[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 minutes ago

It might not be the best community on Lemmygrad, but I don't have an issue with it thus far.

The mission statement of the community would do better on Lemmy.ml or one of the ones with more general appeal from liberals. But as it stands right now, it's fine.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 31 minutes ago

You've had comments removed before for fascist apologia and hate speech. That's not what you've done here, but let's get this straight.

The Vietnamese wars started in 1946 against the French Colonialist government, and American involvement began in 1955 with their illegal invasion beginning in 1965. That uncle, regardless of where he's placed in time, would've been a Colonial policeman. I.E. A supporter of the French government and opposed Ho Chi Minh's revolution. It would not, therefore, be unlikely for the rest of his family to be of the same opinion. If they got harsh treatment - and I don't believe they did without evidence - it would likely have been on the basis of their counter-revolutionary nature.

Many immigrants from "enemy" nations will feel compelled to lie about conditions in their home countries, in an effort to be accepted by our white supremacist culture. And that one reads exactly like the kind of stuff someone in that position would say.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 1 day ago

it's wild to me how liberals seem to be incapable of considering what kind of person would flee a proletarian revolution.

So often when I've heard of immigrants who left an AES country, it's because they were fundamentally against the point of the revolutions. I.E. members of the bourgeois class, members of the dominant colonialist ethnicity, etc.

They'll be like "My grandfather fled Cuba because the Revolutionaries threatened his life ;-;", then you look at their ancestry and see multiple direct lines to Spanish nobility and lots of wealth.

Or "My grandfather left China because the Communists were repressive", then you research their grandfather and find that he was a soldier in the Nationalist army for the entire duration of both the Civil War and the war with Japan, and only left once the Nationalists were pushed out of the mainland. Meaning the man would've been convinced to his core that Communism was evil, and no amount of convincing would break the guy of that idea.

Or "Stalinists took my grandfather's family farm and tried to lock him up", but they're Ukrainians from the middle class in the 1930s. They probably hoarded grain during the famine, then fled when consequences came to their entitled asses.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 3 days ago

I swear to god that this channel and all of the ones like it are a fuckin psyop.

Every time I see one of these videos pop into my feed, it's always the most brain-dead filth. It just feels like the US's propaganda wing.

"Russia's new alliance is dumb actually, and we're going to use language that subconsciously makes you believe that it's evil too." "Russia and China hate each other actually, and will go to war because we want to believe that they will", so on, so forth.

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[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 82 points 7 months ago

this time on; White Westerner ruins their own relationship by not listening to their partner who is from the place in question, and has a far more intimate understanding of the situation and refuses to accept direct sources because of their own political bias.

seems to me the whitey did the liberal thing, wherein they marry someone from a culture they deem lesser so they can "rescue" them from it. Bro went to FU and Yale, if anyone would understand direct sources and intellectual honesty, it's them.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 123 points 7 months ago

"made them the dominate voice"

bro, tankies made lemmygrad for tankies

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 67 points 11 months ago

once again fearmongering leads the sheltered white world to believe that anything that resembles the "enemy" is actually the enemy.

a 6-year-old boy and his mother were stabbed in Illinois, leaving his mother in the hospital and the boy dead. Just because our media has to fearmonger about the scary brown people.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 95 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

the one instance I've hated the most has been .world, solely because 9/10 times when there's a pending report, that report was about a .worlder saying some horrible shit. and that .worlders will report our comments and posts for "violence advocation" when all we're doing is discussing the conflict.

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It's only been a handful of days, and the Western "left" has once again shown that the only thing they serve is NATO and Western imperialism.

On the first day of the conflict, I didn't see a single Western "leftist" talking about anything related to the conflict. One of the spaces I check was too busy comparing doggos to give a shit that Palestine was liberating itself.

Then I saw MSM decrying that Palestinians were terrorists, and using the terms "Savages" or "living beasts". To which I haven't seen the Western left even shutter at. MSM is using slurs and colonialist language, and these pasty preditors couldn't give less of a shit.

And now that I see that they're talking about it, they're either making "both sides bad" statements, coming into full support of Israel, or using "we'll wait to see" arguments to excuse withholding support.

The only thing the Western left does is disrupt actual leftist movements in their home countries, while amplifying imperialist projects abroad. You'd think after years of posting pro-Palestine things on their Twitter and their Instagrams that they'd have the consistency to actually support Palestine when it mattered. But, no, they're really just white people who wanted to feel more important than their Democratic-voting parents.

Socialism to the Western leftist isn't the liberation of the human race, it's a sticker to put onto their hydroflask and a $10 donation to UNICEF. It's selling shirts with hammers and sickles on them, then hating the ideology that the symbol originated with. It's voting for Hilary when Bernie pulled out, then demanding that anyone who didn't vote for Biden is the same as Trump. Just a bunch of performative liberal bullshit.

update; it took them a minute, but they've figured it out. It's ridiculous that it took them as long as it did to support anti-colonialism, but at least they've come to a consensus about it.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

love how the Canadian parliament inadvertently exposed just how far into fascism neo-liberals are.

just a few days ago, if you wanted to find out how willing to defend Nazis liberals were, you'd have to do a lil searching. Now it's right in front of us, all the time, without stop.

