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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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  • No, I don't think lying is useful. I only tell what I believe to be the truth. What I'm saying is that you can show people undeniable evidence contrary to their beliefs, and they still reject it if they aren't open to learning. Flat Earthers are a good example. If you show Flat Earthers evidence of round Earth, they deny it and call it fabricated, false, etc. The idea that ideas propogate based on truth and evidence is a nice fantasy, but instead people license themselves to believe what fits their worldview. That's how disinformation works.

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  • No? I'm a communist, and I support communism. Worship has nothing to do with it. Can you explain what you mean by that?

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  • Much of latin and south America are predominantly indigenous, whereas the USA and Canada in particular wiped out the vast majority of the indigenous populations. Mexicans, for example, are largely a mix of Spanish and indigenous, ie mestizo, with around 20% identifying as indigenous. This is in stark contrast to the US and Canada.

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  • I am trying to be objective, but I'm also a Marxist-Leninist. I'm biased, as everyone is.

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  • MeanwhileOnGrad is run by a Zionist, and the comm itself serves as a bit of a Nazi bar. Many of the posts also erase vital context, or otherwise misframe users.

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  • Yep, thanks! I'm a Statesian myself, and see settler-colonialism as the primary contradiction domestically. Calling myself an "American" is, as you said, dismissive and insulting to the rest of the Americas, most of which aren't settler-colonies.

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  • I don't like the line of logic that states "getting hate = correct," but I do think people should have who their haters are be factored in. Many people are rightly hated, like Netanyahu, but largely by entirely reasonable people. I can't say my haters are particularly reasonable.

    But thanks for the compliment!

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  • The PRC actually has very good ethnic minority protections, both legally and culturally. For example, ethnic minorities were exempt from the One Child Policy, and ethnic minorities at the level of the NPC are better represented than the Han majority by population ratio. The PRC does practice censorship, but this is largely reserved for capitalists and those trying to undermine socialism, a method of self-defense learned by observing western-backed propaganda undermine other socialist countries.

    As for the Russian Federation, communist orgs only critically support it in its actions undermining the global hegemony of western imperialism. Nobody really likes the modern Russian Federation, and everyone would rather the soviet union still be here.

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  • Thanks, but no worries, I'm used to it. I have some severely dedicated haters. I just wish that they would actually try to respond to what they downvote, rather than silently downvote, as there's no learning process created by that. Or when they run off to anti-communist drama communities (usually removing vital context), rather than directly addressing what I have to say.

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  • Amazing.

  • Read Theory, Darn it!

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  • I don't think, for example, that we should consider flat Earthers and modern science to be equally valid. The same goes for political theory and practice. Dialectical materialism is useful because it helps us know and understand the world, the way it's developing, and our shared place in history. Division is a natural consequence of the class struggle, and therefore correctly working towards abolishing the class struggle gets nearer to that shared conclusion you speak of.

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  • Considering "tankie" is just a pejorative for those that support existing socialism, what practicing communists do you give a pass to?

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  • I genuinely have not seen that, perhaps we interpret the same comments different ways?

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  • Not really sure why you're acting like it's unexpected to be corrected on a misconception.

  • ICE is as American as Apple Pie

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  • Any evidence?

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  • We don't think every single statesian is a fascist, but we do recognize that much of the statesian public is fascist along with the state. The US is a settler-colony, after all.

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  • We actually do read and discuss theory quite a lot, both online and when we are at party meetings (though many times the meetings are for organizing things like protests, or other matters). What you may be noticing is that we don't tend to "quote farm," ie find a relevant quote from a Marxist theorist, and use that as an argument. It's unconvincing and comes across as book worship.

    This creates a 2-sided problem: either we worship theory, or we don't read it at all, in the eyes of liberals. It's a perfect, thought-terminating bubble where there's a great excuse ready-made to not take communists seriously, either we don't know what we are talking about, or we are detached from reality. It's simply impossible for us to not rely on quote farming while actually knowing what we are talking about. Same with "state propaganda."

    I was a communist when I was 15, but even back then I was into the utopia part, not the mass murder fantasy part.

    This more speaks to yourself not knowing what communism is, though. Marx and Engels have railed against utopianism, and were proponents of scientific socialism. Same with the idea of a mass murder fantasy.

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  • But why? What is the material cause of this? I'd say it's the gradual decline in imperialism breeding right-wing populism as the smaller capitalists are pressed downward toward the working classes, and the necessity of austerity to cover for losses in gains from imperialism.

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