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Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of (four) 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.

  • 2026: The year the western left went full mask off.

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  • Russia as it exists today is a creation of the US/NATO. Your western chauvinism runs so deep. The empire has been fighting any alternative to capitalism/fascism for decades, but you say these things.

  • ContraPoints' cryptic non-statement on Venezuela

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  • Effective Altruism meets Effective Electorialism. You have to support the future Dem utopia or you will be punished for not helping it gain power.

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  • There is one hegemonic power that has been doing imperialism for decades. They have by far the largest military presence across the globe, and they maintain currency hegemony over this long period as well. It is one empire, not empires in your "both sides" or "many sides" rhetoric. The EU and Japan et all are willing servants of this hegemonic order for most of this period. Millions have been killed by wars, interventions and economic mechanisms that serve to maintain this empire.

    The capitalist empire has always been like this. You are comparing trade alliances to war mongering genocidal profiteering across the globe over decades. These are not even close to equivalent.

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  • Using "clash of civilizations" rhetoric is classic racist trope. There is one hegemonic reality currently, and referring to "Eastern empires" is dog whistling in the same way.

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    relevant to recent events

  • Rushmore

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  • His favorite game to play outside was cowboys and Indians. Tales of the American West were very popular among boys in Austria and Germany. Books by James Fenimore Cooper and especially German writer Karl May were eagerly read and re-enacted. May, who had never been to the American West, invented a hero named Old Shatterhand, a white man who always won his battles with Native Americans, defeating his enemies through sheer will power and bravery. Young Hitler read and reread every one of May’s books about Old Shatterhand, totaling more than 70 novels. He continued to read them even as Führer. During the German attack on the Soviet Union he sometimes referred to the Russians as Redskins and ordered his officers to carry May’s books about fighting.

    https://jewishjournal.com/mobile_20111212/117824/hitlers-inspiration-and-guide-the-native-american-holocaust/

  • Rushmore

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  • Happy holidays, everyone!

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  • Normalize saying "it's either socialism or barbarism" in casual conversation.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    still so true

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    this always cheers me up

  • Average convo with liberals when Ukraine comes up

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  • There is a historical materialist thread from Project Aerodynamic and Banderite Mykola Lebed to Victoria Nuland determining the leadership after the 2014 coup.

  • Average convo with liberals when Ukraine comes up

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  • it’s fascist capitalist v “liberal” capitalist

    This is correct but probably opposite of how you think it is.

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • Directorio Legislativo

    https://directoriolegislativo.org/en/who-we-are/

    María Baron Global Executive Director

    Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow

    https://www.ned.org/fellowships/reagan-fascell-democracy-fellows-program/

    https://countercurrents.org/2022/05/the-national-endowment-for-democracy-a-second-cia/

    In 1991, one of the founders of NED, Allen Weinstein, stated that much of NED’s work involves doing what the CIA used to do. Some, in fact, refer to NED as the “second CIA.”

    Just have to scratch the surface a little bit to see the imperialist connection here. I'd implore you to not just take the surface-level info from NGOs without understanding the interests they serve.

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/israel-says-venezuelas-machado-voices-support-call-netanyahu-2025-10-17/

    Netanyahu congratulated Machado on her Nobel win and commended her efforts to promote democracy and peace. Machado has previously pledged to move Venezuela’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if her movement comes to power, aligning her with other Latin American leaders who have taken pro-Israel stances, including Argentina’s President Javier Milei and former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

  • The Serenity Process

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  • doing material analysis and direct action to change the world is just like praying to a higher power, I am very smart

  • The Serenity Process

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  • You are fantastically obtuse in your perception of a word that means doing direct action to create material change.

  • The Serenity Process

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  • We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

    That's just a specific kind of praxis though. Praxis is about doing things to change the current state of things. It doesn't proscribe only teaching theory. You can be doing praxis without saying anything academic.

  • The Serenity Process

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  • what do you think praxis means here?

    Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paulo Freire, Murray Rothbard, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)

  • The Serenity Process

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  • Kill the Meme Cop in your head.

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    The Serenity Process

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    educational content inspired by lemmitors

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    their DICTATOR vs our HERO OF DEMOCRACY

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    resistance is futbol

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    banal dystopian meme

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    the marketplace of ideas

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    contextless droning

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    burning petro dollars vs renewable commodities

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    the empire has no clothes

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    found in the wild

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    just a regular social bike ride

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    tfw making jeans great again

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    glamorous dinos

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    this is what "western values" actually means

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    even Fry can figure this one out

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    Animorphs meme