diplodocus

diplodocus, 5 days ago

If Ukraine murdered civilians of a specific ethnicity indiscriminately

Not so hypothetical.

• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• The Guardian, 2014: Cluster bombs used in eastern Ukraine, says human rights group
• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Atlantic Council, 2016: Europe’s Forgotten War: Fighting in the Donbas Has Never Stopped
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• UN, 2018: As Civilians Bear Brunt of Four-year-old Conflict in Ukraine, Continued Ceasefire Violations Test Credibility of Global Community, Officials Warn Security Council
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine

diplodocus, 11 days ago

Thanks, BASIC, for teaching me so much I had to later unlearn in order to not be a garbage programmer.

diplodocus, 12 days ago

Show me a single comment on Hexbear or lemmy.ml or lemmygrad that promotes nazbols or patsocs or MAGA communists or LaRouchites like Dugin or Hinkle or Haz or Maupin.

diplodocus, 12 days ago

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/1cd73a63-7831-4bf5-9ef4-5b3609ecdc74.png

Your genocide assertion I won’t touch because it’s untouchable on lemmy.world.

diplodocus, 12 days ago

Those states would agree that they have not achieved communism, and they would agree that they are authoritarian, namely the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin, 1917, The State and Revolution

diplodocus, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

Communists believe that socialism is a transitional state from capitalism to communism, but 1) communists aren’t the only socialists and 2) a lot of Americans think milquetoast social safety net capitalist reformers like Bernie Sanders are socialists despite them never calling for the abolition of private ownership of the means of production.

diplodocus, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

very-intelligent First you choose to be a wage slave and then you hate your bosses?

diplodocus, 12 days ago

If you’re really upset by it you can filter lemmy.ml which is gonna be the main source of left wing posting.

That’s true for you, anyway, because your instance is defederated from lemmygrad and hexbear.

diplodocus, 12 days ago

Given your false reports to the authorities, it seems you like authoritarianism after all.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/56fd89ce-ce14-423a-9aa1-ad1be0542473.png

diplodocus, 12 days ago

If you’ve never lived in a communist state you’re much more likely to favour communism. People who have (lived in communism) don’t.

• Gallup, 2013: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm From Breakup
• Pew Research, 2017: In Russia, nostalgia for Soviet Union and positive feelings about Stalin
• United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• Newsweek, 2022: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

diplodocus, 12 days ago

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/f4680094-7af7-4475-a2ba-8e9537b75e0f.png

diplodocus, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

Not OP, but I’ll take a stab at it.

In your opinion, are worker cooperatives operating in a market economy socialist?

That’s not really how it works. The fundamental question is: is the https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/State capitalist, meaning a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, or is it socialist, meaning a dictatorship of the proletariat? While you can have a worker coop in a capitalist state, you’d still fundamentally be under the boot of the capitalist class that controls the state at the expense of the working class.

And do you consider any countries today socialist?

en.prolewiki.org/…/Actually_Existing_Socialism

diplodocus, 12 days ago

The phrase is whittle it down.

diplodocus, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

I don’t really think you’ve captured communism: Cuba isn’t.

Communism has never yet been achieved, as any communist government will tell you. Socialism is a transitionary step toward communism. You can’t go to bed in a capitalist state and magically wake up to a classless, stateless society.

China has been moving away from communism for decades.

If you think that then you have not been paying attention to what’s been happening in China for the last decade.

Russia rejected the Communists for the Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks were the communists! Come on. Maybe pick up Wikipedia or an even better wiki on the topic: en.prolewiki.org/…/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_…

diplodocus, 12 days ago

There is a euphemism for dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and it is bourgeois democracy.

diplodocus, 12 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

The more you know.

Even NATOPedia thinks they’re synonyms: en.wikipedia.org/…/Dictatorship_of_the_bourgeoisi…

The only time they’re not synonyms is when the capitalist class finds kayfabe democracy insufficient, at which point they deploy fascism. That’s what’s been developing in many Western capitalist states around the world in recent years. The working class is more and more agitated by their deteriorating conditions under neoliberalism. Even the petit bourgeois feel threatened. The far-right surge isn’t organic, though: the capitalist class fuels it to maintain their position.

diplodocus, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

That’s what happens when the communists are purged and billions of propaganda dollars are spent over generations to erase their memory: you end up with Newspeak, where people don’t know their asses from their elbows. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare

diplodocus, 10 days ago

There is not well-documented evidence. There is garbage, Cold War II propaganda “evidence” from Adrian Zenz and from US-backed .

A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

diplodocus, 15 days ago

Jamie Zawinski (“jwz”):

• mastodon.social/
• jwz.org/…/i-see-no-way-this-could-possibly-go-wro…

I see no way this could possibly go wrong

Pictured here: Twitter founder Biz Stone checks in to his new position on the Mastodon board of directors:

“The board was selected based on the values they share with Mastodon.”

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/01ed24e7-f2ae-4090-bf51-07593b426749.png

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

Tags: big brother, computers, conspiracies, corporations, doomed

diplodocus, 8 days ago

Someone should write an admin bot that removes these and bans new users that post them.

diplodocus, 18 days ago

Counterpoint: your account is only a month old and you’ve already proven to be a pain the the mods’ asses by failing to follow rules : lemm.ee/modlog?page=1&userId=10152004

diplodocus, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

Baltazar Studios:

• A Z80 From the Ground Up: A-Z80 is a conceptual implementation of the venerable Zilog Z80 processor targeted to synthesize and run on a modern FPGA device.
• ZX Spectrum on FPGA using A-Z80 CPU
• github.com/gdevic/A-Z80

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/ba7b60c7-7310-4758-af8e-10b0c39e5b01.png

diplodocus, 28 days ago

The Four Horsemen of New Atheism used atheism as intellectual apologia for the War on Terror, and that’s why we get racist shit like this show up in atheism communities.

diplodocus, 29 days ago

Best of luck: this person uses their @0x815 and @tardigrada accounts to post anti-China articles like it’s their day job. Worse, really, as they do it on the weekends, too.

diplodocus, 29 days ago

Commenting on your own posts with your alt account is bad form.