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Cats, being a spell casting witch with a magical talking cat familiar would be amazing, we’d ride together on a flying broom at night beneath an unrealistically large full moon while clouds drift by. It would be truly meowgical. 🐱 🧹 🌕 ✨

Please consider the context and read the room in the future, (or in this case the OP picture for which the thread is about) the time and place of such commentary also changes it’s apparent character. Water under the bridge. 🙃

With or without culture it is not your decision to make O Enlightened Savior!/s This thread is so full of poorly hidden sexist and racist nonsense that it is sickening. The western world is not the savior of the world, it is it’s oppressor, and the oppressor’s feigned concern while it eye’s those resources of the oppressed licking it’s lips, can only be inauthentic from such a position, clean your own house before trying to use the level of cleanness of someone else’s house as some kind of excuse.

What ever problems the Iranians have is their own to figure out and solve unless they explicitly ask for help, and certainly not from Imperialist Liberals from the Global North playing white savior for the “poor, helpless, primitive SaVaGeS” in the form of more Western bombs dropping on their Childrens heads to “free” them (from this mortal coil) like you’re doing them a favor and should thank you for it. /s

That applies to literally everyone and doesn’t justify anything, men are no less or more immune, and the choice should be the one who is or would be wearing or not wearing a given piece of clothing on whether they do or don’t wear it. Neither men nor the state should be taking the agency for women to decide for themselves what to or to not wear.

At best this makes your comment unrelated, random, and pointless, as it says nothing. But we both know you are actually providing cover for the misogynist view that women shouldn’t be able to decide for themselves. It’s not exactly subtle, not even slightly, in fact it is infuriating. So please, look deep inside yourself, reflect, and STOP!

Women need the agency to decide for themselves, and not have the decision made for them by men, or the state. The only way any clothing is really oppressive is if it isn’t a choice, and in that way “not being allowed to wear” is the same as “being forced to wear”. It seems like you are defending the choice being taken from women under the mask of pretending to support the choice being given to them, by pointing to something not even being argued about as the covering mask, like a strawman.

I hope not, no way I could get it if it’s that bad. 😭

I’m more interested in the Frames, I always wanted to try and get into VR but it was always either too expensive or too Facebook.

This wasn’t intended as an attack and I wasn’t trying to be passive aggressive, I was trying to help. As someone struggling to over come life long crippling social anxiety, I’ve been trying to move from being a lurker to actually posting. But it turns out that participating in discussion takes enormously more energy than just lurking, so I did not put in adequate effort into my attempt to help.

I was overwhelmed trying to parse your comment, I’m still terrible at breaking things down into smaller, easier to process pieces, and so all the bundled up errors in your post was too much for me to try and break down and address, but I still wanted to at least try and help.

I was trying to read the rest of your posts in this thread, but I couldn’t get through them all as the way you look down on people hurts my stomach. Please, we mean no hostility, so stop giving us yours. (thank you in advanced)

I think me and Ahmed gave the same answer, but with mine being indirect using an example, and Ahmed’s answer being direct, so maybe people had a harder time understanding Ahmed’s answer.

I’m not so sure about the reasoning here, Fascists also drink water, breath air, and eat food (at least until they become “the only good Fascist”)

The material conditions determines the consciousness, the superstructure shapes peoples view of reality, the ideological belief that people’s ideas are separate from the conditions of their life and the metaphysical belief that historical events are independent and separate from each other doesn’t support the existence of Nazi Germany (or Fascist Italy or Imperialist Japan), doesn’t explain why people would do such horrible things in one circumstance yet wonderful things in another, yet Dialectical Materialism as applied to History does, Fascists aren’t born, they are made, and it isn’t a magical decision pulled from the void, or heaven or hell or a soul that makes them, but rather the shit those around them tells them, in the news paper, on the radio, along with material conditions like starving or being worried you’ll end up on the street, and the Capitalist controlled misinformation sources tells you it is this or that persons fault you are suffering, anyone convenient and that isn’t the Capitalists.

Pacifism is that lofty luxury that those who want to actually have a future cannot afford as Fascists wont hesitate to shoot us in the face thinking that it’ll somehow make life better for themselves, and the further into Fascist Ideology they are pulled by Capitalist lies the more painful it would be for the Fascist to believe what they are doing are mistakes.

