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Cowbee [he/they]

@ Cowbee @lemmy.ml

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Actually, this town has more than enough room for the two of us

He/him or they/them, doesn't matter too much

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    Fuck Israel ❤️

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  • Then you should realize that resistance to genocide is justified. Hamas isn't targeting children, Israel is.

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  • Sounds like you're the one who does, by caping for Israel.

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  • Israel committing genocide against Palestinians is why Palestine is resisting Israel and its settler-colonialism. Israel has killed orders of magnitude more children than Hamas could ever hope to, even if that was their goal (which it isn't).

  • Do you think centrists are bad?

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  • Oh duh, should've realized!

  • Do you think centrists are bad?

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  • Pretty sure both parties are genocidal imperialists.

  • Do you think centrists are bad?

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  • One party?

  • Do you think centrists are bad?

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  • Centrism, as in what? The center of the Statesian political parties? Then yes, considering both parties are right-wing. The center of two arbitrary points? Depends on the points. "Centrism" is inherently an irrational way to describe political views, being in the center of two points adds no value. If someone says we should kill everyone with glasses, and someone else says we shouldn't, we shouldn't kill half of the people with glasses. What centrism does in practice is give people cover to obfuscate their actual views, it isn't a position by itself.

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  • Russia has no colonies nor neocolonies, and doesn't run their economy based on export of capital and plundering the surplus value of the global south, like the US and EU do.

    Imperialism is characterized by the following:

    -The presence of monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.

    -The merging of bank capital with industrial capital into finance capital controlled by a financial oligarchy.

    -The export of capital as distinguished from the simple export of commodities.

    -The formation of international monopolist capitalist associations (cartels) and multinational corporations.

    -The domination and exploitation of other countries by militaristic imperialist powers, now through neocolonialism.

    -The territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers.

    The global north, the US and Europe included, uses this export of capital to super-exploit foreign labor for super-profits. It also engages in unequal exchange, where the global south is prevented from moving up the value chain in production, allowing the global north to charge monopoly prices for commodities produced in the same labor hours. Russia does not do this, it has a paltry sum of the world's finance capital, and this is proven by just how low their nominal GDP is compared to their GDP adjusted to PPP.

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  • That certainly sounds like Europe, Australia, and Ukraine.

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  • Supporting the liberation of Donetsk and Luhansk from the Banderite government they have been trying to secede from for a decade is a good thing, and that's why the CPRF supports the Russian nationalists in the war. Had the west not supported a far-right coup back in 2014, it's likely the war never would have happened.

  • I'm ready to study theory now

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  • No problem!

  • Its not looking good..

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  • Yea lol. And thanks so much! That's very kind of you to say. And I do definitely have my off-days, haha.

  • Its not looking good..

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  • INCREDIBLE

  • Instant turn off

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  • Honestly, I think it's just radicalized liberals that hate the status quo, but refuse to read theory or consider a non-western viewpoint, leading to endless rage towards leftists and making bed with fascists.

  • Fascism is a consequence of capitalist decay

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  • Were you browsing by subscribed, or by all?

  • Fascism is a consequence of capitalist decay

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  • I don't block anyone, but accept your apology nonetheless. I still don't think you need to announce your departure though.

  • 'The Chinese government bans all new investment in Israel'

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  • Correct.

  • Fascism is a consequence of capitalist decay

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  • What reddit behavior.

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    What's going on with the lemmy world and ML infighting

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  • In my experience, the ones that get truly censored are the ones that either are insistent on repeating outright misinformation, or genuinely break the rules via ableism, racism, homophobia, etc. I speak with plenty of people that disagree with me on Lemmy.ml, and they usually only get temp-banned if they do one of those things. Permabanning is more for repeat offenses.

    As for it being MLs vs. the world, that really isn't my experience either. I organize in real life with people that don't align with me 100% all the time, and when I'm on Hexbear I obviously get along with Maoists, anarchists, etc. as well. The source of major beef between lemmy.world specifically and Lemmy.ml specifically is as I said, western progressive liberal vs. Marxists, or even more generally liberal vs. leftist.

    If there's something you're interested in discussing, I'm fine to do so, but I don't normally like engaging in spaces that defederate from Hex and Grad, ie apply a blanket firewall against the majority of Marxists on Lemmy. Discussion in non-Marxist spaces, where the majority of commenters are insulated from Marxists, usually results in the kind of slapfighting you see all over this thread over real conversation.

    In spaces that actually allow strong Marxist participation, discussion around Marxism is more intricate, such as this conversation about the subject of "Dengism" I had with someone more critical of China over on Lemmygrad. This is just one example, but it isn't just a one-sided censorship campaign. I have been permabanned from Political Memes for pointing out the DNC's participation in the Palestinian genocide, and from every comm PugJesus moderates because they lost an argument in an unrelated comm. I'm banned from Memes of Production for "voting while tankie," because Deceptichum defended Hungarian Nazis for opposing the soviets. It's tiring.

    All in all, I mean this to say that discussion goes both ways, and it isn't simply because Lemmy.ml unilaterally censors.