I just said that people can make memes organically responding to drama started inorganically. The idea that absolutely no institutional play was involved is silly, considering the level of public attention up to and including Netanyahu’s mouth at the UN. Take off the tinfoil hat and touch some grass.

How on Earth am I arguing in bad faith? What do tanks have to do with Hasan?

People can willingly and unknowingly participate in psyops by being influenced, yes.

Hasan can do wrong, he’s a reformist and in many ways a liberal, rather than a socialist. Him being attacked and slandered as a threat to establishment Democrats is not up for debate.

Yep, it was deliberate as a smear campaign.

Nah, he has his problems as a reformist but the endless drama and defamation surrounding him is already known.

A social democratic Twitch streamer prominent for supporting social democratic or progressive liberal candidates in primaries against more establishment democrats.

It is an oversimplification, but I believe the base of it is the base of conflict here. Do you think we should preserve capitalism, or should we move on from it? Do you think socialism would be nice, but have no plan to get there beyond electoralism, or do you have centuries of historical practice to look to for inspiration? I deliberately said the “left” in vague terms because even if I may disagree with anarchists, I can align with them on moving beyond capitalism. These two groups, the left and the liberal, form the most opposing sides in Lemmy bickering.

I’ll also stand in defense of the “-ism.” I am a Marxist-Leninist. This means I accept Marx’s theories on the law of value, the scientific approach to socialism guided by class struggle and historical materialism, as well as dialectical materialism as a world outlook. It also means I agree with Lenin on his analysis of imperialism, the strategy and tactics of the Leninist party structure, and the necessity to support national liberation movements. Telling someone that I’m an ML lets them know right away that I agree with these things.

Maybe someday.

The resolution of the left/liberal conflict. Anarchists and Marxist-Leninists have mostly ironed out our differences to the point of at least being cordial, but liberals and the left still butt heads. Considering Lemmy is never going to not have the left, it will require either the liberals leaving, defederating, or converting to the left. I know you said no politics, but that’s really the basis of ending the toxicity that does exist here.

The US has never been democratic for the working classes, and certainly not for indigenous peoples. Even if the US taxes billionaires, it will still not be able to stop the inherent crisis of profitability that is to come.

Closer ties to European imperialists simply for profits for the capitalist class in Europe and compradors in Ukraine were supported by far-right nationalists that uphold Stepan Bandera. Going with the EU over the much better Russian offer was purely a move to sell out the country to imperialism, and this saw widespread protect in Eastern Ukraine, which supported Yanukovych:

The language suppression isn’t disproven, even though European imperialists desperately wish it wasn’t. More Russian speakers live in Eastern Ukraine, and thus the nationalists taking power and oppressing them caused a schism:

The entire Ukrainian military is right-wing, but special units like Azov retain their neonazi heritage:

No idea why you’re batting for fascists so hard.

The coup in 2014 was spearheaded by Banderites, those who uphold Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian fascist. Neonazi battalions like Azov have been folded into the military in more official capacities, anti-communism has been at the forefront of post-2014 Ukrainian politics, and ethnic Russians have been persecuted in the Donbass region.

It’s completely understandable that the people that saw their elected president overthrown by fascists would want to secede.

Eastern Ukraine generally supports Russia over Kiev, which is why the Ukrainian Civil War was going on for a decade prior to Russia’s entry. From most people’s perspective, this is liberation for them. The Ukrainian hardliners have generally moved westward, those that remain are generally waiting for Russia’s advance.

China’s a socialist country on the path to communism. Newsweek is mocking social democrats by depicting them as though they are socialists and communists. The implication is that they are socialists, and not social democrats.

Are we in agreement, then? Reading your comment, it seems you think they are socialists.

Socialist democracy is just democracy in socialist countries, which has nothing to do with the article or those depicted on the cover. I thought you were talking about social democracy, considering these are social democrats.

Socialism is inherently democratic, and is also inherently a pre-communist, transitional form of society. Social democracy is not “socialist democracy,” it is capitalism with welfare.

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. No, but I support a mass library system
4. No, I try to avoid Starbucks to begin with
5. Yes
6. No, but this is irrelevant
7. Nationalization in capitalist states is not socialism, just like marketization in socialist states is not capitalism. Washington owning Intel would be better for them, but this is a social democratic reformist measure, not a socialist one.
8. Never been on X/Twitter
9. No
10. No
11. Yes
12. In a socialist society? Yes. In the present-day? More than a private company, sure.
13. Yes.
14. I hate both.
15. Yes.
16. I’d do it if they were the same price, of course I’d do it if they were cheaper.
17. Yes
18. Yes, but more than that the entire capitalist state needs to be broken and replaced with a socialist one, not simply tweaking the system that co-evolved with capitalism from its inception
19. Kinda? Odd question.
20. Yes.

Overall, completely horrendous tabloid quiz.

Would be better, but is both near-impossible to pass with the current state of the US Empire’s falling global domination, and would still perpetuate imperialism if it was passed without a transition to socialism.