You can criticize as long as you end your criticism with a plea to vote for who you've just criticized regardless
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- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
World News@lemmygrad.ml•Iran Calls Trump's Bluff as Deep State Rebels Over War
·4 hours agoChanged nothing? Seems to have changed a bit. Chavez and Maduro would never have cut oil to Cuba. Venezuela doing that now makes it undeniable that Venezuela is more pliable to US demands now than before, at the very least.
Gasp I am appalled and my heart breaks for HBO
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
World News@lemmy.ml•Exclusive: Iran nears deal to buy supersonic anti-ship missiles from China
·2 days agoBetter buy fast, before the USA makes a move
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The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•What is Lemmy and how to get started? (Megathread)
·2 days agoIs there a reason not to just use Mastodon?
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•What is Lemmy and how to get started? (Megathread)
·2 days agoI haven't seen many ridiculous zionist bots here, which shows me that the Fediverse is the correct way to do social media in this climate lol
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Lenovo Ditches Windows (somewhat) For Linux [Video][18mins]
·4 days agoIt's not news if it's bullshit. And Bill Gates obviously wouldn't be "furious" about it. It's just AI slop
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
GenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•Peru has a new interim president, from the Marxist Perú Libre party
·5 days agoMy theory is that they started doing that back when they went viral often and haven't stopped chasing that high since.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·6 days agoDo the good thing. North Korea can do it. Yemen can do it. Cuba can do it. China doesn't get a pass from me just because you think it would hurt their PR (to do something that would make them heroes on the global stage! You think sanctioning Israel would hurt their PR? Or did you forget the topic of itnernational law that I'm talking about? Reminder: It's the fucking genocide convention that you're saying they aren't obligated to enact.).
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·6 days agoThen China shouldn't sign a treaty that gives them that obligation.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·8 days agoThat would be a fine argument if you also conceded that China doesn't agree, at least publicly.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
World News@lemmygrad.ml•Russia to demand legal codification of NATO’s non-expansion eastward
·8 days agoRussia is national capitalists. The USA is international capitalists. That makes their ideology differ enough because Russian companies win when American capitalism loses and vice versa. Imo
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·8 days agoI don't see what in the thread you're referring to that establishes that, comrade. Can you please point me there?
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·8 days agoI am also sure our comrades there have thought of these things. I am sure their calculus is different than ours. They are trying to build socialism in China. They have a long-standing policy of non-involvement. I support it until it comes to genocide.
Sure, but only because them "doing something about it" would also mean that they have the material conditions to do so, which is the only reason they would make that decision.
This sounds like handwaving away criticism to me. They don't do it? Well they would if they could! But people smarter than me decided they can't! Tough luck!
I reject that as defeatism.
when they say that they can't do much more than they already are
Did they say that? I've not seen so much as a statement to that effect. Are you sure you're not wishcasting?
That would mean that everything we support, we support critically, which then removes the meaning of critical support imo.
How? I don't follow. Yes, only give support critically. Never give uncritical support. Nobody is above reproach and everyone should be criticized as long as that criticism is principled and strategic.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·8 days agoPlease tell me if China has done anything other than restrict new investments in Israel. Please tell me which thing I said was false and I'll correct it immediately. I'm not humiliated by being wrong. I'm humiliated by doubling down.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·9 days agoI'm not saying China needs to go in guns blazing like Yemen, but they could unquestionably move the needle. If they did, you'd support it, right? If so, how could you defend them doing basically NOTHING about it? NOTHING about Gaza. NOTHING about Cuba. Propose something at the UN and say they support international law while not even asking for the GA to act outside the UNSC.
The alternative to critical support is uncritical support, and I'd hope no Marxist gives uncritical support to literally anything.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·9 days agoOk, then you're saying China doesn't care about and isn't bound by international law because the bad guys aren't doing it. Hardly a robust position, comrade. Look at Yemen. They're upholding international law. One of the only ones to do anything about it. Is little Yemen more powerful than China, or are they just more bullish on humanity? "Critical support" means support with criticism. This thread lacks that criticism, imo.
- CaptainRipcord@lemmygrad.mlto
The Deprogram@lemmygrad.ml•BadEmpanada takes are becoming even worse.
·9 days agoThe Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), which China is a party to, requires parties to prevent and punish genocide. This Genocide Convention is one of the first things the UN did.


I see what you're saying, but the USA had already seized tankers and they didn't stop until after Maduro was kidnapped