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Also, he is part of Pirate party, which has a track record of opposition to this kind of stuff.

So yes, if it was exactly like you say that concept is called “critical support”. It is possible and often necessary to align with imperfect allies against the greater foe.

Listen. Do you support the democrats against Trump? Of course you don’t. But why, it’s aligning with imperfect allies (neoliberals) against the greater foe (nationalist capitalist conservatives)? The answer is the same in both cases. I don’t have to support states. I can already see you typing “but what about Ukraine” and my answer is, I don’t support Ukraine. I support the people in their war against an invader, in the way I support Palestinians without supporting Hamas. Because lesser-evilism is still evil. And there’s a whole can of nuance I have opened right now, so…

Once you believe that Russia is allowed to have national security interests, the whole conflict is quite cut and dry. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, The West has repeatedly promised that NATO would not expand East, and has repeatedly broken that promise.

Do you believe Israel should be allowed to invade Palestine? Of course you don’t, because you’re not that monsterish. But, using your analogy, they should have the right to invade Palestine. The key is, once again, the people. We can be in solidarity with the people as opposed to states. We can support actual grassroots resistence without being simps for the state. It gets clearer once you understand that democracy is a myth. And that countries don’t act out of the people’s word.

Would you trust the West? What if a right-wing government took over in a Western-backed coup and banned the use of the Russian language, while making overtures to join NATO?

I would probably oppose it, coups are bad for everyone. It’s imperialism, a projection of power by a foreign government. And neither of the countries’ peoples really benefit off it as opposed to a mutual treaty. But I believe you think this has already happened, and I haven’t seen any proof. Either way, Ukraine should let the separatists separate if that is the voice of the people. I have serious doubts over that case however. Invasion is not the answer in any case whatsoever.

This analogy is imperfect but imagine if the Quebecois seized power in Canada and banned the use of English, while also trying to join the SCO quasi-alliance. Do you think the US would wax poetic about self-determination or would we immediately see Abrams tanks rolling north?

Predicting the US is getting harder each day, but they probably wouldn’t waste hours. IDK here. Canada has already done so much shit to its indigenous nations, so many war crimes that don’t get talked about… Did the US intervene back then? Of course they wouldn’t, the self-determination is not the point of any superpower. Also, the same as above.

They’re Marxist-Leninists. They don’t care about imperialism, democracy, freedom, rights, anything. They subdue their ideology to geopolitics, which they treat as a sport, instead of an area which impacts people. Ask yourselves: If the perpetrator of the Palestinian genocide was Russia or China, would they care? No, they would see it as “state propaganda”. They don’t care about Palestinians in reality. They do care that the right superpower rises to the top.

In a way, they’re inverted NATO fans. Same thinking, opposite team to support.

The state religion of the West is known as Liberalism. This ideology has an insufferably self-righteous view of itself, like all religions. In this framing, only liberalism can be the path to good, and all other ideologies are flavors of the dreaded Authoritarianism™

I honestly agree with this take. Liberalism has become a religion. Worse than a religion, a cult of capital, in fact. And it also views all deviations that are deviated as authoritarian. But that’s because it doesn’t know about less authoritarian socialist and communist movements, mainly thanks to the influence of the burgeoisie.

In this way, liberalism becomes Capital’s perfect shield against all criticism or worse yet class consciousness. We can’t tax the rich, that would be authoritarian! The “Liberty” of the ownership class is the top priority, and the material concerns of the working class should barely even be spoken of.

Only dumbfuck right-“libertarians” say that taxing the rich is authoritarian. You will soon discover that they care more about property than any other freedom, that’s what capitalism is based upon after all. Also, they tend to believe in hierarchies, at least explicitly from the point they decide to take Hoppe seriously. You can call them liberals for all you want though, the waters are muddy here.

