What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.

If I flip the pizzas, Mr. Aziz will flip out!

it’s not really subtext. Alien is a movie that is explicitly about rape and unwanted pregnancy, and seeing that imagery deployed flippantly on a cartoon child is squicky.

not sure I like the cartoon with the rape alien attached to a little girl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago

literally a fiction book. You might as well cite fucking Animal Farm.

btw I’m giving your comment exactly as nuanced and in-depth a look as it deserves.

That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense on par with the black book of communism. As for the second, I defer to the words of Mark Twain:

“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

Truthfully I support all of those revolutions as historical processes which have brought about necessary change, but the Haitians and the Russians fighting for their freedom from Slavery and Capitalism respectively are much more commendable than the Americans doing so because they didn’t want to slow down their westward expansion.

You’re right. The Bolsheviks and Haitians didn’t own slaves!

ICE is America’s brownshirts and ICE agents are worse than regular cops (who are, obviously, bastards).

Og min økse!

tfw I’ve never been warned about nudes in my text messages :(

i dunno that monkey makes a good point

Ironically enough, a great solution to this problem would be to bring in Chinese experts to train American workers. The USD still spends.

the CCP is evil, Ukraine

Do, uh, do you know which country it was that invaded Ukraine?

Most companies that have open source products make their money in providing support for it to other companies, so theoretically OpenAI could do that (in fact top level AI developers are pretty rare so they could charge way more than other companies do for consulting) but that wouldn’t be a hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars business plan because it’s much too sensible.

He starts a lot of shit, but dammit if he isn’t right most of the time.

when it’s the state/government/leadership that is using acts of violence

So when a corporation uses or sponsors acts of violence it’s not authoritarianism? I guess Coca-Cola-funded fascist death squads are just smol bean libertarians fighting the oppressive tankie socialists!

You can’t even get your talking points in order. The main people on lemmy.ml are anti-capitalist, they would accuse those who would censor them of being anti-communist.

True but only for terminally online liberals. I still haven’t heard anyone in real life ever use that word.