The bot account setting helps ppl filter out bot content, so I’d just make a separate account for your comments / non-script activity.

Attribute the artist or I’m removing this and banning you within a few hours.

Its hard to say, but its probably an issue with nginx proxy mananger, doing some wrong routing on images. I couldn’t even access the images above.

All of this is provably false, and the fact that you aren’t posting a source tells me its probably AI generated from an RFA article.

Where are you sourcing any of this from, because most of it is patently false. RFA,BBC?

Some more articles besides the one from parenti:

• What about Tibet? (95% of the population were slaves or feudal serfs before China invaded in 1959) audiobook
• Tibet, China, and the Violent reaction of a wealthy elite.
• Mao’s liberation of Tibet
• Dalai Lama - Forgive Pinochet
• Dalai Lama admits his organization recieved millions from the CIA yearly.
• Dalai Lama - If the next Dalai Lama is a female, her face must be attractive, otherwise its not much use… she should use makeup.

Yep. The body can take small amounts of any poison. Doesn’t mean its “healthy” for it.

Scientific socialism is a science. We build on foundations and knowledge gained through years of experience, and we’ve learned that acheiving socialism through voting and electoralism in capitalist dictatorships is not only impossible, inneffective, and a dead end, but a drain on people’s energy. If people keep treading the wrong roads, and through historical ignorance keep making the same mistakes people have made hundreds of times, then we aren’t doing our duty.

It’s a label used to organize people who are looking for an easy every point to leftist organizing.

No, as the post stated, its a western-chauvinist / supremacist dogwhistle to agree with CIA talking points and demonize existing socialist states as being “not democratic”. Western supremacy is the root cause of many of these issues that should be tackled at the root instead of being allowed to fester and grow.

Just focus on building up the stuff you like better. Instead of explaining why voting is insufficient, point people towards what is.

Both sides are equally important: showing what doesn’t work, and showing what does work.

True, but also as a tactic (IE voting in socialism) its a complete historical failure that should be relegated to the history books. There has not been a single case of a country acheiving socialism through the ballot box.

All the attempts in the late 1800s until now showed that capitalists will not give up state power without violence, and even explicitly socialist parties who acheived some electoral success, end up quickly capitulating to the demands of the capitalists who run the country’s economy, and make a hard turn to the right. Look at the state of the European “socialist” or “labour” parties.

• Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Not to mention all the coups the US carried out even on countries who attempted to tread a “non-violent” socialist path: like Chile in 1970. While the countries who took control of the military and went through a civil war to disempower and nationalize capital are still standing on their own two feet: Cuba, China, Vietnam, DPRK.

“Democratic socialism” is also sometimes used (incorrectly) to refer to capitalist-run states in the imperial core (like the nordic states) with some welfare band-aids, funded on the backs of the world’s workers in the global south.

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism

Would be best to link to this, where its taken from: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html

BYD already has huge markets in countries closely allied to the US too, like Australia, the UK, Japan, South Korea, and some european countries. They surpassed Tesla’s sales in Europe last year.

Like with Huawai, the US is going to use “national security” as a talking point to continue begging their allies to stop buying things from China.

In a just world these mass murderers would have to face a tribunal and account for their crimes. Instead they either run for office or start companies:

• In early 2018, US Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher stabbed a defenseless teenage captive to death in Iraq. According to two SEAL witnesses, Gallagher said over the radio “he’s mine” and walked up to the medic and prisoner, and without saying a word, killed the prisoner by stabbing him repeatedly with his hunting knife. Gallagher and his commanding officer, Lieutenant Jake Portier, then posed for photographs of them standing over the body with some other nearby SEALs. Gallagher then text messaged a friend in California a picture himself holding the dead captive’s head by the hair with the explanation "Good story behind this, got him with my hunting knife.” After he was imprisoned, Gallagher’s other crimes came to light: fellow soldiers said they witnessed Gallagher shooting and killing an unarmed old man in a white robe, as well as a young girl walking with other girls. Gallagher boasted that he averaged three kills a day over 80 days, including four women. In video interviews with investigators, multiple SEALs described how he would go on solo “gun runs,” emptying loads of heavy machine gun fire into neighborhoods with no apparent targets. “I think he just wants to kill anybody he can,” Corey Scott, a medic from the platoon, told Navy investigators. After his case went public, it became a conservative rallying cry: A website soliciting donations for his defense raised > $375k, and a prominent veterans’ apparel maker sold “Free Eddie” T-shirts. Spurred on by his family, 40 Republican members of Congress signed a letter in March calling for the Navy to free him, and soon after, US President Trump had him released from prison to house arrest. In July, 2019, he was acquitted of all charges. Gallagher was one of three military personnel accused or convicted of war crimes on whose behalf Trump had intervened to pardon or promote. Trump told a rally audience days after his intervention, “I stuck up for three great warriors against the deep state.” Gallagher has now started a chain of companies selling clothing and nutritional supplements.

