• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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      Man it sucks when the CIA tells me every existing socialist state is Literally Hitler and despite understanding how propaganda works I have to accept that at face value for reasons

      • lvysaur [he/him]
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        It's pretty funny tbh

        "so you agree that the war in Iraq was a mistake?"
        "Yes"
        "and you agree that the claims of "weapons of mass destruction" were complete propaganda"
        "Mmhm."
        "and you're aware that at the time, 75% of US citizens supported the war?"
        "Yeah, I've seen the 2003 polls"

        "And despite all that, you still accept US propaganda outlets face value that China is a genocidal terrorist state?"
        "Exactly. What's the issue here?"

          • lvysaur [he/him]
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            Acktszctchyually, that doesn't matter. They are just boosting their number in order to harvest even more organs from wigga-I mean Uyghurs. Just listen to this Radio Free Asia podcast

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          I see people saying this and think, " here's someone who's never listened to his shows or read his writing".

          • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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            We do love to beat up fellow leftists with their occasional awful takes a little too much sometimes.

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              Yeah and he has never called himself a leftist as far as I know, just an anarchist who loves guns and really wants a mountain side showdown with the ATF and/or FDA. Which I think he deserves. As a snack.

              • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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                he has never called himself a leftist

                just an anarchist

                🤔

                • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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                  Ok nerd, he never called himself a socialist, talkie, succeed, demsucc, communist, posadist, ancom, or any other of our various sects except anarchist. He's also, to my knowledge, never called himself a leftist.

    • kristina [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      cuba needs a new USSR like trading partner that stresses Cuban independence and autarky just in case shit goes south

  • oysterfarm [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I have a feeling the US is losing so much global power and influence that they'll continue to roll over on their back in a Biden-esque way to all these "aggressions"

  • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    i know there is lingering affection for russians in cuba according to my coworker who lived there (he always talks about how much he loves it there despite them being very poor).

    I wonder if old sino soviet drama will come out.

    • mrbigcheese [he/him]
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      China has a long history with Cuba, in the 1850-80 hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers went to Cuba to work on the sugar plantations once the slave trade stopped and there werent enough workers to exploit, so they imported them from China and they stayed there afterwards. China also saved Cuba from collapse after the USSR fell and they went into an economic crisis.

  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    declare intentions of closer China/Cuba relations

    discuss trade routes

    seize the means of portage in minecraft Panama

    prosper