Posting something on a private platform is actually not public. It is the private property of the platform owner and they can make it public or private any time they want or find ways to commodity it in their terms of service when you sign up.

I say this to back up what you say about the myth of the digital commons. Most online networks are not a commons at all, they are the exact opposite, they are an enclosure to extract profit from what would otherwise be a commons, usually built by finance capital to have appealing features at first, generated at a loss, and then once profit needs to be taken the alleged “commons” is increasingly closed and monetized. Journalista don’t really understand this, sure, but neither do most people. They expect, correctly, that social interactions should be analogous to chatting with someone on the street or at a public square, and social networks try to give that illusion.

Regarding individual choice, well a person is surrounded by the exact opposite of what we are saying and all their friends are on their addiction habit social networks so what would you expect them to do. These things don’t just happen on their own, people must work to organize and educate on the way capitalism turns their social lives into profit.

lol why are you so afraid to just address what I said. Next pointless ramble and I’m out bud

The topic being what Dengism is and why those you label with it might reject your use of the label. I explained this in the previous comment, you can choose whether to engage with it or not but I don’t feel any urge to immediately respond to your various diversions.

I’ll be happy to discuss that after the topic at hand, though it seems you’re trying to avoid it.

It’s an insult to the Filipino Maoists to compare them to the ACP.

ACP are rejected by all communists. They are Strasseritr, reactionary, and a formation deviating even from the revisionist CPUSA. They’re basically right wing grifters and Lemmy liberals are falling for the grift, lacking political education and media literacy.

A communist organizes to overthrow the bourgeois state and class and establish a new order in its place. Historically the term has referred to revolutionary socialists, particularly Marxist-Leninists, who have by far had the most success in revolution. The aftermath of revolution has never practically been immediate transformation, but to enact major changes unacceptable in reformist contexts and defend the revolution and its process.

There are no “tenets” of communism outside this context. Maybe you’re referring to Marx’s conception of communism as a classless, stateless society? From each according to their ability, to each according to their need? This was always in the context of a historical process wherein there was first a dictatorship of the proletariat and the development of productive forces to even make communism possible. It is a prediction of what people will do when the bourgeois are no more, when they can demand more from life, over a long-running process.

By use, a tankie is anyone vaguely on the left that doesn’t fall for every US state department criticism of other countries.

Historically it was a left com / Trotskyist dismissive term referring to communists that justified the intervention in Hungary, with tanks, in 1956. But liberals don’t understand history or politics, nor are curious about them, and the only real content is to imply that the target is bad and not to be believed.

The “Darwinist” example is a good one because that’s generally not the term used in biology for what Young Earth Creationists think they’re doing by using the term dismissively. Evolutionary theory is much richer than Darwinism alone and within it there are disagreements among people, some calling certain views “Darwinist” in a way that is critical, seeing adaptation everywhere in evolutionary history even when it’s unjustified. Creationists just use it as a way to act like it’s a religious dogma, a camp, and therefore on equal footing with Young Earth Creationism rhetorically, and below it to their audience (who believe in creationism already). They typically don’t even know what the term means and can’t discuss the topics involved.

Pretty similar to this thread where terms are thrown around as insults, no understanding is evident, and simply inventing associations and alleged dogmas gets a free pass from those who have never investigated the topics whatsoever.

But “Dengism” isn’t even a thing among the left, there’s very little to it, it’s just reforms in the 80s and people argue over whether they were good or bad and how much. There are no socialist parties that organize themselves around “Dengism”, that’s like having an entire party centered on No Child Left Behind or something. Oh you’re a CLBer!?

Because Dengism isn’t anything other than a dismissive left com term for anyone on the left that doesn’t wholeheartedly dismiss the reforms under Deng.

Liberals have no idea what any of these words mean they just get the “and they’re bad” vibe from context. Like children playing with toys.

Name a “tankie” you’ve interacted with that supports ACP.

It trivializes genocide to compare actual genocide to war or really just other things that are far less.

This is not a difficult concept.

