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  • I heard that about 1000 people fainted in that concert because they didn’t allow people to bring water bottles so they would buy overpriced water bottles in the venue (which is against the Consumer Defence Code in Brazil).

    edit: and people did not buy the water bottles because nobody wants to pay, like, more than R$10,00 in a water bottle that costs a few cents if you just bring tap water from home (incredibly, in most of the state of São Paulo, where the show happened, tap water is completely safe as long as it is coming directly from the grid, and not from your home reservoir)

    edit: also, in Santos (a coastal city near São Paulo), some street thermometers measured 50°C on saturday, as shown in the local news channel “A Tribuna” (The Tribune). The increase in temperature is probably due to the boiling hot asphalt of the streets.





  • ???

    The sources are linked in lemmygrad, but they are from outside lemmygrad.

    Also, there is no neutral information in the world, all information has parts omitted (for many possible reasons), has parts that may be distorted because of the bias of the primary sources, or has other biases that you must take into account when reading it.

    If you only read information from one side you will only get the biases of that side, and won’t be able to understand reality. Most principled communists who study history do not use only pro-communist sources, they actually use mostly anti-communist sources (because, guess what, most historians with resources to do research are american or western european, and literally can’t publish pro-soviet or pro-chinese books in well-acclaimed presses) and then they filter out most of the biases (but not all, because that is literally impossible) by using primary sources or translations of primary sources, in case the primary sources aren’t in a language they know.

    I’m not saying you must read literal nazi books and take their word for it, for example. What I am saying is that if you want to research 19th century India, for example, you must read from at least most of the different perspectives, always questioning yourself about the sources like this:

    1. Which biases does this source have?
    2. How can these biases affect the information I am reading?
    3. Which other perspectives can I use to understand this information?
    4. Is this source reliable? (have they been caught lying?)

    If you can’t even do this, you really won’t understand history.

    Also, what is considered “neutral” at any point in time is what the ruling classes consider to be beneficial to them. If you could talk to the average white person of mid 19th century southern USA about slavery, they would tell you that news articles criticizing abolitionists and promoting slavery were “neutral”. The same applies to current times.


  • FlightSimEnjoyer@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.mlOh dear...
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    1 year ago

    You do not know what fascism is. You do not know what communism is. Go read a book before you argue online, it is good for you.

    I know that you did not read anything because of your mention of Tiananmen Square. You did not do any investigation on the subject nor did you read someone else’s investigation into the subject. You just took the propaganda as truth and ran with it.

    If you want to actually learn about communism, fascism, the USSR, China, Tiananmen Square, etc. you can just use the search function of lemmygrad. You’ll find many resources to learn.

    (or you can just continue helping the fascists by regurgitating propaganda, do whatever you want, I won’t force you)


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    Do you even know what you are talking about?

    The USSR was a state controlled by the workers, while the Russian Federation is a state controlled by the russian capitalists.

    Putin distorts the history of the USSR every time he speaks about it. He wants russians to think that Russia was “a glorious empire that almost beat the West”, not a country led by the working class that gave hope to billions of people worldwide.