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to be fair, i'm dyslexic and kept reading it as "Transradical"
had my eyes have actually worked, the ban would've been sooner.
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I've gathered enough from our community and the creator's responses to make an Admin verdict. I'd like to thank the people who commented on this post and on the creator's posts, it was a great help.
@SocialistMonk@lemmygrad.ml will be banned from Lemmygrad and their communities will be removed. I intended to give them a chance to explain "Transracial" and "Woke-free" and possibly make a change, people make mistakes after all. But they've shown a total misunderstanding of the impact that those statements can have. Include their Trotskyist community and the case becomes even more shut. They don't deserve to be here.
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It's been removed.
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If you can provide me with evidence that the !swp@lemmygrad.ml community is linked to Trotskyism, I'll go ahead and remove it. I would do the google myself, but I'm a little too busy at the moment.
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The other is this political one that isn’t just pro-democrat
Why would you think that a community that's Pro-Conservative (or even just Pro-Liberal in general) would be welcomed on a Communist instance?
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It might be suspect, but it's important to give people a chance to either make their case or shift to our community's concerns before we damn them.
But I do agree with the "woke-free" part of the concern, that feels like a dog whistle. I will be scrutinizing this account and their communities.
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@SocialistMonk@lemmygrad.ml please engage with this post at your first convenience.
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if someone posts something that qualifies as fascist conjecture, it will be removed. But I have not seen that from them yet.
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It might not be the best community on Lemmygrad, but I don't have an issue with it thus far.
The mission statement of the community would do better on Lemmy.ml or one of the ones with more general appeal from liberals. But as it stands right now, it's fine.
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You've had comments removed before for fascist apologia and hate speech. That's not what you've done here, but let's get this straight.
The Vietnamese wars started in 1946 against the French Colonialist government, and American involvement began in 1955 with their illegal invasion beginning in 1965. That uncle, regardless of where he's placed in time, would've been a Colonial policeman. I.E. A supporter of the French government and opposed Ho Chi Minh's revolution. It would not, therefore, be unlikely for the rest of his family to be of the same opinion. If they got harsh treatment - and I don't believe they did without evidence - it would likely have been on the basis of their counter-revolutionary nature.
Many immigrants from "enemy" nations will feel compelled to lie about conditions in their home countries, in an effort to be accepted by our white supremacist culture. And that one reads exactly like the kind of stuff someone in that position would say.
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it's wild to me how liberals seem to be incapable of considering what kind of person would flee a proletarian revolution.
So often when I've heard of immigrants who left an AES country, it's because they were fundamentally against the point of the revolutions. I.E. members of the bourgeois class, members of the dominant colonialist ethnicity, etc.
They'll be like "My grandfather fled Cuba because the Revolutionaries threatened his life ;-;", then you look at their ancestry and see multiple direct lines to Spanish nobility and lots of wealth.
Or "My grandfather left China because the Communists were repressive", then you research their grandfather and find that he was a soldier in the Nationalist army for the entire duration of both the Civil War and the war with Japan, and only left once the Nationalists were pushed out of the mainland. Meaning the man would've been convinced to his core that Communism was evil, and no amount of convincing would break the guy of that idea.
Or "Stalinists took my grandfather's family farm and tried to lock him up", but they're Ukrainians from the middle class in the 1930s. They probably hoarded grain during the famine, then fled when consequences came to their entitled asses.
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I swear to god that this channel and all of the ones like it are a fuckin psyop.
Every time I see one of these videos pop into my feed, it's always the most brain-dead filth. It just feels like the US's propaganda wing.
"Russia's new alliance is dumb actually, and we're going to use language that subconsciously makes you believe that it's evil too." "Russia and China hate each other actually, and will go to war because we want to believe that they will", so on, so forth.
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Not a lot on a large scale, our news publications will always demonize the enemies of the state.
But, you can talk to the people around you and try to convince them that China's not at all what Western propagandists tell us about. Some people will be receptive, but others will cut contact with you for so much as implying that China isn't an evil dictatorship that steals organs and imprisons Muslims.
So play it by ear, if it seems like a person might listen about certain things, they might be convincible. But the people who'll argue and fight with everything you say (or even just start to say) are not going to come around on anything, so conserve your energy with those sort. Your mental health will thank you.
This advice stretches to anything else we're propagandized about. Most people will prefer to believe what's widely available to them, simply because that's what we're supposed to conform with. But some will be willing to learn more.
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NATO keeps claiming things "aren't escalation" right after Russian officials bluntly state that it is.
It's like poking a wasp nest with a stick and saying "It's okay, this won't anger them" while the nest loudly buzzes with the noise of hundreds of angry wasps.
