep, I think you found it.

  • Exclusive Resort 🏨

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  • Was this supposed to be a response to a different post or does this meme have a more direct connection to Obama and Biden than I am able to see?

  • Solarpunk

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  • Is the existence of absolute power itself not a restrictionI just don’t see how dialectical materialism is consistent with unchallenged and unjustified power.

    Well there's your problem. Did you even read the rest of what Cowbee said in this thread, explaining much of how governance in China actually works? You come here basing your questions around this false assumption of "the existence of absolute power," when no one in China has absolute power, rather power is vastly more evenly distributed there than in liberal "democracies."

    The fact that there is a single party is not (as western propaganda would have you believe) evidence of "dictatorship," but instead functions as a bulwark preventing reaction and the destruction of the revolution by capital - something I would hope you would be able to recognize even with a very basic understanding of dialectics. There is no reason the will of the people can't be enacted via a single party that exists to ensure it is their will and not that of capital that rules, indeed it makes more sense to have a single party when the rule of the people is the goal.

    Consider how the approval rating for their government across the population of China, well over a billion people, is above 90%! And now consider the U.S. with it's "two party" system, where both parties represent the interests only of the political donor class (capital) and the government is largely despised by the population. The power there is concentrated in a small number of ultrawealthy bourgeoisie and it is continuously getting worse, more and more concentrated, while the people of the US are losing more and more of their so-called rights every day.

    Yet you frame your questions under this base (and false) assumption of "unchallenged and unjustified power" in China without even considering how power is constantly challenged there (see Cowbee's explanation further up of the many direct elections in China) and through that challenge, its justification is consistently being reestablished.

  • Solarpunk

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  • Since people here seem to disagree

    Since people here have seen all this sinophobic propaganda countless times already and thoroughly debunked it all, you're going to go ahead and confidently spew tired, gullible U.S. State Department talking points and lies to be debunked yet again for the umpteenth time because you're either painfully naive and depressingly uneducated or you have an explicit pro-U.S. anti-China agenda you're desperately trying to spread.

    Yeah, we know, dronie.

  • SLavA uKrAiNI

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  • Xi Jinping does not "look like" Winnie the Pooh at all. It's not some universal truth you are only making an innocent observation of. The entire reason the connection exists is because of a racist meme depicting Xi as Pooh and Obama as Tigger. I'm going to trust I don't have to explain the racism of the Obama depiction, but only for the sake of brevity not actual confidence in your understanding.

    But as for Xi, there really is no resemblance beyond the extremely racist stereotype of Asian people being "yellow" which is itself only a thing in racist circles because white supremacists had to make up a color scheme to categorize and otherize ethnicities that were not part of the in-group, despite the fact that many Asian people are "whiter" in actual skin tone than that of countless pinkish hogs and dead salmon gammons, Asian people and all the people "of the Orient" (more racism) are yellow according to the pathologically racial-category-obsessed white supremacist.

    But before I get too tangential, I'm explaining all this to show you how thoroughly you've absorbed that background racism with shit like "it's not my fault he looks like Pooh!" Yes, yes it is your fault you are choosing not to examine your internalized racism and fall back on a racist trope as some simple matter of fact when it's clearly not.

    And speaking of things taken as simple matter of fact that are bullshit, the whole "banning of Winnie the Pooh in China" is just more Sinophobic lies easily proven as such, with things like this. Oh shit, what is a whole Winnie the Pooh themed ride doing at a Shanghai theme park?! Call the See See Pee immediately and report this heinous crime against censorship so their social credit score turns negative!

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    American Imperialism

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  • lol who is downvoting this? Is it just because it's not funny since it's a 1:1 representation of reality, so not really anything satirical?

    Evergreen:https://leftypol.org/edu/src/1662026001627.webm

    The excuses that libs will insist on making for loudly openly self-procliamed nazis will never cease to... disappoint me.

  • -1 Fedi Social Credit

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  • the real primary goal of the project is to coopt and destroy the only corner of the internet where communists have any sense of sovereignty.

    If more lemmy users, mods, and of course the devs are made aware that this is the piefed goal using the strategy you just described (and I very much agree with you that it is), is there anything in particular that can be done to try to counter it? Other than spread awareness, of course.

  • Something to help lead people to the Fediverse

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  • Yeah, FWIW, having a viable non-chud alternative to reddit 6 or so years ago was nothing short of a godsend. And that it was made by actual comrades was just icing on the community cake. Though clearly the libs will never be able to forgive you for making the best federated social media platform while being principled and ideologically consistent in ways they never can be.

    So I figure what better place than yet another thread soiled by a tantrum-throwing toddler screeching about how mean the tankies are who made the platform he's screeching and sobbing on, to sincerely thank you & Dessalines for what you've made and for the work you do.

  • This sucks. Free him.

