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DiscountDildos
Nov 8, 2017

"straight up pro USSR Poland ball memes"

Lmao oh no the horror

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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

DiscountDildos posted:

I don't even understand what's supposed to be fascinating about this lol. Trumpchud turned China Watcher posts a video of Chinese workers in PPE because he know it makes the idiot hogs who follow him squeal. Wtf is the "Russia connection" supposed to even imply

that the right wingers are very xenophobically trying to turn us against china at the behest of their lord and master putin who seeks to subjugate us to the will of his slavic hordes

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

FishBulbia posted:

Goddamn, would you be so forgiving to say, joe biden's covid response? where ideology prevented the solutions from being considered and greatly exacerbated deaths. The two are actually remarkably similar.

“I do not think that Joe Biden deliberately murdered 800,000 Americans out of malice because as his political opponents, they deserved to die. his handling of COVID is terrible but it isn’t terrible on purpose just to own the chuds”. there are? I did it. I did genocide denial for Biden

HiroProtagonist
May 7, 2007

eSports Chaebol posted:

“I do not think that Joe Biden deliberately murdered 800,000 Americans out of malice because as his political opponents, they deserved to die. his handling of COVID is terrible but it isn’t terrible on purpose just to own the chuds”. there are? I did it. I did genocide denial for Biden

You repeatedly claiming, in contradiction of provided evidence, and with no evidence of your own, that the executive is doing nothing, let alone that it is actively malicious, doesn't make it true. You repeatedly conflating the different parts of the government and ignoring the specifics of how different parts and individuals function doesn't obligate the rest of us to share in your bad faith.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

FishBulbia posted:

So just to clarify, you think it would be wrong to judge Biden's policy choices? you will never have more facts about the situation than Biden personally did so how can you possibly know

Biden is a capitalist who's lifetime goal is taking as much money from bankers as possible. I assume he has all the information, and is using it to accomplish this goal

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

FishBulbia posted:

So just to clarify, you think it would be wrong to judge Biden's policy choices? you will never have more facts about the situation than Biden personally did so how can you possibly know

Joe Biden has completely fumbled the covid response especially given the context of what he knows about communicable diseases and the American healthcare system.

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Post on your main, coward.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

smells like Brahminsplaining

The brahmin filled CPI and CPM did the land redistribution. Meanwhile the biggest dalit party in India essentially complains that the left is too casteist and puts statues of ambedkar while landless dalit women are regularly raped by upper caste thakur landlords.

mila kunis posted:

he's talking about the exploitation of caste divisions during the raj, those faultlines absolutely existed then and still exist today in places like maharashtra where shiv sena/bjp shitheads routinely harass and attack dalits, ambedkarites and others

Thats more of a marathi problem and even in the last election that got the maharashtra nazbol government in power the divisions in rural maharashtra were explicitly linguistic. The Shiv Sena ran on a platform of Uddhav and Balasaheb Thackeray as the marathi speakers while the BJP was the gujarati party of capital. The BJP literally can't help inflame these divisions because their entire platform up until now has been plastering modi's face everywhere and saying VOTE.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

Rutibex posted:

Biden is a capitalist who's lifetime goal is taking as much money from bankers as possible. I assume he has all the information, and is using it to accomplish this goal

right so basically anything is justifiable if you agree with the ends; what ever, this IS tedious.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
if you think about it, biden is currently doing at least 4 genocides (:911: #1 covid mostly killing poor POCs, free bombs for yemen and palestine, stolen money resulting in famines for afghans), while xi is doing a cultural genocide

as a lesser evil voting person i know who i'm supporting

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Truga posted:

if you think about it, biden is currently doing at least 4 genocides (:911: #1 covid mostly killing poor POCs, free bombs for yemen and palestine, stolen money resulting in famines for afghans), while xi is doing a cultural genocide

as a lesser evil voting person i know who i'm supporting

Far more than 4 imo

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/sanctions-programs-and-country-information

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

FishBulbia posted:

right so basically anything is justifiable if you agree with the ends; what ever, this IS tedious.