The crown jewel of this system is media control, also known as “manufacturing consent”. We can’t have scary gommunism because Stalin and Mao killed a hundred bajillion people, I read about it in my trusted national news sources

We can’t have communism as long as people like Stalin and Mao keep showing up and promising us communism, whilst delivering state capitalism instead. Communism is a classless, moneyless, stateless society, or the pursuit of it; MLs and relateds do pursuit by strengthening the state, creating a political class and not abolishing currency. It’s not logical.

The modern tactic is to “spread democracy” by pouring money into reactionary elements through well-known CIA cutouts like NED.

or just… invading them? did you forget the original talking point was full on invasion? You’re intentionally weakening your point, and for what?

Either the color revolution succeeds and overthrows a government that prioritizes the working class over capital, OR the color revolution fails and we have a new slander to plaster across the media!

Color revolution has become for left-wing authoritarians as extremism for liberals. A way to shrug anything you don’t like with a single phrase meant to exist as a thought-terminating cliche, made to get you angry even without knowing why. Without even understanding why it happened. And that’s my biggest thing with authoritarians, they do NOT Listen to the workers. They fap over ruling over the workers, they do not take them seriously. MLism and related is WMINO - worker movement in name only. MLs and liberals are the same, they do not believe in worker’s rights, they only pretend to do so. They pretend they’re pro-worker by enacting a minor reform, but then cut into the worker’s power. That’s not communism. That’s statism.

Once you stop caring about the “Liberty” of the capital class and start counting coups you might have a different understanding about what freedom actually means. Is it freedom to have to work for the capital class day in and day out or else your family will starve?

It is not freedom to have to work to survive. That’s also why I oppose MLism and similar ideologies, the “authoritarians” I keep talking about, because they are fundamentally the same. You get jailed for not working. Works in capitalism and in state “socialism”.

if they were critics of western imperialism… they are also defenders of non-western imperialism.

In Ireland, the people behind circulating and amplifying such content are often a small but highly-networked minority, Ms McDonald said.

I do think that is great in the way that if you take this network out, the hate crimes will become less commonplace.

They should be extradited themselves. If they wanna live in an authoritarian state, let them.

As is Bazooka Trade

Rules for me not for thee.

The US has become a vector of corporate fascism, seeking to infect other countries with it.

Oh, I wouldn’t worry about that. The whole world automatically benefits from regional legislation affecting global actors like international publishers. Just like the whole world benefitted from Europe enforcing GDPR compliance: Every reddit and Facebook user, not just Europeans, being able to download a data dump of their site activities isn’t something that came about randomly.

I also think they’re making a bad point. Like, if you want to spend money to shit down your games except Europe, then do so, if you want. We ain’t gonna stop you, just seems stupid to invest money into this thing that isn’t going to get a high return either way.

Wait, so you’re telling me the automated patterns seeking program has sought the racism pattern? Who could’ve thought?

As they should. Slashing social spending is a sure way to boost radicalization, and with it the far-right.

lemmy.ml is an instance that has a large number of so-called Marxist-Leninists, who in addition to being an authoritarian socialist ideology support the USSR, China and basically any “anti-west” country for just being anti-west. They don’t take criticism of Russia lightly, even though modern-day Russia is not even close to MLism. But it’s anti-US, which is good enough for them.

People miss that giving away to the far-right will not satisfy them. No, the far-right doesn’t stop until it reaches its goals of having authoritarian ethnostates. If we want to stop that, we can’t make people complacent with it by introducing the reforms slowly. We have to steer them away.

The EU can do good if we decide we want to. For that to happen however, we have to throw behind the idea of uncontrolled neoliberalism and start enforcing human rights using soft power. The CSDDD is a step forward for ensuring exactly that.

Such is the policy when you don’t treat migrants as people, or at least as second-grade people. You don’t do shit, because why invest in helping them even if that would’ve naturally reduced migration, when you can just ask other countries to do whatever you need to keep them out.

Why aren’t they glad they’re being protected from dangerous hamas terrorists for free?

Getting somewhere!

Are they fans of Trump or what?