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no problem, just wanted to make sure it wasn't a bug

Did you @ me in this comment before you edited it? It was sent to my inbox

interesting, I had no idea he'd moved from Nicaragua to China either

das possible

yes, armadillos really are interesting animals

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2531529

sounds like a smart guy

I hope things turn out well

if it's for a local issue, absolutely; someone who's actually organizing is presumably serious about improving conditions at home, and I think they'll be more likely to be open to good-faith discussion on AES countries

we certainly shouldn't believe that all our views are "correct", but when you come across a person who claims to be a Marxist yet denounces all AES states with vague reasoning (especially China due to its immense importance), they're not ready for cooperation on anything but domestic issues -- they're "Marxists" at home but liberals when it comes to foreign policy, and they need to be educated

to be fair, the US did start as a European settler colony and it (the project, not the land) could still be called European

you too, Oppo

I don't think they were overlooking the violence against non-European peoples; "from a propaganda standpoint" is the key phrase, i.e. the Europeans who didn't care about violence against non-Europeans only started caring once other Europeans became targets as well, and this is used as propaganda to suggest that Hitler and his ilk were "worse" than European settlers who murdered non-European indigenous people

The US is absolutely fascist toward indigenous and black people. Communist parties aren't illegal (because pretending that they have freedom of speech and association is required to uphold their national myth), but if they're led by black people (e.g. the Black Panthers), they're brutally repressed. It may not be fascist from the perspective of the settlers, but having a relatively privileged ethnic majority and heavily persecuted ethnic minorities is a core part of fascism

it's possible that gay men were arrested (Kadyrov seems to be a bigoted scumbag), but you should be skeptical unless there's something more than a few self-proclaimed witnesses, especially when they're anonymous, e.g. in the source cited by Wikifedia for the first paragraph

I'm sure a lot of liberals believe Russia has secret concentration camps and torture facilities for all kinds of people (like the US actually does)

I think calling every capitalist country fascist dilutes the meaning of the word; as far as I know, the state isn't completely controlled by the bourgeoisie in Russia (despite the West calling them oligarchs, they seem to have significantly less power than their imperial core counterparts), and while there are anti-LGBTQ+ laws which should obviously be condemned, I'm not aware of any mass imprisonment of minorities