I mean isn’t this the reasoning in the first place? the ends: opposing communism. the means: support for literal nazis is not only justified, but necessary

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,
charge all doctors who perform amputations with assault. “the patient would have died otherwise” is a cop out. the ends don’t justify the means. deliberately mutilating human beings is immoral

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

eSports Chaebol posted:

I mean isn’t this the reasoning in the first place? the ends: opposing communism. the means: support for literal nazis is not only justified, but necessary

I don't get how saying collectivization sure killed a lot of people is the same as supporting nazis

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

For Promise Li, a young member of the Democratic Socialists of America born in Hong Kong, China’s crackdown was personal. “I have contacts and friends who are either imprisoned or under threat right now,” said Li, a cofounder of the Lausan Collective, which runs a site highlighting left-wing activist voices in Hong Kong. During the unrest, Li proposed that DSA’s International Committee put out a statement condemning the shuttering of Hong Kong’s largest independent labor organization. But the effort was rejected after a straw poll spanning the IC’s subcommittees. According to Anlin Wang, an American-born Chinese DSA member and cochair of the Asia and Oceania subcommittee, there was an overwhelming three-to-one consensus against saying anything. “We tried our hardest to make sure that this was as maximally democratic as possible,” said Wang. “I think there are strong arguments on both sides.”

To Li, the incident reflects the influence within the DSA of “tankies,” a derogatory Cold War–era term for defenders of authoritarian communist regimes, which is often used now to call someone a China apologist. “There’s a big group of people who aren’t exactly tankies but see the tankie side as equally valid and try to preserve the unity of the left,” Li said. For his part, Wang acknowledges that such views circulate on Twitter, but he said he’s never seen them in his subcommittee Slack. “When we started the subcommittee, I was very committed to making sure that it didn’t devolve constantly into ideological fights where one side gets called ‘tankies’ and the other side gets called ‘liberal sellouts,’” Wang said.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

FishBulbia posted:

I don't get how saying collectivization sure killed a lot of people is the same as supporting nazis

saying that the Ukraine famine was a planned famine is used as an origin myth for Ukrainian neo nazis. and it’s pretty suspicious to be so insistent that the best outcome for the Soviets, Russian, Ukrainian, et al would have been to put the brakes on industrialization in the lead up to WW2. there was a country in WW2 run by nazis that wanted to kill all the Slavs!

and again nobody is denying Stalin did plenty of heinous poo poo and people have posted examples itt. so it’s the insistence on the Holodomor that is all about ideology and not material circumstances

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

Atrocious Joe posted:

For Promise Li, a young member of the Democratic Socialists of America born in Hong Kong, China’s crackdown was personal. “I have contacts and friends who are either imprisoned or under threat right now,” said Li, a cofounder of the Lausan Collective, which runs a site highlighting left-wing activist voices in Hong Kong. During the unrest, Li proposed that DSA’s International Committee put out a statement condemning the shuttering of Hong Kong’s largest independent labor organization. But the effort was rejected after a straw poll spanning the IC’s subcommittees. According to Anlin Wang, an American-born Chinese DSA member and cochair of the Asia and Oceania subcommittee, there was an overwhelming three-to-one consensus against saying anything. “We tried our hardest to make sure that this was as maximally democratic as possible,” said Wang. “I think there are strong arguments on both sides.”

To Li, the incident reflects the influence within the DSA of “tankies,” a derogatory Cold War–era term for defenders of authoritarian communist regimes, which is often used now to call someone a China apologist. “There’s a big group of people who aren’t exactly tankies but see the tankie side as equally valid and try to preserve the unity of the left,” Li said. For his part, Wang acknowledges that such views circulate on Twitter, but he said he’s never seen them in his subcommittee Slack. “When we started the subcommittee, I was very committed to making sure that it didn’t devolve constantly into ideological fights where one side gets called ‘tankies’ and the other side gets called ‘liberal sellouts,’” Wang said.

lol owned

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Tankbuster posted:

The hell is he talking about. Caste has always taken a second place to ethnolinguistic identity in India. How the gently caress do you smash caste in places like West Bengal or Kerala where the left redistributed land a generation ago and the primary faultlines are either ideological or religious.

