btaf45 @ btaf45 @lemmy.world

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That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense

Lenin and Stalin did more harm to socialism than any other people in the entire history of mankind. You are a 20th century fossil. Soviet genocide are well documented facts. Here you go...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet_Union_under_Joseph_Stalin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X97000111

https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-mao

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2010/09/naimark-stalin-genocide-092310

https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/ezpp8k/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_kill/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/how-many-people-did-stalin-kill

https://www.britannica.com/place/Soviet-Union/The-U-S-S-R-from-the-death-of-Lenin-to-the-death-of-Stalin

There is no need for any "precaution" if you don't fear anything happening. I don't need to take any "precautions" in case the sun does not rise every morning.

Hyperbole is hyperbole. It is precisely because 99% of people know that it is hyperbole, and they know that 99% of people know it is hyperbole, that nobody bothers to point out the obvious to you.

I’m not the one pushing GOP or FSB propaganda here.

The point is that the GOP promised "smaller government" and delivered a big government proliferation of victimless crimes. Where do you think they got that con job propaganda from? Lenin did exactly the same thing but on an even bigger scale.

You mean the French and Russians didn't have slavery before their revolutions. But the Bolsheviks killed millions. And they established slave labor camps for decades.

[Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917]

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM

And in the French revolution, just a handful of people caused thousands of executions.

https://www.worldhistory.org/Reign_of_Terror/

[This led to the enactment of the Law of Suspects, which allowed for the arrests of between 300,000 and half a million citizens nationwide. 16,594 of these 'suspects' were formally executed after a trial, while around 10,000 died in prison, and thousands more were killed in various massacres staged across France. It is estimated that the total death toll during the ten-month Reign of Terror rests anywhere between 30-50,000.]

Did you really think I couldn't back up my statement with facts? How is the Reign of Terror in France and the mass genocide in the USSR in any way "equivalent" to the American and Haitian revolutions?

you would expect any tangible effect after so many months passed

You and me have no way of knowing whether there has been any tangible effects or not. If they quietly kill a stupid idea because they know it will make people mad you aren't going to here about it.

You cannot give us that guarantee. Removing their information from web sites is literal proof they are afraid.

The more money that goes to AOC, the greater her voice in the Democratic party.

This is a pretty good observation. If you want to help the party, give money to people like AOC and tell her to give it to the party.

If certain Dems aren't going to do anything constructive, then they need to get out of the damn way and put people like AOC in charge.

Palestinians to help bridge the people

Identity politics is the chief weakness of Dems. Dems do that way too much rather than not enough.

TALK IS CHEAP.

Her "talk" wasn't very effective. She should have called Trump a fascist and traitor and rapist and corrupt and incompetent every single day. Her rhetoric was shit.

Harris could have won by breaking from Biden

By taking a tougher line on Israel than Biden? Possibly yes.

and calling Bidens actions genocide,

No, that could have completely sunk her campaign. Because "genocide" is hyperbole. Just because people here rarely bother to point out that "genocide" is obvious hyperbole, does not mean that the vast majority of voters do not know that using the word "genocide" is obvious hyperbole.

(1) Biden didn't have any "actions" in Gaza. That was Hamas and Israel

(2) War crimes are not the same thing as "genocide". Genocide means trying to exterminate an entire population.

(3) A war is not the same as war crimes. There has to be intentional killings of civilians.

They were established 4+ years ago just to cause the dnc to lose an election in 2024?

The DNC did not lose. We are the losers. You and me will feel the impact way more than well to do politicians.

However, every revolution, Russian, French, Haitian, United States, etc. used violence and murder to achieve its goal.

This is a ridiculous false equivalence.

Leninism is called that because it literally isn’t communism. Otherwise they’d just call it communism.

They actually do just call it Communism. Few people call it Leninism.

Communism is stateless

This is propaganda comparable to the GOP wanting "smaller government" rather than authoritarian Fascism.

Nobody expected them to suddenly stop. But you do not know what crazy new schemes for "shareholder value" that they silently dropped.

And as I said, so long as they removed their pictures and info from websites- it’s a win?

And as I said, the result of CEO's being more afraid to screw the public sure is a win. And removing their pictures from a website proves they are afraid.

Insurance companies are still doing exactly what they did before.

You don't know that at all. They may well have canceled some new measures to screw people over this.

At best, he sent a message to...

CEO's to think twice before implementing that new scheme to screw people.

Just because you have no imagination does not mean that there was no impact. You just cannot see it. Or rather, you do not want to see anything.

I hung a solar panel vertically on my fence one time. It was facing west rather than south, but I was only getting about 3-4 watts on my 100 watt panel under the best conditions.

Whether someone approves of this or not, the result of CEO's being more afraid to go to extreme measures to screw the public is something that is a good thing.

Nope. It is making health insurance CEOs more afraid to screw the public.