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I don’t have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement. After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi. Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more: Star trek and its debt to revolutionary socialism.

Picard speaking to a whiny businessman: we’ve grown out of our infancy.

American values The values of the US settler-colonial project, are native eviction, and genocide. The values of the indigenous peoples were not considered worthy to the european settlers, so they did their best to wipe out hundreds of peoples/tribes/cultures. You either don’t know that history, or worse, you are proud of it. I highly suggest reading both An indigenous people’s history of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, or her Not a nation of immigrants.

The PRC would be incredibly naive to let US tech companies in, and take and hoover over their social media landscape, like so many other countries have done. For example India’s most popular communications platform, is facebook. The US effectively controls the social media of a country many times larger than itself, and can influence it whatever way it wants. For those who want to view US-run tech sites in the PRC, they can of course via VPNs which are completely legal, but that friction is very worthwhile for encouraging home-run alternatives, and preventing mass surveillance by an evil empire.

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libertarian socialist/communist When your socialist communist group arms and starts defending themselves and their class interests, what prevents someone labeling them as authoritarian for doing so? Socialist countries like the PRC lived through a hundred years of imperial exploitation by foreign powers (Britain, the US, and Japan), and fought a decades-long civil war against feudal reactionaries to finally liberate themselves from these oppressions. Do you know something they don’t, about how to establish socialism, “non-authoritarianly”?

but people in US finance everything Damn I wonder why they do that. Must have nothing to do poverty. /s

Your main source is ASPI is a far right war-hawk australian defense industry think tank.

Do you have sources for any of these claims?

“Iran is oppressive. The media from the country bombing them told me so”

This is gold. Comrades are on their meme game this week. This one was also fire:

CeraVe is the only skin-care company afaik whose products are developed by dermatologists, and are consistently highly rated by dermatologists. They have good scentless moisturizers, lotions with sunscreen, retinol, shampoos, conditioners.

The strangest person I’ve ever met was homeschooled, it was a really sad case. He was an only child home-schooled by fundamentalist christian parents, and didn’t have much interaction with peers his age until he was in college. Zebulon (yes that was his name) could not hold a simple conversation, and clearly had less education than most grade-schoolers. Talking to him was worse than talking to a child, he would babble or ignore everything you said and change the subject completely. I hope he’s overcome that and is doing better now.

It should be illegal or heavily restricted, as it is in many countries already. The kid doesn’t get what’s easily the most important aspect of school (even more important than the curriculum), socialization. The kid gets an education from someone who likely has no qualifications whatsoever, and is more than likely homeschooling for fundamentalist religious reasons.

The US military is always asking for recruits. If you don’t read, you won’t know that “helping them” means killing civilians.

A drastic increase in military funds to Israel took place during the terrorist Biden regime:

What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist? Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism [On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.](lemmygrad.ml/post/231058