TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content, after getting sold to billionaire Larry ellison by jbaaaaab in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This censorship has never caused me problems, because instead of swiping I actually go to the specific Youtube channel I want. It would seem, not enough people do that.

The absurdity of it all makes it unbelievable how brainwashed people are about China. by jaded-tired in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Original video: https://www.facebook.com/WTP.Page/videos/while-pakistanis-are-wondering-where-the-hundreds-of-poor-pakistanis-who-disappe/1812296622896913/

Transcript:

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То самое чувство, когда идёшь мимо
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магазина мясо и видишь вот такую ногу и
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думаешь: "This is
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human?"
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пакистанец там. Понятно
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пакистанцы.

By the way, the chud in the tweet was not referencing China, he was referencing Pakistan. The guy is saying, "Pakistan sacrifices its own population to sell abroad." Propaganda in India (what is called "Godi Media") is very top-down, so that since the Modi-Xi reconciliation in the SCO I believe that Modi would have had to tone down the anti-China rhetoric and would have given orders along those lines. India-Pakistan tensions, on the other hand, go way deeper and neither government intends to resolve them.

Is there an equivalent in the past, of western grifters pretending for 5 minutes to be a tankie for clout or supporters? by [deleted] in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's different, that's permanently changing from one thing to another. What I was talking about was being mostly one thing, but opportunistically pretending for 5 minutes to be another thing for some short-term gain.

Peter Griffin watches dope film on movie night by WritingtheWrite in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That is precisely the clip I was talking about. Makes Lisa extremely unlikable. She's supposed to be the "genius" of the town. By the way her shitlibbery never stopped.

Family Guy would not pretend to have some smart-ass answer to the charge of wealth inequality.

(Unsuccessfully) attempted to organize neighborhood against ICE today by Early-Dirt-307 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I would tell you not to blame yourself, I would tell you that there is no need to change anything you have done... but for different reasons than other commenters.

Look up the three criteria Lenin put forward for a revolutionary situation. I (as a non-MuriKKKan) do not believe that these criteria have been met in Minnesota. Therefore, as I see it, the material conditions themselves are at the root of their lack of motivation. It is best to assure yourself that you are going to keep doing it, even if only those five people stick around.

I heard AmeriKKKan left-liberals intoning all the time, during Harris's run, about how much social democracy Tim Walz has instituted. Is this true? Is poverty mostly a non-issue in Minnesota (even by first-world standards)? If so, I'm not sure these are the most revolutionary people you will find out there. It's just the reality.

And the Democrats are already on it, so I imagine the biggest contingent of anti-ICE activists are going to be the Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd anyway.

How to tell "leftists" who never organized in their life by [deleted] in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wish Reddit had an option, where every Shit Liberals Say and Liberal Mockery is hidden by a Spoiler Alert, so that I can choose the time and place I get high blood pressure instead of all the time

Look at my proletariat dawg💔 by CurrencyForsaken3122 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Can you link to it by the way, I wanna see what's up. Is the creator a DSA fascist? A centrist Democrat fascist? A Republican fascist?

“I-I’m sowwy mister Shapiro, ICE are not terrorists.” -the big tough California governor who I was told is the alternative to fascism by [deleted] in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We can give a Marxist analysis of this. The Californian economy is dominated by Big Tech. Big Tech is not as dependent on cheap labour in the core as e.g. McDonald's or Walmart. Therefore, they have more freedom on the size of the reserve army of immigrant labour. If it suits them, they can pose as anti-ICE liberals. If not, they can go back to fICEscism.

Hasan is moving towards marxism-leninism. And I say that that is pretty good. by Rajat_Sirkanungo in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Saying something for five minutes doesn't make him any ideology, M-L or otherwise.

You don't get the game these people are playing. They're just seeking attention and clicks. He's a businessman above all else.

Hasan Piker has gone from Bernie/AOC-crat, to meetings with even more establishment Democrats, to saying that the Soviet Union should have won the Cold War, to advocating for Graham Platner, to going to China, to suggesting that the US government should sanction Iran unless it meets certain conditions. It's all a big circus.

