Nice strawman have you ever talked to one of us

I’m not asking to see the comments for myself, I’m asking if you can point to evidence of this happening; it’s not the same question.

Marx was the third ever sociologist, the first being Weber and the second I always forget his name. But this is historically attested to, it’s not something I just pulled out of my ass lol

European Jews were not considered white before and during WW2. Whiteness has always changed with whatever we needed it to be for political reasons. The Irish were not considered white. In South Africa during Apartheid, a Japanese national was forbidden by a bus driver from entering a whites-only bus because the driver thought he was Chinese. The man sued and won against the driver as the Japanese were considered white and allowed to board segregated buses.

Fun fact: did you know the ICC has only ever prosecuted African nationals since its inception in 2002?

The point is that you are unwilling to even engage with the idea that Russia seeks to eliminate Ukrainian identity

Is that like a litmus test? Next time I’m ordering pizza I’ll ask the restaurant if they are willing to engage with the idea that Russia seeks to eliminate Ukrainian identity.

Literally no idea why you brought that up again lol

Okay so no evidence Hexbear or Lemmygrad have denied genocides?

A correction: Lemmygrad and Hexbear are two different instances, and it’s an oversimplification to lump them in together. Lemmygrad does not defederate from any real instance, we have possibly one of the smallest block lists of any bigger instances.

Capital is a thesis on economy, why would it help you on politics?

Surely you’d know what it’s about if you’ve read it.

It’s funny how fascists always leave out the part that actually gets them called a fascist, isn’t it?

Marxism is relevant to everything through dialectics, which was synthesized by Hegel first. Also the emoji size is a quirk of Lemmy, all custom emojis take up their original size on other instances regardless of which instance it comes from.

Written by Timofei Sergeitsev in RIA Novosti, the rhetoric in the editorial…

Oh so it’s not a “Kremlin paper”, it’s just what some guy thinks. If there are “no more Nazis in Ukraine than anywhere else” then there are no more nazis in Russia than anywhere else 🙃

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Can you point to genocide denial before you make sweeping accusations?

capitalism is not bits and pieces here and there, it’s an entire mode of production with its own base and superstructure. In that sense China can’t be called capitalist. At best we could say it has “capitalist elements” but even then that’s a stretch when getting down into the details of what these elements actually are.

Which communists? The USSR was infiltrated and the US then spent millions getting the bumbling mass of ethanol known as Yeltsin to win an election. They (the new capitalist government) even sieged the parliament building and sent tanks in Moscow to disperse the huge waves of protestors. It then lead to one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the modern age almost overnight.

And in China they are assuredly not capitalist, this becomes very clear once you read Deng Xiaoping. It’s Schroedinger’s China: when they do something bad they’re communists, and when they do something good (like lifting people out of poverty) they’re capitalists.

Cuba is still socialist, DPRK is still socialist, Vietnam is also reforming and opening up kinda like China did but a bit differently so still socialist

Protonmail is just the “latest” (it’s been open for a few years now) in the technocratic “online privacy” bubble. They probably willingly give backdoors to the NSA.

Basically they sell you the peace of mind, not really any actual security as far as anyone can tell. Until their code is open-source and can be independently reviewed, it’s worthless. That they are based in Switzerland doesn’t mean much because backdoors are meant to be secret. Like in any other country, there is no official organ in Switzerland that will evaluate your app and say “yes, this app is secure. We give it five stars”. However if you find they don’t respect Swiss law you have to open a lawsuit, retain a Swiss lawyer, travel there for the court date, and at that point you start to realize they’re based over there more to protect themselves than you.

There has been another encryption company operating since the 50s in Switzerland that was somewhat recently found to just be a front for the CIA. So clearly being based in Switzerland is not a gage of quality.

Their support of the Hong Kong protest was also kinda suspicious because as far as I’m aware, they’ve never been that interested in any other event. And it wasn’t just a press release that gets picked up by a few hobbyist magazines; it was a full-length email sent to every protonmail customer, even those like me who hadn’t used their account in years.

I also just read that ProtonMail would start using Google infrastructure. While the actual usage of Google’s services would be “limited”, again Proton does not explain the exact nature of this partnership and which services will be routed through Google.

I don’t believe there is any way to be completely secure on the Internet unfortunately. Snowden showed how far backdoors run. So whether you want to keep using protonmail is up to you, but outside of a decentralised p2p system, I don’t think we could fully be anonymous and secure. Maybe though it would be possible to open your own email service – you just have to rent a space on a shared server like you would when hosting a website, and then encrypt it if possible… or open your own mail server in your basement lol. Email doesn’t consume a lot of resources.