• BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Seeing MLs post anti-left stuff like this makes me think of Monsignor Wicks from Wake Up Dead Man. Alienating the out-group to strengthen the bonds of the in-group.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      All states are instruments by which one class asserts its power over the others, this is true. However, if you stop your analysis there, you confuse capitalist states where the capitalists dominate the state with socialist states where the working classes are in charge of the state. Equating the two based on the presense of the state alone, and ignoring its class character, is a massive error. Where capitalism brings ruin and misery to the working classes, socialism brings liberation.

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      Can you even define that word? Because i only see it used as a thought terminating cliche that just means “government i don’t agree with”. Can you name a single non-“authoritarian” government?

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      'Spooky leftists are always talking about a “dictatorship!”, of the “proletariat(?)”,

      I don’t know what that second word means, but DICTATOR, DIC - TATOR, Dick, and Tators, dick and balls, cock and ball torture “dictatorship”, of the PROLETARIAT?! 😱’

      • you, and other misinformed people talking out of their ass.
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      Authority 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”.

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    “RT? ThaTS PrOpAgaNdA! Not like the NYT or BBC, truly unyielding credible sources!” - average comment from lib instances that encounters a non-western source LMBO!

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      Isn’t the point of a boycott that you then don’t have to deal with something?

      I check out your instance sometimes, and it’s wall to wall people gnashing their teeth and rending their garments about our existence. They’re obsessed with us, and the things they say are all the things in this meme. It seems like a bad time over there.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      What part of it is “obvious nonsense?” Pointing at something and calling it nonsense doesn’t explain why, it’s just mudslinging.

      • speech-rubi-rNonsensetoo-woke-1 «для действительного осуществления исправительно-трудовой политики режим в местах заключения должен быть лишен всяких признаков мучительства, отнюдь не допуская применения физического воздействия: кандалов, наручников, карцера, строго-одиночного заключения, лишения пищи, свиданий заключенных с их посетителями через решотку».

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        I really didn’t know what to point at as nonsense… Prior iterations included: ComLib and

        Russian text translated using deepl:

        “for the effective implementation of the correctional labour policy, the regime in places of detention must be devoid of any signs of torture, by no means allowing the use of physical force: shackles, handcuffs, punishment cells, strictly solitary confinement, deprivation of food, visits of prisoners with their visitors through the bars”.

        From От Тюрем к Воспитательным Учреждениям [From Prisons to Educational Institutions]

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      17 hours ago

      If it’s so obvious y’all would simply point at a credible source disproving us and we’d be done with it, instead you resort to thought terminating cliches and blatant propaganda that is easily disproven even without going to non-western sources. And that’s when you bother to google a source.