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Riverside

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  • Banning from social media

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  • Believe it or not, that's exactly why a meaningful wealth tax with such consequences will never be passed and maintained without a literal revolution.

  • Banning from social media

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  • More accurate: the US nukes world's poorest nation in order for it to stop being a nation at all

  • Journalist sacked for doing actual journalism at EU press conference

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  • You're right, Israel-Palestine cannot be equated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine because the former is a genocide whereas the latter isn't. This makes the comparison even more relevant though: "if you call for war reparations here arguing from international law, how are you not calling for even more reparations there from genocide under international law?"

  • Role models

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  • What's the yank obsession with male role models and male-coded activities? Like, sure, "enjoy some quality time with pops" is probably a good thing for most children, but why the weird gendering obsession with the whole thing? Can't the kid grow up just as happy and healthy learning some other activity with, you know, their own freaking mother instead of a random?

  • Role models

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  • "Manosphere is because no fishing" is an astonishing take, care to back up the implied "children from single mothers turn to be more misogynistic" claim with some source?

  • Accelerationism

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  • This is kinda mostly a strawman though, no serious political movement advocates for accelerationism, it's just a strawman used against people further to the left than oneself.

    There are a few weird fringe cults who are accelerationist like Posadists (who believe nuclear war or aliens will bring communism), but it's not by any means a position that holds a good footing in any serious political project.

    The strawman often takes claims like "there is not a big practical difference between these two political parties" and twists them into "I would rather have the worse party win". Also takes descriptive statements like "people usually revolt when hungry" and attributes an intentionality to them, like "I wish more people would go hungry so that they starve more", as if making an observation about the nature of protest and revolt implied supporting the conditions that create it.

  • Accelerationism

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  • Doesn't help that the social democrats had murdered the more moderate leaders of the communists (like Rosa Luxembourg) just a few years before that and funded the Freikorps with government funds. How is a small party (KPD) without access to government more accelerationist than the big party in government (SPD) actively funding Nazi death squads to murder communists already a decade before?

    Also, the SPD leaders literally flipped its anti-militarist stance overnight when WW1 broke out. Again, who's the accelerationist, the one protesting against that and being murdered by fascists or the party in government funding said fascists and supporting WW1?

  • Accelerationism

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  • Fully agreed but why the particular focus on the offending nation? You could give similar statistics about, say, Belarus or Poland. To me it's not morally the same when a Nazi German soldier is killed in combat to when a Belarusian civilian is starved to death in a Nazi concentration camp.

  • Accelerationism

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  • This isn't even the stupidest point of accelerationism

    Agreed, but like, there are no actual accelerationists, it's mostly a strawman used to misrepresent people who are more radical. Sure, there may be a few random accelerationists around, but there's no serious political movement anywhere with accelerationism in their policy because it is a very bad idea.

  • Accelerationism

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  • It does, but barely anybody calls themselves an accelerationist, it's mostly a fringe position and, more commonly, a strawman

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  • No revolution required - just a better electoral process. I'm happy to answer any questions.

    Why would the ruling capitalist class allow an electoral process that represents the working class against their own interests, if they haven't allowed this anywhere at any time?

  • Accelerationism

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  • How many actual Bernie supporters voted for Trump? Or are you just making up a strawman to blame the left for the Democrats being incapable of winning the elections to a sex criminal or at the very least banning a fascist from elections during their mandate?

    Lenin was much the same. He knew a revolution wouldn't happen if things got better, so he did everything he could to make things as bad as humanly possible

    You are abso-fucking-lutely making that up. The Bolsheviks had support from workers and soldiers precisely because they advocated from the start on an unconditional retreat from WW1, which was leading to massive casualty numbers and famine. Pulling your country out of imperialist war (which they did immediately after Bolshevism won the revolution btw) is literally the opposite of accelerationism.

    When the provisional government came along, granted free speech rights and universal suffrage, Lenin was vehemently opposed to it

    If by "universal" you mean male suffrage, female suffrage was I actually first implemented in the former Russian empire by the communists. The Bolsheviks organized a coup against the provisional government to pull the RSFSR out of imperialist war, and the fact that a bunch of former political prisoners and exiles had the military support to do this and maintain a stable state (and win the upcoming civil war) proves that it was the correct choice. The unelected provisional government barely survived the fascist coups that sought to reinstate the Tsar and society was growing exhausted of famine and poverty due to the wartime conditions, if you support the provisional government you're literally arguing for Russian nationalism and militarism, blows my mind that you'd be doing this on 2026.

    Look up the dates for the independence of Finland or Estonia, and tell me whether they line up with the Provisional Government or with the October Revolution, then tell me again which government was more democratic, the one keeping them under their thumb or the one drafting a constitution granting the unilateral right to self-determination and secession.

