The problem isn’t that we’re shooting centimillionaire celebrities and billionaires into space, the problem is re-entry.

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Looks like you triggered some Western chauvinists 🤷

• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

PRC is capitalism with some controls.

The CPC’s controls on capitalism are enormous, and the bourgeoisie are largely excluded from the political sphere. Previously.

Cuba is a dictatorship of Castro family. […] DPRK is dictatorship.

China, Cuba, the DPRK, Laos, and Vietnam all have a form of Marxist-Leninist democratic centralism, as every communist country so far has, AFAIK. Cuba’s current president isn’t related to Castro.

• Tommy Douglas:

  Once more let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt – it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

• Michael Parenti » 🔈 Fascism, The False Revolution
• Gabriel Rockhill:
  • Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
  • Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
  • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

I’ve never looked into how Matrix works at all, so I can’t really speak to that.

I sure don’t know. SimpleX is suggested, among others: https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

what horseshoe theory does to a mf

Just Burgerstani problems.

it’s the fraggle rock channel what

For those who don’t want to pick up a whole (short) book, I suggest this short excerpt and this talk.

This has apparently been publicly available since at least 2010, because I found it in that year’s edition of A. J. Weberman’s Coup d’etat In America: The CIA and the Assassination of JFK

https://archive.org/stream/CoupDetatInAmerica/NODULE 18 OSWALD IN NEW ORLEANS_djvu.txt

OS INDICES RESULTS:

Laureano Batista, a 32 year old Cuban exile, was from a wealthy Cuban family and in Cuba he was a banker. He was granted a POA in December 1959 and an OA in February 1960 for use as a PP agent in Havana, Cuba.

A copy of a letter in Subject’s file dated November 22, 1963 signed by Subject as Secretary for Military Affairs, Executive Committee, Movimiento Democrata Cristiana (Christian Democratic Movement) is addressed to Major General Bela K. Kiraly, President, Hungarian Freedom Fighters Federation, Inc., and offered the services of the MDC in arranging meetings and discussions with other anti-CASTRO organizations and the Hungarian Freedom Fighters. The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were (deleted) was interested in information on the MDC before granting approval for contact between the two organizations.

This is one of bourgeois ideology’s last defenses: apathy.
That all the other systems are just as bad.
That it’s just “human nature.”
That there is no alternative.

• Cultural hegemony
• 📺 The Fascism of Common Sense
• 📺 Hegemony of Common Sense:Interview Of Dean Manders

You can’t fucking change time, John.

It was .world that defederated from hexbear & lemmygrad and not the other way around, but the effect is the same.

• 2023-08-02: Lemmy.world Hexbear Statement
• 2023-11-12: Defederation from Lemmygrad.ml

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A (de-)federation research tool: https://defed.xyz/

Gabriel Rockhill » Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime

*week

_*day

He’s got the reich look.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?