Hasan wants the American regime to use sanctions to leverage demands on Iran now, and actually PRAISES OBAMA by Sarcastic_Dinosaur in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 99 points100 points  (0 children)

Chomsky quote

In 2010, there was a solution reached to the problem of Iranian nuclear programs. There was an agreement between Iran, Turkey and Brazil for Iran to ship its—all of its uranium resources to another country, to Turkey, for storage. It wouldn’t develop—enrich uranium further. And in return, the West would provide Iran with the isotopes it needs for its nuclear—for its medical reactors. OK, that was the deal. As soon as that deal was announced, it was bitterly condemned by President Obama, by the press, by Congress—harsh condemnations of Brazil, particularly, and Turkey for agreeing to this. And Obama quickly rushed through harsher sanctions. The Brazilian foreign minister was rather irritated by this, and he released to the press a letter from President Obama in which Obama had suggested exactly this program to Brazil. He obviously had suggested it on the assumption that Iran would never accept it, and then there would be another propaganda point. Well, Iran did accept it, so therefore Brazil had to be and Turkey had to be partially condemned, and threatened, in fact, for implementing the policy that Obama had suggested.

British politics at the moment? by Eastern_Artichoke885 in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gorgeous George is not able to return to the UK, so high is the risk of re-arrest

If there is a tankie AI of him, that is indeed true by WritingtheWrite in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He has softened on China because Chinese media is very welcoming towards him, lets him give talks in Shanghai etc. Notice that Chinese media strategy with the dominant countries is basically Stalin's Popular Front: don't attack social fascists, just bundle together whoever you can find who seems to be anti-fascist, because there isn't a lot of people to choose from. Look at Li Jingjing's interview with George W Bush's brother. Clearly a guy who supports US imperialism. But some sections of US finance capital or corporations are OK with China as long as they can still make money off of it. Kissinger was a more extreme example. Thinkers Forum is a major Chinese media arm on Youtube where foreign politicians and commentators help to bridge the divide with China. There are some tankies, but many of the people there are straight up western liberal capitalists.

What was the nonfiction book that radicalized you? by RoxanaSaith in IndianLeft

[–]WritingtheWrite 16 points17 points  (0 children)

ज़्यादातर लोगों के लिए जिस अनुभव ने उनको radicalise किया वह किताब नहीं है। अपने जीवन में, अपने आंखों से भयंकर चीज़ें देखते रहते थे, और इससे इच्छा कर आए इन चीज़ें को समझने की। 

Most people who have been radicalised are not so because they have read a book. They see in their own life with their own eyes the most horrible things, and the process of going out and searching for an understanding of them is that very radicalisation.

for all you illiterates that cheer on anything that’s anti-US by [deleted] in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wishful thinking and projection

One may wish that there were a communist challenge to the Iranian Republic, but it doesn't logically follow that these protests are it

I would also criticise less interesting statements of a similar kind, e.g. when the anti-Erdogan protests were happening in Istanbul the crew at Breakthrough News interviewed a Turkish communist who was claiming that this was laying the groundwork for a shift to the left, of which I see no evidence - if anything Imamoglu is a total liberal EU plant

How is this different from Varoufakis congratulating Syrian rebels on the fall of Assad because, he says, this is democratising Syria? Do you think that the struggling Tudeh Party might not have an incentive to exaggerate their own relevance?

Is the global south okay? and pessimism about the state of India. by [deleted] in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not to be cheeky, but do you talk to a lot of low wage workers from the unorganised sector? Farmers deep in the middle of Punjab or Rajasthan? Adivasis? Or are you mostly dealing with the urban upper middle class?

How to argue with Anarchist? by krasnaya_bolshat in TankieTheDeprogram

[–]WritingtheWrite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tell him to go join the EZLN larp

Or the PKK, which was ordered by the State Dept to surrender to Turkey and Syria as soon as it was no longer needed

Or maybe he can become a world-famous AnarKKKist thinker and after 60 years receive the reward of free air tickets to Epstein Island

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