Don’t take the precious! Smeagol wants it!

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Not a nation of immigrants, but a settler colony based on indigenous eviction and genocide.

goblin mode

Like 15 years behind much of the world.

Yep, here it is.

Torrent link

Its extremely naive to allow the tech arms of the US surveillance state (facebook, google, apple, microsoft) to operate within your country. Every country should have a firewall to protect against this menace, and develop their own homegrown social media.

The US effectively controls (and hoovers up) all the social media and communications platforms of so many more countries than itself.

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

Damn, went down the twitter drain.

Chomsky after the leaks: “How they manufactured age-of-consent laws to target my good friend jeffrey epstein”

• China’s Social Credit System, and how it isn’t actually Black Mirror
• The US has more CCTV’s per capita than China.
• The US’s credit score system is vastly more influential and detrimental to a majority of its population than China’s social credit system, which largely doesn’t even exist, and where it does exist it is only used to target businesses.

Reminds me of this one, and how in the US you can lose your job in academia (and many other sectors) for supporting the BDS movement to boycott Israeli goods:

What are you talking about. What country doesn’t want to boost their economy???

Sure, but on the community where its actually relevant.

And its better to use torrents anyway for static data.

There is no propaganda so unbelievable that liberals won’t unquestioningly eat up about the DPRK.

The BBC and other western media rags for years have been posting articles like: “Kim jong un makes people eat shoes now”, and you all just nod your heads in unquestioning assent.

Off the charts on that one.

From 1 democratic president ago:

• After winning the Nobel peace prize, Obama dropped an average of 30k bombs / year (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries, 2, 3. In 2016 alone, dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia.
• Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which 90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but innocent civilian bystanders, including women, children, and US citizens. 1. Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the Obama administration has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush, 2. The Obama assassination program is detailed in the drone papers.

What is it about any ideology that might make it immune to that?

Marxism-Leninism is an explicitly anti-colonialist ideology that helped the PRC overturn the century of humiliation, defeat Japanese and US imperialism and feudalists, to win the greatest anti-colonial revolution of the 20th century.

Only if you are entirely ignorant of that history can you claim that “the anti-colonial camp is just as bad as their colonizers”.

So many “fell for it again” awards need to be handed out these past few years.

I just banned like 6 of them, dead or no-content accounts.

Liberals using bot accounts to try to manipulate public opinion (as they do on reddit and the rest of the western internet), is gonna be one of the bigger problems in the fediverse for the foreseeable future, so we have to stay ahead of it.

At this point they’re just targeting specific ppl like @Cowbee@lemmy.ml, but they’ll eventually start doing it en masse.