Platner has almost certainly killed a non-zero number of middle easterners. He went back like 5 times, again even as a blackwater merc, and was a prison guard at the notorious US torture camp Abu Ghraib. He also said he enjoyed small wars.

The best candidate the stasserist left can come up with is a murderous imperialist.

Literally zero evidence for any of your claims. Why should anyone believe you?

The PRC is a mixed economy, with the planned socialist sector predominating, and a smaller capitalist sector.

• The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2 The largest bank, construction, electricity, and energy companies in the world, are CPC controlled entities, subject to the 5 year plans laid out by the central committee.
• Workplace democracy in action in the CPC.
• Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
• Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
• Is the CPC committed to communism?
• The Long Game and Its Contradictions. Audiobook
• The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?
• Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?
• Isn’t China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn’t it fully planned like the USSR was?
• Castro on why both China and Vietnam are socialist countries.
• Roderic Day - China has billionaires.
• What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
• How is SWCC not revisionist? How is it any different from Gorbachev’s market reforms?, 2
• Domenico Losurdo - is China state capitalist?, 2
• Did Lenin say anything about Market Socialism, or productivism?
• Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?
• Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.

No, its trade and infrastructure projects in Africa are not imperialist

• Debunking the claim that “China is Imperialist”
• The demeanor of Chinese leaders (Xi Jinping) vs Western leaders (Nancy Pelosi) towards African nations. One of the reasons why African nations favor China instead of the West. Full video here
• An African leader on the hypocrisy of those saying China is imperialist.
• China africa panel: if you want actual infrastructure, you go to China, not the west.
• Is China really imperialist? What’s the difference between what Europe did to Africa, and what China is doing?
• Five imperialist myths about China’s role in Africa.
• Evo Morales - Why China and Russia aren’t imperialist, but the US is.
• US air force veteran Bill Brown breaks down the history of anti-chinese propaganda, and why China is not colonialist like the west.
• Yanis Varoufakis on China’s foreign policy dealings with Greece and Africa.
• The chinese debt trap is a myth.
• China writes off $6M in debt to rwanda, provides another $60M in grants.
• China forgives over $78M in Cameroon debt.
• China writes off $36m Mozambican debt.
• China writes off substantial amount of Angola debt.
• After a group of Guangdong landlords evicted a group of Africans, the CPC arrested them, apologized to the African Union, paid for hotels for the migrants, passed a series of anti-discrimination laws, and spent weeks going to all the restaurants, landlords, and taxis to warn them of the law.
• Nato’s new enemy: the CPC.
• The western media’s China hysteria.

Check your languages, and make sure you have Undetermined selected. Otherwise you’ll filter out most posts.

A big part of me wishes the browser would just die. Its become a bloated and surveilled mess, entirely controlled by like 2 companies, with 90% of the actual data being javascript spyware. There’s almost no browser that can’t be fingerprinted and linked to your identity nowadays.

A simple markdown browser for static content (IE like gemini), and native apps with open APIs that can render markdown for dynamic content (IE like most fediverse apps), should be all we need.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/when-did-the-united-states-start-calling-itself-america-anyway/

For reference for ppl living in the US, this would means rents of ~200 USD .

The ones with zero fauna are the scariest to me. These are all over the US southwest.