You won’t be able to find a single ACP supporter here. Go read more.

This article was designed specifically to show how gullible Lemmy libs are lmao. Imagine thinking the ACP is even on the left.

Reps don’t really care they’re who created and funded ICE in the first place.

It is also directed at people who are already oppressed and excluded from power structures socially and legally. The big news murders were typical white people, for every one of them there are ten or more marginalized people.

Debian is better as a server host. Ubuntu is not easier for a server for anything except initial installation but you’ve already done that once with Debian so you’ll be fine. Only reason to use Ubuntu is if you want core software updates every 6 months and for this purpose you don’t. And can still have the option for newer software in select cases using containers.

Americans have a false belief in their elections and that they can simply vote this away later. Or when that illusion is shattered, they often develop a political nihilism, having no further concept of political power.

This is not actually unique to Americans, either.

authoritarian regime

Both of these terms are obfuscstory propaganda that mean a person hasn’t placed enough scrutiny on what they have internalized. That might sound like I am simply attacking you, but I mean this as a way of answering your (combative) question: you want a space where people have some basic ideas about cold war propaganda but where they retain a significant amount of chauvinist framibgs from that propaganda. You can find like-minded people wherever left education arrests itself, which is why you won’t find it in organizations or spaces that require reading on these topics.

To explain my response, I’ll go over the two words.

Authoritarian. This word is poisoned beyond clear meaning. Every state is authoritarian, so what is the meaning of calling a particular state authoritarian? Every revolution is authoritarian, so do you also criticize them as such and seek out anti-revolutionary spaces? In reality, I know that this term is just thrown around in chauvinist contexts as a dog whistle. In this context it just means “bad” and “the enemy”. It’s the liberal version of, “they hate us for our freedoms”.

Regime. This term is synonymous with givernment or state, but just colors it as, again, “bad”. Venezuela must always be described as being led by a regime, not a government. As a target of imperialist propaganda, it must be implicitly propagandized as illegitimate and bad. Think of someone saying, “the Biden regime”. How often do you hear that phrase? If you’ve heard it, it was a socialist trying to make this point and even the playing field.

If you remove the propaganda aspects, your framing becomes, “still not pretend it isn’t a government”. Becomes less spicy, doesn’t it? Despite having no differences in meaning outside of implying it is bad.

Finally, Xi didn’t make himself president for life, he must be regularly reelected. The government itself removed term limits in the normal way: with a vote. Imperialist media calls this “president for life” because they are chauvinists. When the US had no term limits, was every president “president for life”? Aren’t term limits antidemocratic, i.e. more authoritarian?

In short: please do some self-criticism on this internalized chauvinism and you will find it easier to find comrades. You are currently in an incoherent position and that means you’d only find comeradery among the incoherent snd incurious. Be around people that challenge you based on their reading and knowledge.

Yes, let’s let a fascist who wants to kill the Palestinians even faster into power.

Israel already has unconditional material support from the Biden-Harris administration on which the genocide is entirely dependent.

However, you can help prevent the normalization of genocide by saying it is your red line that you will not cross.

It will be super effective to protest against him when he is using military force to suppress us.

The Biden-Harris regime recently issued an EO, prompting a corresponding memo from the Pentagon, to authorize domestic military use, including lethal force against citizens in the US. Harris’ running mate mobilized the national guard against George Floyd protesters. Harris is a prosecutor known for harsh and unfair treatment of the accused.

They are not oppositional forces in this matter.

It’s not like he hasn’t already used BOTAC to kill leftists during the George Floyd uprisings.

The people that killed leftists were cops and right wing stochastic terrorists. The cops are funded and defended and overseen and protected by Dems at all levels of government. And it is a rabbit hole, but the fates of Ferguson organizers are something to follow as well.

Surely all the guardrails will allow us to stop the genocide with him in power!

There are no guardrails. The question is whether you will take the first step in opposition of genocide by refusing to support it. There is much more work to be done.

"After Trump, Our Turn” comrades! Don’t vote!

Please center Palestine in your thoughts.