  • Interest

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  • Any source for that claim?

  • You can eat ONE inedible thing of your choice. What's for dinner?

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  • You can already mostly safely eat those, it was one of my party tricks at my previous job. Don't follow medical advice on the internet, ofc, myself included.

  • Pizza Cake on trans kids

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  • I think it's a bit harsh to call someone transphobic for not understanding something

    Hmmm, I wouldn't necessarily consider it harsh. Our current societies are unfortunately transphobic, so not being exposed to trans issues is leads to transphobic attitudes and points of view. Transphobia doesn't exclusively mean "overt hatred of trans people", also internalized attitudes and thoughts such as oversexualization, stereotypes, etc.

  • Pizza Cake on trans kids

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  • As a centrist kind of non-woke person, if I see my son playing with dresses, I go "oh, cool" and move on

    This is far from centrist, it's actually a very leftist position. "Leaving people be" sounds apolitical until you realize that 50% of the population want to repress trans people and consider them mentally ill. Wear your leftism with pride, non-judgmentalism against ethnic minorities, women and LGBTQ is a very political statement in a society that systematically oppresses them.

  • You have nothing to lose but your brains

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  • It's not about the IDEA of communism its the implementation

    Let's see what this person's sources for how socialist implementation looked like:

    Read the gulhag archipeligo

    Lmfao, a fucking fiction book written by a fringe fascist-tsarist right wing nationalist. Your comment can be safely disregarded once we learn that your source on "socialist implementation" is literally a work of fiction. "Communism doesn't work in practice, you should watch The Avengers: Age of Ultron"-ass comment

    You should try and read a normal book for adults, you know, an actual essay discussing the facts from a scientific standpoint and not a propaganda novel.

    Go and read a real book for adults. I suggest you Albert Szymanski's "Human Rights in the Soviet Union" or "Is the Red Flag Flying", or Robert C. Allen's "Farm to Factory" if you're as concerned with the realities of Soviet people as you're showing us.

  • You have nothing to lose but your brains

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  • The Soviet Union were literally the closest allies of the Nazis

    No, fuck you actually. I'm a Spaniard, and back in 1936 before any "Motherboard-Ribbedcock" anticommunist propaganda you're making (I've educated you about this topic before and you just refuse to absorb the facts), the Soviets were the ONLY country in the world arming the antifascists in Spain against Franco and Hitler. You're the saddest excuse for a propagandist I've seen, literally carrying water for genocidal maniacs and landlords while our societies collapse due to climate change and fascist takeover of our institutions. I refuse to entertain your bullshit, asshole.

    communism is notorious for dragging societies into poverty

    Socialist Romania had a growth of 800% of GDP per capita averaging at over 4% growth per year. Capitalist Romania averages out at about 2.5% GDP growth per year. A similar thing happened in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Bulgaria... Most Eastern Block countries saw massive destruction of living standards and economic progress during the transition to capitalism, you'd know this if you listened ONE time, you disgusting bullshitter.

    You're literally a fucking genocidal maniac supporting the destruction of Eastern Europe in the name of Capitalism.

  • You have nothing to lose but your brains

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  • Yeah yeah, European chauvinism yadda yadda

    "You don't know? Chinese people liking their government means they're a dictatorship for some reason, seeseepee!!!!!!!111!1!11!1! All factual data about China can be disregarded because I'm a racist prick who doesn't conceive the idea that Chinese are free to speak their minds!!!"

    Shut up, boring-ass pro-landlord propagandist

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    hexbear.net has raised over $1500 for Palestine over the past few weeks

    hexbear.net /post/8145833
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Magyar and Netanyahu establish contact for the first time and hope to continue the close relation of Orban's era

    www.europapress.es /internacional/noticia-netanyahu-magyar-contactan-primera-vez-confian-seguir-estrecha-relacion-etapa-orban-20260415164930.html
  • News @lemmy.world
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    Iran demands international action after attacks impact hospitals, schools

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/3/2/iran-demands-international-action-after-attacks-impact-hospitals-schools
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Iran demands international action after attacks impact hospitals, schools

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/3/2/iran-demands-international-action-after-attacks-impact-hospitals-schools
  • News @lemmy.world
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    US, Israel launch attack on Iran, explosions across Tehran

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2026/2/28/explosions-in-downtown-tehran-smoke-seen-rising
  • Anarchism @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Request from a Tankie: numerical historical analysis on anarchist repression by communists during the Spanish Civil War

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Me, a Hexbear tankie, seeing the piefed and feddit users malding after db0 defederated due to Zionism

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Fixed the previous post: liberal dichotomy