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all of the people who were part of Anonymous who were worth a damn at hacking back in the day work for the state department now. The movement could very likely have been a psyop, given how many high-level hackers from that era there are on government payroll.
I stand in solidarity with the gay furry hackers.
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your quotation is wrong. I said "legitimate", not rightful.
"Legitimate", as in they're the dominant governing body within the country and have been accepted by nearly every country as the genuine government of Afghanistan.
And it is fear-mongering. I was in kindergarten when 9/11 happened, I grew up seeing the US villainize Islam and Arabs in real time. In my youth, we were told that the Taliban were the greatest evil to ever walk the planet. There is a lot to criticise about the Taliban, they're not leftist and their interpretation of Islam is heretical. But they're not the human embodiment of the devil Americans so desperately want to believe they are.
In the instance of this headline, western news publications want people to think "Taliban = hate", then think "if Putin works with the Taliban, that means he endorses them". Thus stoking anti-Russia sentiments by using the decades of anti-Muslim fear-mongering they've been giving us since the 1990s.
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Loathesome Dongeater mentioned it, but it's important to realize that the Taliban existed as they did for 20 years to fight against American (and western) Imperialism in Afghanistan, and when the US pulled out of their country they became the dominant political force.
Though the Taliban isn't a group MLs should be rooting for, they are the legitimate government of Afghanistan, and they have been committed to fighting ISIS - a US-grown insurgency in the Middle East & Northern Africa.
Western publications benefit more from just putting "the Taliban" into their headlines than they do from posting "the Afghani government". The fear-mongering associated with two decades of imperialist war in Afghanistan helps their arguments monumentally.
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thank fuck
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I really hope they meant NazBol, because that's logically what they should've put there.
I am not going to sit through 17 minutes to find out if they made a mistake, or if they simply refused to do any actual research.
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Apparently, it was first reported that the F-16 was shot down. Then the story was pulled and replaced with one about it crashing on its own accord.
If the guy who is being reported as "the best pilot in Ukraine" crashed an F-16 during a mission, that says much worse things about the Ukrainian Air Force.
Mind you, Russia has sophisticated anti-air capabilities and can easily dominate Ukrainian airspace if they need to. But, sure, that billion-dollar high-tech jet fighter crashed itself.
It's only been a handful of days, and the Western "left" has once again shown that the only thing they serve is NATO and Western imperialism. On the first day of the conflict, I didn't see a single Western "leftist" talking about anything related to the conflict. One of the spaces I check was too busy comparing doggos to give a shit that Palestine was liberating itself. Then I saw MSM decrying that Palestinians were terrorists, and using the terms "Savages" or "living beasts". To which I haven't seen the Western left even shutter at. MSM is using slurs and colonialist language, and these pasty preditors couldn't give less of a shit. And now that I see that they're talking about it, they're either making "both sides bad" statements, coming into full support of Israel, or using "we'll wait to see" arguments to excuse withholding support. The only thing the Western left does is disrupt *actual leftist* movements in their home countries, while amplifying imperialist projects abroad. You'd think after years of posting pro-Palestine things on their Twitter and their Instagrams that they'd have the consistency to actually support Palestine when it mattered. But, no, they're really just white people who wanted to feel more important than their Democratic-voting parents. Socialism to the Western leftist isn't the liberation of the human race, it's a sticker to put onto their hydroflask and a $10 donation to UNICEF. It's selling shirts with hammers and sickles on them, then hating the ideology that the symbol originated with. It's voting for Hilary when Bernie pulled out, then demanding that anyone who didn't vote for Biden is the same as Trump. Just a bunch of performative liberal bullshit. update; it took them a minute, but they've figured it out. It's ridiculous that it took them as long as it did to support anti-colonialism, but at least they've come to a consensus about it.
It looks like people are having a really rough time lately, in the aims of improving the mental well-being of our comrades please consider this post an open forum to vent frustrations about whatever is bothering you. If you're currently having a hard go of it, remember that we here at the 'grad care about you.
I've been too busy to keep up with world events, and there's definitely some important stuff I'm entirely unaware of. So fill me in please.
Though I've read and watched a lot about the BPP, I realize there's a lot that has never crossed my path. I assume this is true for a lot of comrades here as well. So, please use this post to share sources and theory surrounding the Panthers and ask questions about them.
If you use this garbage site and want to spend your time around supposed leftists, I think NSLeft is the best place for that. It's a coalition of multiple regions, each with their own culture. Most of my 6 years on this hellsite have been spent in NSLeft, you should move your nation to one of their regions.
