Defending against accusations of genocide? Yes. Although the phrasing can sound odd because it is largely a fabricated narrative. I think most here would support China's actions as a deradicalization program against religious extremism, especially compared to the US solution in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tankie is really just used as an insult against "communists I don't like." It's not like it has any theoretical depth. It has an etymology related to the definition they gave you but that only has so much influence on its use.
Class war is the ongoing state of things. Like infation and rent hikes. If a revoluton broke out, of course it would be authoritarian. And the resulting state would probably take an extremely cautious siege socialism approach if it wanted to survive, so yes it would probably be authoritarian. But choosing to not be authoritarian is really just willfully ceding power to the previous ruling class who are not going to give up their position peacefully, even after a revolution. Think about the media narrative and war hawk stances against Cuba, the DPRK, the PRC. Now imagine that but applied to a newly founded socialist republic.
Tthe Decision Brecht/Eisler - Birmingham Opera Company
Extremely based agitprop cantata/opera. In the anglo establishment it is caricatured as evil and aggressively misinterpreted, possibly because HUAC translated it to smear Brecht and Eisler. (This production does not use the HUAC translation.)
While the Birmingham opera pushes the misinterpretation that it is about sacrificing yoursef for your values, in actuality it is a parable about a young passionate revalutionary whose idealism fatally clouds their judgement. I suspect that the translation makes this less clear, but I do not know the untranslated text.
Bonus points, I can't tell if the production is ironic or not. The cringe framing device feels ironic but the interviewer mentions solidarity with rail strikers at the end, so I can't tell. Either way, some of the audience and choristers interviewed seemed receptive.
Selling nukes on the blackmarket, notoriously uncontroversial and unambiguously GOOD and COOL
@[email protected] because they were the first to reply to this post, then replied to themselves AND @[email protected] replied despite their rule of not engaging in discussion here that could affect the game.
You're taking away my freedom to experience urban blight, this is basically genocide
Is there more context to this? Like this sounds ridiculous even for the USA. I assume then that he was seeding the articles or otherwise widely distributing them? Not that I think that's worth a death penalty...
I was looking for Chinese/Mandarin dubs of spongebob on youtube and half the videos were wildly racist sponge-caricatures....
On a side note I was looking for this because I ran across a hilarious german spongebob communist meme, which made me curious to see the dubs in different languages. The Japanese dub of the Spongebob intro is hilarious—the numbers of syllables don't fit so it's completely out of rhythm, and it has so many loanwords it feels like fever dream English.
German Communist Spongebob https://youtu.be/OY-x_Wajxxw
Japanese vs. Mandarin vs. English Spongebob Intro https://youtu.be/R1BAHnPW45o If you don't use hanzi search terms be ready for A LOT of racism!!!
Not enough racism
TFW you meet a Latin American student at a US university who only knows 1 word in Spanish "from his nanny".
North Dakota Scorpio here, can confirm that I've been imprisoned by Emperor Biden #SOSNORTHDAKOTA
My god, do you have the clip of that 😂
Wow, that's truly incredible. I'd like to add Kim Il Sung, Ho, Deng, and Xi but I think it's already at it's peak beauty.
Also I think it somehow independently developed Kim Jong Un's hair style 😳
Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags.
lmao
Even better:
Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies.
and, pray tell, where exactly is China's "truculence" you speak of?
I hate that all the NYT is considered the cream of the crop and all the uni educated libs around me imbibe this crap uncritically.
I don't know, I'm worried about this narrative. Youtube suggested some video claiming to expose secret Chinese police stations in countries around the world, and if this gets pushed in the mainstream then we could get the Chinese Exclusion act 2.0 or something. A few years ago the US already gutted university chinese programs by kicking out all the confucius institutes for baseless accusations of espionage.
All the American liberals around me in my experience get uncomfortable if I so much as praise China's rail infrastructure and seem to think that Uyghurs have been poured into the concrete or something.
"Flawed democracy" is putting it lightly. Also it seems like everyone talks about MAGA believing Biden rigged the election, but it seems like the sus af primary got memory holed :(
It probably became too untenable, but I can bet it will remain permanently imprinted on libs minds. I'll be like "Shostakovich's 8th string quartet is metal af" and some mega-lib will begin quaking in abject horror that I muttered something Russian sounding like quartet (clearly a loanword from квартет, obviously) and they'll be like "buuuhh wuut about Buchaese genocide of Bucha enhnic minority singlehandly by Putler???" And all that I'll be able to do is give them a vigorous death stare lest I become a genocide denier. 😥
Just saw someone with a Polish and a Ukrainian flag, I wonder if that'll change lol
Ok, even without the femur switcheroo, how would one NOT realize it was a massive self own??? Eating a human femur to own the libs Russians, tell me who is the one that has to eat a human femur...
Have you checked out Carl Zha's silk and steel podcast? I've only listened to his episodes with Xiangyu on Taiwan and an interview about US black radical's relationship with China, but he has a lot more on Patreon I think. Only issue is that his audio quality is bad. I don't know what his political views are but he usually defends China, and Xiangyu is ML.
There's also the War Nerd podcast which isn't ML but has interviewed Carl Zha about the Tang dynasty invading three kingdoms Korea (if I remember correctly), China's involvement in WWII, and the rise of the Mongol Empire in addition to many other good interviews. I have that link somewhere if you're interested.
Logging in to other instances?
My understanding is that accounts transfer across instances without having to sign up again. I was trying to check out the main instance lemmy.ml but couldn't figure it out, yet I saw some usernames in the format [name]@lemmygrad.ml so it seems possible somehow? Can someone explain this to me?
Truth About Soviet Music & Art?
I'm taking a 20th century music history course right now, and the professor is a strongly anticommunist progressive. Before he even started he claimed Stalin was unequivocally the worst person of the 20th century, if not all time. One of the most suspicious parts was when he told us about Prokofiev's statement against the capitalist world made upon his return to the USSR in 1936. He claimed that this was clearly forced out of him, despite having just told us how he had squandered 20 years trying and failing to find work abroad (one of the only things he did was a commission by a fruit company for a fruit-opera?). Additionally my teacher conceded that there is no record of Prokofiev's personal views from this time.
Then the is the whole Soviet Realism/Formalism thing. My teacher said these terms were intentionally ill-defined so that musicians/artists could be censored, imprisoned, or killed at the whim of Stalin. Again, I feel skeptical about how cartoonishly evil this description is.
This is amazing. I keep seeing an ad for an entire TV show hosted by Oprah which largely consists of telling people that they're racist and solving racism by "talking about it."
Spanish Language Podcasts Recommendations?
I'm looking for a Spanish language podcast, overtly political in some way, preferably with a decent number of existing episodes. I'm trying to have something to maintain the Spanish that I've learned in school.