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• Post #640237

  Perception != reality Correct. Which makes it strange that you ignored everything I explained in this reply to you and just went back to the same checklist again. Functional democracy needs: Opposition No. That is the liberal electoral model, not the universal definition of democracy. Democracy means political authority comes from the people and that they participate in governance. China’s system does this through whole-process people’s democracy. People directly elect local People’s...

• Post #634691

  I’ll assume the typical leftist political context of it’s use implying an ‘aspirational’ view of my fellow humans they would often fall short of due to material concerns. That’s not the typical leftist political context? In a leftist political context idealism posits that ideas are the driving force of history, as if thought creates reality rather than reflecting it. This flips the actual relationship: material conditions shape consciousness, not the other way around. When we start from abstr...

• Post #634091

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• Post #634087

  I don’t mind engaging even without the audience if someone is directly replying to me. Best case it’s an interesting conversation worst case I get to laugh at the idiocy of your average bigot.

• Post #634082

  Allegations from Montefiore famous for lying about having access to unreleased Soviet archives, being a rabid anti-communist and being best friends with Ghislaine Maxwell. Certainly not the most reliable source.

• Post #631236

  It does have a meaning you’re unfamiliar with, and it’s not word salad. Through a materialist analysis, looking at the concrete material conditions of history and the present, you see that superstructures like voting systems are subordinate to the mode of production. That is my entire point. Changing the ballot mechanism is irrelevant so long as the mode of production that maintains the current superstructure remains intact. In capitalist countries under the dictatorship of capital, you have b...

• Post #620655

  Didn’t the US make one of your prime ministers disappear for criticising pine gap? Isn’t Australia part of five eyes? Isn’t Australia an “Enhanced Opportunities Partner” to NATO? I think whether you like it or not you are part of the Euro-Amerikan empires system.

• Post #620629

  place where the 996 work schedule is the norm Wrong. It was never the norm across China’s economy. It was concentrated in roughly forty large tech firms during the 2016-2019 boom cycle. In August 2021 the Supreme People’s Court explicitly ruled 996 illegal, stating it violates statutory working hour limits and mandatory rest periods. The 2025 Consumption Boost Plan tightens this further with concrete measures against invisible overtime and stronger rest-time guarantees. capitalists malicio...

• Post #612934

  That’s a convenient way to exit the discussion after repeatedly asserting things you never actually substantiated. You say you “gave reasons,” but what you mostly did was repeat a set of political labels (“authoritarian,” “fascist,” “genocide”) and then treat those labels as if they were arguments. When those terms were challenged, instead of defining them or engaging with the structural points being raised, you simply repeated them and shifted to saying you could elaborate “if you wanted to.” T...

• Post #612277

  You should stop trivialising the word genocide.

• Post #505260

  Anecdotal story and all but I feel this encapsulates why most people support kicking Nazis out even if they seem polite to start.

• Post #467592

  You both were talking about Stalin and living through his dictatorial times?