Obviously the answer is targeted market based reforms

endocriminologist
May 17, 2021

SUFFERINGLOVER:press send + soul + earth lol
inncntsoul:ok

(inncntsoul has left the game)

ARCHON_MASTER:lol
MAMMON69:lol
his subcommittee Slack

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
find a more useless left org than DSA i dare you

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Atrocious Joe posted:

For Promise Li, a young member of the Democratic Socialists of America born in Hong Kong, China’s crackdown was personal. “I have contacts and friends who are either imprisoned or under threat right now,” said Li, a cofounder of the Lausan Collective, which runs a site highlighting left-wing activist voices in Hong Kong. During the unrest, Li proposed that DSA’s International Committee put out a statement condemning the shuttering of Hong Kong’s largest independent labor organization. But the effort was rejected after a straw poll spanning the IC’s subcommittees. According to Anlin Wang, an American-born Chinese DSA member and cochair of the Asia and Oceania subcommittee, there was an overwhelming three-to-one consensus against saying anything. “We tried our hardest to make sure that this was as maximally democratic as possible,” said Wang. “I think there are strong arguments on both sides.”

To Li, the incident reflects the influence within the DSA of “tankies,” a derogatory Cold War–era term for defenders of authoritarian communist regimes, which is often used now to call someone a China apologist. “There’s a big group of people who aren’t exactly tankies but see the tankie side as equally valid and try to preserve the unity of the left,” Li said. For his part, Wang acknowledges that such views circulate on Twitter, but he said he’s never seen them in his subcommittee Slack. “When we started the subcommittee, I was very committed to making sure that it didn’t devolve constantly into ideological fights where one side gets called ‘tankies’ and the other side gets called ‘liberal sellouts,’” Wang said.

You can always tell who is far too online with their liberal use of the word "tankie".

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

quote:

Multiple interviewees mentioned the Qiao Collective, a cryptic organization that emerged seemingly as a counterpoint to Li’s Lausan Collective in early 2020. In an e-mailed statement, the Qiao Collective—which said it reaches decisions collectively and did not identify any individual members by name—described itself as “a group of students, artists, researchers, and young professionals in the US, UK, and Canada who contribute as volunteers in our spare time. Our members all belong to the broader Chinese diaspora, with family connections to mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and throughout Southeast Asia.” It further said it is funded solely through Patreon and has no formal ties to any political party, including the Chinese Communist Party, but did not respond to queries regarding the size of its membership, how it is governed, or who specifically is responsible for organizing it.
...
Li is harsher. “I think the Qiao Collective holds an authoritarian, fascistic position that has nothing to do with socialism,” he said. “The quality of their content and the caliber of their information is no better than InfoWars. But there’s been an influx of their fans into DSA, especially in San Francisco’s Red Star caucus.” Even if Qiao’s viewpoint isn’t fully mainstream within the DSA, Li added, “these outlets have sowed enough confusion with their disinformation that we can’t do much with DSA committees without it being blocked.” And Qiao has proved to be particularly effective in stifling the left’s discourse over another human rights crisis nearly 3,000 miles northwest of Hong Kong.

https://twitter.com/promiseli_/status/1480584515336605699?s=20

Wait, is this person a child
https://twitter.com/promiseli_/status/1480277961131663362?s=20

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Raskolnikov38 posted:

find a more useless left org than DSA i dare you

CHAZ

F Stop Fitzgerald
Dec 12, 2010

Raskolnikov38 posted:

find a more useless left org than DSA i dare you

even the feds don't bother infiltrating it because all they do is get people to vote democrat lol

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018


can you call them the r word on twitter? thank you

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

eSports Chaebol posted:

saying that the Ukraine famine was a planned famine is used as an origin myth for Ukrainian neo nazis

not everyone who thinks the famines were exacerbated by Soviet policy supports the national framework.

KomradeX
Oct 29, 2011


I feel like anarchists are either cheating or didn't count cause they're liberals

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

FishBulbia posted:

not everyone who thinks the famines were exacerbated by Soviet policy supports the national framework.

right. but also you realize that 1. I agree with this characterization and 2. it is GENOCIDE DENIAL

Mister Bates
Aug 4, 2010

Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the world Scouting movement, writing in his personal diary in 1939: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc."

he was a big fan of Mussolini too, and actually traveled to Italy to meet the man himself

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008


CHOP

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

eSports Chaebol posted:

right. but also you realize that 1. I agree with this characterization and 2. it is GENOCIDE DENIAL

what

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

saying that Soviet mismanagement of agriculture and grain allocation exacerbated the impact of an inevitable famine, rather than saying that Stalin planned a famine to deliberately cause the deaths of Ukrainians en masse as collective punishment for resistance to agricultural collectivization in Ukraine, amounts to a denial of the Holodomor, a putative genocide

ughhhh
Oct 17, 2012

Tankbuster posted:

The brahmin filled CPI and CPM did the land redistribution. Meanwhile the biggest dalit party in India essentially complains that the left is too casteist and puts statues of ambedkar while landless dalit women are regularly raped by upper caste thakur landlords.

