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Alsephina@lemmy.mlOPtoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•US ‘TikTok refugees’ discover China’s Xiaohongshu as app tops Apple’s chartsEnglish
21·1 year agodoes not have an official English name but means “little red book”
Fucking hilarious lmao
Alsephina@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Luigi Mangione Judge Married to Former Healthcare ExecutiveEnglish
2·1 year agoRevolution remains the only way for change. The legal system won’t help us.
Wtf were they thinking releasing this photo lmao

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Non-Political Memes@lemmy.ml•To be fair, Daytime Me is no saint, eitherEnglish
1·1 year agoTerraria is worth it
Alsephina@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis.English
191·1 year agoIf the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard.
By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative.
If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology.
If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom.
A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.
What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds
Alsephina@lemmy.mltoUnited States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•'Enron CEO' Hit With A Pie In The Face In New YorkEnglish
5·1 year agoMisread this as “pipe” and was smiling 😔
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Lemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Lemmy.World ToS and the murder of the UHC CEOEnglish
2613·2 years agoCommon lemmy.world L
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Videos@lemmy.ml•This Company Makes Billions By Rationing Your Health CareEnglish
2·2 years agoA year old video but only has new comments lol
Where’s all the lemmings damn it
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World News@lemmy.ml•Putin Broadens Rules On Russia's Use Of Nuclear ArmsEnglish
51·2 years agoA response to the US allowing strikes in Russian territory I assume
We’re gonna see a nuclear war aren’t we
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World News@lemmy.ml•A Gaza school burned down hours after aid arrived. Witnesses: IDF soldiers responsibleEnglish
7·2 years agoDamn this is from haaretz too
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World News@lemmy.ml•China-Russia gas pipeline completed, set to power Shanghai by end of 2024English
5·2 years agofinished the whole project seven months ahead of schedule
Common theme with Chinese infrastructure it seems lol
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World News@lemmy.ml•Judge Blocks The Onion Bid for Alex Jones’s InfoWars to Review Bankruptcy AuctionEnglish
51·2 years agoWhy can’t we have nice things man
Ig adding a thumbnail image still messes up the post on some clients and instances. Removed it.
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World News@lemmy.ml•Ukraine's Zelenskyy says he wants to end war with Russia through diplomacy next yearEnglish
142·2 years agoSo it looks like it’s finally happening?
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World News@lemmy.ml•Iraq set to lower the age of consent to just nine years oldEnglish
5·2 years agoLibertarian paradise
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World News@lemmy.ml•Sri Lanka sees landslide win for Dissanayake’s leftist coalitionEnglish
2·2 years agoSince his rise to popularity, however, he has softened some policies, saying he believes in an open economy and is not totally opposed to privatisation.
Dissanayake had campaigned on a pledge to renegotiate a controversial US$2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout secured by his predecessor.
But since taking office, he has resolved to maintain the existing agreement with the international lender.
The country’s main private sector lobby, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has tacitly supported Dissanayake and his programme.
Yeah, not a good sign… This WSWS article on him doesn’t exactly inspire hope either.




Kinda on Biden since he had the entire last year to do this