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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Bird Flu killing animals lots places right now. This is like all the reviews of scented candles saying that the smell is weak when Covid rates are spiking.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_spending

Guess we will soon see exactly how 'mandatory' this spending real is.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

According to American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the “double genocide thesis”, or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism (class murder), in particular the push at the beginning of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for commemoration of the latter in Europe, can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a leftist resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme social inequalities in both the Eastern and Western worlds as the result of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism. She says that any discussion of the achievements by Communist states, including literacy, education, women’s rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Joseph Stalin’s crimes and the “double genocide thesis”, an intellectual paradigm summed up as such: “1) any move towards redistribution and away from a completely free market is seen as communist; 2) anything communist inevitably leads to class murder; and 3) class murder is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust.” By linking all leftist and socialist ideals to the excesses of Stalinism, Ghodsee posits that the elites hope to discredit and marginalize all political ideologies that could “threaten the primacy of private property and free markets”.

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 a lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist's power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely captain of a team

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/canadas-latest-nazi-scandal-victims-of-communism-memorial-filled-with-fascist-names/

The Department of Canadian Heritage was just informed that over half of the 550 names engraved on its “Memorial to the Victims of Communism” in Ottawa are Nazis or have links to fascist groups.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

CEOs killing thousands for profits

Nazis killing millions for settler colonialism

ummm violence is bad mmmkay

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This is called 'recuperation'. A classic form of coopting radical disruption back into the folds of the status quo. Think Napster > iTunes > Spotify as one example.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10 percent of them, then you didn’t delete enough.

This is rule 2 from Elmo's 'efficieny and optimization algorithm'.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

"We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_genocide_theory

Scholars have criticized the double genocide theory as a form of Holocaust trivialization.

spoilerAccording to American ethnographer and Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Kristen Ghodsee, efforts to institutionalize the "double genocide thesis", or the moral equivalence between the Nazi Holocaust (race murder) and the victims of communism (class murder), in particular the push at the beginning of the 2007–2008 financial crisis for commemoration of the latter in Europe, can be seen as the response by economic and political elites to fears of a leftist resurgence in the face of devastated economies and extreme social inequalities in both the Eastern and Western worlds as the result of the excesses of neoliberal capitalism. She says that any discussion of the achievements by Communist states, including literacy, education, women's rights, and social security is usually silenced, and any discourse on the subject of communism is focused almost exclusively on Joseph Stalin's crimes and the "double genocide thesis", an intellectual paradigm summed up as such: "1) any move towards redistribution and away from a completely free market is seen as communist; 2) anything communist inevitably leads to class murder; and 3) class murder is the moral equivalent of the Holocaust." By linking all leftist and socialist ideals to the excesses of Stalinism, Ghodsee posits that the elites hope to discredit and marginalize all political ideologies that could "threaten the primacy of private property and free markets".

 
[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago

Nazis and Zionists > Jews must leave Europe and go to Palestine

Zionists > Palestinians must leave Palestine and go somewhere else

seems to be a pattern here

 

One of the best communicators to regular people on political economy in a long while

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Have you learned anything in the last 10 months?

 

a screenshot from Geopolitical Economy Report / Ben Norton video posted Sep 19, 2024 about the recent UN resolution vote

World demands end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine, in landslide UN vote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK9dmK8p0n0

some of the notable outliers from the 'same map': Japan, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, France, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Greece, Philippines

 
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