all my homies hate gusanos

Global North liberals without prejudice or chauvinism are hard to come by.

Im getting a little tired of all the North Korea apologists recently.

Oh well.

North Korea absolutely sucks to live in right now.

It’s not, which is why we’re “apologizing.” It is imperial core propaganda that we’re tired of, and we don’t let it go unchallenged.

It’s pretty amazing how quickly the US speed-ran through decades of anti-communist & anti-China propaganda.

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What is “questionable” about UpScrolled’s ethics is that it is pro-Palestine. So basically the same reason that TikTok came under attack: it wasn’t promoting Zionist voices and it wasn’t suppressing anti-Zionist voices.

My issue with them is that they’re corporate (and also that I have no interest in blipvert social media).

I still have a hard time wrapping my head around Bayes’ theorem 🤷

A good study would account for it, but corporate news can’t be bothered to vet for things like that, so you have to read the study yourself, assuming you’re not paywalled from it.

An espresso group head and an AI prompt.

TIL the German word for literacy is Alphabetisierung.

I think you dropped something: https://mondoweiss.net/2026/02/the-night-the-protests-in-iran-were-co-opted-by-outside-forces/

Quite a few Lemmings are bought into the “Putin’s Brain” epithet.

Did you know that Lemmy was created by communists for precisely these reasons? https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Lemmy

Or how can we own the existing companies?

Realistically we can only do that by seizing the means of production.

How can the govnments use these companies in a socialist environment?

China and other socialist states are already doing that. The companies there answer to the state, not the other way around like in capitalist states.

what eighty years of anticommunist propaganda does to a mf

We take politics so seriously that we don’t take the political compass meme the least bit seriously:
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Political_Compass

oh right duh

TBF most Israelis are no less “white” than Italians, because that’s what Ashkenazi Jews largely are genetically.

skill issue

@BrainInABox@lemmy.ml, remember that you’re on lemmy.world, where reporting someone for being a Zionist is likely to only backfire.

This is Holocaust exceptionalism. It is a trivialization of the slow, grinding genocide that Israel has been prosecuting for the last eighty years.

The great majority of Gazans were born in and have lived their entire lives in that open-air prison, that ghetto, their parents having been condemned there, many after their homes were stolen in the Nakba ethnic cleansing campaign. All Palestinians in Israel have lived under apartheid, settler-colonial rule their entire lives, in their own land, under military occupation.

Your whataboutism thought-terminating cliché is in bad faith.

Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media’s Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies.

But what if “whataboutism” isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term “whataboutism” has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

Ben Burgis at Current Affairs: Is “Whataboutism” Always a Bad Thing?

Discussing the crimes of our own country as well as the crimes of others is not always an effort to downplay other countries’ crimes—it can be a test of whether we are serious about our principles.