You're right, Germany famously doesn't segregate children by race in schools.
Socialism_Everyday
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German Nazi police Nazily punches a minority in a country with the highest voting in polls going to a Nazi party:
Lemmitor: "What are we, a bunch of Asians?!?!?!"
I think its something that comes from growing up and seeing behavior you think is negative from a certain group of people
Thing is, most people don't see any behaviour like this. There was a study that showed 90% of Arabs portrayed in Hollywood movies over the past 50 years were terrorists or radical islamists. Media overblows criminality in regions with immigrants and outright makes up nazi propaganda of there being "police-less ghettos" in Sweden or Germany. Crime rates are the lowest that they've been in Europe's history, the reason why people don't like immigrants is prevalently because of concerted efforts by a group of people with a lot of money to create racial tensions that they can later politically exploit.
Propagating feel-goodism about climate change while taking money from the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation and saying that eventually climate change will be solved by technology, whitewashing carbon capture technologies and overselling their potential, taking money from Templeton Foundation when making videos about consciousness, using the "Israel fighting Hamas" narrative in a 2025 video regarding wars...
Even when people say that, it's patently false:
https://fortune.com/2025/07/28/jeff-bezos-amazon-stock-sale-philanthroy-wedding/
Every 3 months there's a new headline of Bezos selling stock worth billions, and the market doesn't bat an eye
It's not about my village, it's about the particular interests of farmers. Farmers are landowners who profit from selling their prices on their market and employing as cheap labor as possible. They're, by definition, petit-bourgeois, and therefore have the interests of the petit-bourgeois class in their favour. For example, if minimum wage goes up, profits of farmers go down because they're employers, not workers.
When exactly did Hu Jintao say that it's not true that 800 million Chinese have been uplifted from poverty?
Civil war, you mean the Chinese civil war that happened over 70 years ago when China was a peasant kingdom instead of the #1 industrial producer in the world that it is nowadays? You seriously believe that the conditions in China haven't gotten 2000% better over the past 70 years? For fuck's sake, life expectancy in China before Mao was less than 30 years of age.
Yes, I don't simultaneously live in several villages.
I'd like a Mosin Nagant to feel closer to my Spanish antifascist ancestors
Housing, healthcare and food access were solved in USSR, not China. China just saved 800mn people from poverty, clearly horrifying innit?
From your link:
[Stalin said] "The Russian tsars did many bad things. They plundered and enslaved the people. They waged wars and grabbed territory in the interests of the landowners. But they did do one good thing—they created a huge state that stretches all the way to Kamchatka. We have inherited that state. And for the first time we, the Bolsheviks, have brought together and consolidated this state as a single, indivisible state... for the benefit of the workers"
At the Berlin train station on the eve of the Potsdam Conference in 1945, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman asked Stalin how it felt.to arrive in the capital of a defeated enemy as a victor. Stalin replied, “Tsar Alexander made it all the way to Paris.”
That is absolutely not a territorial claim, it's a statement about Russian history. He specifically mentioned the horrors of the tsarist empire, which you will never hear Putin do
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Thanks for the charitative reading of my post, I appreciate that you took the time and we're having a discussion and not a dunk contest.
I generally agree with mostly everything you're saying in your comment, except for a few things like non-proliferation treaties for nuclear weapons, and sanctions not starving Russians.
On the first hand, I simply don't think it's fair that the "international rule-based order" that allows the genocide of Palestinians gets to decide who has the right to nuclear weapons and who doesn't. Historically, it's one of the best assurances against western invasion, and for example Iran clearly regrets now not pursuing nuclear weapons, as regardless of whether it does or not, it has been treated as though it does (we've been seeing news headlines of Iran being a year away from nuclear weapons for 30 years). I do not like nuclear weapons, but I can't blame a country whose history with the US is that of invasion and bombing, for wanting to ensure its own retaliation capabilities.
On the other hand you're right that the sanctions in Russia aren't having the impact that they have on, say, Venezuela or Cuba, if only simply because of the dynamics of economic development and resource availability. That said, I just wanna make it a point that the sanctions include the medical and pharmaceutical sector, and the Russian economy, being capitalist, relied on import of such medical goods for treatment of certain conditions. Applying sanctions to the medical and pharmaceutical industry also amounts to murdering people, although ofc not on the same scale as the sanctions to NK or Cuba.