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  • novibe@lemmy.mltoVideos@lemmy.mlGermany never De-Nazified
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    15 days ago

    The Soviets kept the Nazi scientists in prison tho… and after they finished their work they were left to rot.

    Stalin famously wanted to execute every single military officer from Nazi Germany after the war, and Churchill threw a hissy fit saying “they didn’t deserve it, they were just protecting their country like any good (white, racist) man would!”.

    And then the US “rehabilitated” many of the Nazis and put them into positions of power, in the West German US occupied territories, in the nascent NATO, in the US itself….


  • What is your definition of working? I’d say communist revolutions have indeed worked. I base that on data, facts and the material conditions of places that had a revolution compared to countries in similar economic and geopolitical situations.

    Cuba is doing much better than most Latin American countries. In most areas it’s doing MUCH better.

    China is doing infinitely better than any other comparable country, like India. It’s not even a comparison.

    The USSR was also doing much better than any country in a comparable situation when it did exist.

    How did these revolutions “not work”?



  • novibe@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksWe don't earn it.
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    7 months ago

    So you and everyone else can have jobs that are actually productive for society (like producing, preparing and delivering food…), and then also work like 10-20 hours a week and have everything you described. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand.

    Or do you mean you prefer to have a useless job that adds nothing to society but allows you treats while millions of people live in abject misery?


  • novibe@lemmy.mltoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.worksWe don't earn it.
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    7 months ago

    Nothing you said changes the fact that only a small portion of humans need to work for the rest of humanity to survive. Or everyone could just work 10 hours a week and everything would still be fine. Problem is most people spend 40 hours a week doing bullshit number shifting jobs that just serve speculators to get richer. Nothing being produced. If we actually focused our productive forces into use-value instead of trade-value and completely removed financialization, we could all live lives of abundance while barely working at all. We are at that point, technologically and in the total productive forces of our species. It’s simply a matter of political will. But the ruling classes would never accept that.





  • novibe@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    8 months ago

    The last chicken and first proto-chicken wouldn’t be 1 generation apart. The changes are so small that it takes thousands of generations for anything even close to beginning speciation to occur. If we literally did what you said, we would go backwards forever and when we got to something that looked completely unlike a chicken we’d be “shit, we have to go the other way around and check again, all the animals around this one look exactly like it, for thousands of generations”.


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    8 months ago

    But that line can only ever be imaginary. There was never a proto-chicken that birthed a chicken. All chickens were birthed by chickens, all proto-chickens birthed proto-chickens.

    We can make an imaginary line, but if went looking for it we would never find it.



  • “Vuvuzela communist hell hole” 😭💀

    All of Venezuela’s policies since Hugo Chavez would be considered at most center-left in most of Europe. Venezuela is at most a social-democratic country with a lot of populism.

    And you talk about China when saying “communism” doesn’t work? Bro, China never said it was communist first of all, and China isn’t working? Are you insane? China is by far the country with the biggest increase in quality of life and purchasing power in the world. Have you even seen a Chinese city nowadays?

    When China sucks it’s communist, but when it’s the fastest growing, strongest economy in the world it’s capitalist?

    And CUBA? Bro a country that has been basically under economic siege for the past 60 years and STILL has better health outcomes than the US?? The country with the most sustainable economy in the planet? The country that just last year passed democratically the most progressive constitution in the history of humanity??

    You are a brainwashed liberal, like so many of the shitheads I’ve met that left Venezuela. You have 0 material analysis, it’s all vibes and ideology and parroting US think tank talking points. You don’t understand the reality of your own fucking country AT ALL.