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  • It's 100% my thread, lol. Nothing even remotely threatening, just tantrums and liberals telling on themselves. And all I have to do is ask nicely whether someone has read the basics to have their opinions. The answer is always no, because having opinions is clearly much more valuable than doing anything to earn them.

    This works out great for me.

  • It sounds like you get the dumb joke that is my username. Congratulations! With that in mind, perhaps you'd like to take a third try at answering a simple and relevant question?

    Have you read Karl Marx's books? Which is your favorite?

  • This is why all political discussion is banned at lemmy.world. In fact, there is only one community on lemmy.world and it's about playing checkers (but without saying "king me" because kings are political).

  • Hexbear disabled downvoting because it was being used by transphobes to bully trans users. They'd wait for a trans user to post and then pile on with downvotes so that their comments would always begin in the negative.

    lemmy.world can't even be bothered to ban transphobes.

  • Did you have an opinion on the killings in the Donbas from 2014-2022? People getting locked in a union hall that was set on fire? The promotion of neo-Nazis to "handle" the ethnic Russians there?

    Or did you only begin caring about Ukrainian lives when it was 24/7 on Western media, acting like Russia's invasion had no background, like Minsk II never existed, etc?

    A follow-up: have you opposed the US-backed Saudi genocide in Yemen with the same ferocity? That one doesn't get as much play in the media, but a child dies there every minute or so due to the US-backed blockade, preventing basics like food from getting to the population.

  • Some conspiracies are real, and are some of the most harmful things on the planet. They're both evil and banal, and they look like petrochemical consortia trying out some new PR firms or Victoria Nuland casually talking about who should be put in political leadership in Ukraine post-Euromaidan.

    The people who are best-informed get pretty invested in opposing those harms and wonder why (some) others are so viciously opposed to learning about them.

  • The welfare state was a response to the militant labor movement that had already won most of those concessions for their own members and were threatening to do a lot more. This dovetailed with a need to counter the very real welfare state pioneeted by the Soviets decades earlier.

    An easy place to begin informing yourself is to read up on FDR and where his motivations for The New Deal came from, and who he wanted to defang.

  • The authority of the working class and intolersnce for Nazis, sure.

    Re: human rights, inclusiveness, and social security: bullshit. Not even on the same planet at those who bring skepticism towards hegemonic propaganda narratives, and particularly from a socialist perspective, i.e. the preemptively banned instance.

  • Hi there, potential new friend! Since these folks are willfully stupid, can I assume you're familiar with their positions and background, and have read my books? Which one is your favorite?