Oden’s backstory is worth it just for the power level they all have.

I like Sachs he gets a lot of stuff right.

I don’t know about this but I would not rule him out. He’s not one of us, but he’s not awful.

the people coming up with the anti-China propaganda are all True Believers in the system and so can’t actually make shit up the way their forebears could 30-40 years earlier.

Most likely true. Many of them do not recognise that they are lies, they actually believe the propaganda.

If you actually believe the propaganda and don’t realise it’s made up then you don’t realise that you need to make up new propaganda.

They were much better off creating well educated true believers in capitalist ideology, when they destroyed education and used media to turn everyone into believing in nothing they set this path in motion.

With the crowd on this server I literally couldn’t say a word about China before without getting winnie the pooh authoritarian bazinga shit in response. I would have been crucified then if I said the things I now say about China openly. Exactly the same people, the only thing that has changed is their own attitudes and behaviours. They are definitely shifting.

1. Lgbt people that are currently experiencing regression in the west and have no hope for the future are extremely open to hearing that lgbt issues are progressive over there and that the Chinese community will likely be a leader on these issues eventually.

2. Climate change people are extremely easy to pull around to “China good”, probably the easiest.

3. American Liberals like China standing up to US.

4. European Liberals like China standing up to US and repeatedly say “we need to be closer and trade more”.

China is winning the propaganda war on every single front. The west has zero positive ground to stand on anymore and it’s so easy.

Even Chinaphile nationalist content can get upvotes in baby-left leaning spaces. Won’t be number one in those spaces but it won’t be sent to oblivion either.

Don’t get me started on tiktok, while comment sections are generally mixed (i do not understand how comment section algo even works) the videos themselves are being massively liked and spread very far.

Honestly I really enjoyed Wano too once it heated up they just dwell on it for sooooo long because obviously it’s a japanese show and they’re doing feudal Japan. Some of it drags though, there’s just such a long period of preparation for revolution.

so you should buy an overpriced Apple product instead!

Which is literally manufactured by the Chinese anyway so if they wanted they could do it to that too. They don’t, because it’s not good business sense, but they could!

I sure am glad this propaganda is so blatant and openly racist that anyone could immediately spot it for what it is and not fall for it, right?

Someone on a (non marxist) server I’m on brought it up when I mentioned China. Fortunately 100% of the other people online all saw through it immediately and I think they also started to see it as sus also. The issue is that people simply trust news outlets, they do not think they would print something untrue or something that is blatant propaganda. People are deeply naive and gullible, most generally good people think society is running sensibly and fairly. Being critical of new outlets is not normalised.

Fortunately at the current moment China is actually getting widespread popular support because of Trump. The current atmosphere is very good for us.

Hang in there you’re only 129 episodes away from being up to date and having to painfully wait for more!

It’s so funny saying “only 129” episodes lmao but in the context it’s true.

The “european people”:

I mean Trump already said the fighter jets they sell all have kill switches and are deliberately 10% worse than their own fighters.

While still on board ship, Austin and Fisher were ordered to be stripped naked and searched for signs of witchcraft (Devil’s Marks).

I’m sure “Witch” was badly edited onto their knuckles in subsequent paintings

Dude might be dead already. I’ve read plenty of reports of people “recruited” in this way being dead within a day of hitting the frontline.

After speaking with a solar panel installer I know their take is that it’s not the panels it’s the inverters which is different, and also that all of these inverters have the functionality to turn them off via an app, it’s pretty standard. They’re posing this as something sinister secreted into the features when it’s not.

“Escapism” oh please.

HOI players are playing for escapism too, but there’s a reason half the community are fascists while the other half are communists. The fantasy that players are choosing to play for their “escapism” directly lines up with what they are.

To properly monopolise this industry they will have to find a way to prevent indies from existing at low cost altogether. The best method I can think of to do that is to go after the engines. Forcing indies into developing their games from scratch without a comfortable engine that already exists as the foundation.

I do think this is mostly about consolidating and monopolising within the industry though. Capitalism is at work doing what it always does, consolidating industries into fewer and fewer companies.

A military that is actually proud of itself? Yes absolutely its soldiers should be proud of parading.

The issue here isn’t the act of parading. The issue here is that the US and its vassal states under nato are an evil empire that do nothing but evil everywhere they go. There is nothing to be proud of, and they certainly do not exist for the people.

When a military that genuinely exists for the benefit of its people parades, its soldiers are proud of doing so, and its people love seeing them do so. When a military that exists for the benefit of its ruling class parades, the parade takes on a different character, it does not look like a display of pride to its people, it looks like an intimidating threat to them instead.

Herein lies the difference between China putting on a parade, or the soviet union in its time, and how that differs to the US. One is a display of actual defenders of the people while the other is a display of enforcers of the bourgeoisie. These have a clearly different character.

So to answer your question “you think the military should happily perform?” No, not the american military. Every single one of its members should throw themselves off a cliff for the monstrosity they’re taking part in, or dedicate the rest of their lives to making up for it. They don’t want to parade because they know there is nothing to be proud of deep down.

I can find zero evidence to support this for the record and I’ve tried. At the moment it appears to just be claims by the US.

Latest propaganda attack on China seems to be that they have “kill switches” in all solar panels

https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/kill-switches-solar-panels-sold-china-sparking-fears-energy-grid-attack/

Sorry I don’t quite understand, can’t imagine what? That the soldiers in the parade want to do it? Yeah then you’d probably be right, that makes it even worse because they’re not gonna be invested in making their performance good either.

That alone says a lot about the modern state of america tbh. That the troops themselves would half-ass everything because they just don’t care and don’t want to be doing it.

A few weeks absolutely isn’t enough to match the Chinese performance they put on at Victory Day. Gonna make some comparisons afterwards lol it’s gonna look shambolic side by side.

https://www.tiktok.com/@china.william1997/video/7502823229623471382

Has the US military got any experience with synchronised performance marching? I have a feeling it’s gonna be amateur dogshit compared to China’s parades.