Yeah that’s why we support destroying capitalism. What are you not getting here?

We don’t intend to achieve power through elections

Fascism cannot be stopped with your vote. Hitler wasn’t elected and he certainly couldn’t be removed by election. This is the same for Mussolini, Petain, Franco, Hirohito, etc. We don’t “show up” IRL to vote against fascism because we recognize it is a ridiculous exercise in futility. We do show up IRL at our political organizations which lead protests against the Palestinian genocide, fascism, ecocide, the illegal blockade of Cuba and so so much more. Not only do we educate people politically and agitate within our workplaces and community spaces, we (attempt to) build lasting parties that materially provide for the communities they rely on. So far we haven’t had great success and overthrown the bourgeois state, that is because things take time and we are faced with both very powerful enemies and a very well conditioned public.

We aren’t voting because we don’t want to support genocide not because we “can’t be bothered”

I genuinely wonder if liberals are literate. Do you even try to read what we write?

Admittedly the last part os true but I think it is your title that drew them in

Yar

For some texts I’ll live with a PDF but there is a satisfaction in physical books. My university library has been filling the void but I want have access to it much longer 😔

Honestly same outside of books. My local book stores just don’t have what I need.

Thank you comrade. Hadn’t seen this before ❤️

It’s funny you use these terms because neither are used by the youths anymore. They’ve moved on to new things already.

Ohhhhhh, i thought that was a wookie lmao. Didn’t look very closely

Watched all of rebels as a kid and genuinely have no idea what this is about

Yes and despite changing nothing it only happens sometimes. I can wait an hour, come back, and it works again. No idea why.

I do get better results on my pc though

Yk what, fair. Gonna nsfw this one

It’s worth noting that the USSR ended the Gulag system in the 1960s while capitalist countries like the united states continue to use prison as a means for cheap (practically unpaid) forced labor. Soviet prisoners were also paid comparable wages to free workers not only out of principle but so they would not be severely disadvantaged once out of prison.

It feels like you are struggling to understand historical events and entities as parts of historical processes. Yes the USSR did stuff we look back at and go, wow that was fucked up huh. That’s to be expected as we have historically progressed from the point they were at. The USSR wasn’t gonna undo centuries of social conditioning in a decade, that was not feasible. You can’t thanos snap homophobia from existence by royal decree. I would have loved if the Soviet Union spawned into existence with all the values I have today but it didn’t. It was birthed with all the prejudices of working people in Czarist Russia and had to eat away at them over time. Not only this, it came about in a world of prejudices and was consistently surrounded by them. They weren’t going to have an ideological epiphany that severely broke from their tradition and world culture for no reason.

You’re doing historical anachronism

It depends on the circles you run in. I’m getting my history degree at an American university and tbh it’s often

The real answer is I don’t use anything with recommendation algorithms and blocked all the lemmy users that post AI