Your liberal idealism mistakes imperialist coercion for “choice” and bourgeois metrics for human progress. The USSR lifted semi-feudal societies to industrial superpower status, defeated fascism, and guaranteed work, housing, and education as right ,not commodities. Contradictions like bureaucracy or Lysenkoism were real, but Marxist-Leninists criticize these as deviations under imperialist siege, not proof of socialism’s failure. The “thriving” of post-Soviet states is measured in GDP for oligarchs and EU core capital, not working-class wellbeing: deindustrialization, demographic collapse, and dependent peripheral status followed the “shock therapy” you praise. Ceaușescu’s lavishness was denounced by Marxists as a betrayal of socialist principle, not its essence. Central planning, imperfect under blockade and scarcity, achieved historic gains without colonial plunder. Your argument conflates the degeneration of a besieged workers’ state with the emancipatory project itself. The lesson isn’t retreat to capital, but to advance the struggle with clearer theory and firmer proletarian democracy.

Why are you making up what I think?

Because it’s essentially what you’re saying in subtext. You’re free to clarify

I realized that I wrote “state media” when I meant “state-owned.” The media you listed are state-funded, while TASS is state-owned.

Yet either way you try to (re)define it both reflect either states ruling class bias and you arbitrarily decide to dismiss one of those and didn’t even realize about the existence of the other.

I’m saying that some sources are worse than others.

And I’m saying it’s a logical fallacy to dismiss it in it’s entirety, as there exists context where these sources of information are valuable.

State media is biased towards it’s ruling party/class and therefore not trustworthy. I’ll assume whatever media source that confirms my bias is trustworthy

Sounds like an echo chamber

Also

US don’t have state media

PBS, NPR, CSPAN, VoA, RadioFree, etc

Parenti and Chomsky to some degree argue that private corporate media is closely aligned to state interest, due to its intertwining with intelligence services

Your comment reveals a lack of media literacy. There is a fundamental difference between Russian outlets like TASS and RT, which are state-controlled, and Fox News, which is corporate-owned. State media acts as the direct voice of the government, whereas corporate media answers to advertisers and owners. This makes the bias in state media far more explicit regarding national interests; their agenda is transparent. Conversely, Fox News still operates within a framework of journalistic standards and market competition. It contains valuable context depending on the situation, so dismissing it entirely is a mistake

You say both are bad yet you default to only trust western sources

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Being able to vote blue no matter who and going back to brunch with the only change being LGBT flavoured concentration camps and bombs going to to Israel must be nice. Blue MAGA mindset is disgusting

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You mean the sanctions he tried to block and veto? Those sanctions?

No I mean the sanctions that are still in place when he’s the president and has a republican majority in Congress and Senate. He’s able to kidnap a foreign statesman, bomb foreign nations and impose and lift tariffs however he wants, yet the sanctions on his supposed allies are still there.

Try every tool he had to oppose sanctions against Russia and North Korea?

Therefore I doubt that he “tried every tool” to oppose sanctions for his supposed allies

Libs please pick up a book other than Harry Potter, 1984 and Mein Kampf

Imagine being this politically illiterate lol

Allies is when you shake hands but otherwise heavily sanction your “partners”

German fascist coping

It’s not a non-sequitor for Nazis and is meant to draw them out. You saying it is, makes you indistinguishable to a Nazi in the context of this thread

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Im aware it’s a stereotype and there’s definitely cool anarchists that don’t, but especially believing various lies about AES (China, UdSSR, DPRK, etc.)

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i showed how this exact failing was useful for the current fascist movement.

Yes you sure did show how you’re useful for the current fascist movement.

i get these concepts from… anti-fascist academics.

Do those “anti-fascist academics” say that say that feminists are the real fascists because boobies in vidyagames don’t make your pipi hard by any chance?

i find this exhausting, because the inability for people to comprehend words past the social signalling is directly responsible for much of the recent fascist success.

I don’t need to comprehend the words that try to argue why “fuck Nazis” is bad.

academics are mean for saying we have to think about context sometimes

Have you dipshit considered your posts in the context of this thread?

we can hate nazis while also being capable of communication past the hypersimplified binaries that are actively useful for nazis.

So why are you being useful to Nazis by speaking up and having a hypothetical discourse and being a running dog for Nazism? Sometimes it’s just better to not say anything as an antifascist and seeing Nazis show themselves (only Nazis would get triggered/baited to comment on a meme like this)

social peacock thing that has kneecapped progressive/leftist groups

Interesting lingo you use there

Have you dipshit considered that fash seeing no “social peacock” might let them think they’re in good company as they’re unopposed? You think calling out “virtues signaling” is a good counter that fash have? Why are you doing this for them?

Classic lib.world allowing fascists on their instance. Why am I not surprised?

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It’s telling that you’d include China and Russia and not Europe or Israel.