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Riverside

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  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Sure buddy

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • The protests and their coverage famously happened months after Iran was literally bombed by the US, have you forgotten about that? The whole Iran throwing missiles to Israel thing?

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Hey I'm the one with both Hexbear and Reddthat accounts, not dodging anything. I'm just calling atrocity propaganda in the eve of invasion by its name.

  • Sign check

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  • As in I live in Spain so we literally share the language, I proposed to try and contact them and they outright refused

  • Sign check

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  • Literally left my org because they refused to establish contact with the communist party of Cuba :(

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • God forbid there is 1 space in my life not plastered with western imperialist propaganda

  • If this is true, then RIP

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  • You still haven't said what you think about Israel's genocide in Palestine though, why are you avoiding that?

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Oh, it's tankies controlling social media feeds, thats why I'm literally reacting on .world to this post with 650 upvotes by an account that literally only reposts western propaganda

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • The Iranian government doesn't have the power to suppress western media, and western media would publish every single of these videos like wildfire.

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Obviously, I never doubted it, but you can't jam 6000 starlinks, so it was still possible for videos to come out of Iran.

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Not a tough line to walk, really. I see no constant stream of news on Lemmy about Qatar being an apartheid state with 80% of migrants without rights, or Saudi Arabia's similar policy. No constant stream of posts about mass incarceration of black people in the US, of Nazis roaming the streets of Madrid and Paris...

    Deciding what news to publish is itself extremely political, and focusing on atrocity propaganda in Iran, a heavily sanctioned country against which there's an ongoing US military buildup on the verge of invasion, is willing and a form of atrocity propaganda. It's designed specifically to make progressive people less critical of the upcoming strikes, and judging by the number of upvotes these posts get, it's working.

    5 years ago there wasn't this constant stream of anti-Iranian propaganda, it was Venezuela, and we've seen the results. Learning to distinguish the workings of propaganda is critical to any progressive, and it allows us both to be more resistant to propaganda and to use it better (for example by relentlessly posting about Palestine or the ICE, we can similarly engage in what I consider good atrocity propaganda).

  • can't have one without the other

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  • My point is "capitalism subordinated to the state like the USSR" is an extremely misleading claim, and it's often used by anticommunists who make uninformed accusations of "USSR was state capitalism so it was the same as capitalism" without knowledge of the topic. If that's not the claim you're making, I apologize

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • You cannot frequency jam an entire city either bruv, the way they were preventing Starlink usage was by detecting emitted radio signals of that frequency and going in person to arrest the users and confiscate the equipment.

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Fuck off, Zionist fascist scum

  • ‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again

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  • Not country-wide...

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    that's weird

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  • "Hard economic and historical data" with no sources

    Can't provide you the exact pages right now, but my sources are:

    -Robert C. Allen's "Farm to Factory: a reinterpretation of the Soviet industrial revolution"

    -Alec Nove's "An economic history of the Soviet Union"

    -Albert Szymanski's "Human Rights in the Soviet Union" and "Is the red flag flying"

    -A. Zveriev's "Lo que recibe el trabajador soviético además de su salario"

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    that's weird

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  • I gave you hard economic and historical data, what part of what I said is bad faith?

    And what elections are you talking about, provisional government?

    I'm critical of many aspects of Soviet socialism, not sure what you're talking about

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    that's weird

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  • The vast majority of housing in the country is that type of housing, meaning that the vast majority of people end up living in it, willingly or not.

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  • Soviet architecture is a byproduct of the material circumstances of the moment. The USSR industrialized at an unforeseen speed, took it less than 40 years to reach industrial maturity compared to 100-150 for Great Britain and Germany. They had to build housing for tens of millions of people in newly erected cities from scratch. They managed not only to do that, but to do it fairly, guaranteeing housing for everyone and eliminating homelessness, housing costing 3% of monthly income on average, and on top of that it was built in walkable neighborhoods with a wide variety of services nearby from stores to schools to medical care, and with top notch public transit and urban planning for the time, leaving space for green areas and playgrounds.

    Nothing of that is authoritarian, you've been brainwashed by capitalism to hate socialism.