• crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Okay, but saying "lmao you dipshits have to topple amerikkka obviously" and not making any progress towards doing that doesn't make him any kind of revolutionary, much less a better one than Sankara, Allende, etc.

    • activated [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      not making any progress towards doing

      France's government collapsed and it was only through maneuvering in partnership with both the right wing and the communist party of France (who opposed the student revolution) that France was able to avoid a full realization of a true revolutionary project.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        wowie, he almost achieved something but didn't! That's so much cooler than Mao achieving the most comprehensive land reform in history, smashing all opposition, and setting up a state that America can't invade.

        • activated [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          ...and then just repeated bourgeois vicissitudes of every other country.

          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            3 years ago

            You know, I've run into an ideological issue that I don't think anyone else on this site is willing to address. It's important and they just don't want to talk about it. Really, it's key to our work as effective socialists rather than just China shills. I think you're the right person to ask.

            What wine pairs best with state department lies?

            • activated [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              Beaujolais, especially Cru Beaujolais will pair with just about anything in a pinch.

              edit: I have a bit more time to respond here, so I'll augment it with:

              Orange wine is a go to for pairing with Chinese stuff (doubt that was the state dept you were referring to). Most of the best orange wine is eastern European, and I promise that the Sino-Soviet split didn't ruin this great gastronomical pair at least.

              Champagne also goes with just about anything, especially fried stuff, so maybe it's best for American state lies. You don't need actual champagne, you can get cremant from Burgundy for $10-20 a bottle. Cremant from Alsace is my favorite. Skip prosecco, as it has a lower value at lower price points (there is good prosecco out there, but with the cheap stuff you might as well be drinking PBR). I'd also say skip cava, but some people like the more petrol forward notes (always smells like those rubber sticky hands to me). British sparkling is great mostly thanks to climate change, but it's way too pricey. South Australian, especially Tasmanian sparkling, is some of the best value you can get right now.

              Hope this helped you with your ideological issue.

              • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                Orange wine is a go to for pairing with Chinese stuff (doubt that was the state dept you were referring to). Most of the best orange wine is eastern European, and I promise that the Sino-Soviet split didn’t ruin this great gastronomical pair at least.

                oh my god he's both-sidesing the :cia: :agony-limitless:

                At least the joke itself is decently funny. :shrug-outta-hecks:

                • activated [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Well I did say that I wasn't assuming that an accusation against China was being made.

              • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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                3 years ago

                forgot about my earlier comment and thought you were calling me a boring white person.

        • activated [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Wait until you find out that no existing society is communist.

          • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            lol yeah, France after situationists, China after CPC, USSR after Bolsheviks. The French are definitely the ones that accomplished the most.

            • activated [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              From the perspective of carrying out Marx's dialectical movement towards a classless society? its_the_same_picture.jpg

          • crime [she/her, any]
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            3 years ago

            And apparently none of AES is good enough to meet the standards of hex bear dot net user u/activated to qualify as socialist either, and we all know that's the necessary bar for socialist projects to clear.

            • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              I'm not even really a third-worldist, but sometimes I wish this website made it mandatory to be one.

            • activated [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I mean, I'm typing this from my neighborhood in which I and and everyone I know are priced out of ever affording a home because Chinese investors own a majority of the real estate. So yeah, AES is 0/3 in terms of the words that make it up.

              Xi has all of my support in purging those piggies but until then it ain't actually existing.

              • crime [she/her, any]
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                3 years ago

                As we all know, the second you press the communism button all capitalists cease to exist and stop doing porky activities instantaneously.

                • activated [he/him]
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                  3 years ago

                  Given the original revolution + a cultural revolution booster shot + nearly century, "the second" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

                  • crime [she/her, any]
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                    3 years ago

                    Im recovering from surgery and don't have the energy to argue with liberals about dengism today so im checking out of this thread

                  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    You've got to take baby steps if you want to move people left. I try to argue for communization of the mop ala Venezuela, prison abolition, deliberate attempts to limit violence, the importance of dreaming grand dreams, of acting for today, for prefiguration. If they want to hold on to China as something to believe in, let them.