The Chinese govt sharing x website’s articles because they support their POV is proof of BIAS and PROPAGANDA LAUNDERING. The American govt.’s “news source” that is expressly propaganda for US hegemony is HIGHLY FACTUAL (we know because they said so) and only SLIGHTLY LEANS TO THE LEFT.
“For example, the article [‘Nazi genocide against Jewish population’] is emotionally loaded and one-sided against the [German] government due to its use of highly charged language and its singular focus on alleged atrocities committed by [the Nazis] without providing context or perspectives from the [German] side.” So on and so forth.
Wondrous!
Erm HRW (not a biased Western NGO) made a report (deconstructed by Norman Finkelstein) that weakly suggests this POV. No we will not include any evidence that suggests Israel is responsible, such as them bombing the cancer ward of that same hospital days earlier, an IOF spokesman cheering on the bombing as attacking Hamas, Israel misrepresenting Al Jazeera footage and their own as well, faking phone calls and video, etc. It’s clear from scale alone and the pattern of bombing hospitals that Israel was responsible, and this is where fence-sitting becomes absurd.
This is true, but I don’t like that it’s ranking my sources low because it’s doing it dishonestly.
The rights of stupid users must be protected by MBFC, which clearly tells people that the CIA is trustworthy and unbiased (whereas anti-imperialist sources get seventeen Pinocchios because freedomrifle.com fact checked them and found that they contradicted sources they liked in an endless cycle and their claims supported the Bad Country^TM) so there is no confusion. This can be very helpful to stop people from seeing OBVIOUS PROPOGANDA.
I found a particularly egregious case of MBFC lies here:
The article they link that shows Electronic Intifada “failed a fact check” is fact checking a single person’s tweet, which references a video, and the article mentions EI only once in the main body, namely it’s linked as an article shared by the tweeter to PolitiFact in email correspondence to support his claim that the IOF killed Israeli concert goers, but this is dismissed by PF since:
The information he sent did not include or appear to mention the video footage he shared on X.
And the context he gave for the video footage is all that’s being ”fact checked”. The original fact checking article linked clearly says EI’s article had nothing to do with the footage he shared. But since EI’s article is included in their sources, and an idiotic reading of the title seems to say that PF is saying Israel didn’t shoot its own concert goers period and no footage shows that they did (this may be intentional), EI has been DEBUNKED. Liberal scripture!
Oh and their rating system is completely arbitrary (cover for liberal end of history-ism).
I can’t believe I opened a Reddit link and read the comments again. I can’t stop burning my hand on the stove.
Revisionism in my view being ideology that leads to or allows the expansion and existence of private property.
Private property is not eternally bad or good, and capitalism is not simply private ownership or commodity production; the “superstructure” is not just a product of the “base”, but reinforces it and shapes it onwards, as Engels said, not cause and effect but reciprocation. You cannot split the dialectic apart (although sometimes it’s necessary for explanation), as people try to do with imperialism, narrowing Lenin’s “definition” to exclude the political and falling into vulgar materialism. China has private property, but it is itself public property extended, and the state in its ideological and practical spheres has shown itself to be a state of the workers.
If you read Anti-Dühring, Engels gives insight into the negation of the negation, that there are special conditions required for the sublation of the negation, i.e. you can negate capitalism by destructive madness, but you make it impossible to sublate this negation, and so everything resets. The negation of primitive classless society provides the groundwork for its own negation, advanced classless society (communism) by expanding production/socialization (put simply). There is no way you can get to socialism without private property, commodity production, etc., as Lenin says: “Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering based on the latest discoveries of modern science” (The Tax in Kind).
Or Marx: “even when a society has got upon the right track for the discovery of the natural laws of its movement — and it is the ultimate aim of this work, to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society — it can neither clear by bold leaps, nor remove by legal enactments, the obstacles offered by the successive phases of its normal development. But it can shorten and lessen the birth-pangs” (Capital Vol. 1).
Leninism, emerging out of imperialism, showed that communists could take power where imperialism was most concentrated, so mainly less developed countries, and this was the case with China. Mao himself acknowledged that private property was necessary for China’s development: “In the new-democratic republic under the leadership of the proletariat, the state enterprises will be of a socialist character and will constitute the leading force in the whole national economy, but the republic will neither confiscate capitalist private property in general nor forbid the development of such capitalist production as does not ‘dominate the livelihood of the people’, for China's economy is still very backward” (On New Democracy].
China and the USSR had no choice but to not only let private property exist but grow in some cases, of course while maintaining control over it, and you point to the fact that the NEP
was very very short
But as you say it was Stalin who ended it, not Lenin, and I think maybe that was a mistake, but maybe it wasn’t. In The Tax in Kind, Lenin talks about transitioning from a wartime economy, but it’s lucky this transition was reeled back, because later the USSR would be threatened by Hitler’s colonial invasion, and things like collective farming would play a big part in the Soviet victory against fascism.
"Ummm, sweaty, people get murdered every day all over the world so it's okay if I support murderers. Not wanting little kids to be torn to shreds by bomb attacks is actually just supporting Hamas. What does this say about supporting Hamas? It hurts my head when I think too hard about it."
One and the same, as shown by your defense of settler-colonial genocide when the good guys^TM do it with civility and tact.
On a forum with multiple Jeffrey Epstein emojis, a "yeah that 13 year old really seemed like an adult" comment was inevitable. I wasn't really sure what you were getting at or if you were just making an oblique joke.
I refuse to believe you are this stupid. It’s not possible.
“Support real artists” is a petty-bourgeois slogan used to keep their monopoly on the means of art production; painters had the same reaction to the invention of the camera. AI is the future, and denying it now is like the ridiculous protests against the introduction of the imaginary number, and before them of the old “imaginary numbers,” negatives.
Yes, it’s classist Ludditism to wholly condemn AI, just as it’s ableism to reject AI when it can be very useful to aid disabled people in work. If you like leisure and development, you like AI. Just look at this amazing image I generated using AI:
Prompt: “Communist Robin (DC comics Robin not the bird please)”
Only the democrats have the know-how to protect their “nation of immigrants” from being invaded by hordes of immigrants while not changing the imperialist policies that cause mass immigration in the first place! Kamala is brat and girlboss and republicans could never do genocide as good as her.
Kamala will 100% win without a doubt
Particularly instructive is Sharon’s recent visit to Moscow. He noted the development in Russia of the cultural and religious life of the Jewish community: it is a kind of “Golden Age.” This would seem good, but the Israeli prime minister continued thus, much on the contrary: “This worries me, due to the fact that we need another million Russian Jews.” What distresses Sharon here is not the danger of antisemitism but, on the contrary, the danger of assimilation.
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Democrats aren’t about enrichment of the already rich? Wondrous!! I must vote for them post haste!! This must be why they’re so hard on the rich and capital and yet so kind to poor countries and the homeless!!
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