CIA report:

American and Soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but the Soviet diet may be more nutritious.

Counterpoint:

Yes, he was being sarcastic.

Communism and Marx are objectively left wing, and “left wing thinking” could mean any number of things. Without being specific about what you mean, it’s unfalsifiable.

1. What I remember from Marx and/or Engels is that a sharpening of capitalism’s internal contradictions are necessary but not sufficient. Revolution is still needed. We can’t expect some automatic transition from capitalism to socialism.
2. Marx wasn’t a prophet. The first successful communist revolution happened in Russia under feudalism, not capitalism.

And posted here by a tankie from lemmy.ml lol.

And commented here by a hasbara Zionazi.

Then, among other things, 46 years of “first world” imperialist pressures took its toll. And then those same imperialist states introduced neocolonial shock therapy and plundered the socialist commons.

They get Rule 4, “No Ads / Spamming,” because they’re spamming votes.

Not as frequent as they used to be.

I have no reason to believe people are being disappeared, no, but I do have reason to believe that the US and its junior partners will continue claiming that they are. It’s big business.

• https://normlex.ilo.org/dyn/nrmlx_en/f?p=1000%3A11200%3A0%3A%3ANO%3A11200%3AP11200_COUNTRY_ID%3A103404
• https://www.ilo.org/regions-and-countries/asia-and-pacific/china

Literally every corporate media is right wing.

🙄 Previously.

I don’t know what it is about this post in particular, but the threadiverse isn’t sending its best 🤷

Edit to add: Some of them were so angry that they broke out their alt accounts to downvote some more.

Good thing you ate the capitalists’ propaganda onion and are now doing their work for free, contributing to your continued exploitation.

Meanwhile people actually are being disappeared in the US right now, and people actually are subjected to forced labor.

Nope, only one of them is a shithole.

Which one illegally annexed Tibet

I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs and slaves, suffering depredation under a god-king. I doubt many of them are sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is in exile. [1] [2]

and Hong Kong?

Entirely legal. In fact it would have been illegal for the UK not to hand it over.

The UK’s 99 year lease to subjugate Hong Kong ended. A lease which had been forced upon Imperial China at gunpoint during the century of humiliation. Hong Kong reintegration after the lease expired was a foregone conclusion. The last minute, US-backed attempt at color revolution failed.

Which one is currently genociding Uhygurs?

Neither, but one of them trained, funded, and organized terrorists in the region, and then made up a genocide narrative, and then imposed illegal sanctions on it using the fabricated genocide narrative as a pretext. Previously.

My cat’s breath smells like cat food.

Last I heard you called yourself a conservative.

Why do you hang out in socialist spaces, just to get clowned on?

Wow the US says Russia is doing a genocide. Big if true.

It also said that Russia blew up its own gas pipeline, and that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and threw babies from incubators, and that Gaddafi’s soldiers were issued Viagra and sent on rape rampages, and a thousand other things as pretexts to its actions.

Meanwhile: NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

We don’t just Google shit and post the top result as evidence. Don’t waste our time.

Wow, I wonder why it’s difficult for them to produce food? Oh, right: illegal Western-led import/export sanctions, and a land ravaged by agent orange and unexploded ordinances.

And nevertheless, no one is dying of famine in North Korea today. The BBC article provides no evidence other than anonymous “people are saying.”

In North Korea parents cannot feed their children. We give them mud because children is so hungry. And when you eat mud, you die in 10 days; you cannot go to the bathroom. Even though you know your children are dying, you still giving them the mud.