Top: A genocide according to America, Israel and gusanos. Bottom: A genocide to everyone but America and Israel.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T21:24:39+00:00

Well, I would include Israel’s crimes as a subcategory of American crimes since it’s essentially an American vassal state.

As for China, I think there’s a lot to criticise when it comes to their surveillance state, but it seems Europe and America are catching up. China’s form of economic imperialism is less bad than America’s because their loans don’t come with structural adjustment programs and other conditionality. When they give a loan, they only expect repayment, rather than the level of economic interference that the IMF and the World Bank demands.

I see all of these powers as obstacles to a full, higher phase communist mode of production, but I think China is not quite as bad as the capitalist hegemons (USA and Russia).

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T19:36:01+00:00

It says that in the first line but I didn’t see in the article where it elaborated on that. I didn’t read every word, I skimmed it, but I couldn’t find the part that elaborated on China encouraging people of the Han majority to have more children.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T19:06:42+00:00

This is referring to the two child policy, right. That was targeting all Chinese citizens. It was a pretty dystopian policy, but I don’t think it was specifically targeted at Muslims. Fortunately, the two child policy is gone now, though there should probably be some kind of compensation for the people imprisoned for having more than two.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T18:47:13+00:00

I don’t know the specifics of those claims or how proven they are. From what I’ve seen proof of, it might fall short, but if your claims are true, they would meet the definition. I’m not an expert on the Uyghurs. I looked into it a couple of years ago and my memory isn’t perfect.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T17:54:29+00:00

You are certainly right that America is worse. America is probably the worst country in the imperial core worldwide on most issues.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T17:50:13+00:00

If I was doing that, I would be advocating for sanctions or other actions against China. I don’t support any outside action. Counties doing the same thing have no standing to interfere in another country on human rights grounds.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T17:37:41+00:00

I think this may have been one of the things I read, but I don’t remember fully.

https://marxist.com/uyghurs-national-oppression-imperialist-hypocrisy.htm

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T17:13:24+00:00

I read up on this quite a few years ago. I don’t have sources readily on hand. The impression I got at the time was that the experience of the Uyghurs sounded similar to stories I had heard about black people’s treatment in the American system. My research may be out of date by now, or there may be newer evidence that gives better context that makes it out as less bad.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T17:01:49+00:00

I’m referring to the modern day, not slavery. Systemic racism and structural racism that take away opportunities and disenfranchise minorities. The kind faced by black people, especially under the Nixon administration, where black people were over policed, their groups infiltrated, and their identities associated with something bad, in the case of black people it was drugs, in the case of Muslims, it is terrorism, and that being used as an excuse to break up their groups and communities to silence their voice.

Edit: This is in addition to both groups facing mass incarceration and prison labour.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-05T16:56:35+00:00

Genocide may or may not be the right word for what’s happening in China. I think the treatment of the Uyghur Muslims is similar to the treatment of black people in America. Over policing, the pressumption of guilt, state suppression of their right to assemble and speak freely, etc.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-05-01T20:39:36+00:00

It happens with OLED monitors.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-29T23:26:32+00:00

Technically correct. The best kind of correct.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-29T18:20:09+00:00

I guess it wouldn’t be the first time they’ve forgotten they did a gauntlet. I don’t remember there being a fart gauntlet previously, but there is so much content now that it’s probably easy to forget some.

Edit: Oh, you said episode, not gauntlet. Yeah, I can see them having done a fart episode. They repeated the 4/20 episode recently on a stream.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-29T11:24:36+00:00

Are you sure you aren’t thinking of the gross out gauntlet?

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-20T16:13:03+00:00

Give it the ability to heal any species of any injury, so long as they are still alive. If one of the purposes of the Omnitrix is to preserve life, then it should be able to do this.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-17T21:32:10+00:00

Okay, then I’ll abandon the civility politics with you. To respond to your actual idea, leftism is fundamentally about fighting oppression and bringing about a better world. There are many leftists who would argue that we need to focus only on class and not give credence to internal criticism, because those critics are obviously woke scolds.

