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Respected Comrades,

I want to know more about the atrocities commited by the Japanese empire during their colonial rule in Asia. Specially around the time of ww2. Are there any documentaries that you can recommend?

When I try to browse it from lemmygrad, the newest post is a 10 month old post. But when I view on hexbear, it has recent posts. Is this a bug or intentional?

EDIT: If this is the wrong place to ask, could someone please direct me to the appropriate place?

this new community could use your love

I'm sketching out an idea for a readability assessment program. It will report the education level required to comfortably read a body of text using formulas, Dale-Chall being the most significant, that count length of sentences, what level of vocab a word is considered to be, etc. I was inspired by the word counter website I always paste my essays into. When it's done, I would like to plug it into APIs for it to be used on Lemmy, Mastodon, and Discord.

So, where I live there is basically 0 news coming from the Stan countries and frankly I often forget they exist lol

I don't know why but I suddenly thought about them today, and I wondered how life has been there since the fall of the Soviet Union and how life is like over there right now. Did market reforms hit them heavy as well? Did neoliberalism find its way into the countries? Did they manage to block foreign influence to a certain extent?

Any comrade who can help me out with this?

If not, I think we need one. I want to start postering again but I haven't had the motivation to make the posters myself, in part because I want them to be really good. Also of course historical agit prop is OK if it is still applicable which much of it, but not all, is.

Guess who's back...

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Oh yeah, and AMA.

What fun adventures have I been up to?

And won't anyone think of the damn children?

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1004233

Tried searching, but only found results for ancient societies.

Dear comrades, I had a family BBQ yesterday and my beloved uncle is under the Impression that all Muslim extremists (Al Qaeda, Isis and such) are Iran's fault and that they are the making of Shia Islam. That the Sunni are western Muslims oppressed by Iran.

Are there any documentaries or articles I could use to inform him?

I tried explaining operation Cyclone and timber sycamore but Wikipedia usually isn't that convincing in his circle (he has a PhD in engineering and used to work for a western oil company in the middle east)

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/935598

Hello,

I want to learn and understand why Russia is doing this? From what i have read on other sites the laws against allowing LGBT people have only been getting stronger, meanwhile in CPC the society is moving slowly more progressively in some ways on the topic of LGBT, like they don't target them like what is happening in russia.

I'd really like to see this topic and article discussed.

What are other lemmygrad communities for discussing topics like this in the future?

Thank you.

Hello,

Please forgive the instance name, i joined to find a place that wouldn't allow "debate me" anti-lgbt comments

Now that is out of the way here is my tl|dr

• Someone posts asking if they should tip
• I explain that if they don't people will treat them badly from a cultural point of view.
• Commenters prove my rudeness claim correct by saying ad hominem to me and name calling me.
• People act like i am the awful capitalist owner class because i gently said not to support bad behavior from other people when i already paid for service and the taxes.

My beliefs:

• in a capitalist society, workers should be paid by the business owner a livable wage.
• I want the elimination of an unequal monetary system that oppresses everybody but the ruling class and want qn egalitarian society.

I repeat my post title.

Thanks for reading. i hope you understand

Today, I just got news that our company is mandating that everyone installs spy software on their computers. As I am not going to install such software on my computer, it has been said to me that if we don't find some solution, I will get fired.

To be honest, I was thinking about changing jobs anyway, so I don't mind that much, but I am not sure what to do now.

I work in IT, so I have quite a lot of job opportunities, but most of them are something that is mostly harmful to society.

So I am considering two options: Try to find some meaningful job in IT (which is likely to be very hard).

Find some nice good paying job where I can work, ideally part-time, and focus on working on open source software in my free time.

Not really sure what to do, does anyone have any experience with similar situation?

title, unsure of placement 😵

A while ago Ibrahim Traoré took over and images of Russian flag waving people went around the world. They also made some anti colonial statements IIRC. But it's been quiet for a while now. Any idea what happened?

Has anyone in history made some valid criticism against Marxist ideology? And I'm not talking about the CIA propaganda no iPhone vuvuzela shit. But like, someone must've made some good point somewhere along the line?

I don't want this to be a bash marxism thread. Just curious. Debates with people usually tend to incorporate the usual stuff that can be debunked easily.

I've said it before but I'm tasked with setting up a youth movement for our party. One of the key things to do is, of course, appeal to the youth in order for them to join us. I've had a few meetings with our group now and while I will not claim I know better than the party, the course we're taking is a bit of the same of our regular action groups. And I can see how that doesn't work, especially for younger people.

So I'm looking for examples in literature on how to effectively reach out to the masses, with a focus on non-leftist or 'regular' people. One of the historical examples for this that I came up with is the Black Panther Movement. A young, radical movement. I was wondering if any of you guys know of literature written about their organizing power. You know, to use as a starting point for my journey.

That's not DuoLingo, as I find it too simple/slow.

Half the country speaks French and since I only learned Dutch, basic French and good German in high school I am now looking to get my French up to date.

DuoLingo is too basic right now, so I'm wondering if there are any sites that are more advanced for learning language.

Is "my friend" horrible for liking, sometimes too much cocaine. He goes to work every day, etc...he also takes days off from substance whence tired. But he also may be sick of attempting treatment whence getting treated like a worthless person. Again... Just asking for a comrade :)

What is the difference between conservative and reactionary or how you would describe and distinguish them?

In Portuguese language I see them as similar but with a significant difference. I suppose they may have the same meaning as in Portuguese and I would like to see how many socialists see these both words.

I don't want to digest disinformation.

I keep getting told by family that haircuts are important to prevent sores.

After a comrade suggested the idea that the human brain is just as adaptable and similar across all humans; I think that "personalities" are just social traits adapted to the material conditions of the human environment.

A human developing in the capitalist environment develops greed (as capital necessitates) merely for survival; not as a default trait.

In socialist and communist environments, humans develop collaborative traits.

Applying this idea further, the characteristics of how much work people put in is influenced by the environment; being stuck in a petite-bourgeois environment means that a person would develop laziness as a result of lacking the need to work.

In a socialist or communist economy a person would be more willing to work; as a result of the proletariat being the ruling class and thus treating workers well.

So technically, I could change my lazy ass into a worker just by changing the environment to a socialist one.

Especially if the only people willing to work with you are ultras like trots or they just start reading up on politics (because you encouraged them in the first place) No, there is no other leftist party in your area.