iByteABit

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[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I am kinda bummed they cancelled pride

agony-shivering

no pride in genocide you settler fucks

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Yesterday TV where I live also had breaking news when Iran was bombing Tel Aviv, I highly doubt the opposite would be worthy of interrupting the streams

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The US might have a good basic education as far as science goes for example (which is still way behind Europe and China I believe), but no amount of Physics or Maths will counteract the insane amount of propaganda on history, politics and ideology.

That's why you literally have to rewire your brain if and when you realize that all you've been told from childhood to adulthood is lies.

Though the people arguing that the solution to world problems is just better education are completely lost in idealism, the capitalist class would never teach you the way you are being exploited, just like the kings would never tell you the real reason why you're a serf and the slave owners would never tell you that you can rebel against them.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 50 points 1 month ago

Pacifism and "civility" are two of the greatest tricks ever played on the working class. It's going to take a lot of material condition worsening until people finally realize there's no point being peaceful against people who would throw you in the fire pit if it was the best way to make profits.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Still unconfirmed for him specifically, his plane is there for sure though.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I understand that and would feel bad as well. I really can't bring myself to understand how those Israeli troops doing all that feel zero empathy. I sometimes feel bad killing a mosquito when it's not really necessary, because who gave me the right to take its life for my own comfort? But these people really look at other humans in camps, crying for help, kids looking like living skeletons, and they still put up their rifles and pull the trigger. You would expect that there's some natural instinctive barrier to apathy, if not through ideology then through evolutionary reflexes, to at least feel something when faced with other humans suffering at your expense.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Can the UAE still do oil trading if the strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iran through their eastern ports?

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I feel this a lot too. While I do enjoy and cheer for bombs falling on the fascist regime, there's still the part of me that understands how sickening it is to cheer for violence. Even if that violence is completely called for and is a tiny percentage of the violence the Israelis have inflicted upon others, the bombs weren't even targeted towards civilians and kids, while Israel is literally shooting starved people waiting for food.

There's a part of Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend by Losurdo that is quite relevant with this. In the process of debunking the deportations and concentration capms that the Soviets did to the Nazis, Losurdo describes the general sentiment the world had against Germans after their defeat. Westerners really went way over the top and wanted to do everything the Nazis did against them, even to their children. Soviets on the other hand were usually much more moderate. While in Czech and Polish concentration camps Germans were left to starve literally, Soviets still saw them as people. The Nazis that were guilty for war crimes would be tried and sentenced while the workers and peasant would be re-educated and reintegrated to society. This goes to show how much an ideology that's rooted in equality and doesn't believe in racial theories affects people in contrast with capitalism.

I hope that when Israel finally gets defeated, we will have the constraint to leave the monstrosities in the past and reintegrate most of the Israelis back to a healthy society without race supremacy and Zionism. People like Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir deserve no compassion though. Straight to the wall, the most compassion you can show these monsters is to give them a quick death, something that no Palestinian has had the privilege of.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

So the USA split into Anime States of Amerikkkaa and Nazi States of Amerikkka

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

This is that Muhamed Ali quote but if he was a cringe incel instead

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

stalin-joking get scammed by your class enemies idiots

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Honestly not even communists know what a communist should do and not do in every possible situation.

If I understand correctly your difficulty is finding the courage to do more as a communist?

Community helps a lot on this, having other people do things you're afraid to do yourself can give you the confidence to take more steps. Also learning from communist history can help, by finding inspiration in people that fought either literally, or by doing organizing work, or by protesting, people staying strong while being jailed and punished for their beliefs. Learning from example from the smallest to the biggest actions can give you the strength to do a little more, even if it's a little.

 

I'm also curious about c/chapotraphouse

thinkin-lenin

 

What are your opinions on DiEM25 and its founder Yanis Varoufakis?

Having read some of his works and seen a few talks and interviews, he explains very well why capitalism doesn't work, kills our planet, people, and the democracy it's said to promote as the capitalists believe (or want us to believe anyway). His ideas are not purely Marxist, though they are inspired by Marxism among other theorists.

Leaving details aside, he supports full state ownership of banks and a system where each company's shares are evenly split among the workers who have the right to vote or abstain on any decision the company (the collection of all the workers) makes, even when it comes to hiring people and financial managing. Those shares are not tradable at all, they serve to resemble your partial ownership of the company and right to vote in its decisions, and it disappears after you leave the company.

There is more depth to it and you can also read the manifesto in the website.

Is this a theory that could work out and sustain itself, or is it another fence-sitting opportunist theory? Personally I think there's creativity in it, Varoufakis has a very clear understanding of economics so he gives a pretty unique approach to things, but it also kinda reeks of a capitalist system waiting to emerge.

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