Heyting

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[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalism is exploitation. To prevent workers from fighting the ruling class for better conditions, the ruling class has to divert workers frustration towards other working class people from other countries or other ethnicities.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml -4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Racism and nationalism thrive in capitalism. I don’t know if those are more prevalent in Russia than France or Canada. Almost all Western people I know think Western culture is superior and that all countries in the world should Westernise. That’s a very racist and imperialist view. It assumes that developing countries cannot develop and become progressive without Western influence. While the opposite is true, Western governments and corporations destabilise developing countries to exploit their resources and labour, which makes social progress really difficult. Also many of the conservative beliefs in developing countries where forced upon them by Western colonisers. Western people still tend to think people in developing countries are way less progressive than they actually are.

The Russians I have met were sometimes nationalistic, but none believed that they should conquer the world to rid it of ‘barbarism’ brought on by their own actions.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 17 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

The Russians I know are proud of being Russian. They have an interesting history with many (non war related) achievements. The war with Ukraine doesn’t define the Russian people. Also, (working class) Russian people are very welcoming to guests and selfless from my experience.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Live fire drills not unique, I don’t see how that says anything about the Chinese government

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Just commenting to say that other Palestinian posters on lemmy that I trust have brought Ayah here and that this isn’t a fraud ❤️🇵🇸

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Do you mean Twitch and YouTube? The biggest gaming content platforms where the largest accounts do complain about women being in movies/games quite a lot?

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

That’s only effective on the blahaj instance.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Social violence is still violence. The ruling class tries its best to blur the lines and make it seem okay because it’s legal. But in many cases social violence is even more deadly than regular violence. Most people understand that, which is why the ruling class needs a strong police state in order to feel safe.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

‘Don’t care’ often means that they don’t want to acknowledge our existence and thus block measures that make our existence possible like trans healthcare or anti discrimination laws. Effectively it’s the same as being anti-trans.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago

To be fair, a lot of corruption is legal in the US. Drumpf and Melon are making it worse though.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Conservatism is inherently anti-trans. I’d rather not have anyone on lemmy argue against my right to self determination.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

Directing the attention towards the voters instead of the democratic party is a deliberate tactic to create division among the working class. The democratic party has way more power than your neighbour who didn’t vote. Getting angry at your neighbour will only alienate them further. It’s a waste of energy.

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