I can’t hate on The Deprogram. They create podcasts that are engaging and perhaps most importantly provide a larger platform for a lot of smaller content creators.

Not saying we can’t be critical, we should be critical in a constructive way, but I do enjoy their content. Each of them also have quality, well-researched videos.

I had to give up on Reddit after being on r/communism. I’m sure there are a lot of good users on that platform trying to find meaningful interaction with other communists, but holy shit, so much ideological purity.

That’s a very good point. You have to start somewhere.

This is always the max amount of effort liberals put in to stop fascists.

People in China have rights and democracy… also the very nature of the CPC and the ACFTU is to band the whole of China’s working people into a union. If the party and the state are in the control of the working class then there’s no need for independent unions

The CPC have the means to seize capital from the bourgeoisie at any point really. Xi and the PSC heavily fined Jack Ma for a speech he gave criticizing financial regulation in the country. They could freeze and seize his assets whenever they wanted.

THAT is what a dictatorship of the proletariat looks like

I have very little faith that will happen. The Nazis are some of the only war criminals that have actually been tried and so many of them were given pardons to work for the U.S government.

But you’re absolutely correct

Damn. I guess I should have image searched it before posting

Put all these Zionists on trial for crimes against humanity because that’s what this is.

It’s all a big fucking racket. U.S. government uses public funding to purchase weapons from private weapons manufacturers to give to and sell to their NATO allies and other outpost states around the world like Taiwan, Israel and Ukraine. Then the corrupt governments in those countries sell the excess on black markets around the globe

OMG, Literally Star Trek!!! uWu

True. Pretty fucking pathetic

The CIA supporting a fascist coup against a socialist president? Never heard that one before.

The only hope I really have is that it wakes a lot of people up to just how insidious the Dems are too. But knowing our media, it’ll be spun that Obama did it because he was just so afraid of a Trump Presidency and he will just continue to be a Reagan-like figure for the party

You could also actually do something to stop the murder of Palestinians

Agreed. That’s why I highly doubt an actual resolution comes any time soon. But you are correct, the Zionist project is continued colonialist expansion

I hope so. But I’m sure there’s no resolution the U.S. or Israel agree to that doesn’t involve some kind of two-state solution. So it really won’t end I don’t think. Unless the U.S. cuts funding but that won’t happen

Is this the beginning of a clear attitude shift towards China in the imperial core? Obviously westerners are trained to hate China but historically that’s been used to demonize communism and stoke chauvinism.

But there hasn’t been an attempt at manufacture consent for mounted antagonism against China yet. Maybe the imperialists are starting to think Chinese socialism is a threat after all

And I don’t obfuscate that I’m a communist. I’ll tell people that. Maybe not right away, but definitely at some point in the conversation. The reason I do that is because I want to show people that my values aren’t just “big government, no food”

I feel like it all the time honestly. One thing that has helped me at least have productive conversations is to ask people “why do you feel that way about Palestinians” or “why wouldn’t you travel to China?”

Then that opens the door a little bit more. Unfortunately, people get very offended when you approach it from “you’re wrong and here’s why” instead of “why do you feel that way?”