woodenghost [comrade/them]

Exactly, perfect take! Bodyshaming and ableism are also one more line along which the ruling class devides people to keep them from doing anything about the systemic issues you mentioned. Solidarity wins.

Dosn’t matter, they have to do what the people who own the newspaper tell them to do. And those are rich.

I don’t have any experience with him or his content either.

They think they know better than the CIA. The head of the CIA could publicly murder a room full of innocent people, then turn to the cameras of countless news outlets and say:“Yes, I killed all those innocent people to protect a Nazi war criminal from justice.” And libs would still say it’s fake news.

I liked this interview on RevLeft.

Not every western leftist… but always a western leftist. /s

Of course Rockhills suggested term “Compatible Leftist” is best better. It was originally invented by the CIA when they started to support and create compatible leftism. They mostly did that in imperial core countries. That’s why this very real phenomenon is mostly about about western leftists.

But don’t worry, periphery leftists can have there own problems with sometimes aligning with compradors. It’s just a completely different material background (and also scale) that’s why this distinction makes sense.

Because cigarettes are addictive? People start in a weak moment and fail to stop. It’s not a rational decision.

So would you say, that actively hostile imperialist western nations and their propaganda apparatus know more about democracy in Venezuela than Venezuelans?

For example if you asked Americans (particularly those in the south or rural areas) if they thought their country was more “free” than the rest of the world, you would probably get higher numbers than you would from most other regions of the world

Maybe this data will surprise you then:

Emma Goldman

It looks like it’s also balancing a stolen white glasses case on its tail.

Maybe not from the outside, but you’d still know if you’re conscious, right?

Yes! Thank you, I love it! <3

Thank you, this is good to know!

It’s funny, because it’s true, but now I need a wholesome version of this with left unity pls,

The ML should playfully insult the anarchist back, then they just look at each other, then they make out and then they join hands in left unity.

Literature vampires are a metaphor for landlords. It couldn’t be more obvious in Dracula. Not just because he’s a lord who owns land. The protagonist is a solicitor and Dracula’s whole evil plan is to buy various properties in England. Multiple chapters are about him learning English laws and customs around buying and holding land and houses.

Their citizens deserve better.

What their government is doing has wide public support among the citizens of the settler colony.

• 95% of Israelis supported the Israeli forces’ level of use of firepower in Gaza; 58% said they are using too little firepower (Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index, November 2023)
• 64% of Israelis believe there are ‘no innocents’ in Gaza (Hebrew University aChord Center, June 2025)
• 82% support the full ethnic cleansing expulsion of Gaza (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
• 56% support expelling Palestinians within Israel itself (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
• 47% want to kill every man, woman, child (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
• 65% oppose the criminal prosecution for soldiers who were caught on video gangremoved Palestinian detainees.

Sources linked in this article.

Here are some quick thoughts:

Ask, who’s making the original claim and who much do they stand to gain and lose from lying about it if it were false and compare that to how much they stand to gain and lose from not covering it, if it were true. There’s pressure to lie, but there’s also pressure to report on real events. Think about material gain, but also about reputation, hype, clicks and career options. Think short term and long term.

For example, economic news offer lots of opportunity to gain from lies short term, but if an economic journal loses it’s reputation, it might lose more long-term, as investors lose trust.

If you want to compare multiple sources, make sure they have different incentive structures, or you won’t get truly different perspectives. For example compare news from imperialist and anti-imperialist countries.

To check if a story is plausible, it helps to have an historic materialist understanding of who the actors in the story are, what their history is and which classes material interests they share in.

Ideally, you shouldn’t come away from a confirmed story with the notion: “Wow it’s true, they really did that crazy thing! How dramatic and sensational!”. Rather, in confirming the story, you will have developed a deeper understanding of the underlying social forces driving individual actors decisions. So instead you’d be more like:“Now I understand why this thing that first seemed very surprising to me was bound to happen sooner or later.”

Dems(if they were honest): With us, live will continue to get worse and worse. And not only that, it will get worse faster and faster in an exponential way. And we’ll do everything in our power to speed things up even more (it’s what the shareholders demand). We can’t even promise to always lie to you anymore. Even empty verbal statements to appease your suffering will more and more often be to much to ask in the future. But we promise to let the mask that hides fascism’s ugly face drop a little bit slower than the opposition. And who knows, the speed at which the worsenings acceleration increases could maybe be a little bit higher without us, so vote blue no matter who.

Communists: Okay, crazy idea, but how about we turn things around and away from the looming abyss we’re accelerating towards?

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I’m sorry reality is biased against your prejudice.