Far from exclusive to islam, but it's certainly socially acceptable and often condoned in many muslim-majority cultures and countries.

The only people who would say it's okay in one country and not okay in another are moral relativists and those who view law as the authority for morality. Off the top of my head, I don't know any liberals who would defend this. Surely someone, but I doubt any prominent figures would.

As for "how they can justify bringing people like that over," that's just silly... I'm not even sure where to start breaking that down. A combination of islamophobia, composition fallacy, strawman, western exceptionalism, a dash of isolationist rhetoric,... You've got a lot to sort out, and probably shouldn't yap about foreign/immigration policy until you do.

Take a break. Sounds like you are going deep into something pretty negative.

How many times have you watched the video of a man being murdered?

No.

Failed high school physics, did we?

I believe that things should be fair

I get what you mean. It's the feeling that after all is said and done, you've won, justice is restored. For day-to-day grievances the courts, especially one that also does rehabilitation, work fine.

Then there's pain which no reparations will ever heal. Where both you and your "opponent" have lost.

To me it's impressive when people in that situation realise that the best you can do is try your best to prevent that same pain from re-occuring in the future and to others.

And empirically, dialogue and cooperation, not (solely) punishment, has shown to be good at that.

but there is very small number of Germans that do the same because of WW2

This is not true from the (admittedly) two IRL Germans I've spoken too. Nazi anxiety is part of their culture.

Ok it feels like revenge were real people are actually suffering. Folks in gulags are probably suffering indeed, but there there are other ways of making up for doing wrong.

I agree, sending real human labor may sound not ok, even if it's not in gulag. But what about reparations? Could be in different form, but something that has real value in dollars.

I believe that things should be fair. That's why we have justice system and courts with judges. Fairness and justice should be and is at the core of every society. Vast majority of societies have written laws, there are consitutions etc which help to achieve that. Obviously not always these laws are respected, but in general they help to keep society organized, developing and healthy.

And something similar should be for the international cases, but that is much harder to achieve in practice because of differences in culture, history etc.

I would imagine it feels good, a kind of revenge.

But history has shown that the revenge just perpetuates the violence.

Hence why examples such as the Polish reconstruction, or the marshal plan benefiting italy and germany as well, are so impressive to me.

if I'm being honest if I had prisoners of war of a country that attacked my country killing many people and destroying many things, I think it would be kind of fair to have them to rebuild my country.

I guess one could argue "it depends" though.

I'm not sure but USSR probably took many German prisoners of war and had them work in gulags? Wouldn't be surprised. To be fair Germany attacked USSR, and killed many people there. I guess we could look at the numbers and take many factors into consideration if we wanted to estimate "fairness" of that.

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In such moments I'm glad I was born in Poland and that Poland had nothing to do with slavery and was on the good side in world wars.

Also the only country in europe that didn't use forced labour by prisoners of war for rebuilding after world war 2.

"Slavs not slaves" should be the Polish motto :p

In the 1800s people were having 10 kids because half of them wouldn't live past puberty. Then if you did, you'd probably get drafted and die in the civil war, or die from an easily treatable disease, or die during child birth.

I wish we could send conservatives back to the 1800's, it's what they deserve

Well you're having fun, that's what's most important :)

Fair enough. Most of lemmy is extremely toxic when it comes to anything political that is moderate or right wing in the slightest. Even 4ch is more respectful with their political discussion which says a lot.

I have fun tho. Actually had an excellent political discussion with someone the other day haven't had that in a while on lemmy but its refreshing to see once in a while. It was my own community so maybe that's why lol.

Jesus. It's honestly gotten to where I rarely comment in non HC communities. To me, there's just literally no point.

The lemmy devs are extreme left wing. Like full tankie communist authoritarian. They created a platform inline with their ideals in terms of openness and communism and then get upset when people use it for things they disagree with. I think what they where planning on is building a majority of hard left extremism then defed using the network effect to thus silence anyone they disagree with.

They are losing that battle slowly. A lot of lemmy defederated the tankie triad thus robbing them of much power. They hate lemmy.world cos they allow somewhat right wing ideology but can't defederated them cos network effect. They used mass false reporting against hc to GT us defederated by manny.

Lemmy is not a viable mainstream platform as it doesn't allow the free exchange of ideas. It is technically the ideal platform for being a true mark place of ideas (that's my motivation to join and push the concept). The devs are trying to fight portable identities as that truly opens the floodgates for free exchange of ideas across instances and makes defederating a tool moderate an instances content not a tool to silence descenting opinions as it acts now.

The issue with lemmy is that's It's Overton window is centre left to hard left. Moderates, moderate right, and hard right all get completely silenced. It thus cannot compete as a viable social media platform for normal people who expect to see a relatively even mix of opinions.

We can fix lemmy with: Portable identity technologically possible by borrowing did from atproto. And more centre right to hard right instances. They will all get defederated but they will federate with eachother build a viable user base and the network effect will force people to instances that allow both sides thus forcing everyone else to do the same.

