Every company is basically evil at this point.

Since you proclaim to be a Leftist, what’s wrong with Lemmy?

piefed already blocks by default lemmy.ml, hexbear, and lemmygrad. lol … it’s just a lib echo chamber.

Kobo + Calibre is all I need.

Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew … goddamn EWWWWWW

Me: provides evidence from the CIA itself, directly related to the topic on hand

Another user: provides evidence that many/most ex-soviet citizens actually preferred Socialism vs the Shock Capitalism they experienced. (Read Shock Doctrine and Blackshirts and Reds)

You: nuh uhh! My great grandparents told me a story once!

How to summon the .ml warrior with this one simple step.

Yes indeed. I fight against misinformation and for human rights. I support and march alongside strikers. I confront Proud Boys and other fascists. I resist against ICE. I fight for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC rights. I am active in mutual aid in my community. I’ve helped put Progressives and Socialists in elected office. I’m organizing my community against fascism and capitalism that ruins our lives.

You? Well … what have you accomplished lately?

That we’ve actually still have accounts of those who witnessed and experienced it first hand.

Yes of course. And there’s Cubans in Miami who denounce Cuba. Nevermind that these people are all ex-land owners, factory owners, and capitalists who exploited the working class for their own benefit. Castro was kind enough to exile them instead of what Mao did.

Myth: Communism Killed 100 Million+ People

Debunked:

Death tolls often include WWII casualties, famines, and natural disasters, misattributed to communism.

Capitalist atrocities (Native American genocide, transatlantic slavery) dwarf these numbers.

Sources like the “Black Book of Communism” are ideologically biased and widely discredited.

Myth: “Communist countries have no food!”

Busted:

Famines (e.g., USSR 1921) were caused by war/sanctions, not socialism.

Socialist states often had better nutrition than capitalist peers (e.g., Cuba’s food security vs. US food deserts).

Capitalist countries waste 40% of food while millions starve.

A good book to read is Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism by Kristen Ghodsee. So yea, read some books. Or rely on anecdotes 2 generations removed lol

Blocking you, I have no desire to continue this thread.

Essentially, “He was bad, but not THAT bad, that’s just western propaganda”

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00810A006000360009-0.pdf

“Even in Stalin’s time, there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the communist setup is exaggerated.”.

“tankies” though, amirite?

the list of excuses goes on.

A much more convenient excuse is that the USA is telling the truth about USSR while simultaneously executing millions of communists in South America, Africa, and Asia and lying about pretty much everything regarding anti-capitalism over the past century.

“we’re reddit, but with AI!”

I noped so hard away from digg

Ahh yes, the 20-year experiment that the entire platform was built off of 😄

So are you for or against mass surveillance veiled as “child safety”?

It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat

Tiktok was THE platform for pro-gaza content and solidarity. Leaks from Congress proves this. It’s a shell of what it once was now that the US oligarchs are in control of it and have turned it into their right wing spyware platform.

Blocked for unironically using the word ‘tankie’.

Kinda like fediverse in general. That’s the price of a non-corpo platform

cough Join SRA cough

Just a brief skim of this and I’m already so lost lol. Thanks for the link though, I’ll have a more detailed read through later.

Man, I’m pretty techy. I work in tech. I’ve learned programming, etc, I use Debian. but selfhosting seems so daunting, not to mention inconvenient. I need to get into it though 😓

And yet the USA continually loses wargames: https://breakingdefense.com/2019/03/us-gets-its-ass-handed-to-it-in-wargames-heres-a-24-billion-fix/

Don’t believe anything they say. It’s all propaganda and psyop.

How do you plan on doing the revolution without a gun?

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” -Mao

“By any means necessary” - Malcolm X

“I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.” - Che Guevera

etc, etc…