Red_Scare [he/him] @ Red_Scare @lemmygrad.ml

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It's like asking if doner kebab is some kind of shawarma, you'll get a lot of people upset but nobody will explain the actual difference

We know from the past that Hamas deliberately park military assets near civilian infrastructure like schools, malls, etc so even if the maternity center and kindergarten aren't lies it's very likely they were hit incidentally after the terrorists used them as shields with the deliberate intent of making sure IDF killed civilians so they could sob about it.

Sounds familiar?

Great article, thank you for linking.

not anti-russian, he's shouting "no to fascism, no to putinism"

This is just Eurocentrism talking.

Same as anyone else really. "Professional" here just means to treat it seriously, be ready to sacrifice, devote fully to the cause. This phrase never meant a career path within the bourgeois society.

I was talking out of my arse! Went back and found the relevant place in Lenin's "What is to be done", chapter 4 part D, completely missed or forgot it:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/iv.htm

To be fully prepared for his task, the worker-revolutionary must likewise become a professional revolutionary. Hence B-v is wrong in saying that since the worker spends eleven and a half hours in the factory, the brunt of all other revolutionary functions (apart from agitation) “must necessarily fall mainly upon the shoulders of an extremely small force of intellectuals”. But this condition does not obtain out of sheer “necessity”. It obtains because we are backward, because we do not recognise our duty to assist every capable worker to become a professional agitator, organiser, propagandist, literature distributor, etc., etc. In this respect, we waste our strength in a positively shameful manner; we lack the ability to husband that which should be tended and reared with special care. [...] A worker-agitator who is at all gifted and “promising” must not be left to work eleven hours a day in a factory. We must arrange that he be maintained by the Party; that he may go underground in good time; that he change the place of his activity, if he is to enlarge his experience, widen his outlook, and be able to hold out for at least a few years in the struggle against the gendarmes. As the spontaneous rise of their movement becomes broader and deeper, the working-class masses promote from their ranks not only an increasing number of talented agitators, but also talented organisers, propagandists, and “practical workers” in the best sense of the term (of whom there are so few among our intellectuals who, for the most part, in the Russian manner, are somewhat careless and sluggish in their habits). When we have forces of specially trained worker-revolutionaries who have gone through extensive preparation (and, of course, revolutionaries “of all arms of the service”), no political police in the world will then be able to contend with them, for these forces, boundlessly devoted to the revolution, will enjoy the boundless confidence of the widest masses of the workers. We are directly to blame for doing too little to “stimulate” the workers to take this path, common to them and to the “intellectuals”, of professional revolutionary training, and for all too often dragging them back by our silly speeches about what is “accessible” to the masses of the workers, to the “average workers”, etc.

Yeah, you can already pre-register on Google playstore to have it installed automatically as soon as it releases

I had an inactive account since Reddit banned MoreTankieChapo, the API debacle and the release of Sync for Lemmy got me here. Sync is ok but I'm waiting for Boost which should release soon and will likely attract even more fence sitters.

Soldiers from special commando unit 112 with a Russian spy. The man, allegedly in possession of a fake Israeli passport, was living in Irpin months before the Russian invasion. Under interrogation he confessed his name is Alexei, from St Petersburg, married with a child and working for the Wagner Group

That one's bizarre, it's a civilian sitting in the mud barefoot with some sort of bag over his head and a rope round his neck.

So he lived in the area long before the invasion, but then was captured with an Israeli passport and under "interrogation" confessed to being a Russian spy?

And given the number of Nazis in the army, nothing about this seems off to the "Guardian-reading wokerati"?

Or he's happy to throw Ukrainian refugees under the bus. If fear mongering and xenophobia forces them back it's just more meat for the grinder.

Wow what a shitty thing to say and upvote.

Ukraine was a founding member of the USSR, the second largest republic, the bread basket of the whole country, and a major industrial centre.

You pulled the idea that Ukrainians were some ungrateful exploiters during the USSR period straight out your arse.

But to suggest that Ukrainians should be grateful to the West for the proxy war the West is so happy to wage to the last Ukrainian is something else.

Really disappointing to see this liberal brain rot upvoted here.