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onoira [they/them]

@ onoira @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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a lumpen creature trying their best between constant crises

neuroqueer | total liberationist

🎵 Seasons seem to see me sliding out of view.

80's through the 50's, breezes make me think of you. 🎵

  • Why do you think so many people on the Marxist left defend Stalinism?

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  • “No the Katyn Massacre was good actually because…”

    no one says this

  • Giving my energy to Iran to give the Zionist Entity and U.S. long-overdue bloody noses

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  • Why do you think so many people on the Marxist left defend Stalinism?

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  • as an anarchist who has organised with meatspace MLs, the topic of Stalin never comes up on its own. it comes up online more often because we're not doing anything more important than just talking.

    Stalin comes up in meatspace when some liberal confronts an ML and demands to know if they're 'Stalinist' and what they think of the 'Holomdor'. then the ML explains how 'Stalinism' isn't a thing, they primarily read Marx, Engels and Lenin, and how Stalin was the leader of a team not a dictator and even the CIA's own profile on him says exactly that, and then explain the ongoing threats the Soviet security state was protecting against and the cultural and economic trauma of losing 15% of their population in World War II, and the climatological history of the Southern regions and how the famine impacted more than just Ukraine and how famines were common in the region, and how the Ukrainian kulaks, protesting that their lands were being given to the serfs, burned crops and equipment and salted the land, and how famines were ended in the region under the USSR, and then ask the liberal if they care about famines under capitalism.

    then the liberal says 'yeah but Stalin was basically Hitler' and then we in this group of anarchists, ML(M)s and syndicalists chase this fucking wrecker out into the street so we can get back to work.

    i think any strong opinion on Stalin as an individual is already wrong, because you're falling for the Great Man of History fallacy. i think Stalin is irrelevant unless you're an ML cadre who needs to learn from the successes and mistakes of the USSR, but i think the history of the USSR is also important to any communist.

    when you see an ML defending Stalin, it's almost always because someone is criticising MLs based on an uninformed claim about Stalin, or they're criticising Stalin from an uninformed position. and i don't blame them: i'm all for criticising mistakes, but we don't need to make shit up to do that.

    i get that as anarchists we're suspicious of statist leaders, but i don't get why it's so hard to understand that statists would defend a communist state. even if you see them enemies, you would benefit from reading their theory to understand their position rather than going 'uhhh, why do statists defend states so much? must be they can't read, or they're just stu~pid lol must be because they have daddy issues lol'

  • Why do you think so many people on the Marxist left defend Stalinism?

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  • you mean the podcast hosted by Robert Evans, the anarchist who writes for Bellingcat which is funded by the anticommunist National Endowment for Democracy which is currently run by former Bush staffers and is a literal CIA front?

    In 1986, NED's President Carl Gershman said that the NED was created because "It would be terrible for democratic groups around the world to be seen as subsidized by the CIA. We saw that in the 1960s and that's why it has been discontinued".

    In a 1991 interview with the Washington Post, NED founder Allen Weinstein said: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."

    that 'anarchist', who likes to talk over his guests, and his takes on countries outside the US repeatedly mirror the State Department?

    as an anarchist, i do wonder if the antistatist who is funded by an anticommunist US government organisation might have a bias…

  • What do you think is a realistic peaceful solution to the China-Taiwan issue?

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  • Taiwan is closer to being the Union in this analogy

    mmyes, the defeated right-wing nationalist warlordists are the Union in this analogy. very good.

    i would like to learn your secret: how do you become so informed on things you know nothing about?

  • Removed

    I heard we're doing leftist infighting just in time for the election again, oh joy!

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  • What’s functionally stopping you from living on a commune on an empty dot on a map or a deserted island and making your dream of no government a reality with your peers?

    the fact that under private property there is no such thing as an empty dot or a deserted island, capitalism is a totalising system and is practically inescapable but can be eroded, and that our politics as leftists are not just a vehicle for our own individual self-actualisation but about the liberation of all people?

    a bunch of 'leftists' LARPing on an island are not leftists if they can afford to live on an island together and isolate themselves from the rest of the world.

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    An open source repairable printer.

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  • … actually one does need later hardware for a phone that will work on 5G networks.

    if i'm understanding you right, you're saying we should be reusing old, functional hardware instead of producing brand-new shit (which just turns old stuff into ewaste). i agree. if countries repealed anticircumvention, i imagine there would be an industry for upcycling electronics.

