It’s OK to distrust more than one Government, but how anyone can believe the the west in this matter is beyond me.

The west has repeatedly coup’d, invaded, destroyed, killed, bombed, sanctioned everyone that dares look at them wrong. But sure, daddy west is completely right when it comes to China.

Hong Kong Democracy Movement

Democracy is when you have west funded protests trying to do a color revolution. Sure.

Do you not remember Tianamen Square?

Oh, one of the biggest propaganda lies the west ever made about China? Have you actually watched the tank man video? How about the evidence of the contrary to the so called “massacre on Tiananmen square”.

Great Fire-Wall?

Oh no, China doesn’t allow the west to propagandize to it’s citizens, while simultaneously propping it’s own national platforms, the horror!!!11!!1!

Also, let’s just ignore how the Arab League literally investigated the so called “Xinjiang genocide”, and found nothing.

But sure, Adrian Zenz is right, lmao.

“Waaaaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaah! I’m a little baby incapable of citing sources, I’m not gonna talk to you .ml demons.”

I have been using Hayase for anime. Just found out they got a automatic DMCA strike on GitHub they are trying to appeal, so you can’t access the source code right now, but the downloads on their site (which links directly from GitHub) still work.

Imagine being this much of a western leftist, where you’re so racist you can’t recognize AES and just repeat the most obvious propaganda

Liberal try not to be a genocider challenge (impossible)

That’s just a surface level analysis. The moment LGBT people started being accepted, not because of people’s benevolence but because of much fighting and struggle to be accepted and recognized, capitalism realized that we could be marketed to, that we were just another profit source, so it started reacting accordingly, that’s why terms like Rainbow Capitalism exists.

You can easily see this every pride month were companies will change their logos to pride themed ones, unless it’s in a country where being LGBT is illegal. We are only a concern as long as we are profitable.

Furthermore it is not that companies are inherently right wing, but rather that they are a part of capitalism which is in itself a right wing system.

Sure thing!

This comment ended up being very big and I’m not good at formatting, it would be better if I passed it through an LLM to format it nicely, but this already took a lot of effort and I would need to edit that output too, so I’ll leave it as it is.

Lil disclaimer: The names of things might be a bit different since I use my system in Portuguese and I’m translating it myself for this comment. And there’s still things I didn’t do like trying to add transparency to GTK4 apps and things I didn’t include cause I haven’t finished yet, like modifying the Midnight Catppuccin theme for Discord and the Catppuccin theme for Zen Browser, the general theme also wasn’t extensively tested, so there might be a few issues here and there. Lastly, if there’s any settings I didn’t talk about, leave it as default.

• In Color and themes > Global Theme Vapor came with Bazzite, but you can use Breeze or something else you like
• In Color and themes > Colors I have set Highlight color from wallpaper and I downloaded the Catppuccin Macchiato Sky color scheme from here which should go in ~/.local/share/color-schemes. I modified it myself to add transparency and since I didn’t fork it and upload to GitHub, I can’t really distribute it without the license, so here’s the changes I did, they are minimal, so it should be fairly quick to copy (the 4th number is the alpha channel, you can change it to alter the transparency of elements if you wish):
  • Line 12: Color=36, 39, 58, 255
  • Line 23: BackgroundNormal=54, 58, 79, 155
  • Line 51: BackgroundNormal=30, 32, 48, 169
  • Line 54: ForegroundActive=245, 169, 127, 150
  • Line 55: ForegroundInactive=165, 173, 203, 153
  • Line 79: BackgroundNormal=36, 39, 58, 235
  • Line 94: DecorationFocus=145, 215, 227, 200
  • Line 95: DecorationHover=54, 58, 79, 200
  • Line 107: BackgroundNormal=30, 32, 48, 125
  • Line 108: DecorationFocus=145, 215, 227, 125
  • Line 109: DecorationHover=54, 58, 79, 125
  • Line 129: activeBackground=36, 39, 58, 169
  • Line 132: inactiveBackground=24, 25, 38, 169
• Darkly have instructions for how to install in the readme. If you’re on an atomic/immutable distro, layering the package is probably the easiest way to install it, it’s what I did
• In Color and themes > Application Style I did this:
  • Edit Darkly
  • Tabs > enable Use highlight color as selected tab background and Use brighter close icon
  • Frames > enable Transparent Dolphin view
  • Transparency > Menu: 50%, Sidebar: 66%, Menubar: 50%, Toolbar: 66%, Tabbar: 100%
  • Shadow > disable Draw widget shadow and Draw shadow under toolbar
• In Color and themes > Window decorations I did this:
  • Edit Darkly
  • General > Title alignment: Center (Full Width)
• Icons I downloaded from Colors and Themes > Icons > Get new > Fluent icon theme
• Inter fonts can be downloaded from here or here. Iosevka fonts can be downloaded from here or here. After that I have it set like this in Text and fonts > Fonts:
  • General: Inter 10pt
  • Monospaced: Iosevka 12pt
  • Small: Inter 8pt
  • Menu: Inter 10pt
  • Window Title: Inter 10pt
  • Anti-aliasing: Enabled
  • Subpixel Rendering: None
  • Hinting: Slight
• You can then download and install Lucidglyph with the instructions on the readme. If you’re on an atomic/immutable distro, don’t forget to use the User Mode installation
• For Better Blur it’s the same thing I said for Darkly, I also layered the copr repo since it was easier. After that, in Window management > Desktop Effects:
  • Disable Blur > Apply
  • Enable Better Blur > Apply > config Better Blur
  • General > Blur strength: 6th stop, Noise strength: 0 > disable Window opacity affects blur
  • Force blur > mark Blur all except matching > enable Blur window decorations as well and Blur menus
  • Rounded corners > Window top and Window bottom are both set at 16,00 (because of GTK4 apps), Menu and Dock are both at 6,00
• Panel Colorizer can be installed either from source or by Right clicking Plasma Panel > Add or manage widgets > Get new > Panel Colorizer. Then here’s what I did in it:
  • Add to Plasma Panel
  • Right click its icon > mark to make it Invisible
  • Right click an empty space on the Panel > Panel Colorizer Settings
  • Appearance > enable Background and Shadow > Opacity: 0,35
  • Text and icon fixes > mark the tray icons you want to be monochrome with Effect
• For the Shell, the font I’m using is Iosevka Term 12 and I’m using Starship with Pastel Powerline, but I just saw that there is also a Catppuccin Powerline, so that’s even better. I’m also using Nushell if you’re interested.
• For Kate and KWrite if you use them, you’ll need to edit the Catppuccin Macchiato theme on the settings of one of the apps to add alpha channels with the color picker, it’s easy to do. I won’t put it here because I’m not fully satisfied with the results I got.

