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  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Satire is indistinguishable from stupidityEnglish
    9·
    14 days ago

    And Guantanamo Bay, black sites, Alligator Auschwitz, and the American prison population confirms the downsides of capitalism?

    One shit iteration of “communism” that by definition didn’t meet any of the requirements to be called communism can’t be held up forever to be the boogeyman to prevent progress.

    Communism (from Latin communis ‘common, universal’)[1][2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state.[7][8][9]

    The USSR:

    • Common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange - not achieved, state owned but not common owned
    • Allocates products in society based on need - not achieved
    • Absence of private property - partially achieved, state owned
    • Absence of social classes - not achieved
    • Absence of money - not achieved
    • Absence of the state - fucking lol

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoUK Politics@feddit.uk•Former head teacher arrested under terror laws – for holding up Private Eye articleEnglish
    246·
    15 days ago

    I’m sorry, but there have been regular protests since the proscription of Palestine Action, around the country, and large enough for the attention of national news.

    And another direct action group has formed and already got to work.

    Apart from No Kings, a one day event more akin to a parade than a protest. And some unrest in LA that never amounted to anything. What has America been doing against their rise of fascism? Fuck all.

    Not to mention our population is unarmed, protesting in the knowledge they are risking 14 years in prison, and doing so on behalf of people on the other side of the planet, not for their own benefit.

    The UK is making America look like a push over in comparison.

    Land of the Brave Cowards.

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoUK Politics@feddit.uk•UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of population, analysis findsEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    Yeah but guys, you’ve got to remember, money doesn’t grow on trees.

    So despite me owning multiple properties, owning so much land I must employ people to maintain it for me, and owning multiple cars that are worth more than you earn in an entire year, you have to remember it’s the immigrants that are making everyone poorer.

    Look! They dress and look slightly different from you, therefore it must be them at fault. Ignore that they’re here because their country is currently going through war/genocide/famine/mass poverty, they’re different!

    What do you mean you want me to pay 2% more tax per year? Fuck off you communist scum!

    Tap for spoiler

    /s

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.nettoMemes@lemmy.ml•Ah yes the "enlightened" democraciesEnglish
    2713·
    3 months ago

    For a decade, Russia has submitted a text denouncing the ‘glorification of Nazism’

    In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to “denazify” the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution

    In its explanation of the vote, the European Union recalled that it had been advocating “for years that the fight against extremism and the condemnation of the despicable ideology of Nazism must not be misused and co-opted for politically motivated purposes that seek to excuse new violations and abuses of human rights.”

    According to the press release published on the UN website, Ukraine called this text hypocritical believing that, contrary to its title, it was a pretext used by Russia to justify its brutal war against its country and the despicable crimes committed against humanity.

    The countries opposing the resolution emphasize at every turn that they do not in any way condone the Third Reich. “We reaffirm our strongest condemnation of all forms of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” Ukraine insisted in 2019, while recalling that 8 million Ukrainians died in the Nazi offensive.

    Before the vote, Australia managed to get an amendment to the draft resolution adopted (63 votes in favor, 23 against and 65 abstentions) inserting a new paragraph in which the General Assembly “notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”

    https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html

    Hmm…