The little country next door to China sent a few boys to western Russia and the entirety of the western political class freaked out for weeks.

Wang is said to have rejected, however, the accusation that China was materially supporting Russia’s war effort, financially or militarily, insisting that if it was doing so, the conflict would have ended long ago.

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He said it about Deng. I am having troubles finding when he said it exactly but clearly it was after Deng said “it doesn’t matter if a cat is white or black as along as it catches mice.” Mao was saying that Deng was not rooted in Marxist theory of class struggle and was worried that “doing what works to fix the problem” could lead China away from communism into bourgeois imperialism. Its was very valid critique and maybe Deng did deviate a bit to the right but after the left deviation of the cultural revolution there did need to be a realignment.

Good Post!

So the colonial government of australia is angry because a Chinese company is saying they are Chinese? Pro-tip: If you want credit for doing “soft power” investments in infrastructure, don’t start off by pilfering natural resources and mass murder.

Rio-tinto extracted billions of dollars from Bougainville using 0 local labor and paying the indiginous peoples nothing for the mineral rights. Then the governement of australia gave the Papua New Guinea millitary weapons which they used to kill 20,000 people protesting against the environmental, social, and economic costs of the mine.

From “blackbirding” aka kidnapping and slavery, to extractive colonialism, to equipping genocides like in East Timor, any money australia has donated to the Asian Development Bank or handed out in “aid” is a fraction of the reparations they owe to the south pacific and that’s not even getting started with what they owe to the indigenous peoples.

Peoples have developed darker skin closer to the equator.

It is the opposite. People were dark first and got lighter as they migrated north.

White people developed low melanin as a way to combat low amounts of UVa radiation. The change in climate is unlikely to make the ability to absorb UVb radiation a liability.

From what I understand of the green house effect is that higher temperatures lead to more cloud cover and thus less direct UV. If that’s correct its quite possible that Africa will become lighter skinned as the need to absorb UV through clouds increases.

The two officials said the U.S. government has not ruled out the possibility that loading the mines was a ruse. The Iranians could have prepared the mines to convince Washington that Tehran was serious about closing the strait, but without intending to do so, the officials said.

Oh god that is some delicious copium. “They were probably bluffing but we backed down anyways”

Microbiology Universities failed to protect anti-vaxers

You are part of the oppressed. The oppression you feel is different than people in other nations but that doesn’t make it any less valid. The alienation and stress of life in the imperial core can’t be directly compared with food insecurity and lower life expectancy but don’t let that convince you that you are not oppressed.

Labor aristocracy is a thing but it is a mindset more than it is based on material advantage at this point. Labor aristocrats support empire because they think it benefits them. If you can see through that lie you aren’t a labor aristocrat. (it was much harder to see through that lie a when a family could live on a single paycheck and pay off a mortgage in 10 years)

Don’t feel guilty. Being worried that you will materially suffer under the boot of capitalists even more because others are maintaining their freedom is not selfish.

This has to be bait right?

These arguments are all framed in the western individualist mindset. Just because there is no hope of seeing success in your lifetime is not a reason to help the process forward. Communism will come regardless of what any westerner does. The tides of history don’t depend on any one person but that doesn’t absolve people choosing to do their duty being part of the tide.

While I partly agree I think you are underestimating the importance of agitprop. Most western leftists can’t do much other than agitation and doing so online is a valid method.

Much of the global north is still a long way from popular uprising and at this stage the actions that are needed often don’t look much like work compared to the situation in usa where there are physical direct actions are needed.

Pushing the “correct positions” is an important job to avoid people falling to ultras or social fascists.

What if I told you that the lessons of history don’t matter? We just need to do harder the thing that has never worked before and not do the thing that has worked in the past.

The fixation on media and over estimating its importance is a symptom of the illness not the cause. I’ve known people who were seeing the secrets of the universe communicated through road signs and house numbers. How engaging the media is is irrelevant. Most of the time its stress, sleep deprivation, and/or drugs that make this sort of thing happen. (like the guy in the article who just got a new more stressful job)

So to me, a person who has gone through a psychotic break, the stories recounted just sound like an average psychotic break. They just happened to coincide with LLM usage. Its possible that the LLMs fed the break and exacerbated it but they could just as easily have been books or films that pushed them over the edge.

The fact that he is running as a dem is a red flag. They are using him to rehabilitate the dem brand. Participation in bourgeois elections only helps the cause if it is done under the banner of communism. He’s a sheepdog rounding up the “progressive” liberals who are disgusted by the support for the genocide.

He is the dem’s way of saying “I’m sorry baby. I’ve changed. I’ll never hit you again. Please take me back”

The Race “science” of flat earthers and antivaxers.

Dude you need to work on your reading comprehension. That article is not making fun of the backlash. The backlash isn’t mentioned ore even hinted at.

It is making fun of how in 2018 he had a habit of saying and doing racist shit and then half assing an apology and hypothesizing that the next move could plausibly be putting on a kkk robe and then making a bad apology. There is no mention of backlash.

Keep on going. The more you say “this is about stopping the spread of misinformation” and ignoring the fact that pewdiepie is a racist who inspired a literal nazi mass murderer you are just showing your true colors.