The spectre of communism is haunting the Fediverse

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  • Spectre@lemmy.mlOPtoTechnology@beehaw.orgSo, Linus Torvalds is a jerk
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    7 months ago

    And it feels very naive to believe that people change just because they are called out on it and they have to say so to save whatever is left of their reputation. It is even more naive to believe so when the guy hasn’t improve a tiny bit.

    Saying that he improved and we should just shut up about it just because he said so, it is literal gaslighting dressed in “just put the other cheek” masochism and giving green light to abuser just because they lie about their supposed improvement




  • Spectre@lemmy.mlOPtoTechnology@beehaw.orgSo, Linus Torvalds is a jerk
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    7 months ago

    Believing that basic human decency must be earned on the basis on intellectual achievements is “good principle”?

    Saying “respect must be earned” but giving disrespect freely and abundantly is good principle?

    This argument is just a cult of intellect even to the detriment of society, low-key eugenics.








  • Still ignorant and bad faith arguments that lacks any historical nuance

    The Holodomor happened years before the second world war started

    The USSR was being under constant invasions by the world powers that didn’t want to allow a socialist state to exist. Add to that, that the kulaks sabotaged their own crops to make people revolt and overthrow the socialist government.

    The Great Leap Forward was over a decade after it had ended.

    China was a poor agrarian country which infrastructure was destroyed by Japan. It constantly had famines that killed people even before that. Mao just couldn’t fix the issues that caused famine fast enough for another one not to repeat.

    Literally millions of people starve in Africa due to not having enough money to eat, and due to the privatization of food and fields. That is capitalism. It is insane that you would say otherwise. And even in America lots of people are food insecure. And a capitalist nation Israel has killed like 100k people and a capitalist nation Germany killed 50 Million people.

    Colonization is part of capitalism. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism and so is fascism

    Begone capitalist bootlicker


  • This is such a bad faith and ignorant argument.

    There were literally famines before Stalin and Mao. And both places were being invaded by other countries, and had their own farmers sabotage the crops to make people raise up against the government. Also, once that was taken care of, nobody ever died of a famine even under Stalin or Mao and let alone after them.

    Lets talk about how Britain purposefully created a famine that killed millions of Irish and Indians, shall we? And how European powers take away food security from Africa, and millions starve to death every year under capitalism.