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The video doesn’t need to be watched: it may as well be a podcast. Or do you mean you can’t listen to the video?

How’s the weather in Valparaiso? 😂

If not all of Reddit, r/neoliberal certainly is.

• https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2019/10/bpr-interviews-the-neoliberal-project/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Policy_Institute#Center_for_New_Liberalism

Then there's that r/IAmA incident:

• A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China
• I am Rushan Abbas - Uyghur Activist and survivor of Chinese oppression. My sister and my friends are currently trapped in western China's concentration camps. Ask me anything!

And then there’s Reddit’s Director of Policy:

• Jessica Ashooh: The taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant tabbed to do it
• https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/expert/jessica-ashooh/

Yes. I think your perspective is through Hollywood-tinted glasses. When was the last time something like that happened in real life and actually had devastating effects on the ruling class?

No way they’d risk him getting up on the stand

Defendants don’t get up on the stand if they want any chance of a not guilt verdict.

and even less likely they’d want to try their luck getting twelve people to convict.

It’s not so unlikely. It ought to be, but it isn’t.

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Starfleet values like socialism, not barbarism.

You read a fantastic article—which I have recommended dozens of times over the last several years—and came away with the worst conclusion. The zoning didn’t create the racism, the racism created the zoning; just as the zoning didn’t create the wealth inequality, wealth inequality created the zoning.

Trumpism is coming from petit bourgeois suburburbanites, but suburbia is not the cause of Trumpism. This is class war, not a zoning war.

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This is the most hyperbolic take yet 😂 I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious fediverse memes.

Edit to add: oic, your alts keep getting banned

“Everyone I disagree with is a bot.”

Michael Parenti

The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

I think @[email protected] already covered these, or at least some.

1. By state, communists mean a system that enforces the will of one class over the others. A stateless society is a synonym for a classless society. It doesn’t mean there’s no government.
2. No socialist state has achieved communism in the past because it is necessarily a long-term project. You can’t simply go to bed one night in a capitalist state and wake up the next in a classless society. Certainly none will achieve it while imperialist states are still working to deny it. They are in a stage of siege socialism.
3. “Autocrats.” That’s not how democratic centralism works; that’s how Western capitalist propaganda tells us it works. From a declassified 1955 CIA report:

   Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain.

4. No communist worth their salt ever talks about any sort of utopia. Marxists are materialists, not idealists. This is basic stuff.

• Engels, 1880, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
• Lenin, 1920, “Left-wing” communism, an infantile disorder