If the concept of "Pan-Leftism" isn't in some way COINTELPRO, I would be very strongly surprised. Everywhere it's enforced becomes nothing more than a liberal echo chamber, wherein discussions that inconvenience liberal ideology or biases get shut down. Thus continually drifting the talking point of the group towards the comfort zone of left-liberals. Who are these left-liberals who benefit so strongly from Pan-Leftism? To put it bluntly, Anarchists, Social-Democrats, Trotskyists, and all other counter-revolutionary lifestylists. These are the groups that dominate discussions in these spheres, these are the people who get the final say on important issues. When Marxists get established in these communities, they get pushed out by the left-liberals. Often on illegitimate grounds, with strawman arguments and vast misunderstandings on Marxist stances. Supposed "comrades" are, currently, fully backing the *western propaganda* out of Poland about Russia """targetting""" Poland with a missile. These same supposed "comrades" refuse to acknowledge that backing Ukraine demands the defence of Nazism. They further believe defending Russia, China, the DPRK, or any other enemy of western imperialism means you're "anti-freedom", or otherwise against democracy. When people of differing viewpoints assemble together, the ones with the most to lose from revolutionary speech are the ones who have the loudest voices. This is inherent, aside from having a revolutionary vanguard to purge counter-revolutionaries there is no way around it. When anti-capitalists gather, the ones who benefit the most from the discussion are those who are the most disenfranchised by the capitalist system. Such as minorities, the LGBTQIA+ community, and so-on. "Pan-Leftism" inherently silences these voices, simply because allowing them to speak threatens the privileged straight whites who do not truly want a fair world, but would rather have a world that treats specifically *them* better. It should be no surprise that when Cuba abolished the nuclear family, these communities hardly even talked about it. And those who did controlled the narrative to either delegitimize the great victory for minority rights, or to delegitimize Cuba as being a communist state. (I.E. saying Cuba is liberalizing). Nor should it be a surprise that these communities often celebrate Rojava, but rarely mentioned the Donbas until the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Further, it shouldn't be a surprise that talk of the Donbas is mostly oriented towards calling it a "Russian satellite", rather than a revolutionary struggle against the genocide of their people. Pan-Leftism, if it can even be called that if they exclude Marxists so easily, is a scourge on the western left that must be opposed where found. There are many roadblocks in the west in the struggle towards revolution, this is one of them. As long as new leftists flock to pan-leftist communities while they're learning the ropes of revolution, they will be tainted by counter-revolutionary talking points with no means of understanding *why* these talking points should be avoided.
"hell yeah minorities should have rights!" then post rants on twitter when minorities demand their rights after generations of being silenced.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/407952 > Hello G*mer! > > If you're looking to join a community of communist gamers, you've found it. You can join us on our [Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/groups/lemmygrad) page or on our [Discord](https://discord.gg/SRSYV4Bs99)! > > And you're welcome to spread this post around to your comrades to help the community grow. > > We hope to see you there!
Hello G*mer! If you're looking to join a community of communist gamers, you've found it. You can join us on our [Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/groups/lemmygrad) page or on our [Discord](https://discord.gg/SRSYV4Bs99)! And you're welcome to spread this post around to your comrades to help the community grow. We hope to see you there!
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A discord channel for our gaming group has been made. You don't have to be a part of the steam group to join. Everyone is welcome. https://discord.gg/SRSYV4Bs99 See you there.
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Linked is a discussion topic on event organizing. If you're interested in playing games with the Lemmygrad community, you should join and make your voice heard.
I'm finding a lot of conflicting information on the situation in Iran, with predominately western publications reporting on it. Before I make my mind up on this situation I'd like to have enough information. It feels like a colour revolution, but I don't want to dip into conspiracy so readily. If anyone has been following the situation and would like to give Lemmygrad an explanation, it would be appreciated.
I've seen Ukraine supporters claiming the Russia is conscripting anti-war protesters. The only sources I've seen for this are western, and the statement on the partial mobilization clarifies that it's a mobilization *strictly of already enlisted military personnel*. I highly doubt it's true, but if anyone has sources or knows more about this I'd like to better understand it.
This community needs are few finishing touches, and I'd like Lemmygrad to help with deciding on them. Firstly, a community profile picture is needed. What symbols, images, etc. represent either the concept of colonialism, or represent natives? What colours are commonly used for this purpose? Second, the community needs a banner. What images evoke decolonization, rage against colonizers, or solidarity between colonized peoples? Finally, the rules need to be set. What are some rules this community would benefit from having?
Ideally, a community about the effects of colonialism would be moderated by victims of colonialism. Though I'm Irish-American and am dating a Native American, I do not properly represent decolonialization. So, this community needs moderators of colour, who can help ensure that the moderation of this community won't accidentally favour whatever latent colonialism I may not have realized within myself yet. If you want to moderate this community, please get in touch with me. [image: Irish revolutionary leader Eamon De Valera shakes hands with the Chippewa nation]
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