Thats more of a marathi problem and even in the last election that got the maharashtra nazbol government in power the divisions in rural maharashtra were explicitly linguistic. The Shiv Sena ran on a platform of Uddhav and Balasaheb Thackeray as the marathi speakers while the BJP was the gujarati party of capital. The BJP literally can't help inflame these divisions because their entire platform up until now has been plastering modi's face everywhere and saying VOTE.

Tankbuster posted:

The hell is he talking about. Caste has always taken a second place to ethnolinguistic identity in India. How the gently caress do you smash caste in places like West Bengal or Kerala where the left redistributed land a generation ago and the primary faultlines are either ideological or religious.

would you mind expanding a bit more?

I dont find any problems with Vijay Prashads point regarding the smashing of cast system as a necessary project for any communist future in South Asia and that project being the complete opposite of 'cultural genocide'.

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

eSports Chaebol posted:

saying that Soviet mismanagement of agriculture and grain allocation exacerbated the impact of an inevitable famine, rather than saying that Stalin planned a famine to deliberately cause the deaths of Ukrainians en masse as collective punishment for resistance to agricultural collectivization in Ukraine, amounts to a denial of the Holodomor, a putative genocide

Do you disagree with this characterization:

The Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. In this regard, we note activities in observance of the seventieth anniversary of this Famine, in particular organized by the Government of Ukraine. Honouring the seventieth anniversary of the Ukrainian tragedy, we also commemorate the memory of millions of Russians, Kazakhs and representatives of other nationalities who died of starvation in the Volga River region, Northern Caucasus, Kazakhstan and in other parts of the former Soviet Union, as a result of civil war and forced collectivisation, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

FishBulbia posted:

Do you disagree with this characterization:

The Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. In this regard, we note activities in observance of the seventieth anniversary of this Famine, in particular organized by the Government of Ukraine. Honouring the seventieth anniversary of the Ukrainian tragedy, we also commemorate the memory of millions of Russians, Kazakhs and representatives of other nationalities who died of starvation in the Volga River region, Northern Caucasus, Kazakhstan and in other parts of the former Soviet Union, as a result of civil war and forced collectivisation, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations.

see I need more context. I could be okay with a memorial to American Civil War dead for example, even confederates, but I would want to know if there is an agenda

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Mister Bates posted:

Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the world Scouting movement, writing in his personal diary in 1939: "Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc."

he was a big fan of Mussolini too, and actually traveled to Italy to meet the man himself

ok but im sure he was very upset about all the people stalin murdered in the holodomor so i think we should cut him a little slack on flirting with nazis

FishBulbia
Dec 22, 2021

eSports Chaebol posted:

see I need more context. I could be okay with a memorial to American Civil War dead for example, even confederates, but I would want to know if there is an agenda

see I don't think children and civilians actually equate to confederates though

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

Raskolnikov38 posted:

find a more useless left org than DSA i dare you

ISO

Well, before they imploded anyways

Red and Black
Sep 5, 2011

Also the DSA international committee is actually good, and their decision not to make a statement on HK is further proof of that

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Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

ughhhh posted:

would you mind expanding a bit more?

I dont find any problems with Vijay Prashads point regarding the smashing of cast system as a necessary project for any communist future in South Asia and that project being the complete opposite of 'cultural genocide'.

No the caste system has to be dissolved. Its just that you have to make the lives of people materially better. The political project in India for fixing caste based disparities is explicitly for the PMC class with affirmative action. At the same time you actually have to completely transform the way people relate to the means of production. The farmer's movement is a big deal for this reason. Its full of people who are acutely aware of their regional, religious and caste differences but are willing to work together for a better collective deal for the agricultural sector as a whole.

One of the biggest demands that the farmers have in their manifesto is increasing the make work program (started by the so called neoliberal INC) salaries higher for landless laborers and more government intervention in the agricultural economy to increase the value of the produced goods. The BJP has been beating the drum on zero capital farming but it's actual policies are to privatise the large government warehouse system put in place to prevent another british style famine. These assholes are playing with fire during the time of climate change. The non BJP governments in the punjab essentially responded to the BJP's strongarming by letting farmers take over private warehouses owned by the BJP's corporate backers.

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