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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The first world lifestyle/"American Dream" of everyone owning a car and living in a nice house is unsustainable in the first world itself, nevermind a world of 8 billion people. EVs or no EVs. If we want to actually start tackling global warming, these people need to get used to the idea of public transit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And? How does that make non-binary gender any less real? Which is what you implied with your original comment, by asking if it exists or not.

Many things are matters of social practice, doesn't make them any less real.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

It's like, a person disagrees on a leftist issue like do non binary genders exist (a matter of sociological theory)

Go ahead and tell all the non binary people that they actually don't exist, it's just all sociological. Is this the new "it's all in your head" stuff they used to tell gay kids back in the day?

Not even going to get started on the transphobia in your comment, trans kids shouldn't get the medical treatment now because some countries are banning it. Great logic, it's not like countries have ever prescribed incorrect medical treatment to LGBT people before. Alan Turing? Who's that again?

What the hell is wrong with artificial hair colours? I'd never dye my hair an unnatural colour myself, but it's a cool look on some people. What is the "blue haired leftist stereotype?" Is it some right wing American meme?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The funniest part is when two instances federate, but the userbases of both instances want to defederate with each other immediately afterwards lol.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (19 children)

What is Nazi about hexbear? Seriously just making up stuff now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

This is the one time Americans could put their guns to good use...

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm South African, I know who F.W de Klerk is. Don't lie about what he did, there's a reason he was unanimously booed while receiving his joint noble peace prize. He didn't help end apartheid, he was forced into a position where it was the only viable option. Pure pragmatism. He was a member of the NP for many years, he willingly joined that organisation at the height of apartheid in 1972. If he was actually interested in ending fighting apartheid, he would have joined a liberation movement, not the apartheid party.

de Klerk was an apartheid president that was so corrupt he ordered the incineration of evidence of his, and his parties, corruption and crimes against humanity to be carried out by industrial steel smelters. Not to mention what he did with all the "third force" shenanigans towards the end of apartheid that almost caused civil war. It's been revealed that he knew all about it. Or all the racist things he said later in life that revealed his true character, such as refusing to call apartheid a crime against humanity. Yes, I also used to be a liberal that thought de Klerk was a good guy that helped end apartheid, that was until I actually decided to do some research into the matter. Nelson Mandela said it best when it comes to de Klerk:

"Despite his seemingly progressive actions, Mr de Klerk was by no means the great emancipator...He did not make any of his reforms with the intention of putting himself out of power. He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation."

Yes the ANC is now extremely corrupt, it was effectively couped by corporate interests in the late 90s and early 2000s. Remember the move from RPD to GEAR? Thabo Mbeki and Trevor Manuel? Ramaphosa running away to make money in McDonalds and mining instead of succeeding Mandela? Leaving the door open for Mbeki to become president, a self described Thacherite who instituted austerity measures, underfund Eskom and give South Africa it's first bout of load shedding, and denied that HIV causes AIDS, killing hundreds of thousands in the process? This all paved the way for Zuma's corruption and ineptitude, and for Ramaphosa to come back, even after his shameful involvement in Marikana. Yes the ANC is shamefully corrupt, incompetent and useless, and it's interesting to look at exactly how it got to that position.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (81 children)

Very interesting how all those "pretend socialists" only exist in the third world, and all the "real socialists" existin the west. Yet all the successful revolutions have been done in the third world by "pretend socialists", and the so called "real socialists" in the west have accomplished nothing. Their biggest success of the "real socialists" in the west being capitalist welfare states or social democracies that rely on old school imperial relationships to fund their welfare in a select few areas.

No Eurocentrism present to this line of thought here at all...

What do you think of Nelson Mandela OP? He was a very good leader, right? You know that he considered Cuba an ally and supported their revolution as Cuba sent troops to fight against the apartheid government in the border wars, took inspiration from Mao and called the Chinese revolution a miracle, thanked the Soviets for giving unending support in the fight against apartheid while receiving the a Lenin Peace Prize? So is Nelson Mandela now a fascist according to your meme?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a quote from a book they read. You should try reading books sometime, it's cool.

If you want a summary, the last two paragraphs they quoted could serve as one.

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