☭CommieWolf☆ @ commiewolf @lemmygrad.ml

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You are Turk, Dominican, and a dear American? Is it true that you need to fill out your "race" on various forms over there? If so what do you say yours is when they ask?

Damn, you are a Turk, as well a dear American? Hasan?

And Al-Jazeera pretends to be pro Palestine while they're just a state propaganda mouthpiece who's main goal is to get Sunni Muslims to believe everything they say about regimes that "Oppress the true faith".

As much as I would like to see it, I don't report posts from them that don't add "Sectarian Reactionary News Media" added in the title. Because unlike the new york times, there are a lot of outlets who, due to their coverage of the genocide, have lulled many people into thinking they are upstanding and should be listened to. Another example for this is just recently we saw middle east spectator reveal themselves to be Anti-LGBT when they commented on Zohran Mamdani's position on pride. Do we now ignore, report, and block every single thing they report on?

It's not the fault of the user who posts it, neither does it break a rule. I take no issue with your discomfort at CPGB being reactionary, I believe so too.

However it is not against the rules (as they are currently, I do think they could be improved) to post something they say, as long as it is not directly endorsing the party or it's reactionary views. I don't see that here.

I could say all those things about the BBC, the Guardian, etc

That is the point, you definitely can, and if we followed the rules the way you did, we'd be reporting every post made out of one of their pieces, that's my point. We do not post anything with the assumption that we are uncritically endorsing everything that has ever been said by the source. And if we do so for some and not others, we give legitimacy to the ones we don't try and ban from our discussions. If this is the intended way we follow these rules, I am much more uncomfortable with Al-Jazeera, Middle East eye, New York times and their ilk being seen as totally fair and productive to post articles from than whoever this small UK party member is.

I’m not sure why you want to report Al Jazeera, there is no rule against posting from mainstream media.

They are a sectarian, anti China, anti Shia propaganda rag that manufactured consent for the destruction of Syria and Libya, yet I see plenty of posts of their articles here, particularly about Palestine, and yet I tolerate it and don't report people for making such posts, because I don't automatically assume the people posting are trying to promote sectarian, anti China views.

Also how do you interpret the rule, do you take it as meaning "We don't want people with such views to be a part of this community and spread their views" or "We don't want people with such views to even be mentioned in this community regardless of why"?

Should we go and report any post from Al-Jazeera? Or any post that links to western state propaganda in general? Does that count as breaking the "Promoting anti-communism" rule? I think it's a little much to go about reporting people for linking something somebody said, just because we don't like the somebody who said it. I don't see any explicit all encompassing endorsement of this person's reactionary views anywhere in this post.

Germany should have been completely disintegrated after WWII. I think the Soviets made a mistake by creating the DDR, because at the end of the day it was still possible to re-unite and create what has effectively become the fourth Reich. Should have been split into like 5 different independent PRs/annexed by Poland/Czechoslovakia.

But they are trying to make people speak FRENCH, which is arguably worse and a war crime.

will my guide accompany me on board the slide to ensure I am not attempting to sabotage the state? If not, how can I convince them to?

Tell me Dutchman, is it true that Dutch people are among the least likely in all of Europe to wash their hands after they use the bathroom?

Very conspicuously no Soviets though

Believe me, I am not fond of AI generated images, I am probably more A.I paranoid than you, but I think this image, if it is fake, is likely just a regular old doctored picture. Tools which are pretty reliably able to detect this sort of thing are not coming up with anything in this case.

Sightengine disagrees with you, what makes you think so?

There should be a content warning for Piers Morgan, the cringe at his incompetence is so fucking bad.

Neither of these are exactly "soft" power, I think you're misinterpreting the term somewhat.

Soft power isn't so much to do with "diplomatic" power, but mainly the ability to more subtly influence others through positive attraction, such as through culture, religion, arts, film, music, fashion etc (such as Hollywood films acting as propaganda for US capitalist ideas, even when not made to explicitly do so). And in all honesty this is arguably one of China's weakest ways of projecting itself overseas, compared to the west. I'm just struggling to see how that really ties into the discussion here.

Look at what he's referencing too, "Not Since Truman 1945". If the worst happens, it will be the second time in the past 100 years, that such sentiments had been expressed to a US president, shortly followed by indiscriminate nuclear annihilation of thousands of innocent human beings.

Could you explain what "soft power" you're referring to here exactly?

Wishing our Muslim comrades a fruitful Eid al-Adha this weekend

Shame on them

Welcome back. Not much has changed around here compared to 2 years ago, except perhaps the semi frequent struggle sessions about AI, I suppose that's something we're somewhat split on at the moment.