Hey frustrated friend, I’ve been commenting in this thread in your support, trying to give you a more experienced perspective on this community. But as it stands, my instance lemmy.ml has been defederated from your instance infosec.pub, so you’re not able to see any posts or comments from that instance (although it’s the main dev instance).

Here’s a link to your comment thread via the lemmy.world instance where you can see all comments.
Early on I tried to warn you, that you will not get any kind of open or constructive discussion in this community and as it turned out, looking at the ending of your conversation with Wildmimic (which himself has blocked the lemmy.ml instance, so he couldn’t see any of my commentary either), and the tangential discussions I provoked, I think sadly I’ve been proven right.
In my comments I also provided you with some ideas on where to get good information about the geopolitics of this war, explicitly non-communist, as the political thought of Marxism is not needed to deconstruct the dynamics (although, it’s the best approach over all, but that’s just my experience).

Ya, anyway, just wanted to let you know. Doesn’t matter if you care or not, but now you got the full picture of the conversation. Have a nice day and don’t let you get dragged down by these people, you’ve done nothing wrong.

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Not ML, but you mean like that? Glad I could help.

Or, you know, you check the sourcing and realize:

according to a report by the Dharamshala-based independent radio station Voice of Tibet (VoT).

And so you check their about us page and find:

It was founded by three Norwegian NGOs; The Norwegian Human Rights House, The Norwegian Tibet Committee and Worldview Rights. The project has been funded through donations from supportive organizations and private individuals.

… and start to wonder, as this dosn‘t seem very homegrown, why‘s the west involved here? So you check Wikipedia and find:

It receives funds from the United States National Endowment for Democracy.

And you might wonder, oh what‘s that and you check them out and realize, that the NED is a known CIA operation being directly funded by the US government and exists:

with the stated aim of advancing democracy worldwide and countering communist influence abroad by promoting political and economic institutions, such as political groups, business groups, trade unions, and free markets.

🦅 Hurr Durr! Democracy! Freedom! 🦅

Extra source, but be careful, it‘s from the evil Chinese government: Fact Sheet on the National Endowment for Democracy

Ya, you just got rage baited by US propaganda to be more angry at China. GJ, be proud! Keep on hating on the evil leftists from ML, lol.

Maybe, also avoid @RandAlThor@lemmy.ca posts, because they keep posting exactly this kind of shit.

Point three is just you freestyling thoughts now. I just read of the Laconia Incendent and besides how fucking grim all of this is, ya, there actually are more honorable procedures and lengths to go through, other than straight up and purposely killing everyone. But that‘s just not how the US rolls.

Organize! This does not need to be a dream or a utopia. Systems fall, changes are always possible. Only, the ultra rich with their frivolous desires won‘t give up their privileges and power because we ask nicely.

Volant Media is strongly biased towards the west and not a trustworthy source.

The world’s leading news networks on Iran and Afghanistan

From our studios in London and Washington, and supported by a global correspondent network, we deliver editorially independent news and analysis. We cover breaking news, finance, sports, and documentaries, reaching over 100 million viewers.

They‘re also absolutely intransparent in regards to their funding.

The channel is backed by a Saudi-British investor with ties to the Saudi government, According to The Guardian, Saudi Arabia has provided a 250-million-dollar fund for Iran International in 2018, but Iran International’s management claims the independence of its editorial operation and denies a link to any government.

All you do is post Western propaganda and should at least be marked as such.

Interesting at which kind of posts you find the need to comment on.

Only that he doesn‘t. And I don‘t.

Your pattern: Make stuff up > act all incensed for being confronted with your bullshit > use personal attacks and accusations of lying > make stuff up again.

Either you now provide the sourcing and the quotes of what you keep yapping about or I‘ll consider you a bot, because you‘re acting like one.

Bring the receipts.

Stop making stuff up, it’s time to bring the receipts. Where exactly does “Eco’s version assumes Stalin’s regime is one of primary fascist regimes in the first place”?

Eco treated Stalinism as a seperate, parallel example of totalitarianism, explicitedly not labeling it fascist.

You gotta leave your confused reactionary, red fascism narrative and anti-communism stance behind, if you actually want to understand the world. Maybe start by not being so dishonest.

Some passages from Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism:

If by totalitarianism one means a regime that subordinates every act of the individual to the state and to its ideology, then both Nazism and Stalinism were true totalitarian regimes.

It was Italian fascism that convinced many European liberal leaders that the new regime was carrying out interesting social reform, and that it was providing a mildly revolutionary alternative to the Communist threat.

Nevertheless, historical priority does not seem to me a sufficient reason to explain why the word fascism became a synecdoche, that is, a word that could be used for different totalitarian movements. This is not because fascism contained in itself, so to speak in their quintessential state, all the elements of any later form of totalitarianism. On the contrary, fascism had no quintessence. Fascism was a fuzzy totalitarianism, a collage of different philosophical and political ideas, a beehive of contradictions.

I would have been more impressed, if you‘d actually provided argumentative content instead of personal attacks.

Not sure, what you used Umberto Eco‘s definition for, but it wasn‘t to formulate a coherent thought on the topic.

Oh, the historical fascisms such as under Stalin and Pol Pot, right.

it’s in principle undetermined in ideology

Correct in so far, as it‘s determined by economic system. Which happens to align with left/right ideology.

But the only principles really important for any kind of fascism are violence, anti-rationalism and amorphous ideology.

You’re making shit up depending on how your tummy feels, don‘t you?

Please stop using the internet.

I do this regularly. The „unfortunately“ part is not something I am willing to take ownership of and see it as a weakness of the platform. I also tend to be controversial in .world communities and I detest software that‘s trying to force me to behave in certain ways that are neither transparent, nor neutral in their judgment of my commentary.

That’s the same for up- and downvote balance. it’s bullshit. be it attitude or reputation.

Why am I forced to have certain voting patterns in order to be accepted as a trustworthy community member? That‘s arbitrarily authoritarian in order to subdue deviant behaviour without good reason or explanation before engaging in said community, which ux design displays up- and downvoting in the same manner? I‘m not being warned of such consequences for this arbitrary branding rule. Is excessive upvoting branded, as well? If so, in which way? If not, why not? It‘s dumb, that‘s what I‘m getting at.

Dunno man, I‘ve got the double red triangle exclamation mark for „very low reputation“. Certainly it „warns“ unsuspecting people and I had already at least one commenter, that mistrusted my commentary just for that. Cool. Cool, cool.

Don‘t have an account — do I also have an attitude, it doesn‘t show any publically?

Either way, branding users like that, intransparently, by machine logic, I certainly am not convinced.

'Both is true. Woa, imagine that. Your moral judgment of „Russia bad“ is irrelevant for interest based reality.

Russia invaded Ukraine.

History began on 7th Oct 23

@jordanlund@lemmy.world Pff 🙄

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Hint: not a double standard.

The imperialist West is scrambling to remain the world‘s hegemonic superpower, with the US as the big dog and the EU as its ideological vassal.

Using Ukraine to overexploit their resources and as a battleground to weaken Russia. Using Venezuela to overexploit their resources and to weaken resource-access for China. Using Israel as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in West Asia towards China. Using Taiwan as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in South-East Asia directly off the coast of China.

The only double standard is the cognitive dissonance in our propagandized heads.

Thanks, I prefer my shitty take over your scrubby narrative rehash without actual grounding in reality. Not sure how it helps calling everyone with dissenting perspectives a tankie makes any sense. Surely only, if you’re actively trying to remain ignorant and keep your indoctrinated mind at ease.