Still waiting on that CIA paycheck, man when CIA payroll dept finally pays me that back pay is gonna be sweet!

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    Yes, for example, me an anarcho-communist who thinks western governments are generally terrible. But ALSO thinks that governments like Russia and China are absolutely terrible and committing different forms of genocide, am definitely on a CIA payroll right? That only makes sense?

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      This is not an authorised opinion. Please contact your closest democracy officer and ask for a free reeducation referal code.

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      This from the group who’s intellectual ancestors shot at leftists like you and me before they shot the Czar.

      “‘Tankie’ is just a slur for people you don’t like”. No, it’s a term for people that have a definition of imperialism so bad that it doesn’t cover the Soviet Union literally driving tanks into another country.

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      Literally, us anti communist communists are the worst aren’t we?

      Tune in next week folks, to see if the campist tankies solve the mystery of who shat “our” pants.

      Tap for spoiler

      It was them

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      I’m not sure which government i’d find the least shit. Probably somewhere like denmark maybe? Somewhere high on the freedom index.

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        Having lived much of my life in those European countries that are romanticised (Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands)…

        I really think they are terrible. Like they are obviously better than Putin’s Russia or Trump’s America. But they are still really bad.

        I don’t think I can have a favourite government. I don’t know enough about the country for this to be a serious answer, but perhaps something like Costa Rica.

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          they are terrible

          In your experience, what’s bad about those countries?

          costa rica

          it looks like a pretty solid choice to me ngl. It’s not one i’ve even considered. Thanks for this, i will look up more later.

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    Liberalism is a conservative ideology, so yeah, it would make sense that the most liberal instance out there is opposed to communism. I wouldn’t call it a psyop though, instead I would say it’s Neo Reddit. Just a bunch of liberals all circlejerking each other over Wall Street and war crimes.

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      This hurt my brain. In my head liberalism is right of center, where as conservatism is center right, followed by fascism on the far right. I don’t know if this is accurate but, it’s my interpretation of the political spectrum.

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        As far as I’m aware, the terms “Liberal” and “Conservative” aren’t exactly mutually exclusive.

        “Conservative” originally referred to defending tradition and social order. “Liberal” emphasized individual rights, reform, and limiting state power. Though once opposing forces, the terms have evolved today, someone can be socially liberal but economically conservative, or vice versa. Their meanings often depend on context.

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          I agree with this mostly. I just believe being economically conservative or economically liberal, as a consequence, buttresses the same economic mode of production. I view that mode of production to be inherently coercive/rightwing.

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        I’m assuming you’re American? In any other country, the American Democratic party would be considered conservatives. If you compared them to the UK, for example, they share similar policies with the Tories.

        American politicians like AOC and Bernie are slightly left of center. There aren’t any real leftist parties in the US. Meanwhile, most Americans would consider them leftists, because from our perspective they are the most left.

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          I was speaking strictly to ideological politics, removed from electoral politics. The American democratic party is largely ideologically neo-liberal, which in my previous comment I mentioned to be right of center.

          It’s my opinion that elected/prospective representatives are going to obfuscate their true ideology (if they hold one) if it serves their interests. This often betrays the trust in their constituents, leading them to believe the party is left wing.

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            From what I know, liberal in other parts of the world often means market liberal, not social liberal

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              I’ll have to look up what a social liberal means. If I’m not mistaken, upholding the institution of capital is universally a liberal value.

              That alone would make them some flavor of rightwing in my mind.

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                That might be, but as an example from Germany, the FDP are referred to as liberal, even though they are against pretty much everything that American liberals stand for.

                Their main focus is creating a free market and propagation of unfettered capitalism.

                From the Wikipedia page, it’s reads as the middle ground between socialist and market liberal ideas.

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                  Oh right, like the article says it’s Keynesian liberalism. When I hear that I think “FDR style liberalism” which is the least right wing economic liberalism. I still classify it as right wing even if it’s the least right wing. That’s just my assessment.

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    A anti

    Homie should take a break from pretending to read theory and read a book about grammar

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    Umm first off, you’re an intern, you don’t get paid. Second, I sent you for coffee like 3 hours ago and you still haven’t dropped it off at my desk.

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    Remember how russia got completely surprised by Ukraine’s collectivism and national identity?

    Yeah, if one does actual psyops and mass propaganda at national level, you can present and see your enemy through a similar mindset (yes, goes for usa and china bs as well).

    The most hilarious thing was a circlejerk convincing dummies there is a grassroot movement between polish kids in being interested in russia, the language and communism.
    Bitch gtfo. Any kid who would get caught with this shit would get smacked in the head at light speed. Yes, there is such thing. But ran by russian troll farms. What was proven by journalists, ngos as well as eu intel agencies.

    Of course the most legitimate account is PolandIsAStateOf… Whoever is running that account does not use polish ever.

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      I mean, my mom learnt some russian and some german but i doubt it was because of communism. This was like 1980s ish tho. Not sure exactly when.

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    I had some mouth breathing chuds on Discord accuse me of being a CIA psyop because I didn’t want to play a game with EAC (a specific kind of kernel level anticheat) yes, being anti spyware makes me a spook, cmon guys are you even trying 🙄

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      eac on linux is userspace only

      regardless, kernel level ac isn’t a solution. DMA is a thing and is piss easy to bypass.

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        eac on linux is userspace only

        It also is largely unsupported by games. I’m fine playing EAC games on Linux, not fine playing EAC games that don’t work on Linux.

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          Yeah, me too tbh. Just any game shown as not working on protondb is a no go for me

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    Being called a single issue voter for caring about Palestinian children at all and a tankie for caring about economic liberation certainly would make this meme seem accurate.

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            Your comment was a low effort strawman (and I suspect you to be little more than a liberal troll) for three reasons:

            1. Conflation of Socialism and state socialism
            2. False dichotomy of socialism and democracy
            3. Subtly hinting that only liberal democracy can bring freedom as opposed to workers democracy

            From your second comment you have effectively proven that you are deeply unwilling to learn about the liberation of the workers. You are either deeply uniformed and/or you simply do not want to be informed. If you have any intrest in genuenly understanding my economic views feel free to read Think It Over by the IWW (its a very short read).

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                Tell me, did the Nordic countries reject democracy when they embraced socialism?

                This is just a simple question, I’m sure you are willing to give an answer to it.

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                Tell me, whats so free about your Liberal Democracy? Congratulations you get to choose between two politicans but they’re both owned by the same corporations. You get free speech until it threatens capital or state. Lastly you enjoy the right to oppress people but only if you’re privileged. Right now we live in a dictatorship of capital, a system build on imperialism and today runs on neocolonialism.

                Yet you arent guaranteed shelter, you aren’t guaranteed food, you aren’t even guaranteed to see more than a sliver of the fruits of your labor. You own nothing, you have nothing, everything that you think you have is crumbling around you as the liberal system falls.

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    A little projection coming from the Chinese psyop to get western countries on board with dictatorships.

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    Meanwhile I had the opposite reaction. “Man, I really hope this leftist reddit diaspora is at least passingly familiar with some contemporary post-left theory from the last century and isn’t just tankie brainrot…”

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    Can someone give me the rundown about why this is a thing? I’ve gotten called names and dismissed in political discussion because of the domain, but I’m literally only here because it’s what Boost switched to when the Reddit API pricing bullshit happened.

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      You mean why .ml are the way that they are? See this recap post: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

      As far as why they shit on .world? Because it’s the biggest instance that generally won’t tolerate their crap as far as posting of their favored propaganda goes anyways (wish .world would just defed from them already like the rest of the triad)