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  • Proper organization is absolutely necessary and we will never achieve meaningful and lasting results without it. However that doesn't mean that individual acts are therefore inherently wrong or that they are ineffective. Don't confuse insufficiency with futility.

    I realize you acknowledged in another comment that individual action is not inherently wrong but the constant fingerwagging and pooh-poohing at people who have made significant impact via individual action implies that it is. As LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins alluded to, a multiplicity of individual actions, even if not tied to one specific organization, very much can and will effect long term positive change even if it will ultimately never be enough on its own to "win the war." Organizational efforts and individual acts of resistance can (and often do) exist in tandem, with the latter playing a supportive role for the former. That's still true even if the individual's energy would ultimately be better off channeled directly into the organization, again that doesn't mean it doesn't help or that is serves no purpose whatsoever, which is just bad analysis.

  • Time to militarize and rule by nuclear terror

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  • This is unironically the big moral dilemma presented by so much western entertainment media it's nauseating. "Would you pRoTeCt yOuR FaMiLy even if it meant the world/everyone else would die?" and the correct moral position, after much soul searching and garment rending is usually presented as: "Yes, fuck the world, you gotta protect you and your own above literally ALL else." And it's always so contrived, with such manufactured scenarios to ignore the fact that in the vast majority of both real and imagined cases, the better option for the world is also going to be the better option for your family. But constantly pitting the individual and their immediate family's interests over the well being of the community and society is fundamentally necessary to maintain the capitalist mode, so they gotta keep reinforcing that false dichotomy as some kind of universal conundrum that is best answered by being as self centered as possible "for your family."

  • Don't vote for BlueMAGA this fall

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  • Or maybe try telling it to all the people of color shot by cops from 2020-2024, or the kids in cages that never went away when a Democrat was elected president but just silently forgotten about and suddenly ignored by the same media that had been using them for cheap political points during election season, or the thousands of people in NOT brand-new concentration camps but the ones that have existed the whole fucking time. Or are you saying that none of that shit mattered then since your blue team was in the big boy chair, but only matters now that a cheeto is office and it was a white person that got executed by the bipartisan fascists this time? Despicable.

  • Don't vote for BlueMAGA this fall

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  • That’s just not voting but with extra steps.

    So voting for who or what we actually want is the same as just not voting. Got it. We HAVE to vote for fascists we're opposed to or our vote is meaningless.

    Sounds like a pretty fucking airtight argument for not voting then, dipshit.

  • bourgeois-enforced social reproduction of proletarian anti-intellectualism lowkey got me feeling hopeless

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  • This isn't about hexbear "getting through" to people. Hexbear is a small niche community on the internet where some leftists who know about it like to come to hang out, commiserate, shitpost, and argue (usually but not always in a friendly way) with each other. I'm not OP but she's obviously talking about a much deeper endemic problem in western culture of anti-intellectualism and is not saying "nobody wants to learn the terminology of Dialectical Materialism" the way you seem to have taken it. Just because the users here tend to be educated enough to understand what bourgeois-enforced social reproduction is, that doesn't mean anyone here is expecting the average person on the street to nod in agreement when hearing it phrased that way.

    I think you are capable of explaining your point with words and terms commonly understood by the laymen

    Yes, I think almost if not everyone here is easily capable of doing that and many frequently do. God forbid we use Marxist jargon while discussing it amongst ourselves on our own communist community site.

    Thanks for your concern trolling though, and missing the point while proving it.

  • Don't vote for BlueMAGA this fall

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  • The original version of this meme was problematic but my god this version of it is spot on accurate. And it still would be accurate for countless other things that could be put in the Biden/Trump speech bubble. Despite what Democrats pretend, and how they like to (ineffectively) play the role of opposition to Trump, they are fine with 90% of what he does, he just does it without any deference to the liberal theatrics of "law," with too much bombast instead of fake personal difficulty making "hard choices," and because he's not on team Blue. Granted, there are a few significant things I think it's safe to say would not have happened under a Democrat president, but vanishingly few of those are things they wouldn't have wanted to do.

  • "The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws" -Marcus Tullius Cicero

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  • In principle, I agree with you. But the problem is, these assholes already have the platform. They own it, in the literal sense (they outright own or hold large shares in the major social media platforms and the traditional media outlets) and in the more general, vague sense (their beliefs, even if fringe, will get pushed into mainstream discourse because of their grotesquely outsized disproportionate influence). He's a billionaire. If he wants his message heard by the world, it will be heard, period, because we live in a capitalist society, which isn't called a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie for nothing.

    Given this reality that their ideas will be disseminated regardless, it becomes important to counter them. To shout out the truth that their ideas are disgusting and how they do great harm to regular people and to the world. It is important to mock them and show others how ridiculous and heinous their ideas are.

    In short:If an evil voice has no platform or is struggling to grow one, then I absolutely agree - do not give it to them. But when they already have it, it can only make things worse if their opposition (we, ourselves) remain silent about the harm they're already doing.

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