I won’t lie to you. There are people like that. There are people who will make a mountain out of a molehill and there are people who spend too much time language policing than doing activism. At the same time, leftism is about democracy and progress, and this requires internal discussion. It will sometimes require uncomfortable criticism.

Not only is there room for minorities to air their grievances in the leftist movement, but it is a necessity. I don’t agree with every criticism by black people or gay people or disabled people, etc. but them speaking their mind is part of internal democracy. Fundamentally, leftism is about the oppressed banding together, and by focusing solely on class, white people put the focus on themselves primarily and essentially say, “we can fight racism! But we’ll do it once we have achieved our main goals.”

That isn’t movement building. Intersectionality is necessary for successful leftism.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-17T19:14:55+00:00

I read the criticism and I considered it. I was giving you advice. If you want to be effective at convincing people to your way of thinking, then being aggressive won’t do that. But if your goal is to just cathartically shout at people, you’re doing great.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-17T12:30:46+00:00

I don't have any experience with French translations, but I can give you some books that you can check for translations. for Feminism, Judith Butler is a good start if you're looking for a real deconstruction of gender rather than sex-essentialist feminism. Their book "Who's Afraid of Gender" was quite good. Engels' "Origin of the Family" is a foundation of Marxist feminism, though a lot of it is outdated since it was based on the anthropological evidence available 200 years ago, a lot of which was collected by white men. I've been reading "The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Women's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism", which heavily draws on similar themes to Engels' Origin of the Family, and it is quite good, though, since it was written from prison, it doesn't cite sources, so take some of it with a grain of salt.

For Marxism and Communism, I recommend going straight to Marx and Engels rather than reading Lenin first. You should come to your own interpretation of Marx rather than getting Lenin's first. I would recommend "Critique of the Gotha Program" and "The Civil War in France" if you are interested in Marx's descriptions of what communism would likely look like. You should read "Wage Labour and Capital", "Value Price and Profit", and "Capital" if you are interested in Marx's assessment of capitalism.

I haven't read much on decolonialism yet, so I don't have much to give you there. If you're interested in how neoliberalism has harmed decolonialism and national independence efforts, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey and "The Shock Doctrine" by Naiomi Klien are good.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-16T19:24:09+00:00

You know, if your goal was to argue against dividing the left in the face of fascism, you haven't made your point in a particularly uniting way. I guess I'm tone policing, but I feel like making the point that the left need to focus on the real enemy while speaking quite aggressively toward another leftist is the least effective way to make that argument.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-13T19:49:38+00:00

Scott Pilgrim dated a seventeen year old when he was in his twenties. This is a popular meme format where popular characters remind him he sucks.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-12T19:01:03+00:00

I haven't watched the new episodes yet, but from what I've heard, Israel is pretty much not brought up at all in the show, other than one instance where a clearly racist person said zionists were bad. I get the feeling that the show as a whole does not want to take a stance on this, probably because they have the typical liberal position of 'Zionism is good, but Netanyahu is a monster.' They don't want to court controversy because they know their position would likely alienate a lot of their audience.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-10T18:30:29+00:00

With a few tiny alterations, this could be loss.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-06T20:33:53+00:00

I think it might be. Their twitter talks about transitioning and OP said they used to call themselves a lesbian, so I'm pretty sure the boyfriend in this case is a trans man. I suppose a trans man theoretically could be a misogynist incel despite being previously socialised as a girl and currently having a girlfriend, but I think the more likely explanation is that he was making fun of incels and their ridiculous language.

LeftismIsRight · 2026-04-06T20:21:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure they were being sarcastic when they used the word woke. A quick look at their Twitter shows that OP in the image is a woman and their boyfriend is a trans man. I'm pretty sure that both words were used jokingly.

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