dumbass

😢

I was there to make new friends but everyone is very mean.

really telling on yourself there

What goes around comes around

Yes, they absolutely would because Stalin, Lenin, and Mao drastically improved the conditions for the working majority. For example https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25495509/

I can see their undeleted comments, but not the mod log. I’m on the Voyager app

Apparently that feature isn’t in the Voyager app

here is a detailed explanation for you https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/what-challenges-do-hierarchies-address

Seems to be the case. I use the web version, and have no problems.

I don’t mind telling on myself here. I had several comments deleted and was banned from one of your communities for arguing that it was ridiculous to wish death upon people for joining the Navy and to hate everyone else who doesn’t share that view. My ban labeled me as a “liberal Zionist.” Not once in the conversation was Israel, Gaza, Zionism or anything related to it mentioned.

So since everyone can apparently look at others’ mod logs, I now have a smear on my record because your mods don’t have any qualms about lying about people they disagree with.

You really are the worst possible ambassadors for your own ideology.

It's easy to have few prisoners when you're killing everyone.

it's easy to spew nonsense when you have a brain the size of a peanut

maybe you should reflect on why you're a genocide supporting piece of human garbage

Maybe you should reflect on why you accuse people who don’t support genocide of supporting genocide.

You forget about the Great Terror or something?....

Welcome to anarchism.

yeah I'll reflect on that if I actually do that.

name checks out

I did, it's a nightmare to navigate on a phone. I still can't find what unpigged said. I did see that they were banned for breaking rule 1 in a "rules TBD" community, which is funny.

I won’t hold my breath. I suspect your definition of people who support genocide is “people I accuse of supporting genocide.”

Means Lemmy.ml rule 1, which is instance-wide.

Nice

It was more “you lose credibility when you make a grotesque thesis statement

Aka something you disagree with.

, both in substance and on the form”.

What the fuck does that even mean? You're just trying to sound smart now.

The form is sufficiently obvious I suppose

In that they disagree with you, yes.

On the merits of the existence of authoritarianism, dismissing the work of someone like Adorno - just like that - is genuinely hilarious.

So they disagree with you

Go back to Reddit you insufferable fucking dork

"During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds

Unfortunately for you, your moderation history is public

Yes, unfortunately I have mud on me because I was foolish enough to engage with pigs.

See you there!

I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

I don’t mind telling on myself here. I had several comments deleted and was banned from one of your communities for arguing that it was ridiculous to wish death upon people for joining the Navy and to hate everyone else who doesn’t share that view.

LMAO I remember that one. It was c/slop in Hexbear where you were justifying soldiers killing innocent people because they were "escaping poverty". You literally don't consider people outside your country as humans and you were acting like a sobbing victim the entire time.

.world shitlibs really do think they should be able to behave as badly as possible without ever being subject to any rules

redditors can't stop with the cringy sarcastic "friendliness" when losing any argument

Would Pol Pot be in that list? If not, why?

No. Next question.

Cuba or China serving the working class?

I want a little bit of what you smoke, it's strong.

They're just color-changed-US. Nothing different at all.

only capitalist pig here is you

I literally said none of that. I invite any sane person who accidentally stumbles into this thread to go read my mod log and see my comments that are being characterized as above.

It must be very interesting to know so little and just say things.

Don't be a fucking idiot, I was arguing with you in that thread. Soldiers have a choice, and they chose death for the innocent people outside Amerika, and you kept defending them as if they were just poor innocent little babies.

Fucking dork

Uhuh. I know how think that line sounds very witty but it's completely meaningless

Literally trying to understand this side lol. You can look at the rest of the comments I have here. Everything I've read and heard, even from self described communists has been anti stalin/mao. It's not a crazy leap to ask if Pol Pot is in the same category. I troll in shitposting communities but here I'm literally trying to hear you. I haven't been combative or argumentative. I haven't even disputed a single claim made by anyone. I did just now start responding "rule 2" to people not being respectful though.

Cuba == usa???????????

Zombies would starve from just being near you.

They choose who Trump and Hegseth decide to attack?

LMFAO HOLY FUCK DO YOU NOT GET IT? If I tell you to kill someone, and you do it, are you absolved of any responsibility??? Fucking god damn you are ignorant.

I’m not getting into this again because you’re already lying about what I am saying.

No, I am right. Try and cope as much as you want, you are in fact someone who enjoys the fascist killing of the global south. You only care now because Trump is mean about it.

I don’t think killing innocent people is justified and I don’t think people outside America don’t matter.

Highlighting this bit here. You were constantly saying that "you voted for this" to everyone in that Hexbear thread, who might not even be Amerikan. This is because you literally do in fact not think that lives outside Amerika matters at all and automatically assume everyone else is Amerikan.

This author seems to be confused about what hierarchies are. Hierarchies have nothing to do with division of labor or expertise--you can easily have/recognize both of those things in a horizontal power structure. A hierarchy is about who can coerce whom.

In the factory example the article gives, the presence of a central organizer/administrator/delegator does not necessarily mean the factory operates hierarchically. To determine if it does, you'd need to ask, "does the organizational structure allow the administrator to have their decisions enforced via actual or threatened violence against people who dissent?" In our capitalist reality, this would be things like firing the dissenter (depriving them of basic survival resources) or calling the cops. In authoritarian "communist" regimes, this might be forced labor or re-education camps.

You can organize at scale, abstract out certain parts of the organization, etc. without this coercive element. Humans are cooperative creatures; we want to build things together, and we are fully capable of respecting each other while we do so. Why limit the bounds of our liberation by assuming we need this systemic violence to do what we already want to do?

Oh, name, I thought you meant make.

No. Next question.

Life expectancy doubled in Russia before Stalin's term was over. The Soviets weren't killing everyone, this is a fantasy.

I don't think it should be surprising that Marxists are on a site developed by Marxists.

Rule 2

Rule 2