Sounds good! Just read everything critically, try not to read the accusations with hermeneutics of innocence and the defense with hermeneutics of suspicion.

These are not opposed sides, and not a “spectrum,” but two camps of capitalists.

Do you mean the “political spectrum” as in democrats and republicans? There’s a ton outside that narrow spectrum.

Class war is political.

The Lemmy.ml meme community allows politics, and has a non-political meme community if you want it.

How exactly is Russia losing? It’s a war of attrition, and Ukraine is running into demographic crisis from being unable to field more people. There aren’t infinite Ukrainians of fighting capability, even if they retake some land (largely populated by pro-Russian people who have been fighting Kiev since 2014), that doesn’t actually translate to a war victory.

Leftists have been opposing NATO since its inception. It’s an anti-revolutionary coalition of imperialist countries.

I’ll start with the easiest one, microplastics. The reality is that China is at the forefront of ecological advancement and green energy, electrification, combatting desertification, and more. They also produce the world’s goodies, while their own consumption is far more green than most countries. Western countries built by colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonialism can produce more green, using these spoils, but the bulk of their consumption comes from developing countries. In essence, the per capita “climate cost” is higher in the west than in China.

As for claims of genocide, these are false. The best and most comprehensive resource I have seen so far is Qiao Collective’s Xinjiang: A Resource and Report Compilation. Qiao Collective is a group of Chinese diaspora living in the west, and they compiled an extremely comprehensive write-up of the entire background of the events, the timeline of reports, and real and fake claims. The majority of their sourcing is western, and they cite official Chinese government writing and white papers when relevant. Uyghur culture is preserved.

I also recommend reading the UN report as well as (especially) China’s response to it, which eclipses it in size and detail. These are the most relevant accusations and responses without delving into straight up fantasy like Adrian Zenz, Christian nationalist and professional propagandist for the Victims of Communism Foundation, does. Zenz’ work has been thoroughly discredited, yet is supported by western media for its utility in fearmongering. An example is lying about 8.7% of new IUDs as 80%, to back up claims of “forced sterilization,” from this chart:

The vast majority of the population supports their government, actually, because they are treated very well. Over 90% of the population supports the CPC. NIRA data’s latest polling found China to be one of the more comprehensively democratic countries in the world as seen by its own population:

You seem to have a very narrow view of China that doesn’t actually correspond to material reality, but instead liberal, western perception as an outsider.

The CPC made it a goal to eradicate extreme poverty in China. China’s rapid development caused a growing rift between urban areas and rural areas, so the CPC used the gains of urban expansion to help develop rural areas. Extreme poverty was eradicated in China over the course of a decade or so from the beginning of the program. I really like The Metamorphosis of Yuangudui to show what that campaign actually looked like in practice, sending CPC cadres to set up village councils, create democratic processes and build up infrastructure.

Already is tbh

The below photo is before. It’s what westerners saw as incomprehensible, the whole “ghost cities” narrative, and the above is the result of sound planning.

Similar to the soviet experience, Chinese workers are holding their heads high in new stages in socialist construction, with simiarly rapid levels of development. Anecdotes aside, this experience is common among both China and the USSR.

Czechoslovakia was 1968, well after Stalin’s death. You’re referring to Khrushchev in Hungary in 1956, which is indeed the incident that led to the split in the CPGB, but when people use the term today they use it against those who generally support socialist states.

I don’t see the connection, opposition to Kiev and critical support for Russia is an ongoing thing. You still proved OP correct by dehumanizing them.

Proving the meme correct, lmao

You made it about communism by complaining about tankies, I was simply responding to that point. All of us are aware that Russia is no longer socialist, neither is Ukraine, to both of their detriments. You are covering up the ethnic cleansing committed by Kiev against the Donbass region, which is why Russia entered the Ukrainian civil war 8 years after it started. Russia is not committing genocide, but arguably Kiev was towards the ethnic Russians in the Donbass region.

You didn’t challenge anything, you just started ranting about communists and threw around ableist terminology.

People that support existing socialist states.

Kiev has been murdering civilians in the Donbass region since the Banderite coup in 2014. Pointing out the reverance the modern Kiev regime has for Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera, and their far-right politics, is just highlighting an uncomfortable truth for westerners that rely on fascists. Despite your hatred of communists, we aren’t going anywhere.

Who sets those terms? And why don’t the people living in Donetsk and Luhansk get a say?

This isn’t inherently true. Nationalism in the context of liberation from colonialism and imperialism is an inherently progressive project, as it creates national autonomy. Nationalism in Israel’s case protects its status as a settler-colony and is inherently genocidal and reactionary.

Further, major resistance groups in Palestine like the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine are Marxist-Leninist, which is inherently left-wing. Hamas is not the only group in the resistance, just the primary.