Nonpartisan. Though there are not really movements against this, just small nations that ban parties.

I will push back on your opinions, though. “Division” is not a moral or political quantity. It is not itself good nor bad. Trans people were universally oppressed for centuries. Now they have some protections. This is a consequence of struggle against transphobia, that struggle is inherently a division. There are transphobes and pro-trans people. The pro-trans group should win. For them to win we need to support them materially and in as effectively as possible, which means through organized work. Progress against oppression only occurs through division and struggle. And the best vehicles for this are organizations - basically parties or very similar apparatuses.

The two-party system is a symptom of deeper problems and they shouldn’t be summarized as division. The two-party system is really just a very effective way for the ruling class (business owners) to achieve their ends while still providing a venue for “the political”, often struggles and oppressions that they personally exacerbated. For example, some of the earliest institutional racism in what would become the US emerged due to worker solidarity and struggle. The ruling class decided to divide and conquer: they created a race-based system, defining a new class corresponding to “black”, who would be the most exploited, and exploiting everyone ekse skightly left. This is not theater, as the oppressed are facing actual oppression, but it is cynical: it’s really about profit maximization and controlling workers. The two-party system makes this kind of thing a constant endeavor, you can spend all of your time invested in struggles imposed by the ruling class and exemplified in the parties, and in doing so never focus on the underlying system that creates it. But of course not every oppression makes its way into this attempt at distraction, as when the oppression is bipartisan (no division in that case but still bad!). For example, both parties are in favor of the genocide of Palestinians and both actively ensure that it happens. A few decades ago both were purely transphobic and did nit evdn exhibit today’s liberal cooption of the struggle (notice that it has slowed down).

Most importantly, the two-party system prevents popular politics that runs counter to ruling class interests. Their greatest opponents are the left, so the US political system prevents left parties from functioning abd becoming popular. Want to run as a third party? Well the Dems will gladly do a last-minute change to how many signatures you need to gather to get on the ballot. They can meet the number because they will pay people to collect them, but you have to have already prepared a horde of volunteers. Organize a socialist party? They might just plain kill you.

It is not the existence of parties that is the problem, but the stifling of left parties, of those that can challenge the systemic causes of oppression.

These kinds of diseases making a resurgence in the US are a form of blowback for both climate change and oppressing the rest of the Americas, preventing eradication.

Has China ever expressed interest in joining NATO? Was there ever actually a declinature?

This is the flag of the USSR, not China. China has 5 stars.

New Zealand also isn’t part of NATO, does that mean NATO are imperialists AND flightless bird haters?

NATO has always been an anticommunist war machine principally aimed at the USSR and its allies. It was originally staffed with actual Nazis, too.

Or is this another way I’m blinded by western media and China has been begging to get into NATO and they’re just not reporting it in my sheeple network?

I mean you seem to just not know the history or the references being made but are knee-jerk anticommunist anyways, so maybe you should do some self-criticism about humility and politics.

lmao

Balkanize already

Their brows will be so furrowed

This is the kind of thing that only those targeted for infiltration are likely to be aware of at the time. States still do domestic spying and infiltration of socialist groups, jail them, etc. In the UK, “Spy Cops” is a fairly recent discovery where the UK government had cops join socialist orgs undercover. They befriended people, got involved romantically, even had children before ghosting, having fulfilled their “mission”. Organizers of movements end up dead in surprising ways, with odd correlations. A conspicuous number of BLM organizers of Ferguson are now dead and I recommend looking into that.

One thing to consider is that these programs essentially worked, or at least anticommunism won through its various methods, not just terrorists. Europe has no substantial communist movements any longer outside of maybe Greece and Serbia. In most Euro places any inkling is oppressed by the liberal state apparatus and they target small groups that do things like read or protest genocide or help people unionize.

There are places where communist agitation is more active and the state violence and terrorism is greater there. The most active are Maoists like in India and The Philippines and the states there routinely arrest and murder them, generally for siding with indigenous people that want to secure their land against mining and other exploitative interests. Many are martyred for this work.

It’s less obvious but can see how the Nordic countries fall in line with imperialist structures. I’ll expound a bit but it is not in any way in disagreement.

The nordic countries lend weight to unequal IP restrictions and dollarization and the IMF, they never do anything material against imperialist wars (they actually want a piece of the pie by providing arms), and now that they are accepting their role as NATO pawns they are increasing their military budgets, cutting the welfare state, and allowing their fascistic political foemations to thrive while suppressing the left. They all openly tolerate “Israeli” genocidal fascism and even carry water for their project against domestic dissidents. Nordic countries are deeply embedded in global capital monopoly, the engine of imperialism, whether it is Norway as a petrostate or shipping logistics like in Sweden and Denmark. And they do not do this reluctantly and with policy against imperialist aims. Internally, they are fanning the flames against POC immigrants as the big scapegoat for why their lives are materially deteriorating - not their own state’s willing deindustrialization or cuts to services.

To put it simply, they are liberals. They briefly were the selective snapshot of “successful” liberalism if you didn’t peek behind the curtain of global exploitation (who grew that “luxurious” pineapple and what were they paid!?). The global financial system propped up states in their region as a means by which to oppose communists, as if communists were there to steal your children or do the genocides that imperialists constantly engaged in. That system is no longer intentionally doing this, it is neoliberal and there is no communist current in Europe. We now watch it decay into the hallmarks of fascism. The empire is pulling back its subsidies, reversing them, and all of “Europe” is collaborating for how to react to this in the worst possible way.

Okay tiger

I already explained and you avoided it and started doing this pitiful little song and dance. Maybe you can pay someone to take you seriously, because I don’t think anyone is going to do it for free.

Goodbye, chump

Nope just you. Kinda sad that your defense response is to pretend to be illiterate.

Scroll up. You’re going in circles.

Ignore trying to identify and fit into some niche subculture. Instead, just make friends based on your interests. Let any subculture participation emerge naturally. There is no need to granularly define and name and restrict yourself to one thing or social group and this can actually be arbitrarily limiting and divisive.

For example, find some friends to safely go to music events with. Sounds like that’s something you’d like to do.

And the bad faith malding continues.

You didn’t lay out any facts. Did you forget what I’m criticizing you for already?

I don’t hear any sorting! Just whining to justify yourself. Get to it!

Lemmy.world tolerates racism, same as what it wants to be, Reddit. And likely so does the society you live in.

Like I said, sort yourself out.

You think I can’t read your comments or something? This is a habit of yours.

The “researchers” in no way demonstrate that “AI” replaced any of the jobs lost. They don’t even raise the question of whether “AI” is used to discipline labor despite not being much of a productivity aid.

No, you are arrogant and this leads you to false confidence that you can correct people who know more than you by hastily googling, “studies that say China is capitalist” and quoting the first result, patting yourself on the back, and thinking, “you did well, kid”.

Get your racist shit out of here.

I’m calling your tokenizing logic racist. The lack is thought you put into the entire endeavor. I cannot imagine being this lazy, incurious, and racist. Sort yourself out.