Russia is no more a dictatorship than the US or Ukraine are. They’re all oligarchies, run by the consent of the bourgeoisie. [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

Putin actually is popular. Russians have good reason to like him: he kicked the Western capitalist neoliberal shock therapy plunderers out of the country, whom Yeltsin let in. It’s still a capitalist shithole, but at least it’s their shithole and not a neocolonized state anymore.

Russia isn’t “full” of Nazis, though it certainly does have some fascists. I don’t know where you get that from. It’s not like you provide any evidence for your assertions.

Unless Germany also has something called “OSHA,” that’s not what the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is about.

I think we saw the worst case already when lemm.ee shut itself down. Some communities moved to other instances. Some lemm.ee content still lives on in the database “cache” of other instances and is accessible.

That depends almost entirely on the instance. Lemmy.ml is the one that the Lemmy devs use for beta testing, and yet it’s still more reliable than many.

AFAIK, all Lemmy instances run on a shoestring budget, because there’s no revenue model. There’s only self-funding out of personal passion and possibly donations, and five nines is expensive.

This post is three days old, this thread is buried deep, and the only people still here are ones who you’re not going to convince because they know you don’t know what you’re talking about. It is you who are repeating propaganda, as if we haven’t heard it all a thousand times before.

We know all the same things you know and a whole lot of things you don’t, because we’ve actually investigated. If you have a commitment to the truth and the luxury of time, you can, too. Previously.

You’re still applying neoclassical economics 101 to a planned economy, which is why economists have been wrong about China’s imminent collapse for the last twenty years.

Deflation is much worse than inflation under capitalism. Working class Chinese people aren’t going to complain if the price of groceries or subway rides goes down.

FYI, some Lemmy instances discourage self-doxxing.

Foreign capital is people, my friend. — Mitt Romney, probably

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ADVENT was the first computer game I ever played, on a DECWriter III terminal connected to a PDP-11. I wasted so much paper. I could only play it when no one was around because it used so much memory that the other three terminals couldn’t be used.

I can’t speak to Italy, but I know Poland has a significant fascist movement these days.

I can’t speak to Poland, but I know Italy isn’t a monolith. Not even the language is universal, though everyone understands “standard” Italian, which historically wasn’t exactly anyone’s first language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy

This is authoritarianism!

Sure, “good vs evil” is the stuff of superhero movies and corporate media.

Your position is Russian isn’t imperial or fascist?

Yes. Previously:

Russia, if given its druthers, would be imperialist, but since it presently doesn’t, it presently isn’t. Putin tried to join NATO once, to join the imperialist club, but that was rejected, because the US wanted Russia Balkanized & plundered instead. Russia has figured out it’s better off allying with Global South countries than attempting imperialist adventures upon them. And this war has accelerated that allyship.

Previously:

It’s not like there are no fascists in Russia. There’s Aleksandr Dugin (who people keep absurdly claiming is Putin’s right-hand man), and there was Western liberal darling Alexei Navalny.

your so-called “imperial core”

The term is hardly mine and hardly new. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Imperial_core

is more fascist and/or imperial that we should ignore Russia’s?

It is, though that doesn’t mean we should altogether ignore Russia’s faults; it too is a capitalist state, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Russia isn’t anti-imperialist by ideology but by circumstance.

…And they deleted their July 2023 account.

For the world.

If by the world you mean the imperial core, then yes.

Giant repressive capitalist dictatorship

You mean the United States?

full of fascists

I don’t think you understand fascism. Previously:

• Michael Parenti » 🔈 Fascism, The False Revolution
• Gabriel Rockhill:
  • Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!
  • Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime
  • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It

Worse for whom?

Imagine being so communist and/or anti-American that you can’t criticize a fascist capitalist state over a liberal capitalist state.

Robert De Niro to the rescue