Capitalism's ability to provide moral and ideological cover for the self-commodification of every aspect of humanity is incredible. 100 years ago you'd have to force women to do this, today some are not just willing to do it, but see it as a noble cause and contribution for the war machine of empire.

You will upvote this picture of dear supreme leader and if I see a single speck of dust on that upvote your entire family will get genocided by the killer dolphin gestapo!

people in so many socialist countries just rose up and overthrew their own governments

Where do you get the impression from that the people rose up and overthrew their governments?

Fuckin hell that comment section is such a cesspool I had to comment there for the first time. If I bust a vein from that stress you'll be responsible for that lethal dose of liberalism, comrade

Probably not a very creative one, but "landlord" shocked the hell out of me when I first moved to the anglo-sphere. Not sure why it never really registered with me before, but when my then flatmate handed me my tenants-agreement and told me about our landlord something just clicked. Still remember looking at him, thinking "my land...what the fuck". No idea how this isn't more inflamatory to anglos.

Nice war crime Ukraine, bet an arrest warrant for Zelensky will be put out any minute now

She’s not relevant and the only reason libs think she is is because she’s a white European who obeys the law

Well put, comrade. Never paid attention to her even when she first came up, because that was my immediate impression. She's the literal embodiment of white, middle-class European bourgeois sentiment.

As for mixing climate activism and the Ukraine war, I've actually seen quite a few speeches and contributions by climate-focused orgs on peace demonstrations outlining the absurd damage of militaries and this war specifically on the environment. It is possible to combine the two to make genuine anti-capitalist, anti-war points. She simply chooses not to.

Go ask what they think of the (still very mild) Extinction Rebellion.

Just look at their response to the "Last Generation" (misguided libs gluing themselves to streets to form human roadblocks; damaged some paintings). German politicans literally compared them to the fucking RAF lmao

I really wanted to openly show my support for my comrades here

Based. Welcome, comrade o7

Beware of the tankies though, they're literally everywhere

No we definitely don't need to pick our enemies differently than cracker liberals chosen by the bourgeois establishment as figure heads to defang global movements, especially not when they're now misappropiating climate movements to support the warmachine of Western imperialism.

You see, the purpose of the Western tanks wasn't to achieve anything on the battlefield anyway, it was to keep the crews safe so they can come back and downvote these posts

Well some parts of Wagner apparently tried the dumbest semi-coup against the MoD. Seems like this was known in advance, because some videos, etc by the RAF were spread immediately. Western media reacted so fast, it looks kinda sus too, especially factoring in that Navalny called on the Russian military to join Wagner.

Also Putin being the revisionist he is dared to compare this to February 1917.

I'm not gonna make the point that it is inter-imperialistic, but imo while what you're saying about the history of the conflict is correct, it only proves aggression and imperialistic drive by NATO, it doesn't prove or disprove the "Russia is imperialist" side of the argument. NATO being the primary aggressor and being imperialist itself doesn't mean Russia can't also be imperialist, at least not if we talk about imperialism in a Marxist sense. Because in that sense imperialism isn't when aggression or expansion, it is a stage of development and the way countries at the stage of monopoly capitalism relate to other countries. It's fundamentally about surplus value extraction. Again, here I'm not making the argument that Russia is, I just don't think you really made the argument why it isn't.

I also don't think categorizing the conflict as inter-imperialist would make a 'both-sides equal' argument, because, again, imperialism in the Marxist sense isn't really a normative term and not derogatory, but a technical descriptor.

It also wouldn't negate the possibly positive ramifications of this war. Those things can coexist.

I ultimately don't think it really matters all that much either to communists outside of Ukraine and Russia. Communists in the US, Germany or wherever have to fight their domestic class antagonist. Liebknecht's parole is applicable as ever - Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land! The main enemy is at home!

If this debate at all distracts us from fighting that main enemy, it has fulfilled its purpose. Whether or not Russia is at the stage of development we call imperialism is immaterial to our day to day praxis in our communities.

Wild. I dismissed the reddit thing as some niche, performative stunt a few libs there would screech about for a day or two and didn't really pay attention to it beyond that. Didn't expect more than a couple handful of people making the switch tbh...seems like I was off by an order of magnitude or two lol

Hope hexbear joins soon, then the based peoples combined can effectively stir some shit on /All and scare the libs there

Great, give Russia absolutely no incentive to ever stop this war short of destorying the Ukrainian state in its entirety. That'll calm shit down and avoid further suffering

On a related note, I only browse Local ever since I signed up here a year ago and iirc back then Lemmy itself sometimes had less activity than lemmygrad. Because of this post I just checked it out again and fucking hell it's grown.

If/when hexbear federates just between them, lemmy and us the fediverse should be over 2k daily users soon.

The absolute effect of liberalism on women's perception of themselves and their role in the world

Haven't seen it, don't plan to, don't care to tbh.

But having talked to some people about it, this is my takeaway: "Messaging" is simply a new tool of marketing, especially "subversive" messaging. You're not buying a car - you're committing a revolutionary act of activism against climate change and fossil capitalism. You're not buying a ethically farmed, grass-fed, local steak, you're fighting animal cruelty and big farming lobbies with your consumption. You're not simply dressing up skandidly in pink to watch a multi-hundred million dollar Hollywood production of Barbie produced and approved of by its parent company, giving new legitimacy to that old rubber toy franchise and boosting sales numbers. You're totally subverting gender roles and criticizing capitalism by doing so.

Imo you're not. You're just buying a new car, munching another steak and going to the movies again promoting one of the most famous IPs of all time. It's the same thing we've done our entire lives. Changing the messaging around the act without changing the act, doesn't change the act. You're just doing the thing.

There can't be anything really subversive coming out of the hegemonic culture industry. By the very nature of its production, via the commodification it undergoes, it has already become toothless and assimilated. Neoliberal anti-capitalism is just the newest sales-pitch. It's along the lines of "diverse" CIA targeting officer recruitment ads. Just like capitalism can't produce true anti-war movies, it can't produce anti-capitalist or real anti-gender-role movies. It would be self-defeating if it did.

That being said, if you enjoy it more power to you. Nobody needs a grand narrative of subversion and messaging to go see and enjoy a movie at the theater. If you get something deeper out of it, even better.

I was gonna edit my post, because I clicked around some more and saw that too. There's even a Porn lemmy now lmao. Mad how much everything has grown. Is all of that from the reddit thing or has it been growing over the past year?

there is milk in so much things and in random places that shouldn’t be there like in bread. What does milk even contribute to it?

Not a big baker and not to discredit your struggle, but there's actually good reasons for milk in baking. The sugars, proteins and lactic acid in milk contribute heaps for texture, crust, taste, they activate other ingredients like yeast and the liquid itself adds moisture obviously. It's not like corn syrup that's artificially added to recipes, it's a very old and traditional ingredient in baking for good reason. Just sucks for people like you that can't eat it.

Why do libs and anarchos always have to play the semantics game man, it's so fucking obtuse and annoying

elaborate point how Western imperialism exploits and underdevelops the global south

uhm wow, can we not use language like underdeveloped please, that's so problematic

Their productive forces are literally less developed, their mode of production is literally less developed, it's a technical term not a normative statement about the worth of the people living in those countries or even those countries broadly. Also thanks for derailing the conversation about imperialism