Next, they should try stopping Israel by killing every settler until there aren’t any left in Palestine.

Mutual Aid is fundamentally an Anarchist idea and, while I don’t seek to defend CPUSA, there are legitimate critiques. It serves as a “release valve” for organizing work: effort that could be put into overthrowing the system as a whole is instead put into helping a small number of people.

Building parallel power structures through Mutual Aid isn’t by any means bad (just like many other things in Anarchist thought), but it is not an effective means to challenging state power in all cases.

Mutual Aid takes a lot of work, and an org performing Mutual Aid has an opportunity cost - less time for organizing protests, educational events, recruiting, social events, speaking at councils, canvassing for petitions, or any other important things that political parties are supposed to do.

I am in a Marxist-Leninist party in Northeast Ohio. We do not do Mutual Aid, but many of our members do work with Serve the People, a Mutual Aid org mostly run by Anarchists (the one Aaron Bushnell was in). I believe this is a more effective way to organize and is compatible with MLism in a way that the political party directly organizing mutual aid is often not

Are you sure you’re on the right side of history when your side includes Germany, Italy, and Japan, and you’re up against Russia and China?

Perhaps it isn’t the developing third-world country with improving quality of life every year that is the fascist, but rather the same people who have always been the fascists.

Sounds like someone has never read Yan Konma

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Lord Almighty, you could do something so funny right now

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IDF soldiers are beheading children by the dozen and we’re supposed to care that a soldier - who presumably knew what he was getting into - was killed in a slightly unusual but likely more humane way than dying slowly of an infected shrapnel wound?

If you believe this conflict is about religion, you are a gullible idiot. The conflict is a colonial one; the same sort of genocidal displacement we saw in North America only on the age of smartphones.

If everyone on both sides became Atheists, the Israelis would still be butchering the Palestinians and the Palestinians would still be fighting for their freedom.

“The Central Banks are Communist” - 1,000 IQ take from local Lemmy brain-genius

Because 1984. Doublethink thoughtcrime. Ignorance is knowledge. etc.

As a Catholic, thank you for mentioning this.

The bowling ball also pulls the earth towards itself. This amount is imperceptibly small but still there

If not also the entire automobile sector, and with it the American economy

I think the issue is that games are games; an example that springs to mind is Caves of Qud’s Markov-chain generated books. I don’t mind them, but once I realized what they were, I stopped reading them. Unless it’s written by a developer, it doesn’t matter. They might as well be empty, unopenable items, like books from Dwarf Fortress where they get a description of what is inside but not any text from the passage.

Even random dialogue is interesting in games not only to “immerse” the player, but to receive messages and information from the developers; if they are randomly generated, they have no purpose. The game would only be improved by their absence.

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Political affiliation is not a protected class, nor should it be.

Someone please think of the rights of the landowners!

The government of the Taiwan Authority does not want to become part of China. Wherever you are from, I hope you realize that governments in Capitalist states rarely represent their people adequately.

Most people in the province of Chinese Taipei support reunification with the mainland. It is the U.S.-backed government that stands in the way.

Taiwan is in China.