Yeah obviously that's a mistake on my part (should have been worse off now than it was under communism) but it relates back to the original part of western communists wanting to retvrn to the USSR and it's Satellites.

Wow, that's solid thanks, had no idea he had youtube. Yeah, he's American.

I can imagine even more than 9% not proud, but it doesnt mean they don't like / hate their own country. They have indifferent attitude, no love, no hate I would suppose. Similar to everywhere in the world. Although actually some first generation immigrants could actually hate the country and society. This is what we see in european countries with immigrants who do terrorist attacks.

So I'm guessing his parents are russian immigrants. Might be wrong of course, that's my guess though.

"He claims that 77% of Czechs for example believe the country is worse off under communism."

No, on github he says "worse off now than under communism", so he says 77% Czechs believe they country is worse off now. So it looks like he wants to prove that majority of Europeans want to go back to old system, which he uses as example of how great communism was for people. But yeah, the article is from 2019 and some stats he takes are from as far as 2011, so quite old.

That article and these percentages is complete bs. I can tell you firsthand since I'm living in Poland. Poland is deveoping in about similar rate as other countries from that post communist block. And people are much better and happier. The guy who wrote that article writes for diplomaticpost.co.uk which apparently is some commies publishers nest in UK, so not surprising. Lies.

I would say these percentages were correct in early 1990s, where those countries basically collapsed, there was huge unemployment, there were no businesses running, corruption, small amount people who had connections in communist party stole all the capital (95% was state owned - land, production facilities, residential buildings, actually every building, farmlands, healthcare, education etc etc) that was built with hands of entire society through the years and was a common property. These folks now are richest folks Polish people. That transition was far from clean and fair.

Things are a bit better now, cause even though some folks had an unfair advantage in the beginning by stealing from society, they were many times unqualified to manage a capital and some of them just wasted it. Though still majority of capital is in the hands of those early "wild west" stealers I would say and also western big corporations who also got hands on all that capital which was sold to them by the early governments which were run by former communists. But there are new companies that were created and built solely by clever ideas and hard work and they bring hope. And first and foremost actually even though the capital was distributed unfairly, those people still need to bring value out of it and produce high quality products and services because otherwise somebody else will do it, so the society still wins. That's the beauty of competition.

I could go on, it's a long story. In general the story of polish transition from the old system I see as good people vs evil people. Those who want good for society and people around them vs those who think only about themselves. And it keeps going like that today as well cause the same people are still in the today's government and government is tighlty coupled with big capital in Poland because of 1990s transition where everything started.

Not a Russian accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOucw3uN3c

Claims the US is his country

https://np.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bmygbt/comment/en253x7/

He claims that 77% of Czechs for example believe the country is worse off under communism.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md

The medium article he linked says

Roughly 28 percent of Czechs say they were better off under the Communist regime, according to a poll conducted by the polling institute SC&C and released Sunday.

Only 23 percent said they had a better life now.

https://medium.com/@RichieBrownShow/communist-nostalgia-as-the-reality-of-bourgeois-democracy-hits-home-in-eastern-europe-3960aa341560

From the actual article

The previous regime was assessed as better by 31 percent of Czechs, while roughly the same proportion, 32 percent, preferred the existing system.

https://archive.fo/bFYoy

Even though that's not a good result, it's still vastly different to his view... that it should be reintroduced. It's also from 2011 so is cherry picked as broadly speaking things were rough in the earlier period of transition to democracy.

Plenty of Americans shit on the USA and it's not just the communists

9% not at all proud

https://news.gallup.com/poll/692150/american-pride-slips-new-low.aspx

What makes you think so based on his github page?

"One of those interesting situations where countries that actually experienced authoritarian socialism (like yours) are far less supportive of its reintroduction than countries who didn't experience it" - you can't reintroduce system to the country that has never had it. In Poland it's reintrudction. In USA it would be introduction.

I am aware that there are plenty of leftists in west who think communist is good because it's in opposition to current status quo and they always want to fight with something and it's also in opposition to conservatives thinking. However from what I'm seeing on ther internet folks like that usually don't know what they are talking about, they rarely stop and think what ideas they preach really mean deeply and lead to in long term. I'd say people who "like" communism in west are 90% teens and young adults. They need to direct their young rebellion energy somewhere to fight status quo. And most probably they grow out of it within few years.

On the other hand, people in Russia and China have communist and collectivism ideas deeply rooted in their minds, these ideas have been with them for generations. The state makes sure that society sees communism as a good and rightful system. To achieve this, it relies on a massive propaganda machine that operates on every level. People are raised with the belief that collectivism and the subordination of the individual to the common good are what brought the country development and prosperity. These people study it, study their "history" and read books about it.

Essays on dessalines page are very solidly written, he has a lot of knowledge about these ideas. It would be much easier to write like that for a russian born (actually I'd say he is russian born but lived in USA or UK cause his english is very good, could even be born in USA but had russian parents, there are millions of russian immigrants in US) than western. He 100% is not American, cause he pretty much shits on USA big time.

lol

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