They don’t, they reference what they call the “June 4th incident” all the time when relevant. What they don’t allow is spreading the fictionalized version of events, ie tanks running over 10000 protestors in the square. They acknowledge the real events, which were riots around Beijing that were put down by the PLA, resulting in a few dozen deaths of officers and a few hundred rioters killed by the PLA. The west uses the atrocity propaganda of the former story to undermine the socialist project in the PRC.

The Red Army was responsible for 80-90% of the war effort in Europe against the Nazis, the eastern front absolutely eclipsed the western front.

The US has floated the idea of using special forces units as an alternative to land invasion, so sabotage isn’t unlikely.

This is expressly being pushed by the US state department to undermine a popularly supported progressive leader. This is a fascist coup attempt:

I wish I began studying Marxism-Leninism earlier. Would’ve been pretty helpful.

Ukraine broke the Minsk agreements, and Russia recognized that the agreements weren’t worth anything then. Pretty clear-cut. Russia’s economy is being strengthened not just by temporary wartime economics, but also by being further embedded in Chinese trade, as well as increased cooperation with the global south. Russia’s desire for the four oblasts has been consistent, and they have been steadily gaining territory month over month as war in Ukraine becomes increasingly unpopular.

You have proven nothing regarding the war being about “vainglory” or “mass expansion,” these are absurdities one must conjure out of thin-air in order to treat Russia not as a country of humans but instead as a saturday morning cartoon villian. This is Marvel-movie style analysis of complex geopolitical interactions.

For the queer Yemeni, liberation comes from opposing imperialism first and foremost. This is clear, and is why I take issue with framing the government as a reactionary nightmare. Rather, in resisting imperialism, it’s more common for social progress to accelerate. Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world, and trying to frame it as an “authoritarian nightmare” just cedes the narrative to imperialists.

Yemen is progressive in the global context, and socially has a long way to go, but in that it already fights imperialism, is capable of progressing socially more expediently. This is the problem with trying to use moralistic terminology and loaded phrases like “authoritarian nightmare,” it makes it seem like Yemen needs outside intervention to progress, rather than internal progress.

Framing their government as “conservative authoritarian nightmare” follows the imperialist narrative. It’s a progressive nationalist country resisting imperialism, they would be thrown backwards with regime-change. It’s not about binaries, but about forces at play.

🫡 thanks comrade!

The problem with your framing, and the disconnect between you and I, seems to be that you look at progression/regression as simply personal choices, and to be weighed out on scales of positive and negative. You have to analyze the actual underlying systems, ie US Imperialism vs a nationalist country under siege by imperialism. These movements aren’t to be weighed up on a scale, but the overarching forces at play have to be recognized and analyzed. Yemen’s path to progress socially is most accelerated by assisting them against imperialism, liberating queer Yemenis from US imperialism and making their social progress easier.

Often, material the US Empire reports as “aid” is in the form of money supposedly earmarked for development, but in practice ends up in the pockets of pro-US politicians and very little ends up doing anything. The Empire calls it “aid,” but really it’s bribery, and impacts very little in a positive direction.

Secondly, I find it disgusting that you’d use the fact that I’m fine with using they/them pronouns as a means to bludgeon my point. I’m pansexual, and consider myself cisgender. I am queer, and a number of movements I support would oppose that, such as Palestinian liberation. At the same time, I also understand that the path to progress is ending imperialism, not punishing these otherwise progressive movements. By cedeing the narrative to imperialists, you morally justify any terror they inflict, because the Empire has labeled them “bad” and you’ve agreed with them.

The path to liberation for queer Yemenis is made far easier when they have ended imperialism. Progressive social movements in Yemen should be supported regardless, but to try to foster the narrative that Yemen is socially conservative, therefore they are “bad” and thus the imperialists are justified is wrong.

I’m not stupid, and I’d rather you not treat me as such.

The US Empire isn’t giving out true aid, though. Even if we can find minor instances of aid, it’s done in the purposes of perpetuating imperialism, which aligns with the genocide. The centuries of human rights abuses by the US Empire, domestic and foreign, are aligned on that.

Yemeni human rights abuses are in the context of victims of imperialism, and the strong nationalism that springs in resistance to that. Yemen has every reason to improve socially as imperialism falls, their social conservativism isn’t intrinsic to being Yemeni but is a consequence of nationalist resistance to imperialism. Once free of imperialism, social progress can continue at far faster a pace.

You can read the book I linked if you want more depth than internet articles can provide. This is a well-documented process.

Here’s an article from Jacobin, and here’s an article from The Nation. If you want a deep-dive on how the US Empire functions, Super-Imperialism by Michael Hudson is a good read.

Why would the US Empire give so much aid? To further its imperialist ambitions by solidifying a class of compradors and puppet states.

Bingo.

The aid the US gives out is usually just given to compradors as bribes, it isn’t done with humanitarian intent but to keep the world under the thumb of imperialism.

Kinda!

The liberal idea is that supply and demand meet at price, and they try to obfuscate value by wrapping it up into supply. However, Marxist economics provides a more grounded and coherent answer, that value is the real center and that fluctuations in supply and demand merely bring price above or below value. Value is best represented as the socially necessary labor time to produce a commodity, and is what forms the basis of price.

I agree with the sentiment, but I’d tone down the ableism.

Lemmy.world is trying to replicate Reddit, though, in culture. It took off during the API thing, rather than a subreddit banning like r/TheDeprogram or r/Chapotraphouse, r/GenZedong, etc.

Amazing.

I have never used SA against you. I’ve said that telling users to suck your dick draws on the history of SA going back thousands of years in order to be hurtful as an insult (alongside misogny and homophobia), not that either of us has committed SA.