Took me a while to warm up to it, but after using it for months now, every time I try another color scheme I go back to the lovely Catppuccin lol

worlder try not to admit ignorance challenge (impossible)

“Everyone to the left of me cannot be principled, they all must be a hive-mind!!!111!!11!”

Lol. Believing empathy is important doesn’t mean that everyone deserves it. Fascists deserve none.

Always a @na.zijust.works user lol

I totally get that distrust because I used to think like that too.

The problem with this line of thinking is that, in my case at least, it came from a misunderstanding of how governments/states actually work due to intense propaganda, specially by right winger politicians that keep pushing this type narrative. Different types of states function differently.

All these issues you list are deeply linked with whose class controls the state, it’s not an issue with the state itself.

then the state can silence anyone they disagree with by labeling them as part of the bourgeoisie

That would be extremely hard to do. Being part of the bourgeoisie is a material condition, so unless you tick all the boxes that makes you part of it, there’s no conceivable way to simply label someone that in a socialist society just because. Furthermore, socialist societies have mechanisms of true popular democracy in place so people have a much bigger participation in politics, if such a problem would arise, people could do something about it, which goes in complete contrast to what happens in capitalist countries like the USA where, like you mentioned, you can simply be labeled an antisemite for protesting against the genocidal entity of Israel, can then be beat by the police for protesting the genocide and even sent to prison.

The thing here is that we need to look at how this is happening in real life right now. Are socialist states (Cuba, China, Laos, Vietnam, DPRK) doing that? As far as I know, no. Are capitalist ones doing that? Yes. So that in itself already suggests something is different in these states.

In fact, the reason why in the west you get labeled antisemitic for protesting against the genocide is directly linked with the bourgeoisie since it is in their interest that Israel continue existing. Biden himself admitted back in 1986 that the existence of Israel furthers US’s interests in the region. So showing solidarity with Palestine goes directly against the US’s bourgeoisie interests. That’s why you’re attacked by the state for that.

Thanks comrade, your comforting words mean a lot! I also have anxiety, specially social anxiety so I know what that feels like, it sucks real hard, lol.

Comrade Cowbee with the excellent work as always!

I’m really lacking on theory reading. Hopefully I can get really into it soon now that I’m slowly getting better from my depression!

Then you’re lacking class consciousness. Every state serves a class over another. In capitalist societies, it’s the bourgeoisie over the proletariat. In a socialist society it’s the opposite.

You can easily observe this in how basically all of western media is owned by a few companies that dictate what information gets to you.

Furthermore, not everyone deserves freedom of speech. Nazis should have 0 right to that.

mUh AuThOrItHaRiAnIsM!!!11!

📕 On Authority by Engels

📺 We Need To Talk About “Authoritarianism” by Second Thought

Western Marxist try not to side with the empire and believe their lies challenge (impossible)

Highly qualified means a Cop that promised unwavering support for Israel in their struggle to fully genocide and colonize Palestine. Fuck off.