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Chavo del Ocho if you want something that’s iconic in Latin America and pretty decent for kids. It’s definitely hella heteronormative and patriarchal though. Maybe someone knows a more modern equivalent?
I think Phineas and Ferb was pretty fun and encouraged me to be creative as a kid. It’s kinda Disney propaganda but I don’t remember it having a ton of Disney stuff in it.
GIMP gets most of my needs covered. I’ve struggled to make good video memes with Kdenlive but it’s possible too.
So it’s cold-ish? I’ve never been to any Mediterranean coast so I don’t know what it’s like, not any time of year nor Winter. Does your family travel elsewhere a lot?
How’s the weather?
Could you be thinking of Source Code with Jake Gyllenhaal?
You’re hastily jumping to the conclusion that the new thing is the same as the old thing just because it has some similarities.
Your example of religious schisms gives the game away, really, because every major religious schism I can think of did bring significant qualitative changes in the social organization of the societies that underwent them. For example, the ideological and philosophical basis of settlement in the United States was founded on the new sects of Protestantism that followed Calvinist influences. Their attitudes toward labor, property, the question of slavery, and many other political matters was distinct from the results you’d expect out of Catholic settlers, or any other religion. And that’s a difference in religion which, from a materialist perspective, is not even the primary thing that makes history move, but part of the ideological superstructure that serves to maintain the economic relations in a given society.
In the case of China: no, the “authoritarian uniparty” is not simply the new owning class. That’s not how the party works and it’s also not how class works. In fact, the statement “functionally you don’t have a say” is probably the most incorrect statement you can make about SWCC, because it’s a very practical system that, while it made a lot of compromises for the sake of reforms and opening up, it has always listened to input from the people. The way the entire CPC is structured is designed for that purpose and it gives its members ample room to have a say over the way things are run.
To think that the “authoritarian uniparty” was truly some kind of new owning class, you’d have to first explain how a political party that has its origins (and present support) in the peasantry and workers, comes to become the opposite thing entirely, a group that controls capital for the sake of producing more capital. That isn’t even a plausible statement to make of the ruling parties in Western imperialist countries: their ruling parties are organs of their respective ruling classes, international imperialist capitalists who use their states to increase their profits.
Is Xi Jinping answering to Chinese billionaires, structuring policy to serve their interests? And if he is, why do the billionaires allow the CPC to make each 5 year plan and the policies chosen to implement them based on the input from millions of party members, instead of receiving a policy plan from a billionaire operated think tank like they do in the West? Is it really all a big conspiracy?
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Lol @ not identifying with China for their treatment of ethnic minorities and authoritarianism, but identifying with the KMT despite their displacement of indigenous people and the white terror.
100 upvotes, 10 replies might mean I pissed someone off
But if it was 10 upvotes or 100 replies I’m taking the 100 replies, I love drama.
Wait, you were raised Catholic and were taught to interpret the Bible literally? That’s weird, and doesn’t match my experience. Did you know one of the scientists who theorized the Big Bang Theory, Georges Lemaitre, was a Catholic priest?
What do you think about non-historical interpretations of the Bible, out of curiosity?
That’s something you can only say if you really stretch the idea of the Gospel. How much of the world only received the Gospel through colonization and enslavement? How much of the world only hears the Gospel today as preached by pastors and priests that are using the Gospel to manipulate the people in their pulpits into handing over cash, if not to be manipulated into even worse things?
Do you really think that a huge number of people that haven’t spent years of their lives devoted to studying theology and Scripture could be said to understand the truth behind it, as opposed to all the ways in which it’s been twisted to serve oppressors?
How many were baptized or otherwise raised in Christian churches that preached nothing but hate and prosperity gospel?
At what point did you turn on CNN and say to yourself…
You’re on a website with a huge percentage of communists and anarchists. What makes you think that the people here use CNN as their moral compass?
Also, what makes you think the users of this website were ever Christian to begin with?
I know it’s kinda weird to use words like “liberate” in this context because it does get pretty close to acting like it’s a good thing that this war is happening, but I’m curious to know, do you think it would be better if Russia didn’t advance in Donetsk?
That’s not the point being argued at all. Linus Torvalds is a bit of a lib (though he has said some cool things over the years, not enough to outweigh his attitude towards Russian maintainers); the Linux community is itself full of libs. I’ve learned to live with that. I accept that. Why must you be a little piss baby about the Lemmy community having lots of communists when we all can clearly see it was made by communists to make sure there was a space for communists to exist online?
The obvious answer is that the Clintons are heavily implicated, but in a more general sense, the point of blackmail is to extort someone into doing something on the condition that you don’t release the blackmail. That’s why they got Epstein to connect with so many academics, celebrities, and other public figures. If they were to just release the blackmail, it would lose intelligence agencies all their leverage.
I grew up speaking Spanish, still speak it every day fluently, but mostly think in English because my high school and higher education was mostly in English + I started mostly consuming English media as a child.
But you still can’t provide any evidence that white people are systemically oppressed in South Africa? As the comment you’re replying to says, most white people in SA live in formal housing in suburbs. They still actually have the property, land, and wealth passed down from colonization and apartheid. Their government isn’t really even challenging that, they still facilitate the exploitation of the black population, especially those far away from urban centers who work in mining and farming (as in the farmworkers, not farmers). If the white farmers themselves weren’t being attacked, most of us probably would’ve never heard about the inequality that still exists.
Just to make my point clearer, in Zimbabwe they actually took the land away from the Rhodesian settlers and gave it to revolutionaries, and even that wasn’t genocide per se.
It’s a protection racket. If they get the kind of left wing government that would even leave NATO in the first place, the US is presently showing off what it does to such governments.