  • Running defense for a pedo, but with extra steps

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  • it's more like a 'democrat' saying 'if you don't spend the next 6 months shoving shit in people's faces, we'll force everyone to eat raw sewage for the next 4 years.' then when they get into office, some things stay exactly the same, and others get substantially worse. to everyone except the business tyrant and the white median they offer nothing new, and they're both the same shit to anyone from the Global South. they're the controlled opposition of the two faces of capital.

    SStatesians should do better, and that starts by organising communities and platforms which force real (material) changes at the local level, and which can combine to resist the bourgeois state trying to reassert itself, which requires a capacity for (counter)violence.

    the only incentive for either party to adopt a particular program is the threat of losing (a chance at) power, but that clearly hasn't fucking stopped them as far as the loss of votes is concerned.

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    feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • i assume it's because you were mass-downvoting Draconic NEO's comments, including benign ones that didn't involve you.

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    feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • American Jews

    yeah, SStateSSians do be like that. and 82% of Evangelicals are also Zionists, which is nearly thrice the global population of Jewish people.

    convenient that there are little to no numbers outside of either the US or "Israel" breaking down support for "Israel". you're also citing a Zionist source.

    Most Christians are not also zionists, that is actually a small group, unlike Jews.

    citation fucking needed. oh i see, you misread the part where i said most Zionists are Christians.

  • Is it wrong to like Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"?

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  • aren't the parts of the book that everyone cites singularly written by Herman anyway?

    also Parenti's Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media exists, too.

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    feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • yes, Zionists. not all Jews are "Israeli", not all Jews are Zionists, but most "Israelis" are Zionists, and almost all Zionists are Jews or Christians (mostly Christians!).

    Zionism ≠ Judaism

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    feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

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  • accusing someone of sucking cock

    accusing

    'bad thing is when sex act involving penis'. is there not a better way of phrasing it without hitting people who do sex act involving penis?

    i for one am pretty fucking sick of people stooping to sexual violence metaphors and 'bad man gay lol' instead of using their fucking words.

  • Vote Blue No Matter Who

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  • Now they are just shot.

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  • Vote Blue No Matter Who

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  • abstaining or voting third party in any general election is a vote for the republican candidate.

    oh i was told by one of your 'republicans' that it's actually a vote for 'democrat'.

    three votes for the price of one? third-parties sound pretty powerful.

    fake ass electoral system.

  • Vote Blue No Matter Who

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  • shut your gringo ass up you ballotmunching Uncle Tom freak

    demanding that the opposition not trail the right-wing on every single talking point and give a single fuck about the lives that the so-called US would continue to destroy beyond its borders is not accelerationism or 'whiteness'.

    when non-'United' SStateSSians have to listen to you about your fucking 'damage control' instead of actually doing anything you sound like two SS officers bickering over how painful our torment should be. we don't fucking care about your comfort you imperial hog.

    the collapse of US soft power institutions under Trump has been a fucking godsend for the rest of us trying to actually improve our nations.

    stop running DARVO for your abuser and find a healthier relationship with politics.

  • Michael Parenti has passed away at the age of 92

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  • one of my greatest and earliest influences.

  • One of The Earth Breaking Moments for Me, When This Famous California Cook Destroyed Big Vegan Farming-Cooking for Me. Warning Vegans that Do Not Grow & Consume Vegan Foods At Home Or From Someone Els

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  • https://vegan.bingo/#List

    24: 100% vegan is impossible

    True, we have to defend our fields from pests, displays contain animal glue and a few birds die in wind turbines. Should we therefore stop trying to reduce a lot of suffering where we can easily do so? Should firefighters save no one if they can't save everyone? Immoral behavior cannot be justified by the fact that the alternatives are not perfect. To wait for the 100% solution, the current situation is too damaging. Veganism is the best option that we have.

    something something 'truly, to live is to be a bother to others'

    EDIT: lmao i'm shadowbanned from piefed.social.

  • NSFW

    (CW: meat) Felt fitting

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  • seize the means of infarction

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    onoira [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    RESOLVED

    hexbear defederation

  • /0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    onoira [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    appearing signed out

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    onoira [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    what was this bird trying to do?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    onoira [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence!

    www.patrick-breyer.de /en/chat-control-vote-postponed-huge-success/
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    onoira [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Who fixes toilets under communism?

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    onoira [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    "Who will do the dishes after the revolution?"