DrCrustacean [any]

Libs today don’t think neocolonialism exists, that’s kinda OOP’s whole deal (although it’d be easy to miss as the only defense of this idea he gives us “it’s dumb if you think it’s real”). They think colonialism was bad but the Good Guys in the West ended it a hundred or so years ago and now the third world is poor because they have bad ideas/governments.

You have to remember that liberals are idealists. As in, they believe that material conditions are caused by ideology. The West has better ideas and better systems of governance, so it’s more prosperous. They can’t believe that wealth in the imperial core comes from extraction in the global south because that means that the liberal ideology stems from the material conditions of global dominance and hegemony and not the other way around.

“Neo-Colonialism is based” is what they’ll be saying after they’ve been scratched

He loves the hospital lifestyle

Tibet was still a serfdom in 1950. There’s some debate about whether or not the 90+% of Tibetans who lived as serfs count as slaves or not (personally, I think serfdom is slavery), but there’s no questioning that Tibet was cruel to the indentured. Your average Tibetan is inarguably more free now than they were before the revolution

That’s true, we need two sides to have balanced discussion. Marxist-Leninists on one side and anarchists on the other

also

They picked probably the worst possible example to prove how disconnected we are. Shoulda gone with the rock stacking struggle sesh smh

Is there an advantage to having a city’s grid be perfectly oriented along NSEW? I get that if a city has a coast or waterfront, you’d want to align the grid with that, but would it mess anything up if a city’s grid were rotated like 15 degrees clockwise?

engaged in war in korea

Do you think it would have been better for China to leave Korea to be destroyed by America?

Pretending to give a shit about the economy worked for the Republicans for decades. I honestly think enthusiastically insisting that everything is fine and it’s all in your head is a smart strategy for the Dems.

I get paid for every reply I post

Not an issue per se, but…

Do you have an issue with hexbear’s pronoun tags?

He’s a cool dude

I love brigading and I can’t wait to brigade more posts. I am going to brigade every post I see

I’ve been using personalDNSfilter on my phone and I can read recipe websites again

A bunch of people on Lemmy pointing me to likely auth-communist propaganda is no different to me than a bunch of Christians pointing me to the bible. Why would I believe your websites any more than I believe the bible, or CNN?

I’m going to send you an emoji of a pig pooping on his own balls. I’m not sure if emojis are transfered properly through another federated instance, so if it doesn’t work please send me a message so we can fix it.

I am a posting robot and I am hiding in your walls

Lmao you’re telling me you’re an “anarchist” who volunteers as an internet cop?

Go outside. Find a hobby. Meet people in real life