commiehimbo

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  • Imperialism is capitalism. Imperialism is the financial exploitation (i.e. resource theft, wealth extraction) of the entire world by a handful of monopolies, not “big country does war and trade deals”. Social Democrats are welfare capitalists. Since capitalism is destroying all of us, welfare capitalists certainly aren’t going to get us out of this mess. They only make capitalism more tolerable for the already oppressed working class so that capitalists, monopolies, and big banks can continue to rake in the dough by exploiting the already impoverished poor.












  • commiehimbo@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlnK bAd!!!
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    6 days ago

    “If you believe The Official Story about everything that happens, then you’re not thinking, you’re repeating. If the only thing you question is the questioners, then you’re not an individual with your own mind, you are an enforcer of the status quo.” Caitlin Johnstone





  • I mean Zelensky is a big fan and supporter of Israel. And also a fascist dictator who has shut down news outlets, banned political parties, and cancelled elections in Ukraine. So this tracks. Although not sure what these means for all the out and proud Bandera-worshipping Nazis in the Ukrainian government and armed forces. They’re probably immune because they’re basically Zelensky’s secret police who, among other things, slaughter ethnic Russians in the Donbas, abduct men off the streets for forced conscription, and murder Ukrainian leftists and socialists who engage in activism against the Zelensky regime.


  • Currently reading five books:

    1. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (it’s basically Real Housewives of Regency London. Loving it!)
    2. The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Wells (grimdark steampunk!)
    3. The World is Full of Divorced Women by Jackie Collins (racy 70s chick lit)
    4. Blue Skinned Gods by SJ Sindu (a blue boy in Tamil Nadu, India is believed to be the reincarnation of a Hindu god)
    5. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison (freedom only for the rich while the rest of us are oppressed, surveilled, and exploited)

  • 27 million Soviets lost their lives to German Nazis in WWII. 13.7 million of those were civilians. The largest losses of human life in WWII. Modern Russians still revere communists like Lenin even though their current state is not communist. Communists are ideologically on the opposite end of the spectrum than Nazis.

    Even US-funded propaganda abroad Radio Free Europe acknowledges that Putin is not a fascist: “The experts generally believe that Putin’s Russia is not fascist. Although they note the existence of some similarities between Putinism and fascism, such as revanchism and “hypermasculine authority”, they argue that Putin’s Russia lacks the mass mobilization and the revolutionary nationalism which were fundamental characteristics of fascist movements.”

    Nazism and fascism are far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist. Putin may be his own flavor of evil, but he’s a traditionalist oligarch, not a Nazi or an imperialist, which many falsely claim.