Red_Scare [he/him]

Didn’t know that, thanks!

I mean, using slurs like “ukrop” is not any better, is it.

I had an inactive account since Reddit banned MoreTankieChapo, the API debacle and the release of Sync for Lemmy got me here. Sync is ok but I’m waiting for Boost which should release soon and will likely attract even more fence sitters.

Soldiers from special commando unit 112 with a Russian spy. The man, allegedly in possession of a fake Israeli passport, was living in Irpin months before the Russian invasion. Under interrogation he confessed his name is Alexei, from St Petersburg, married with a child and working for the Wagner Group

That one’s bizarre, it’s a civilian sitting in the mud barefoot with some sort of bag over his head and a rope round his neck.

So he lived in the area long before the invasion, but then was captured with an Israeli passport and under “interrogation” confessed to being a Russian spy?

And given the number of Nazis in the army, nothing about this seems off to the “Guardian-reading wokerati”?

Or he’s happy to throw Ukrainian refugees under the bus. If fear mongering and xenophobia forces them back it’s just more meat for the grinder.

Wow what a shitty thing to say and upvote.

Ukraine was a founding member of the USSR, the second largest republic, the bread basket of the whole country, and a major industrial centre.

You pulled the idea that Ukrainians were some ungrateful exploiters during the USSR period straight out your arse.

But to suggest that Ukrainians should be grateful to the West for the proxy war the West is so happy to wage to the last Ukrainian is something else.

Really disappointing to see this liberal brain rot upvoted here.

According to your screenshot, this is the source (Mazdoor Bigul, December issue of 2005)

https://www.mazdoorbigul.net/pdf/Bigul-2005-12.pdf

I don’t speak Hindi so can’t confirm this quote is actually there. It’s clearly a communist publication so not likely to sway liberals.

Only ever applies to the West. Chinese people who got everything they have under CPC rule don’t owe CPC anything, according to the same people.

you owning some stock doesn’t have to define your politics. many revolutionaries and Marxists benefitted from capitalism and privilege. downtroded, illiterate people in abject poverty won’t develop revolutionary theory, organise an international movement, restructure the economy, and so on.

this question only matters in terms of class. what are class interests of workers in the West with spare funds to invest in stocks and spare time to spend on social media. what are their allegiances, their revolutionary potential. those are valid questions if you are looking to build a movement with them.

i can’t recommend Zak Cope’s “Divided world, divided class” strong enough if you’re interested in Western labour class dynamics.

This sits right next to the all-time high rate of suicides in the US. Clearly Americans are getting their taxes worth from the military spending.

Finally some good news, thank you CPC and comrade Xi for shining a bit of light through the clouds of current world affairs.

So when the CPC achieves a “staggering success in combating pollution” while capitalist South Asian states become the “global pollution epicentre”, how is it framed?

The Communist Party of China is not mentioned even once, not even as “the CCP”, Xi Jinping is never mentioned, the article only talks about vague “Beijing”, “Chinese government”, “Chinese leaders”.

Systemic differences between the way China is governed vs India and Pakistan are never brought up, instead “the progress made in China shows that change is possible, if the government and its people are willing and able to put in the work”: clearly South Asians just don’t want breathable air enough to “put in the work”.

Are systemic solutions ever mentioned? Maybe South Asia needs to stop being the Wests sweatshop so that they can start healing their land? Nope, they just need a handout: “Aid from international organizations and private donors could go a long way.”

They also talk about how “China remains the world’s 13th most polluted country”, of course without a mention that this pollution was caused primarily by manufacture for Western markets and in many cases by the Western owned companies, so that the West could in many cases double dip: on the one hand, by exploiting cheap but well educated labour (that education bankrolled by the Communists, mind you) so that they could sell necessities to workers in the West at ridiculously low prices, allowing them to suppress wages in the West without guillotines wooshing; and on the other hand by exporting the profits of the entire production chain back to the West where the company is owned.

If the pollution in China was getting worse you can bet your ass they would be talking about “the CCP” and Xi Jinping personally, and the solution would be nothing short of the outright regime change.

I’m trying to seize the means of production but I’m dummy thicc and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the bourgeoisie