Hopefully Chinese democracy will prevail against western authoritarianism.
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OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Lemmy's version of TDS - Tankie Derangement Syndrome
16·2 months agoAuthority exercised by the proletariat through a DotP is qualitatively different than authority exercised by capital through a DoC.
Read the analysis of the Paris commune in “State or Revolution”.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•Could we have a rule that prohibits commenting about Media Bias Fact Check?
5·2 months agoSounds good
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Libs do love perpetuating that western invented "magical" word 😁
121·2 months agoI think you’re getting hung up on an artificial separation of politics and economics, you should look up a critique of this or investigate why political economy is a useful framework for analysis.
Where is that video of the Chinese cop tearing milk company managers a new one for calling the police in response to workers staging a sit in as part of a labor dispute?
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•Here’s the full text of Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s war on Gaza
102·5 months agothere is no way Biden or Harris would have approved the 20 point genocidal plan in the article.
Biden straight up gave arms and support to Israel over his tenure, including after October 7th when the genocide intensified. Biden also supported the genocide.
https://www.google.com/search?q=italy+operation+gladio
There are a few academic publications on this in the first page of Google search results
A munch is just a social. People chat and stuff, kinky things don’t happen, and it is generally discouraged to use the space for cruising. Different munch dress codes vary from “be very normycore inconspicuous” to “be decent”
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•China, Russia, and Iran have hypersonic missiles. And that changes everything.
41·8 months agoAh, a YouTuber named “habitual linecrosser”. Perhaps the “source: it came to me in a dream” commenter was too generous.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•China, Russia, and Iran have hypersonic missiles. And that changes everything.
133·8 months agoAre you claiming you know this from classified information?
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•China, Russia, and Iran have hypersonic missiles. And that changes everything.
141·8 months agoCould you cite this please?
What are you talking about have you never heard of
emperorComrade Puyi?
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Read Theory Like Your Survival Depends On It (It Does)
11·9 months agoReally good book! A little bit inaccessible in the first two chapters though.
Jokes aside, a good start is to join a socialist org, participate, and start developing yourself politically. I believe cowbee has a good reading list.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Read Theory Like Your Survival Depends On It (It Does)
15·9 months agoBut only if you’re doing what needs to be done.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•New docs reveal what really happened in Beijing, 1989
51·9 months agoIt would be helpful to give specific examples to where you think sources are being misused instead of generally saying that they are being misused.
Could you point out a specific instance where they “they rather cite segments fitting their narrative stands” in a way that misrepresents information?
Not a dude, please don’t “bro” me
Here is another helpful link, on citizen perception of the importance of democracy and whether their government is democratic.
It was founded by a former NATO secretary so it has a pro-western bias.
https://allianceofdemocracies.org/democracy-perception-index
Here is a chart sourced from its its 2024 report. As you can see Chinese people have more faith in democracy and the democratic nature of their government than westerners do.
The whole brainwashing thing is nonsense, as Cowbee pointed out you misread the data on the 11 percent. It seems like you are misreading data to support your preconceived notions.

OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•New docs reveal what really happened in Beijing, 1989
4·9 months agoThats not how source verification works! Credibility=/= verification! Some nobody citing a lot of firsthand accounts of notable state actors admitting that they did a thing that would be bad for them to admit might be less credible than a mainstream news platform only citing secondary sources but is giving you more verifiable information.
China is a democracy, even studies by conservative western institutions show Chinese people have higher satisfaction with their government, more belief in the importance of democracy, and more belief in the democratic nature of their government than western European and American citizens do for their own governments.
They have a more comprehensive democracy too. Consultative processes and deliberative processes are enshrined in institutions in a way that they are not within western bourgeois democracies.
OurToothbrush@lemmy.mlMto
World News@lemmy.ml•The Houthis Almost Shot Down an F-35—and Washington Is Panicked
151·10 months agoIt had to rely on a last resort as opposed to its primary defensive system which constricts its design in a big way, its stealth component.







I mean if you’re under feudal relations supporting capitalism makes you progressive, but right now we’re operating under socialized production with capitalists constraining production around exchange value so yeah supporting maintaining capitalism is right wing. Let socialized production benefit society.