It’s Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea and now makes money telling outlandish stories to overly credulous libs.
Such as that North Koreans have to pull trains from town to town, and that she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.
It’s Yeonmi Park, who fled North Korea and now makes money telling outlandish stories to overly credulous libs.
Such as that North Koreans have to pull trains from town to town, and that she saw children eating rats and rats eating children.
Is a free pdf available?
DocToPdf Disrespect was quietly banned from twitch, and then responded to allegations that he was sexting minors with “age of consent varies between states, what I did wasn’t even illegal and what even is sexting? This is just haters trying to ruin my day”
If you’re not stealing from work, you’re stealing from your family.
Kamala Harris running a damn near flawless campaign, with just a month 1/2 of campaigning.
There’s a few major flaws:
Trying to out-flank republicans on the right with immigration and crime; instead of counter-messaging that republican claims of migrant crime are false and migrants commit less crime than average, and crime as a whole is declining, her campaign promotes how tough she is on crime. This is essentially campaigning for the republicans. The people who are terrified of immigrants and criminals are voting republican.
Trying to out-flank republicans on the right in foreign policy. Harris can promise rivers of Muslim, North Korean, and Russian blood, and the people who want that will still vote republican. Talking about how lethal the US military will be and how hostile the US will be to other countries decreases turnout. War is not popular. Trump’s campaign is already hitting Harris on supporting the genocide in Palestine.
Joe Biden dosent use drones anymore
Having the group sneak up on a baby Hydra, that’s actually a dragorgon swimming in the water.
it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist
For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there’s no difference in the content.
So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?
Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user’s experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.
alienating 41% of their active user base
Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?
If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.
Diamond rings are basically worth fuckall for resale. Most pawn shops won’t even take them
The irritation caused by heartburn increases heartburn. So during your proton-pump inhibitor cycle, you still get heartburn, treat it with baking soda dissolved in warm for instant relief
Someone that actually cares about left-wing politics cares a lot more about the outcomes
Yes, that’s why I recommended The Jakarta Method, it details exactly what the outcome looks like when the left doesn’t repress the right and instead lets the sabotage and organize. It’s really an important book because you can see echos of the methods in South Korea under the dictatorship, Taiwan during the white terror, Pinochet’s Chile, Uruguay even before the '73 coup, etc.
they proved they were no better than the capitalists they despise so much.
If you believe this, you do not know the scale and details of capitalist repression.
utopia
Literally no Marxist would call any AES project Utopian, except as a pejorative.
Here’s a pamphlet differentiating Utopian and Scientific Socialism It’s not an easy read due to being from 1880.
The OP meme is mocking the Taliban for their lack of money. The Taliban don’t have money because the US stole the Afghan government’s funds and imposed sanctions.
The result of this has been the worst famine in the world during the period between shortly after the withdrawal and shortly after Oct 7. OP believes that this is liberating for afghan women because they think the Taliban need money to oppress women or something.
Anyone in Guantanamo is not a credible source when it comes to things the US wants to believe. See WMDs in Iraq.
why would they leave their homeland secretly?
What do you mean secretly? Chinese people don’t have to sneak out of China.
I can’t recommend any books on development of terrorism in Xinjiang if you want to know more, maybe ask in /c/History.
Before the Americans left, the Afghan people lived in terror of the Taliban, Kabul and its warlords, and the Americans.
Today they live in terror of just the Taliban (OK, the Taliban and starvation).
the end doesn’t justify the means
Suppression of the right was necessary, however the relative freedom given to locals to carry it out resulted in people using it to settle old scores or non-ideological people to advance politically within the party. While dekulization enabled them, those actions were orthogonal (and actually hindered) the aims of dekulization.
Whether that can be considered justification or apologia isn’t constructive IMO. Personally though, I just consider it an error in the way it was carried out.
Similar issues (and resulting sentiments) are observed in the wake of Mao giving villages the freedom to set up their own courts and try landlords and others.
It’s […] vital to denounce them if you consider yourself a leftist.
We had that struggle back when Kruschev sent the tanks into Hungary and every western leftist org was falling over each other to denounce the USSR. Meanwhile nazis were being put in charge of police forces in South America to do crimes against humanity against indigenous and communist elements and hundreds of thousands were being massacred in South Korea.
Turns out the tankies were right. Denouncing the enemies of the state you live in just serves to carry water for imperialism.
Nobody is advocating power abuse. One of the books I try to get people to read, Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia contextualizes the scale of and how such abuses occurred in a much more useful criticism than “communism bad Stalin evil, that’s why you can’t ever do anything about rightists organizing against the state”.
A good accompaniment to illustrate what it looks like and what the consequences are when the left fails to take appropriate action once in power is The Jakarta Method
The vital context is wielding state power against internal threats. Which literally every state must do to continue to exist. It’s not whataboutism to point out that the state you currently live in is currently doing far worse, for far worse reasons in a context where your criticism can only be used for anticommunism.
Would you say it’s constructive for an Israeli to be critical of gay rights in Palestine? Of course not, because divorced of context, it only carries water for imperialism
You don’t get to call directing state power against the petite bourgeoisie a brutal police regime when your government is supporting the most brutal dictatorships in Africa, whose violence is directed at the working class.
And then what happened?
People nominated instances here and when/if people had concerns, there’d be a megathread discussing/voting on defederation.
Q: Why did hexbear brigade the fediverse? A: Certainly for the lulz. /s
What?
Now that she’s over here, she tells outlandish stories about America to overly credulous libs, such as the time she was robbed and beaten by a black woman in Chicago, and then everyone gathered around her and called her “racist nazi” for calling the police.