WanderingVentra @ WanderingVentra @lemm.ee

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It just comes off as an odd goal to me. The problem isn't that tankies exist. The problem is that the US and the West have been been doing colonization and imperialism to countries for the last 200 years and spent the last 100 saying communism doesn't work and then proving it by destabilizing their democracies, attacking them, funding coups, sanctioning them, selling their enemies weapons, and cutting them out of the Western order; as well as spying on the, blacklisting them, arresting them, and killing them at home. And at the same time putting up a ton of propaganda. The problem is that people don't know history, they don't travel, and they only speak one language so they don't talk to people in the global south except for the conservatives that run and hide here in the West and say how awful it was when someone took their slaves or corrupt business.

As long as the Global South is poorer and in a siege mentality, which will continue for as long as the US military and it's dollar is in charge of the world, communism won't look nice. And that's because capitalism has pushed the West to ravage the world for its resources and continues to do so. Then they compare themselves to Cuba or Vietnam, instead of countries of equal development, like Ethiopia, Haiti, Guyana, or hell, Puerto Rico, which is a capitalist territory in the US and just spent New Year's in the dark.

As for why I jumped to some conclusions, I think it's natural. It's like complaining about black power people being too eager while black people still face huge racism in this country. Imagine if you went into the comment section of a news article about a black person committing a crime and saying, "hey can someone give me the source? I'm making a document of all the crimes black people in the black panthers have done. But I'm not racist, I just think the black panthers go too far and I want other people to know being anti-racist doesn't have to be like that." Meanwhile, they're setting up shelters, food banks, and book clubs, and the FBI is killing them in the streets. That would be suspicious, right?

Maybe only if you knew about those things. Otherwise, you would think the Black Panthers are the bad guys simultaneously thinking you're not a racist, while in actuality you are hurting the cause you purported be for. In the US, they try to cover up the bad they do and the good their "enemies" do all the time, so it's a similar situation. But people don't know what they don't know. Hence the difficulty of researching AES countries using western sources and people.

But I hope it goes well, and maybe with further research and discussions you can find a good path through it. Just keep an open mind.

Was it for a movie? That sounds awesome.

Communists self-critical all the time. I encourage you tk actually go on hexbear and read their struggle sessions. They are constantly arguing about what foreign countries should do and not do, even the communist ones, like China. They critically support it because of its resistance to US imperialism, they don't automatically think everything they do is good. That is the definition of "critical support", a thing no one in lemmy.world seems to understand.

I think you actually need to talk to communists instead of libs before you make this document. You need to engage them in real conversation. You're just going off propaganda news articles and third party hearsay. There aren't any actual tankies in this thread so you're not getting any first-hand information.

It sounds like you're using self-crit as an excuse to recycle and peddle lib propaganda and nonsense. Meanwhile, the US is on the verge of fascism. You're looking for reasons to make people not be communists rather than finding out why people should be.

Seriously, imagine making an "anti-tankies" document after Trump was elected and we're on the verge of fascism in the US, UK, Germany, France, and Canada. There are higher concerns and communists like those are always on the front lines fighting fascism.

It doesn't help that the US and West kept destroying socialist countries. Imperialism means every socialist covert is in siege mentality until the last capitalist, imperialist superpower is gone.

They're already banning porn in general in red states. It's already begun.

Seriously every thread it's the top comment, but there's never any actual tankies in the thread. I feel like I'm in the McCarthy 1950's whenever I'm looking through .world threads lol.

And they should make Mastadon accounts or instances instead, especially if they're affiliated with the government.

It's insane to me that public utilities and officials use a private, third-party thing like X for official communications when they could be controlling their own servers.

Not native historians lol

Could use some paragraph markers, but otherwise beautifully well put. Glad this is up top right now. Makes me excited to read the rest of the thread.

What is i2p?

It's like RFK trying to ban medical commercials. I agree with him under this one circumstance, but for entirely different reasons lol.

Way too late for that lol

Reddit is just old reposts from Twitter and Tumblr. It's fine.

Lol ya, but that's been done on purpose. They've been underfunding public institutions, including education, for decades, and trying to privatize it. They have been making university seem like it's only purpose is as a job-training center instead of also opening your mind and improving critical thinking while making it more expensive. They've been spewing propaganda at us the whole time through billionaire-funded news and media while slowly undercutting public broadcasting. It's all been pretty successful apparently.

Would it be weird to get a seed box when I already have a separate plex server I've been using to torrent and an NAS, just so I can seed 24/7 without risking leaking packets or something?

What, no? Well, as much as you're saying that Palestinians deserve to be victims of a genocide to protect LGBTQ people. Brown people are already being genocided btw.

You might have me mistaken for someone else. I went out of my way to get people to vote for her but also knew she was doomed if she kept up her current path because I recognized what happened in 2016 and so kept criticizing her for supporting the genocide. I tried to set up a freaking vote exchange thread to swap votes with people in swing states even and got criticized by people here for even trying. I was trying harder than most people here because I recognized the danger and the patterns, instead of burying my head in the sand. I felt like freaking Cassandra lol.

How so? I think he said he wanted the war in Ukraine because of the opposite. It's basically the same anti-war stance as his views on this topic.

If they're telling people not to vote for someone because they're doing something they can by all accounts stop doing, then it's still on the candidate.