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city government: run by suburban car lovers, absolutely intractable, getting bike or bus lanes might as well be happening on the moon

state government: run by liberals who largely run near or entirely un-opposed. They do good things sometimes, but are simultaneously incapable of forcing municipalities to do good things, and roll over the feds when pressed. For example, no resistance to the fucked up ICE kidnapping campaign that's still going on.

National government is a hot mess and voting in my state has had a zero percent chance of influencing it in every election I've been alive for.

"democracy"

This is the same guy who was like "I wanted so hard to believe it wasn't someone from here that did it" Seems like he really wants an outside threat to demonize, surely people won't fall for that- oh right never mind lmao

forgot to turn off bighead mode before entering pvp zone

I fucking hate the rat, but this is when you gotta hit them with the 'weird'

I know a bunch of people from in person organizing in the US who are ML/maoist and have positive opinions of China, Russia, Cuba, etc, but it's generally the kind of critical support you see on hexbear. A lot of them are trans/NB and have grown up in the US propaganda bubble and reject it.

Also pretty sure both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china. It's probably just because they block all foreign social media as a general practice though. If they're looking to do propaganda work they're probably going to do it on platforms with more people tbh.

I made a post about how comfortable they are calling people degenerates on MoG, in the linked thread there db0 had upvoted a post and goat decided to start an interrogation.

This chain of events also has a post on YPTB, they ended up banning all of db0 from the MoG comm.

don't think we disagree, though the point is more that they're necessary, but insufficient. having elections can legitimize the process, but if you turn around and rely on right wing paramilitaries to suppress your opposition then it's not really legitimate.

The SPDs record is anti-democratic, they used elections to legitimize themselves then unleashed paramilitaries to crush organized workers. That's not taking 'democracy seriously,' that's narrowing what it means to protect the state.

Revolutionary democracy is more than just fucking ballots and voting. The entire point is mass participation, self organization and ongoing struggle.

just outright simping for an attempted coup along explicitly Bolshevik lines against a government that had announced national elections

The January uprising wasn’t a Bolshevik-style coup. It was a mass revolt sparked by SPD repression, which the KPD didn’t even plan and which Luxemburg herself thought was premature.

'history major'

time to check in on the straights, how bad could it be

this whole thing has been salami tactics, but applied to instances.

like they just make up shit, but as long as it's about 'tankies' it just goes around getting repeated unverified. they then expand the definition of 'tankie' as they see fit.