before you praise America or Europe, remember where that wealth comes from

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Unequal exchange theory posits that economic growth in the “advanced economies” of the global North relies on a large net appropriation of resources and labour from the global South, extracted through price differentials in international trade. Past attempts to estimate the scale and value of this drain have faced a number of conceptual and empirical limitations, and have been unable to capture the upstream resources and labour embodied in traded goods. Here we use environmental input-output data and footprint analysis to quantify the physical scale of net appropriation from the South in terms of embodied resources and labour over the period 1990 to 2015. We then represent the value of appropriated resources in terms of prevailing market prices. Our results show that in 2015 the North net appropriated from the South 12 billion tons of embodied raw material equivalents, 822 million hectares of embodied land, 21 exajoules of embodied energy, and 188 million person-years of embodied labour, worth $10.8 trillion in Northern prices – enough to end extreme poverty 70 times over. Over the whole period, drain from the South totalled $242 trillion (constant 2010 USD). This drain represents a significant windfall for the global North, equivalent to a quarter of Northern GDP. For comparison, we also report drain in global average prices. Using this method, we find that the South’s losses due to unequal exchange outstrip their total aid receipts over the period by a factor of 30. Our analysis confirms that unequal exchange is a significant driver of global inequality, uneven development, and ecological breakdown.

the more we’re defederated, the less we’re able to defend ourselves when a meme like this gets blasted across the fediverse.

Also Tainanmen. Athough fatal clashes did occur on Chang’An avenue and elsewhere in the city, in which hundreds of civilians and a smaller number of soldiers died, witness testimony from numerous western journalists and diplomats and student organizers themselves who were in the square all night, has indicated that no one died in Tiananmen itself. A Spanish news crew even filmed crowds of students walking out of the square at the end of the night. The Tiananmen Square Massacre is a stunning example of a “big lie repeated often enough.”

The first link is a comprehensive article. I can link more on request.

[Picture of people being massacred in a pool of their own blood] — “modern online MLs will do this to you in the future if you believe their lies, do not trust them!”

it’s all in good fun though, right tankies I would totally organize with in real life?

take what you give

who broadcast a meme to all of lemmy arguing that modern MLs are treacherous murderers who must be defeated in real life?

the meme being posted was “modern MLs are bloodthirsty monsters who will kill you if they ever get in power”

When you view a group as evil, that view tends to result in double standards for behavior, which is what you’re doing.

I’m probably going to dip because I’m too mad to be civil right now

anarchists wrong and evil

not only is that not what we said, but db0 actually said that about us

This was what you posted https://i.imgur.com/RDl2sOZ.png

what part of db0’s crosspost was calling for good faith discussion? Did you look at it? https://lemmy.ml/comment/5783449

$30.50 seems inaccurate. If you’re tipping 20% then you ordered at least $150 worth of food lol.

when leftists say “private property” it means “means of production.” Factories, etc.

Your house is “personal property.” You still own that under socialism.

that’s stupid, then, why would you bother to make a comment like that. Who gives a shit?

first, the US engaged in a war of aggression and probably not specifically a genocide in Iraq. This is a real difference of kind.

The other difference is that one actually happened and the other did not.

Also, if we were about to go to war with China, I bet it would suddenly become obvious to a lot of people that the US has been making shit up since the trade war started.

pretty obvious

iirc around 76% of Americans supported the Iraq war.

hexbears are abrasive because we expect most liberals to be venomous and dismissive toward us and not listen to anything we say, even if we operate in good faith. so instead of wasting a lot of energy on a response that will be thrown back at us like dogshit, we’re flippant and cursory. for my part, I actually still respond in good faith most of the time, but I pick my battles.

what the fuck does that even mean, “left wing version of /r/TheDonald”

like the donald but believing the exact opposite things?

I have a different answer than blakeus12

the two factors are

1. An ambient sense of how unreceptive the instance is toward us. If the distribution of responses we get is skewed too far toward “I don’t give a fuck what you have to say, I’m not reading that, fuck you you disgusting tankie,” that’s a reason to not federate. And I mean… I’ll be the first one to admit hexbears can be annoying and too eager to dunk on people, but on the flip side I also think our views are often misrepresented and demonized, and it’s frustrating when people won’t even bother to understand what we actually think or why.

2. If any of our users feel harrassed or unsafe, even if the culprits are a small minority of the instance, we are liable to defederate. And this shouldn’t be taken personally! We all know lemmy still has limited mod tools. But we prioritize each other over federation, we’re a close-knit community who have been together for years.

no one gives a shit where you want us to post, goat.

this guy seems exhausting and narcissistic

similarly, there are people now, calling bullshit on the xinjiang organ harvesting narratives