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12·11 months agoit can save you a lot of heart ache
*headache
Was probably what you meant
2·11 months agoI wouldn’t know I am just a CPC shill I am not concerned with questions unrelated to Xi.
But if you’re looking for John Connor it’s that guy 👇
Dude, take a break!
I mean I completely disagree with you, but this thread can’t be healthy for you. What purpose is it serving to get enraged here?
I’d say take a breather and if you dare: ask yourself how reliable your impression of China really is, maybe research some older claims that have been proven to be misrepresented or false, like this for example. Not saying you have to become a fan, but there seems to be a propaganda effort to prepare the public for a economic/military war with China. So more people need to be sceptical.
You seem to haven’t accepted it yet, but the capitalist class, through the means of communication they control, construct most impressions you have of foreign countries (without them being able to interject) and facts are negligable as they have been in the news-medias support of every US war effort in history as well.
I got a little carried away, but I meant it in good faith, you decided to wear a badge of socialism after all.
What you do is obviously up to you!
Dude, on lemmy consent is just not as heavily manufactured by capital interest as on other platforms.
Its the absence of bots you’re experincing and possibly some withdrawal symptoms.
All good we’re here for you, one doesn’t get off of propaganda easily
Not in English apparently:(
Yours sounds more corporate indeed
More like “We’ll make good value from your privacy”
As long as you don’t question that the enemies of US imperialism deserve it you should be mostly fine. The big geopolitical topics are more sensitive.
I was permabanned from multiple subs for sharing this telegraph article for example:
It differs from sub to sub but the bigger and more political the stronger the imperial narrative is enforced.
r/worldnews is one of the worst, and honestly suspect its astroturf and run by assets or a derivative of an imperial institution (council on foreign relation, think tanks, the likes)
This, my friend, is the absense of neocon/neolib censorship and propaganda that you were so used to on corporate social media.
Isn’t it great?
There was obviously never a communist state as you have correctly depicted communism is a goal. No argument there.
I also agree that you can make the point the USSR wasn’t socialist, but that was also not what I was arguing for. (Spoiler: I describe the USSR as “state socialist”)
I was arguing against calling the USSR capitalist, even state capitalist, and I stand by it.
the desire to use the words by their meaning
Capitalism is defined through private (not personal) property – There was no private property. I think that should be enough to dismiss the notion the USSR was capitalist in amy capacity. But it also lacked competitive markets, “free” price systems and a ubiquitous profit motive, finance capital and certainly more characteristics.
Regarding the ownership of the means of production: I already agreed with you that it was not owned by the workers. However, being state owned, it was public ownership. You can say that isn’t totally fair to you bc the name implies a level of participation of the people in the state which wasn’t there, but their collective interests still somewhat mattered where today rules the profit motive (i.e. housing). That is not to say that planning, production and distribution did not fail the people often, they certainly did.
Since we were also talking about intent to build up a socialist system: When you look at it in the early days when it started out as a soviet republic, with worker soviets sending delegates to parent soviets cascading and culminating into the supreme soviet, the idea certainly was to create a state with (if not control then) direct expression of the workers interests. In that sense state ownership would be justified much more. This is also what has led me to call the system “state socialism”.
The soviet union did definitively degrade hence I concede that it is well possible that initial intent to build socialism did not exist in late stage USSR leadership, I don’t know much about that, to be honest and if that is what you experienced as a child I believe you.
But that this intent drove the initial conception should be obvious or do you think the writings of Lenin/Stalin and the internationals were all a big charade to get to power?
The degradation of the USSR, the communist party specifically, is one point why I mentioned the soviet union is an example to learn from. I believe Maoists have derived from that the principle of self-revolution within the party.
In the end to rationally learn from it is the important part, as long as we can do that it isn’t important how its economic system is called or even if it was “good” or “evil” or whatever. And while I have opinions they honestly aren’t always strongly held, as there is a lot to learn. Its just a mechanism of online discussions and them being overwhelmingly bad-faithed that brings that out
Lol that killed me.
The Make-a-wish foundation visits a sick child and gift it dead parents, realizing their mistake they proceed to kill the child after one day of anguish, respectfully shake hands and congratulate each other for another job well done.
Not after the day he isn’t
If you want a starting point to address your ignorance:
Bc I haven’t heard of the cultural identity of a government
And its still not true, they have a distinct political ideology that used to be called juche, idk if they changed the name.
Also you said: “the problem with North Korea is…” not really an indicator you’re talking about the government, especially given the context of a cultural identity
Okay seriously guys! Who let John Bolton join lemmy?
Also take note of the arrogance of the claim to know and declare another nations complete cultural identity.
To give them a chance I have asked them to clarify but I am pretty sure they haven’t lived in the DPRK
The problem with North Korea is that its entire cultural identity is built on resisting American aggression
I am curious: Why do you feel you can confidently speak on the exact nature of another nations cultural identity? Let alone reduce it in this way?
Not sure if you understand how arrogant your statement is, but you have to realize that you have 0 idea of the cultural identity of the people in the DPRK.
Corporate news isn’t interested in showing you anything else than the conflict don’t make the mistake of letting that shape your perception. The first step is realizing your ignorance
You joined one month ago
Yogthos’ account is 4 years old.
At least this indicates that he is a human with an opinion that he stated on a highly nieche community and not a paid actor that only joins and starts to influence consensus after a community grows.
You on the other hand…
Jk, but think before you misrepresent a community and people as being shills.
For sake of completeness: account dates can be manipulated by the owner of the instance the account is registered on
Good explanation.
This has the interesting implication that the relative speed between the portals is “added” to whatever goes through it.
Example: the blue portal is on a train running with the same speed in opposite direction. The people-bundle would instantaneously be accelerated to twice the speed of each of the trains. (This becomes a real headscratcher if you were able to put the portals in a particle accelerator)