I described to a coworker how theres a memo from the undersecretary of inter American affairs from the 1950s where they basically say “Castro is too popular, we’re going to try to starve the entire country so that people hate him and overthrow the government” and i showed it to him (on the u.s. government’s own website) and literally moments later he told me “castro starved his own people”
Hey nerd did you know that every bit of data liberals point to to say “capitalism works and uplifts people from poverty” includes China and if you exclude china suddenly there have been no gains against poverty worldwide for the last, like, 40 years. In fact, weird! Income and wealth inequality have just gotten worse and worse everywhere else! I wonder why that is
well, nobody says shit about you, you’re cool
every battle is a personal battle in a way, even a real battle, like, personally i wouldn’t be there
Im cool but i’m not so cool i can ignore hushed whispers of “that’s the guy… yea, brings his own tp, yea, weird shit”
Every “oh yeah just poop on company time” motherfucker just casually bragging about their platinum laced anus that can withstand being sandpapered to death by the world’s cheapest toilet paper (which should be banned btw)
Oh god, you get reports from federated instances? Gotta be dealing with bullshit all day
Also, lol
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But leftists really need to band together internationally, not divide along Nationalist lines
Then what the fuck are you doing posting shit criticizing democracy in the dprk, a country inherently more democratic than any fucking country you could possibly be posting from by virtue of not being capitalist
p.s.
Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
- Albert Einstein, Why Socialism?
but no again tell me about how the level of political freedom you have differs meaningfully between western societies and China
china gets shit on because they don’t have political freedom; there’s no stuff like “you can speak your mind as long as you’re respectful”. it’s just one committee making all the decisions and you can go to jail for disagreeing.
what if actually it’s more like you need to know what the fuck you’re talking about in order to Be Political (which involves joining the party and by its nature excludes capitalist roaders and compradors attempting to bring back capitalist systems) and then democracy happens within that party
instead of like a big nameless Committee made up of a hivemind AI like intelligence that just Dictates
maybe that’d be better than having two bourgeois parties (or dozens of bourgeois parties in Europe/etc) owned by bourgeois interests effectively negating the existence of democracy by ensuring that all “democratic” institutions, by consequence of bourgeois influence over parties, operate at their pleasure
3 June 1989 I’m China
on, tinyman square, lol
it’s funny how the image of tanks crushing people is more solidified in the minds of westerners than what happened, which there is video proof of, which is none of that and also the tanks leaving
issues with the Chinese government
name one
Pro tip but billionaires don’t need to own things
I wish there was a way to litigate bans made by corporate media because I just got a twitter account banned for being fucking fake or some shit and i appealed it and they were like, lol, no. No further appeals. Literally not a thing i can do. And it’s kinda galling when i get DMs from obvious bots 10000x a day and they do NOTHING against those, despite them being so very obviously fake. And here I am being told IM the fake one and I don’t even deserve to look at thirsty shit and jerk off because of it??
Oh yeah im sure all the poor landlords are struggling so hard
Mfw south Korea was the one punishing people for the wrong haircut during the u.s. supported police dictatorship 
“The banks” ah yes seize all the worthless money instead of learning from iran and occupying vital infrastructure
Yeah i feel you it just made me think about Man Ray trying to give Patrick back his wallet but that meme is how i feel about a lot of interactions i have