Unlike in bourgeois democracies, which are really bourgeois oligarchies, representatives in in China actually are elected by the proletariat instead of pre-selected by the bourgeoisie, and it shows.

• Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t
• Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
• Chinese Scientists Are Leaving the United States [for China]

Finally, to the mods- I hope you understand that this application does not have a lot of users and that deleting controversial comments that you dont agree with without any explanation is exactly how you drive people out.

Firstly, Lemmy is not an “application,” and secondly, wouldn’t it be a shame if we were to drive out hasbara genocide apologists.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Fuck yes it’s pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist settler-colonialist. It’s anti-apartheid, anti-ethnic cleansing, and anti-genocide.

Palestinians have the right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle, while the State of Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

Please stop harassing this person so I don’t have to ban you. Plenty of us find this SovCit-level nonsense annoying, but the thing to do is block them, not continually harass them.

Relatedly, we get a lot of reports against you, which is a pain in our asses. Please make our jobs easier and work on your bedside manner.

The problem isn’t that Israel is an ethno-religious state, it’s that it’s a genocidal, apartheid, settler-colonial state imposing itself on someone else’s land, and it’s trying to ethnically cleanse that land of its indigenous peoples, and it’s trying to expand its territory into a “Greater Israel,” extending its project of ethnic cleansing ever wider.

Are statements made by all countries to be blocked? Should this post from Brazil—which had 22 upvotes and 0 downvotes—have been removed?

I trusted my perspective and all I got was a five mile walk to the gas station.

The Mull browser project shut down along with the rest of DivestOS. You may want to consider IronFox.

Homeopathic levels of Franklin piss.

Water? Never touch the stuff. Fish fuck in it. — W.C. Fields

*week

_*day

The bipartisan US plan is to make Taiwan be the next Ukraine. But first it has to move chip manufacturing out of the future proxy war zone.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

Washington, Wash.ing.ton. Six foot twenty, fuckin’ killing for fun.

I guess you didn’t get satisfactory answers from your first post, but you still haven’t clarified what you actually mean by your question. All Lemmy servers run Lemmy, so in some senses of the term, they’re all roughly equally private, which is to say not very, because all posts & comments are publicly scrapable, except for private messages.

https://lemmy.ml/:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

What is Lemmy.ml

Just be aware that BlackRock is capitalism’s final boss.

Neither the US, Ukraine, nor Russia is even approaching socialism, so I don’t see how campism is relevant. What is relevant is imperialism vs. anti-imperialism.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9498456

Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?

In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.

Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.

• Robert Parry, 2015: The Mess that Nuland Made
• Jeffery Sachs, 2023: The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace

Yeah. You put about 3 times the effort on your first point but have a shit ton of sources for your second. Doesn’t add up.

I didn’t put any effort in. I happened to have those articles on hand already.

No kidding?

I don’t have sources on hand for the the first point, but I do for the second.

As for the first point, it’s been covered by the likes of John Mearsheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Noam Chomsky, Michael Hudson, and Glenn Diesen. Some political figures have admitted as much, but unfortunately I don’t recall who off the top of my head.