Those suffering and dying under slavery and oppressing cannot turn up their noses at the idea of using the tools soaked in their own blood the masters used against them back onto the masters as a part of becoming free. Capitalism has already murder well over a billion people the world over to maintain it’s death grip over us.

“Propaganda” “Propagating”, interesting, that makes a lot of sense. As for manipulation, it is a bit of a loaded term, when exposed to new information, one may make a different decision than they otherwise would have, you could say that the exposure to that new information had “manipulated” them, but that wouldn’t make the information necessarily untrue or the “manipulation” as being a “bad thing” (metaphysics territory).

As far as lies go, you don’t need them nor would they even be all that useful when what one advocates for is the truth anyway. (like Scientific Socialism(Marxism Leninism))

Thanks for the mini history lesson by the way.

Thanks BTW, it was reading your posts on lemmy.ml that got me started on this path in the first place, I’d probably still be believing all sorts of absurd lies against Socialist countries if not for you, it has truly opened my mind to an amazing world of both possibilities and a far more hopeful current reality. (that and the depth of the Capitalists crimes against humanity whose true depth I hadn’t known)

Really, I used to live in an utterly hopeless darkness where I thought the only future for humanity was extinction, and it had been eating me up inside, ML Theory enabled me to see the light of humanity, just how beautiful humans can be if given the right conditions, and China has given me astronomically massive hope for the future that I’d still be blind too otherwise.

Thank you, Comrade.

This post is an excellent example of why reading Marxist Leninist Theory should not be treated as optional, there is so much wrong with the post I’m not even sure where to start, and I don’t really have the energy for it either, so unfortunately we’ll just have to leave it at that. (BTW Cowbee has an excellent guide to help you get started Basic and Advanced)

I struggle to pay attention to long videos (it’s an hour long) unless I’m already interested in it already, so I’ll take your word for it (pretty sure I have ADHD or something), on the other hand I’d love an article or a PDF file I can just read, the interaction of having to actively pay attention to read helps focus my attention, and so I can work through hundreds of pages of a PDF after maybe a good week, but an hour long video is a bit much.

As far as (so called) “isreal” goes, there existence is highly dependent on US support, more concrete action to disrupt anything going to them from the US, if successfully done, may be more effective at stopping their crimes against humanity. A successful Revolution would end the support completely, but perhaps there are …illegal to say… sort of things that an organized effort could pull off in the mean time (though such things can’t be safely discussed in a public forum.) (hypothetically) (in minecraft)

There are two major errors in this text, the first is in failing to understand the class nature of the oppression, such that it is treated as “black people versus white people” when in reality it is “working class versus billionaire ruling class”, when understood like this the 10 to 1 against us becomes closer to a million to one in our favor, it is useful for the ruling class to keep the people fighting amongst each other and not against them, so they spread lies and nonsense (racism is useful to Capitalism, so they spread it around).

The second error is in thinking there even is a non violent path in the first place, as the root of the problem is Capitalism, it has no conscious or empathy, and will sooner kill us all then give up it’s power over us. And so a small, short, but condensed (by comparison) moment of violent Revolution is needed to finally end the ongoing huge, constant, but usually dispersed and often hidden from the public view violence of Capitalism once and for all, by building Socialism on it’s parasitic corpse. (and maybe dance on it’s grave a little).

Ultimately, regardless of what metaphysical beliefs one may have, nobodies “God” is going to come down and save us, we must save ourselves, and for that we must have solidarity, work together, organize and work for the overthrow of the root cause of the oppression all people feel under the yoke of Capitalism, the staggered level of oppression in Capitalism is a “feature not a bug” as it keeps the people fighting each other, that must be overcome. (mutual aid can help with this)

As fiction exists but describes things that may not exist, I think the answer is also yes.

I don’t know about the history of the Church, but I do know that the word has been used for the handing out of legitimate and accurate information on a paper medium as a way of spreading awareness when one is censored by the State and cannot use the normal channels, and it has been used this way for a long long time before the use of it to mean the same as “lies” was popular.

That is an issue, though with that in mind one major difference between Capitalism and Socialism is that Capitalism doesn’t really care if Cops are abusive sacks of shit, so long as they keep serving the interests of Capital, on the other hand, in Socialism the whole point of the system is to best serve the interests and well being of the people in what ever capacity the current level of development of the country can provide, and so while Capitalism let’s Cops fester with power hungry racists, Socialism actively works to root out and remove corruption, finding and kicking out the power abusers.