Yeah, I really just try to disengage with campists these days. Honestly authoritarian leftists are soooo few where I am from, they aren’t even worth really giving consideration to the problems I am facing. They are only a thing in online spaces like Lemmy. They are all “LOL, brainwashed imperialist. You cited an academic paper? It’s not from Zhengzhou? Ha, it’s just imperialist lies. I don’t have to engage with the data on any real, academic level, because LOL not from China!” The best is when someone asks them WTF they are supposed to do when they shit on all efforts for change, and they imply you are complicit because you have yet to instigate revolutionary violence, when they have never been in a fight, let alone fucking killed someone.

The small, actual, leftist movement here tends to run anti-authority, I am far more concerned with them. It is fun to talk shit though.

Yes, they are staunch campists, so I have tried to disengage them.

Yes I have seen cowpee, and others, disregard any information from any western organization, government, university, etc. Then, when someone did the same with information coming from china, cow said they were clearly to immature to have a rational, good faith, argument.

Western media is just propaganda, doesn’t mean everything they say is wrong. Same goes for the media branches of the CCP.

The posters are red flags for “nice guys” and other very problematic people

Individuals are far too complex to be 100% anything, so the same applies to the added complexity of a state.

“Socialist Reality” strikes again!

he threatened to release the video of him and cardinal wuerl spit roasting a luxury couch.

I mean, if you read the NYT article, it is nothing that I believe should not have been assumed. The people providing the non-human resources are actively in on the decision making, when something doesn’t work, they move to stronger weapons/tactics. The idea that this is “scandalous” is weird, this is all just like business as usual, for anyone in a war. Why would anyone assume NATO wasn’t involved in calling the shots, and making decisions to, as they would hope, win?

I am against the russian side of this, like a lot, but this is just another tuesday type of stuff.

well, can’t speak for you, but in my real life no one actually likes the democrats, they are just not as bad as the GOP. I haven’t met a single person who reacts this way to criticism of the democrats.

Yeah, I love when people think that a criticism of the camp they are in, is automatically a commendation of the camp they oppose. Another thing they have in common with MAGA, any criticism of Trump must mean you love Biden.

Yeah, they claim to be ardent supporters of minorities, but when something bad is happening, to a country they don’t like, that will make life even more dangerous for them, they cheer it on. If its a country claiming communism they will look the other way too. They would be absolutely fine with getting their authoritarian, socialist, regime even if it meant the genocide of every vulnerable demographic of people they claim to support the rights of. It will simply be justified by the ends.

that poll says 23% not 10. Now about that poll.

It was conducted by the victims of communism memorial fund, which is a US government organization created specifically to shift the public opinion away from communism. This is also the place that came up with the infamous “communism killed 100 million people” stat. A stat that required them using the dead nazis, german citizens, etc. from WW2, and not even just the ones killed by the USSR. Basically saying that when the USSR killed enemy combatants, and civilians, it was result of communism causing mass death, and completely ignored everyone else’s contributions to those number, even pinning their contributions on the soviets as well.

The write-up on the poll describes how they compared the changes in statistics over time by comparing groups that matched frames like age, ethnicity, sex, etc. They tell you how many people they surveyed. They give the general subject of the questions, and their answer numbers. They do not describe how they contacted these people to take the survey, where they conducted the survey, or provide the actual, verbatim, questions asked by the survey. They also have answer options that seem to be generally wrong, or loaded, or in some way just poor. For instance, when it asks what socialism, and marxism are, the following are the answer options they provided:

When the government owns all property and controls nearly 100% of the national economy and makes all important decisions about prices, wages, and job placements, as in the Soviet Union

Means a free market economy with private property, but one where the government provides ample social welfare benefits, as in many Scandinavian and Western European countries.

Means a free market economy with private property where the government intervenes when necessary to create an even playing field for all citizens and businesses.

Just a vague new name for more or less what the Democratic Party in the US supports today

Refers to a new system that has not yet been created.

As you can see, none of these answers are good possible answers to define marxism, or socialism, for a large number of reasons. They also state the percentage of people “incorrectly” said communism killed less than 100 million people. Again, this number is BS that is inflated with deaths from combat in WW2 when the USSR didn’t start the war, etc.

The only people taking this poll seriously are right wing organizations like the cato institute, and it’s million branch organizations it funds, right wing media, etc. Even moderate right wing sources cast doubt on the veracity of the poll.

oh, nice. Great little design

Yeah I love the demands for revolutionary violence from people who have never been in a fight, let alone killed someone. Simply expressing that killing people, because I think I am right, is a last resort, got a bunch of .ml people on my case. I straight asked if they had killed anyone, or been in a situation where violence directed towards them put their life at risk. They all (like 5 people nothing crazy) said no, yet insisted they were up to the task, and knew they would be fine because it was necessary.

Big “if I was there when that mass shooter showed up, the shooter would have been the only dead” energy.

So basically chinese disorderly conduct

I don’t praise my leaders though

But if harris just as nazi what is the issue?

Yes, and growth is sustained by striking a balance of quality and quantity in terms of the human population. If this balance becomes out of whack you will decline into what they refer to as “malthusian stagnation”. So the population does need to grow in order to sustain economic growth, along with the quality of the individuals that make up the population. What they refer to as “economic darwinism” beings to truly take place as a population has the extra resources to put more into children than parent, creating generational progress. Post industrial economic darwinism gets a buffer, so-to-speak, due to the increased per capita productivity introduced by technology. However this is also not infinite, and so, at some point this will plateau, and the population will need to begin rising again to spur growth. We are likely in the midst of this plateauing.

For a really bad summary? Capitalism requires economic growth, business, industry, etc. must increase output, therefore the consumer base must increase, and so it goes with the true labor underclass. For a real explanation check the link below to a PDF file of a dissertation on the subject.

https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1462&context=dissertation

Many are concerned. Capitalism requires a growing population. It is just they seem to believe force is the way to go.