"He's a hero, he fought against Russia"

"He's just a little old man, he can't be a Nazi!"

"So what if he was a Nazi? Communism was worse than anything the Nazis did"

"How dare you call me a Nazi for defending Nazis?! I'm not a Nazi, I just hate Russia"

literally their evolution through this.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 1 year ago

oh boy, it's almost as though people who immigrated out of their socialist country into the far-right United States had a political motive for the move, and therefore aren't the authorities on the conditions of the country they left.

When an anti-com says "yeah but Cuban immigrants" I really wish I could simply take them to Cuba so they could talk to actual Cubans.

I forget the statistic, but a majority of Chinese citizens are happy with their government. That's real Chinese citizens, living in China, right now. But, sure, listen to the guy who's the grandson of someone who fled the country before Socialism could start to be built. They're clearly the person to be listening to. Like, their fuckin' grandfather was probably part of the reason the revolution needed to happen.

Really the whole "yeah but my friend is [Cuban/Chinese/Ex-SR nationality/etc.] so they're right" argument strikes me in much the same way the "I have a black friend so I'm not racist" argument does.

[-] Farmer_Heck@lemmygrad.ml 99 points 1 year ago

white western leftists will literally be like "yes I'm a socialist... I just hate everything that socialism has done in the world and I'll gladly defend anti-communist efforts when they don't directly effect me"

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Lemmygrad Vent Post! (lemmygrad.ml)

It looks like people are having a really rough time lately, in the aims of improving the mental well-being of our comrades please consider this post an open forum to vent frustrations about whatever is bothering you.

If you're currently having a hard go of it, remember that we here at the 'grad care about you.

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Though I've read and watched a lot about the BPP, I realize there's a lot that has never crossed my path. I assume this is true for a lot of comrades here as well. So, please use this post to share sources and theory surrounding the Panthers and ask questions about them.

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If the concept of "Pan-Leftism" isn't in some way COINTELPRO, I would be very strongly surprised.

Everywhere it's enforced becomes nothing more than a liberal echo chamber, wherein discussions that inconvenience liberal ideology or biases get shut down. Thus continually drifting the talking point of the group towards the comfort zone of left-liberals.

Who are these left-liberals who benefit so strongly from Pan-Leftism? To put it bluntly, Anarchists, Social-Democrats, Trotskyists, and all other counter-revolutionary lifestylists. These are the groups that dominate discussions in these spheres, these are the people who get the final say on important issues. When Marxists get established in these communities, they get pushed out by the left-liberals. Often on illegitimate grounds, with strawman arguments and vast misunderstandings on Marxist stances.

Supposed "comrades" are, currently, fully backing the western propaganda out of Poland about Russia """targetting""" Poland with a missile. These same supposed "comrades" refuse to acknowledge that backing Ukraine demands the defence of Nazism. They further believe defending Russia, China, the DPRK, or any other enemy of western imperialism means you're "anti-freedom", or otherwise against democracy.

When people of differing viewpoints assemble together, the ones with the most to lose from revolutionary speech are the ones who have the loudest voices. This is inherent, aside from having a revolutionary vanguard to purge counter-revolutionaries there is no way around it. When anti-capitalists gather, the ones who benefit the most from the discussion are those who are the most disenfranchised by the capitalist system. Such as minorities, the LGBTQIA+ community, and so-on. "Pan-Leftism" inherently silences these voices, simply because allowing them to speak threatens the privileged straight whites who do not truly want a fair world, but would rather have a world that treats specifically them better. It should be no surprise that when Cuba abolished the nuclear family, these communities hardly even talked about it. And those who did controlled the narrative to either delegitimize the great victory for minority rights, or to delegitimize Cuba as being a communist state. (I.E. saying Cuba is liberalizing). Nor should it be a surprise that these communities often celebrate Rojava, but rarely mentioned the Donbas until the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Further, it shouldn't be a surprise that talk of the Donbas is mostly oriented towards calling it a "Russian satellite", rather than a revolutionary struggle against the genocide of their people.

Pan-Leftism, if it can even be called that if they exclude Marxists so easily, is a scourge on the western left that must be opposed where found. There are many roadblocks in the west in the struggle towards revolution, this is one of them. As long as new leftists flock to pan-leftist communities while they're learning the ropes of revolution, they will be tainted by counter-revolutionary talking points with no means of understanding why these talking points should be avoided.

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A discord channel for our gaming group has been made.

You don't have to be a part of the steam group to join. Everyone is welcome.

https://discord.gg/SRSYV4Bs99

See you there.

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Linked is a discussion topic on event organizing.

If you're interested in playing games with the Lemmygrad community, you should join and make your voice heard.

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I've seen Ukraine supporters claiming the Russia is conscripting anti-war protesters. The only sources I've seen for this are western, and the statement on the partial mobilization clarifies that it's a mobilization strictly of already enlisted military personnel.

I highly doubt it's true, but if anyone has sources or knows more about this I'd like to better understand it.

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Firearms Open Chat (lemmygrad.ml)

Hello gun havers.

This post is intended as an open forum for discussions on firearms, questions, and general communication within the community.

Feel free to post pictures of guns you might own or hope to own, memes, etc.

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to boot, it was imperialists putting down labour strike.

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