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[–] flamingleg@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 hours ago

for ukraine supporters and soon to be moldovian supporters

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

Imagine thinking it's bad to be anti-war.

[–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 minutes ago

It's not bad being anti-war, but easy to being instrumentalized when not understanding the full context or even normalizing the dismissal of parts of it as enemy propaganda. It makes you naive

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 hours ago

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust. We Communists oppose all unjust wars that impede progress, but we do not oppose progressive, just wars. Not only do we Communists not oppose just wars; we actively participate in them. As for unjust wars, World War I is an instance in which both sides fought for imperialist interests; therefore, the Communists of the whole world firmly opposed that war. The way to oppose a war of this kind is to do everything possible to prevent it before it breaks out and, once it breaks out, to oppose war with war, to oppose unjust war with just war, whenever possible.

–Quotations from Chairman Mao ZeDong Chapter 5 War and Peace

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

you know oppressed people stop being oppressed because of war right?

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Or, war itself is a tool of oppression.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is just an expansion on "violence is inherently bad" which as an anarchist I hope isn't something you believe

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Violence is inherently harmful.

Some people and institutions do deserve to be harmed. Those people and institutions are almost never who actually gets harmed in war. War sucks.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

So would you oppose a war of liberation, such as the Vietnamese fought against Japan, France and America?

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 0 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

No, not really.

But neither of the wars mentioned in this 'infographic' are wars of liberation.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 2 points 40 minutes ago

But neither of the wars mentioned in this ‘infographic’ are wars of liberation.

"The Palestinian struggle against the Israeli settler colonialists is not a war of liberation actually"

You might possibly be the least intelligent person I've ever seen.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

do you know what's harmful? capitalism. i'd suffer every pain for the world to achieve socialism. yes, you might not believe it, having a comfortable life in the global north, but there are people willing to be harmed to achieve liberation.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I ain't got time for a whole damn audiobook. If you want to make a pro-war argument, make it yourself.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 hours ago

Its about ~30m read.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

imagine thinking capitalists will just decide they are rich enough and give you everything for free.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social -3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And you're going to fix this by having one capitalist country blow people up in another capitalist country?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

vassals blowing up the emperor, yes. that's how it usually goes.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 0 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

You must be seeing some very different wars than the ones I've seen.

In the wars I've seen, 'emperors' are rarely blown up, but vassals getting blown up is extremely common.

[–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 minutes ago

In the wars I’ve seen, ‘emperors’ are rarely blown up, but vassals getting blown up is extremely common.

e g. Ukraine

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

For little kids is fine.

No actually is not fine either, it's better for kids to understand reality.

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

really cool "giving an award to myself" infograph

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago

sorry if we're correct.