Go on say it!

that communism is responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide

Theeere we gooo.

Family friend that lives in Shanghai was the main culprit, which was strange to hear honestly.

I’m glad to see that most of my assumptions were confirmed and that the answer to this isn’t so black and white, but very much gray.

Build a 3-6 months wage rainy day fund, if possible, and then budget how you spend the rest of your money including a monthly contribution to the party or something.

I do this now, I have OCD and have issue with spending money anyway so I save most of it lol

I’d rather invest in ETFs myself

Never heard of ETFs before now, it actually sounds way better than the stock market.

Spot on and well said, just what I was hoping to hear. Thanks for the reply.

Sorry yeah should have mentioned that I’m looking for Android and either Mac or Win.

Formal help is an option, but obviously expensive. Government provided mental health help just does nothing as usual.

I left my economics university when I was doing exercises in my workbook and saw a text that essentially read “unions cripple the economy and therefore must be eradicated”. There were some good lectures on macro and micro economics, but were so insanely capitalistic that I couldn’t stand it anymore.

My pipeline was through Hasan (however I’ve been a lefty my entire life), his subreddit had a pinned link tree with socialist resources where I found thedeprogram and then through that found lemmy. That said I’m not as big of a fan of him as I used to be, just grew out of it.

From what I heard they extended the support to October 2026.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-support-ends-on-october-14-2025-2ca8b313-1946-43d3-b55c-2b95b107f281

Nicely put thank you!

So in essence there isn’t a genocide happening, but there are still human rights violations since people are being forced to attend the vocational re-education schools? I haven’t fully read the Red Sails article yet, most of my knowledge comes from this BadEmpenada video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9ICFDk8Js

That was essentially my response, told him that it was probably an American source and we took a look together. As soon as he saw that he knew it wasn’t accurate.

Already made a post in the freechat community, but want to get some thoughts here as well. I’m currently going through the Prolewiki reading list for beginners, after I finish it I would love to read up on the Russian revolution. Not looking for a massive tome, but something in between being general but not overly specific and dense that I can’t get through in let’s say a month or 2. Thanks!

I needed to ask to get clarification because I was like “what the fuck are you saying”. The Deprogram did an episode recently with SovietPod I believe where they mentioned this exact thing of liberals/anti-communist spewing that the bolsheviks were undemocratic. Glad my hunch wasn’t incorrect, thanks for the reply!

Definetly saving this post for future references and books, much appreciated!

Fantastic thank you! What if certain statements are made that have contradicting sources, which source do you then trust?

What is considered a verifiable source? For instance certain studies are funded by lobies that want a certain result from that study and will affect the final results because of that, how do I determine if those funded studies are actually worth trusting?