MarxMadness @ MarxMadness @lemmygrad.ml

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I can believe that a lot of what we call laziness is really something else, but I'm not in the maximalist "lazy does not exist" camp. Whatever your goals are in life, you need at least some ability to buckle down and do those necessary things you'd rather not do. All else being equal, some people are better at that than others.

It's the drop rule but for capitalism

It's also helpful to highlight the relationship between imperialism and fascism. Fascism can be described as turning the tactics and violence of imperialism (that are initially reserved for the periphery) inwards, on "undesirable" parts of the imperial core. Usually this follows on the heels of closing imperial horizons.

no puns

A lot of that had to be karma farming

Egalitarian ideals are very new compared to Christianity

Run that one by Jesus and I think he'd be surprised

a 500pt Lemmy thread

Thank god, I thought we were in trouble for a second!

Gory Booker

Opposition to fascism was not on the ballot. The party doing a genocide abroad is not anti-fascist, it's fascism farther away.

The Democrats were the one doing a genocide -- that's the most direct comparison to Nazis.

Trump also being a Nazi does not excuse Democrats. It was an election between Himmler and Hitler, and you're upset some people didn't vote for either.

The biggest threat to democracy, by far, would have been Democrats -- the party you view as the good guys! -- doing a genocide and not even suffering an electoral setback. If you can do the literal worst thing humans can do to each other free of consequences, whatever you government have isn't worth supporting, regardless of what you call it.

Can't wait for libs in 2028 to start demanding votes for Booker, Josh Shapiro, or other Zionists, and we have to have this argument all over again.

Can't wait for them to drop "but that was four years ago!" as if the worst crime people can do to one another just washes away in the time it takes to get a bachelor's degree.

Only a complete rube would buy the argument that the #2 politician in the federal government bears no responsibility for the actions of the federal government.

"As long as you keep the killing to brown people, fine"

There is no "keeping fascism over there." It always comes home. Do you want to end it now or when you're the target?

Well come on now, support for NATO is a bipartisan consensus! If anything, it's now a middle finger to Trump!

No one is buying your bullshit. If you have a more informed opinion besides Communism Bad, let’s hear it.

If you have a more informed opinion besides Communism Bad, let's hear it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-military-human-shields.html

After Israeli soldiers found Mohammed Shubeir hiding with his family in early March, they detained him for roughly 10 days before releasing him without charge, he said.

During that time, Mr. Shubeir said, the soldiers used him as a human shield.

Mr. Shubeir, then 17, said he was forced to walk handcuffed through the empty ruins of his hometown, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, searching for explosives set by Hamas. To avoid being blown up themselves, the soldiers made him go ahead, Mr. Shubeir said.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/12/middleeast/israel-gaza-human-shields-investigation-intl/index.html

In an interview with CNN late last year, an Israeli soldier said his unit had forced a Palestinian man to enter a building ahead of troops...

The exact scale and scope of the practice by the Israeli military is not known. But the testimony of both the soldier and five civilians last year indicated that it was widespread across the territory: in northern Gaza, Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.

One of the civilians, Mohammad Saad, age 20, told CNN that IDF soldiers had detained him in Rafah.

“They would ask us to do things like, ‘move this carpet,’ saying they were looking for tunnels,” he said. “‘Film under the stairs,’ they would say. If they found something, they would tell us to bring it outside. For example, they would ask us to remove belongings from the house, clean here, move the sofa, open the fridge, and open the cupboard.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/israeli-soldier-palestinians-human-shields-gaza/

Tommy [an anonymized name] said his commander ordered his unit to use Gazan civilians to search buildings for explosives instead of dogs....

Breaking the Silence has acted as a watchdog body over the Israeli military for more than 20 years. It said it had corroborated Tommy's account with other soldiers.

Multiple eyewitness accounts from both sides, and stories from anonymous sources match up with each other, as well as with stories of named sources.

So you haven't actually read about the topic. You just have a vague notion of "Communism Bad" that no one around you has ever seriously questioned. When a specific topic (career choice) comes up, you feel free to make up negative claims that reinforce Communism Bad instead of putting in the work to have an informed opinion (or simply acknowledging that you don't know!). You couple this with thought-terminating cliches (whataboutism!) to avoid anything that might upset the conclusion you've already reached -- Communism Bad.

I brought up the comparison of career choice under capitalism because the fundamental question is which political system is better.

...you actually believe the USSR was executing... someone... if a particular woman didn't get a science degree?

I think you just made that up.

Besides, living standards and life expectancy in the former USSR are just now recovering back to levels they were at when the USSR broke up. It makes complete sense why people would look at the last 30 years and conclude things were better before.