Thanks! Interesting to see people’s perspectives.

I’m curious about the class/settler analysis, since it seemed like people didn’t quite agree on that and I’m not really sure what to think myself.

Also I don’t think I would aim to be totally self-sufficient or such a large scale, don’t know if that makes a difference. But sounds like that may not be economically feasible from one person’s experience.

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lmao like actually true though

Wait what does 737max have to do with the Titanic

Defending against accusations of genocide? Yes. Although the phrasing can sound odd because it is largely a fabricated narrative. I think most here would support China’s actions as a deradicalization program against religious extremism, especially compared to the US solution in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tankie is really just used as an insult against “communists I don’t like.” It’s not like it has any theoretical depth. It has an etymology related to the definition they gave you but that only has so much influence on its use.

Class war is the ongoing state of things. Like infation and rent hikes. If a revoluton broke out, of course it would be authoritarian. And the resulting state would probably take an extremely cautious siege socialism approach if it wanted to survive, so yes it would probably be authoritarian. But choosing to not be authoritarian is really just willfully ceding power to the previous ruling class who are not going to give up their position peacefully, even after a revolution. Think about the media narrative and war hawk stances against Cuba, the DPRK, the PRC. Now imagine that but applied to a newly founded socialist republic.

I think regarding privacy it can feel insurmountable and so people give up. At least that’s pretty much how I feel. I do a few things but it seems like it takes a lot of time and sometimes money to keep up with it and use the proper applications. And as someone who is not super into tech it is very difficult to filter through the noise and figure out what concrete steps to take.

Selling nukes on the blackmarket, notoriously uncontroversial and unambiguously GOOD and COOL

@kig_v2@lemmygrad.ml because they were the first to reply to this post, then replied to themselves AND @CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml replied despite their rule of not engaging in discussion here that could affect the game.

You’re taking away my freedom to experience urban blight, this is basically genocide

Is there more context to this? Like this sounds ridiculous even for the USA. I assume then that he was seeding the articles or otherwise widely distributing them? Not that I think that’s worth a death penalty…

I was looking for Chinese/Mandarin dubs of spongebob on youtube and half the videos were wildly racist sponge-caricatures…

On a side note I was looking for this because I ran across a hilarious german spongebob communist meme, which made me curious to see the dubs in different languages. The Japanese dub of the Spongebob intro is hilarious—the numbers of syllables don’t fit so it’s completely out of rhythm, and it has so many loanwords it feels like fever dream English.

German Communist Spongebob https://youtu.be/OY-x_Wajxxw

Japanese vs. Mandarin vs. English Spongebob Intro https://youtu.be/R1BAHnPW45o If you don’t use hanzi search terms be ready for A LOT of racism!!!

Not enough racism

TFW you meet a Latin American student at a US university who only knows 1 word in Spanish “from his nanny”.

My god, do you have the clip of that 😂

Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags.

lmao

Even better:

Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies.

and, pray tell, where exactly is China’s “truculence” you speak of?

I hate that all the NYT is considered the cream of the crop and all the uni educated libs around me imbibe this crap uncritically.

All the American liberals around me in my experience get uncomfortable if I so much as praise China’s rail infrastructure and seem to think that Uyghurs have been poured into the concrete or something.

“Flawed democracy” is putting it lightly. Also it seems like everyone talks about MAGA believing Biden rigged the election, but it seems like the sus af primary got memory holed :(

It probably became too untenable, but I can bet it will remain permanently imprinted on libs minds. I’ll be like “Shostakovich’s 8th string quartet is metal af” and some mega-lib will begin quaking in abject horror that I muttered something Russian sounding like quartet (clearly a loanword from квартет, obviously) and they’ll be like “buuuhh wuut about Buchaese genocide of Bucha enhnic minority singlehandly by Putler???” And all that I’ll be able to do is give them a vigorous death stare lest I become a genocide denier. 😥

Just saw someone with a Polish and a Ukrainian flag, I wonder if that’ll change lol

Ok, even without the femur switcheroo, how would one NOT realize it was a massive self own??? Eating a human femur to own the libs Russians, tell me who is the one that has to eat a human femur…