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  • @KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
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    202 years ago

    Anyone else a bit annoyed by the ‘conspiracy theory’ label in regards to fascists like the Buffalo shooter’s opinions?

    Don’t get me wrong, plain old conspiracy theories do exist. Like lizard people, Neuschwabenland, etc. Just crazy, random nonsense that inevitably comes up in populations as large as ours with education as lacking as it is.

    What’s bugging me about labeling eg the ‘Great Replacement theory’ as a conspiracy theory, or at least the way it’s labeled as such, is that it implies they too are merely the result of random crazy people. Just some loony shit conjured up by some isolated weirdo brains. In reality this specific example is far from that. It is a natural and somewhat inevitable conclusion of larger ideological trends and systems that spawn them. In systems as structurally racist, white supremacist and chauvinistic as the US (or the West broadly) something like the Great Replacement theory almost has to arise to reconcile the contradictions between material reality and liberal ideology. It’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s just plain fascist ideology. Imo labeling things like it as conspiracy theories - mostly done by liberal media ofc - 1.) doesn’t have any explanatory power and 2.) also serves only to obscure the broader context of events like the Buffalo shooting. They serve to portray these dudes as random, crazy individuals, not products of larger ideologies, movements and systems.

    Maybe pedantic, but just had to rant about this.

    • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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      112 years ago

      Yeah we need to stop calling these thing conspiracies theories and call them what they are: Reactionary belief systems.

    • Strictly speaking, it is a theory about a conspiracy, but MSM uses that term for basically anything that doesn’t fit with their narrative. They often seem to use words so widely that they become meaningless, like “genocide” or “fascist”

    • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
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      42 years ago

      Maybe I’m wrong, but the lizard people conspiracy is directly tied to antisemitism. You know, with David Icke popularizing it and all.

  • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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    192 years ago

    I live in the USA and I’ve felt increasingly hopeless. I used to worry about climate change but now I’m more worried about nuclear war or the USA turning into a full blown genocidal fascist state.

    Is this what it felt like living in the USSR in the late 80s? Or in Europe in the early 20th century?

    • You don’t have to go that far back, or even leave the shores of the USA. The 50s and early 60s, the Red Scare years, were chock full of lynchings, leftists jailings, black leaders being assassinated (the CIA assassinating a president?), militarism, and imperialism. They had wee kiddies practicing cowering under our desks as school safety events in case of nuclear war. Actually, except for the addition of the climate starting to kill us, little has changed in 60 years. It may seem worse now since the real left has been neutered and replaced with whatever the DSA and their ilk pretend to be.

      • @i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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        152 years ago

        Anticommunism is the most successful campaign in history. I’m a millennial and I can tell you any mainstream talk of socialism and communism in the USA was completely snuffed out until recently.

        I really have no idea how the rest of the world views the US. It’s largely hidden form us unless it’s some islamaphobic ‘they hate our freedoms’ type bs. If the world survives the downfall of the US, I’d love to see some research into just how propagandized Americans really are.

    • Definitely feels like Europe in the early 20th century. Fascism and socialism will clash again this century, and we are getting dangerously close to a major war

  • DankZedong
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    152 years ago

    Media over here are now questioning if cracks are beginning to show in the Western alliance against Russia. Lmao.

  • @ZeroGravity
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    2 years ago

    I’m so fucking tired mates. I don’t have any energy left when I come home. Is this what working is like?

    • sometimes ashleyOP
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      82 years ago

      not the way I do it. I’ve found it best to do 45 minutes of shitposting for every 15 minutes of working. can’t steal my surplus value if I don’t give it to them lmao

      • @CosmonautCat@lemmygrad.ml
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        32 years ago

        Absolutely give yourself some slack whenever you can. I did the thing where you give 100% at my first jobs and it was messing me up physically and mentally.

    • DankZedong
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      32 years ago

      Sort of. Depending on the job really. It’s important to try and have a clear seperation between your job and your free time. Keep trying to find fun things to do, or rest if you want, and don’t spend too much time making yourself even more miserable. This place is great but it can be mentally draining as well. Try to find a way to not go mental, or look around for more fullfilling jobs.

  • DankZedong
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    82 years ago

    The news of the Russian soldier pleading guilty for shooting a civilian is just sad. He’s so young and his story gets so milked out, to portray every Russian as a bad guy. Not saying he didn’t do it, and he should be punished if he did it. But still.

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  • DankZedong
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    72 years ago

    A while ago people recommended reading Solzhenitsyn to get a ‘better view on gulags’. I read his name in a not so good way in communist circles. What’s the deal with him? Should I read it or should I spare myself the brainrot?

    • Haven’t read anything by him, but AFAICT he

      • was arrested for planning a coup in the USSR during WWII; worth noting that many other countries probably would’ve executed him instead, especially during wartime
      • wrote “Gulag Archipelago” based almost entirely on unfounded rumours, and liberals still treat it as gospel (here’s an apparent debunking of his claims, although I haven’t read that yet either)
      • was a Russian nationalist and highly antisemitic
      • publicly supported Fransisco Franco

      I’ve read articles like this but haven’t found any solid evidence yet, so take it with a tablespoon of salt

      If you do read any of his stuff, please share your thoughts

  • Catraism-Stalinism
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    72 years ago

    I SAID I WOULDN’T WATCH STRANGER THINGS AGAIN BUT HERE I FUCKING AM PIECE OF SHIT FUCK

    WHYYYYYYYYYYY

    • DankZedong
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      42 years ago

      I always start it and after 3 episodes or so I stop watching it. Should I just hang on? Is it really fun?

      • Catraism-Stalinism
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        22 years ago

        the first season is fucking great, season 2 is great

        but in season 3 they start going nuts

      • 小莱卡
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        12 years ago

        i only watched it for its synthwave aesthetics but it kinda goes downhill in season 2.

  • 小莱卡
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    72 years ago

    so what has happened in the russia-ukraine conflict? been out of hte loop for more than a month now

    • Nocheztli ☭
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      92 years ago

      You see everything said in MSM? Borderline the complete opposite. In short: Zelenski posting nazi propaganda on Instagram, the US giving even more money in weapons to Ukraine, Europe shooting themselves in the foot, Russia and the LDPR winning most combats and taking more towns and cities in the east restoring their constitutional borders, Azovstal in Mariupol basically finally done. A slow process to make sure the ukrainian defeat is absolute, it seems.

    • @KommandoGZD@lemmygrad.ml
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      42 years ago

      First major cauldron in Donbass is almost formed along the Severodonetsk-Zolote line. All the major roads leading in there are within artillery distance already and are close to being actually cut off. Reports are between 10-20k troops in that pocket and UAF alledgedly still sending more men in there (though that’s hard to believe). Could possibly be split into two pockets - one around Zolote/Hirske and one around Severodonetsk/Lysychansk.

      More pockets forming south of the Popasna-Bakhmut line and around Avdiivka. Lyman is apparently surrounded from 3 sides, while the UAF have blown up the bridge across the river to their backs, so forces there are already or are about to be trapped.

      Rough map for all of this

      Some videos of small level mutinies have popped up over the past days and weeks in that area already. We’ll see how the Azov surrender and some pressure on the cauldron will affect those numbers.

  • DankZedong
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    62 years ago

    I got Reddit gold and you then get access to this excloooosive subreddit. I’ve never seen so much people who think they are that important in my life