Dessalines

News article about this: www.usatoday.com/story/news/…/88919223007/

Operation condor, operation gladio? Never heard of em.

It's not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.

You just described the PRC, and notably not capitalist dictatorships, whose governments don't represent their people / working class, but the interests of capitalists only.

You desperately need to get past this poli-sci-intro-level understanding of what states are. States are organizations of force for one class (meaning in Marxism their relationship to production) to oppress another. The USA and other liberal countries are capitalist dictatorships over workers, while the PRC is a worker's dictatorship over capital.

Here are some resources:

• https://dessalines.github.io/essays/crash_course_socialism.html
• https://dessalines.github.io/essays/dessalines_marxism_study_plan.html

You can curate your own feed: use the block button for any communities you don't want to see. As for why there's a lot of politics on lemmy: The west's leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.

Since we have a lot of racist redditors coming over here catching bans for their historical ignorance about the June 4th incident, here are some resources:

• Notes for the 30th anniversary of the Tiannment incident.
• It wasn't a massacre of peaceful students, but a skirmish between PLA soldiers and armed detachments from the pro-capitalist / free market reform movement. The protest movement, as evidenced by their own accounts, called for market liberalisation, and free market reforms, rallying around a replica of the statue of liberty. After the movement had been building in the square for seven weeks, unarmed soldiers were sent in to disperse the protesters, after which many soldiers were beaten to death, torched, and lynched. The New York Times death count went from 2600, to many thousands, to 8000, to tens of thousands. In reality only around ~200 (including soldiers) were killed or trampled, in smaller clashes outside the square. The on-scene New York Times reporter disavowed the article, especially about machine-gunning of protesters. A wikileaks cable from a US ambassador to the US state department, confirmed that no killings or machine-gunnings took place in the square.
• Latin American diplomat eyewitness account of June 3-4 events on Tiananmen Square wikileaks (PDF)
• There was a Spanish television crew that covered the entire Tiananmen Square incident as it unfolded. Their footage showed that there was no massacre. A few things worthy of pointing out - Liu Xiaobo and Hou Dejian, both student leaders of the Tiananmen protests, have been recorded as saying that they never saw anyone killed at the protests.
• The protest movement followed the line of "color revolutions", in which the US tried to destabilize and create counter-revolutions in eastern Europe and Latin America after the fall of the USSR. The strategy was to stir division within and without, by inundating the media with news of massacres of "peaceful", pro-capitalist / market reformers.
• The defeat of a counter revolution in China.
• Interviews from some of the student leaders.
• An account from a resident.
• Tiananmen Square "Massacre", A Propaganda Hoax.
• The truth about the Tiananmen square protests

In western capitalist dictatorships, "centrism" means an acceptance and non-opposition to the status quo of capitalist rule, liberalism, and landlordism.

Any opposition to poverty, homelessness, hunger, or rule by capitalists, is deemed "radical", and outside of respectable discourse, even though these should be just a baseline of human decency.

Some resources:

• Liberalism - The tyranny of wealth
• Losurdo - Liberalism - A counter history (audiobook)
• Can't we use voting to solve our problems? Is violence really necessary? What about Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi? audiobook

