Drewfro66 @ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml

He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member of PSL N

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It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

The last three I think are especially important - many people don't really understand how political national flags can be and that they never really just represent a people/region/language in a completely unbiased way.

If the Democrats wanted me to vote for their candidate they should have picked one that didn't suck balls

The disappointing answer is that it's going to be very similar to how things are now, just with fewer rights and more repression around the edges. Almost all of Project 2025's policies are things that this nation has used in the past or is using today to a lesser degree - voter suppression, rollback of labor rights and civil liberties. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, but that was happening long before Trump.

The dissolution of the state is the final stage of Communism. The material conditions of Stalin's time did not call for it; and if anything, the greatest critique of Stalin among modern Leninists is that his economic policy of mass collectivization was Ultra-Leftist.

Why can't we be critical of democrats by being selective in the primaries?

Watch out guys, we got a Vooter over here!

That's functionally the difference between Anarchism, a fundamentally Individualist and Idealist ideology, and Marxism, which is fundamentally Collectivist and Scientific.

A Marxist political society will also tend towards Classlessness and Statelessness, though in the case of Marxism both of these are not goals but an inevitable result of a society dominated by the Proletariat according to Marxist theory.

Proteins don't necessarily just mean meats etc. Most vegetables and grains have protein in them that is contributing towards your daily requirements.

Zelensky offers to give up something he's about to lose anyways in order to gain something that isn't going to happen.

No offense intended to OP, but anyone who thinks the world works this way is hopelessly naive about the system we live in.

When it comes down to it, the reason all of these issues exist comes down to Capitalism (Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Fascism, NIMBYism, w/e flavor you want).

Good public transit is a great example because there are so many reasons we don't have it and all of them come down to Capitalism.

• the failure of our Healthcare system for the poor, unhoused, and uninsured means that severely mentally ill people make public transit feel unsafe. Ditto for criminalization of addiction and high poverty in general.
• The American government's reliance on the Petrodollar to control world trade promotes oil-based transportation options, especially inefficient ones that take more oil (since the goal is increased consumption, not efficiency).
• A general lack of tenant's rights and a tendency for local governments to favor landholders and and business owners over working-class renters (who tend to be more transient and are less likely to buy out local politicians) means that more attention is given to individualized transport (car infrastructure) and less to transport methods more suited to higher density. Not to mention the fear the petite bourgeoisie have towards poor people, who might potentially use public transport to invade their walled gardens.

There are so many reasons even on top of these. They all come down to Capitalism; and, no, to the Liberals of Lemmy, I don't mean markets. Markets can do a lot of good when it comes to making efficient public transport, when managed correctly. The issue is the power that those with money (and not just the billionaires; the petty millionaires who own a couple strip malls is just as bad when it comes to opposition towards public transport) exert over our lives and governments.

Those probably aren't hairs you've eaten; long hairs tend to just fall into your shirt/pants and are worked up into your butt as you walk around for the day.

There is nothing uniquely evil about European organized religion until the so-called Protestant Reformation.

No. I think it's fine, but not a real alternative to Capitalism. It seems like the sort of thing developed by an anticapitalist who accepts the Capitalist framing of history ("Capitalism is just when you trade things or have money").

I would classify this sort of thing as Ultra-Leftist - a movement seeking to skip the necessary steps in the development of Capitalism into Socialism and Socialism into Communism by just "doing Communism" at the local community level and saying "Well if everyone just did it, we'd be living in a Communist Utopia!"

There is no skipping the steps. The abolition of work is the final step, not the first.

Well, one other thing is that instances will only fetch content from communities that at least one instance member is subscribed to. Every instance will have a slightly different selection of content because of what communities the existing members have subscribed to (and larger instances will typically have a broader selection of content, because they have more users).

The only important thing, really, is that the instance you choose doesn't defederate with other instances for political reasons (except being literal Nazi instances). I find that lemm.ee users have a good mix of political expression ranging from Marxists to Moderate Conservatives. An account there, on lemmy.zip, or lemmy.ml is probably your best bet.

Oh okay, so option 3 is a win/win

I think it's because most of those personal stories were attention-grabbing fakes and there's fewer incentives to do that on Lemmy

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So is the part of the U.S. Greenland is laid over here