Alsephina @ Alsephina @lemmy.ml

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Wtf were they thinking releasing this photo lmao

If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard.

By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative.

If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology.

If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.

A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.

What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

Misread this as "pipe" and was smiling 😔

Common lemmy.world L

A year old video but only has new comments lol

Where's all the lemmings damn it

Where's the inconsistency

A response to the US allowing strikes in Russian territory I assume

We're gonna see a nuclear war aren't we

Damn this is from haaretz too

finished the whole project seven months ahead of schedule

Common theme with Chinese infrastructure it seems lol

Lmfao what no materialist analysis does to a mfer

And you're not invited

The car ramming one a few days ago was by a 62 y/o man who was mad about the property division from his divorce

Why can't we have nice things man

(Military corporations in the US and Russia)

Ig adding a thumbnail image still messes up the post on some clients and instances. Removed it.

So it looks like it's finally happening?

Libertarian paradise

Since his rise to popularity, however, he has softened some policies, saying he believes in an open economy and is not totally opposed to privatisation.

Dissanayake had campaigned on a pledge to renegotiate a controversial US$2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout secured by his predecessor.

But since taking office, he has resolved to maintain the existing agreement with the international lender.

The country’s main private sector lobby, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has tacitly supported Dissanayake and his programme.

Yeah, not a good sign... This WSWS article on him doesn't exactly inspire hope either.