As @Cowbee@lemmy.ml mentioned, PSL (and a few other socialist parties), are the only real opposition, since they’re a working-class party that’s consistently anti-war and anti-capitalism. From crash course socialism: Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be impossible. Most current-day systems are better labeled as Bourgeois Democracy, or democracy for the rich only, which socialists contrast with proletarian democracy. Under capitalism, political parties, representatives, infrastructure, and the media are controlled by capitalists, who place restrictions on the choices given to workers, limit their representative options to vetted capitalist puppets, and limit the scope of public debate to pro-capitalist views. Bourgeois democracies are in reality Capitalist Dictatorships, resulting in legislation favorable to the wealthy, regardless of the population’s actual preferences. The Princeton Study, conducted in the US in 2014, found that the preferences of the average US citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation, making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. Multi-party, Parliamentary / representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, the UK, the US, South Korea, or Brazil. Ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle more accurately defined Democracy as rule by the poor, and they considered states based on elections to be anti-democratic Aristocracies, since only the wealthy and ruling families have the resources to finance elections. They contrasted this with random selection / sortition, and citizen’s assemblies, as being the defining features of democracy, both of which are nonexistent in the countries listed above. Today, liberal / parliamentary “democracies” are dominated by wealthy candidates, and entrenched political families, with Capitalists standing above political power. This system of sham elections acts as a distracting theater piece, giving the illusion of democracy, whilst in reality it serves to platform capitalist views, make them appear more popular than they are, and manufacture consent for the system itself. Examples of restrictions include a media and news monopoly, 2, gerrymandering, long term limits with no way to recall unpopular representatives, restrictions crafted to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, bills directly crafted by lobbyists and bourgeois lawmakers, voter suppression, electoral fraud, unverifiable closed source electronic voting systems, capitalist campaign financing, low voter to representative ratios, inconvenient voting locations and times, and most importantantly, candidate stacking. Most elections are performed before we ever get to the polling booth. In short, political democracy can’t exist without economic democracy, and true democracy is only possible when workers control production. The impossibility of Capitalist democracy to make a transition to working-class democracy is best shown by the phrase: Capitalists will not allow you to vote away their wealth. Pacifism, and elections have never been an effective means of disenfranchising the ruling class. Communists propose building alternatives alongside of bourgeois democracy, with the goal of to replacing it with Proletarian democracy. Measures might include: Replacement of bourgeois parliamentary bodies with broadly inclusive workers organizations, such as unions, councils, or syndicates. Seizing land, productive facilities, and housing and putting them under democratic control. Elimination of all debts, suppression of all private banks and stock markets. Direct democracy in as many decisions as possible, often called cyber communism. A democratically planned economy for human needs, with open participation. Low-level workplace democracy. Elimination of the standing army, and the substitution for it of armed workers. An emphasis on universal education, health-care, child-care, care for the elderly, and human welfare, paid for socially. Increase in productive technology. Low levels of wealth and income inequality, often driven by a system of labor vouchers for compensation. Experts (if any) elected by the working class through universal suffrage. All representatives and officials (including police) are revocable at any time. Public officials are paid worker’s wages.

Most of the channels I know ask for donations via patreon or other funding platforms. I don't think youtube pays much except for maybe the top 1% of slop channels.

CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA. JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn't more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles' restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK's murder.

No probs. Why not, do they have you blocked, or did piefed code in a Cowbee filter 🤣

Damn. The pedophile elite were probably workshopping how to take advantage of its success in their campaigns for weeks then.

You're clearly a unique thinker and not influenced at all by decades of anticommunist propaganda.

https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

Life expectancy increased from 35 in 1949 to 65 in the 1970s when Mao’s rule came to an end.

The core function of lemmy, is following communities, either built around a topic, region, or anything else. The core function of mastodon, is following people. The only way to make microblogging tolerable, IMO is to follow "topic-based" accounts. I might be interested in what a person thinks about a topic, but I'm not interested in what food they ate that day. There's also the issue of overwhelming feeds: not everyone can be a celebrity, and there's a limit to the number of people we can hold in our heads and follow, before our entire day is wrecked. I can't use most microblogging because its just too overwhelming, and I don't care about celebrities outside of a few writers or academics.

Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting... it doesn't make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the "democracy" there is nothing but political theatre. Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and prestige to fund campaigns to get themselves elected. Liberals still haven't learned this simple lesson.

No probs!

Depends on the country. There are many US specific communities like https://lemmy.ml/c/usa

That isn't true. You still need a phone number to sign up.

Looks like they're having some DNS issues atm.

I use ReadYou too! I did set up a FreshRSS backend though, because it was pretty easy to set up, and sync my read's everywhere.

I use dreaming spanish too! And vidioma.com for mandarin.

For anyone interested, here's a detailed explanation from the ppl at dreaming spanish on why it works.

a clever title.

This is completely incorrect.

Also the smaller OS’s that can run entirely in RAM are going to be fast when it comes to anything but disk reads.

Capitalists aren’t going to let you abolish their rule without an organized violence that they will tell others is “authoritarian”.

are usually not regarded as authoritarian Despite two of the primary liberal countries, the US and UK, genociding entire continents.

dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#wh…

Vote with your dollar. Doesn’t work, a tiny number of capitalists have more of them, and created a system / rigged game (bourgeois “democracy”) that perfectly serves their interests.

You can’t fight against capitalism with violence, Historically the only way you can fight against capitalism is with violence. There has never been a case in its entire ~400 year history where its relinquished power to socialist alternatives without violence. Fidel on this

Yep, they were one of the pillars of operation gladio. The vatican bank was one of the principle money launderers for the CIA’s drug-running and terrorism operations. One of their assets, Marsinkus, even killed a pope in the 70s over threatening to expose it.