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‘Lemmygrad’s resident expert on fascism’ — GrainEater, 2024

‘The political desperadoes and ignoramuses, who say they would “Rather be Dead than Red”, should be told that no one will stop them from committing suicide, but they have no right to provoke a third world war.’ — Morris Kominsky, 1970

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AnarchoBolshevik,
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Uuuuuuugh, “I don’t like this source” is easily one of my least favorite responses; the respondent may as well not even post since they’re ignoring the content anyway. Yes, the Wall Street Journal is puke, but nobody lies 100% of the time. That’s why you need to learn how to read critically.

There has to be some sort of course that people can take to teach them how to properly scrutinize sources and distinguish between good reporting and rumourmongering, rather than trying to take shortcuts like that.

And what’s up with all of the repetitive definitions and attempts to accuse you of being logically fallacious? It doesn’t make the replier look clever; it’s just extremely embarrassing.

Pentagon denies that the PRC is developing a spy station in the Republic of Cuba (www.workers.org)

Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder called the WSJ report “inaccurate” during a June 8 briefing. “We are not aware of China and Cuba developing any type of spy station,” said Ryder, adding that “the relationship that those two countries share is something that we continuously monitor.” (thehill.com,...

Hate group threatens Philadelphia workers (www.workers.org)

While UNITE HERE has attempted to organize a union for Marriott workers, pushback from management derailed the efforts. Speakers at protests outside the Marriott have raised that many of the workers are Black, Brown and LGBTQ. Without union protection, their jobs are on the line if they speak out against M4L [Moms for Liberty,...

AnarchoBolshevik,
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Correct.

AnarchoBolshevik,
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Hold on a minute, are you saying that the capitalists in China, Russia, and N. Korea institutionalized ultranationalist, petit‐bourgeois movements to reinforce capital and maintain their levels of profits? Can you show me when this happened?

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Honestly… usually I just tune out these climate stories because they are nothing but the same shitty news over and over and over and over and over again, and (almost) nobody doing anything about the situation.

Yes, I get it: the earth keeps getting shittier. What do you want me to do about it, hang a bunch of fossil fuel executives and bulldoze their factories?

AnarchoBolshevik,
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This would fit better in /c/latestagecapitalism, surely.

Haydée Santamaría, central figure in the Cuban Revolution (www.workers.org)

Batista wanted Haydée Santamaría to divulge Fidel’s whereabouts. To force her to speak, the torturers showed her her brother’s eyes and Boris’ dismembered genitalia. This grotesque act of intimidation, however, did not break her revolutionary strength. She defied her own torturers and remained silent. “If you did that...

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This isn’t really ‘news’ anymore, but I am glad that you shared this! I suspect that the capitalist press periodically publishes admissions like these for marketing or PR purposes. It’s just one admission, so somebody might conclude that it was exceptional.

Nonetheless, when you put all of these together, like a jigsaw puzzle, a mythology‐shattering image of the U.S.A. (or capitalism in general) emerges.

From 1945 to 1948, the American forces who occupied Japan purged the Government of the right-wing militarists who had led Japan into war. But by 1949, things had changed. […] The American occupation forces freed accused war criminals like Nobusuke Kishi, later Japan's Prime Minister.

Yep, I had a feeling that there’d be something for me here… it’s funny how easily I can transfer from Europe to Asia in terms of Axis history.

By the way, The Dismantling of Japan’s Empire in East Asia discusses post‐Imperial Japan’s Red Scare several times:

A series of studio labor strikes occurred in the late 1940s, disrupting production and ultimately ending only through the intervention of the U.S. military and the Japanese police. Subsequently, an industry-wide “purge” of Communist or Socialist film personnel by 1950 solidified the Japanese major studios’ anti-communist attitude, which continued and even strengthened after the U.S. Occupation ended in 1952.

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You have to understand, if you paid your workers better then you’d massively increase inflation, raising the costs of products and services by over 500%, soon rendering everybody homeless and putting them millions of dollars in debt. Then you’d have to file for bankruptcy tomorrow, unemployment would reach 99%, the number of production goods would be in the negative, and you might even tear open a rift in the time–space continuum. Trust me, the folks at the Austrian School of Economics can back me up on this.

Socialist Cuba and mosquitos: humanity calls, Cuba answers (www.workers.org)

In a March 2020 talk to the National Network on Cuba, University of Glasgow lecturer Dr. Helen Yaffe stated that Cuba initiated biotechnology five years before the first capitalist biotech company was established. Dr. Yaffe explained that Cuban biotech was nonprofit — based on collaboration, not competition — and is tied to...

Who profits from forced labor? (www.workers.org)

A Feb. 15 report by CareerAddict.com estimated that 4,200 large corporations use over 600,000 incarcerated workers to produce goods and services. There are several well-known companies on this list. McDonalds and Wendy’s use prison labor to produce frozen beef patties and other products. Calls to Verizon, Sprint or Avis for...

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