So would you say, that actively hostile imperialist western nations and their propaganda apparatus know more about democracy in Venezuela than Venezuelans?
For example if you asked Americans (particularly those in the south or rural areas) if they thought their country was more “free” than the rest of the world, you would probably get higher numbers than you would from most other regions of the world
Maybe this data will surprise you then:
Maybe not from the outside, but you’d still know if you’re conscious, right?
Yes! Thank you, I love it! <3
Thank you, this is good to know!
It’s funny, because it’s true, but now I need a wholesome version of this with left unity pls,
The ML should playfully insult the anarchist back, then they just look at each other, then they make out and then they join hands in left unity.
Literature vampires are a metaphor for landlords. It couldn’t be more obvious in Dracula. Not just because he’s a lord who owns land. The protagonist is a solicitor and Dracula’s whole evil plan is to buy various properties in England. Multiple chapters are about him learning English laws and customs around buying and holding land and houses.
Their citizens deserve better.
What their government is doing has wide public support among the citizens of the settler colony.
- 95% of Israelis supported the Israeli forces’ level of use of firepower in Gaza; 58% said they are using too little firepower (Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index, November 2023)
- 64% of Israelis believe there are ‘no innocents’ in Gaza (Hebrew University aChord Center, June 2025)
- 82% support the full ethnic cleansing expulsion of Gaza (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
- 56% support expelling Palestinians within Israel itself (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
- 47% want to kill every man, woman, child (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
- 65% oppose the criminal prosecution for soldiers who were caught on video gangremoved Palestinian detainees.
Sources linked in this article.
Here are some quick thoughts:
Ask, who’s making the original claim and who much do they stand to gain and lose from lying about it if it were false and compare that to how much they stand to gain and lose from not covering it, if it were true. There’s pressure to lie, but there’s also pressure to report on real events. Think about material gain, but also about reputation, hype, clicks and career options. Think short term and long term.
For example, economic news offer lots of opportunity to gain from lies short term, but if an economic journal loses it’s reputation, it might lose more long-term, as investors lose trust.
If you want to compare multiple sources, make sure they have different incentive structures, or you won’t get truly different perspectives. For example compare news from imperialist and anti-imperialist countries.
To check if a story is plausible, it helps to have an historic materialist understanding of who the actors in the story are, what their history is and which classes material interests they share in.
Ideally, you shouldn’t come away from a confirmed story with the notion: “Wow it’s true, they really did that crazy thing! How dramatic and sensational!”. Rather, in confirming the story, you will have developed a deeper understanding of the underlying social forces driving individual actors decisions. So instead you’d be more like:“Now I understand why this thing that first seemed very surprising to me was bound to happen sooner or later.”
Dems(if they were honest): With us, live will continue to get worse and worse. And not only that, it will get worse faster and faster in an exponential way. And we’ll do everything in our power to speed things up even more (it’s what the shareholders demand). We can’t even promise to always lie to you anymore. Even empty verbal statements to appease your suffering will more and more often be to much to ask in the future. But we promise to let the mask that hides fascism’s ugly face drop a little bit slower than the opposition. And who knows, the speed at which the worsenings acceleration increases could maybe be a little bit higher without us, so vote blue no matter who.
Communists: Okay, crazy idea, but how about we turn things around and away from the looming abyss we’re accelerating towards?
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I’m sorry reality is biased against your prejudice.
Probably neutral alien monks from Mars who observe earth through a slightly broken amateur telescope, never read, watch or listen to any news themselves, have sworn an oath of silence and only communicate their news cast in form of slight alterations in pitch of a constant monotonous humming sound they make.
Are you kidding? It’s all over the news so just google and pick a source. How about you provide sources for your weird conspiracy theory.
Isn’t that German flag and not the Nazi Germany flag?
No, you can see the fascist black sun on the upper flag in the video.
Ah, that makes sense
Trump literally said:
‘We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds.’
And Netanjahu blamed Mossad as responsible for the failure of the protests to affect regime change.
I literally had an intense discussion about this in real life and said the same thing. The victims and the perpetrators both agree that CIA and Mossad were trying to affect regime change. But westernern libs know better of course…
Space exploration is not the only thing that generates spin off effects. It’s not the only interesting science. Directly funding research into solving real problems actually works. So yes, I think it should be funded, but at this point, unmanned missions are a much better way to spend the resources: for the same money you get more science, more spin off, more everything. Just less spectacle. Space will not be profitable, or habitable in this century and that’s fine.
Ultimately, space exploration is outside the realm of production and will stay there at least for a long time. Therefore, what we spend on it is part of our societal surplus: the value we collectively create, that is left over after reproducing society. What happens to that value should be decided democratically. But in capitalism, it isn’t. Corporations control almost all the surplus and spend it on what’s profitable for them. All of space funding in the US is just crumbs falling off the table of the military industrial complex mixed with the potential for propaganda.
For example, all those year, when Hubble was the best telescope, the imperial oppression apparatus had multiple of Hubble sized telescopes whose potential was wasted on intelligence gathering for wars. Then they got even better ones and offered a few of the left overs to NASA, but NASA couldn’t even afford to make use of several free Hubble sized telescopes.
Because cigarettes are addictive? People start in a weak moment and fail to stop. It’s not a rational decision.