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Nonsense ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Takes (LOCKED)

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This community is locked -- use /c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml instead.


All terrible ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ takes, all the time.

Takes do not have to be Ukraine/Russia related. Any bad take from a ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ will suffice.

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That whole channel is just the Ukraine equivalent of those "CHINA WILL COLLAPSE IN 15 SECONDS!" videos. Totally unhinged and delusional

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[โ€“] Drstrange2love@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Russia is pathetic at the same time a monster, it is the media line from the beginning of the conflict.

[โ€“] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just found out about the Parenti quote bot, is there an Adorno quote bot?

[โ€“] ParentiBot@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The quote

In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regimeโ€™s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didnโ€™t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

-- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds

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[โ€“] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There isn't an Adorno quote bot, and I'm not sure which of his quotes you're referring to. There's a link to the bot's souece code on its profile if you're interested in making a bot yourself.

[โ€“] IntoDaLagoon@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, probably because I was trying to think of Umberto Eco

Sounds like just average news in Polish media.