Fuck him. China had around ~600 nuclear weapons, while the US has 5177. It is about time China increased its nuclear weapons count to at least match, but ideally double or triple. As I have written before, China needs the ability to fire 3-4 nuclear warheads to match the deaths from each one US warhead, due to China’s much higher population density.

Also, Japan is a nuclear threshold state just like Iran, with enough plutonium to immediately build 5500 warheads. China cannot be outmatched by both the USA and historic war-criminal Japan.

PSL helps organize almost every major protest, and “technically not-technically” run Breakthrough News, the most popular socialist video news org on YouTube.

I think Zyuganov is happy to work under Putin for now as the representative of the second largest party in Russia. If the KPRF went politically against Putin, it would create the perfect instability for U.S. color revolution shit. Putin is at least a Russian nationalist who is willing to use industrial and fiscal policy to strengthen and develop Russia.

Apparently, this is enough rice to feed Cuba for half a year.

It’s best they do stay secretive; otherwise, the US will let loose the terrorists they’re funding to destroy Myanmar to go kill them too.

Yep. Apparently states have the right to oppress minorities, but not the right to stop them from being oppressed.

So the Supreme Court is saying that conversion therapy must be allowed? The fuck about conservatives’ “states rights”?

Here’s the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10144-z

Agree. The West seems to define human rights as “the complete freedom of people to do whatever they want (barring outright torture/murder except in cases where the people murdered are anti-imperialists)”. Most importantly, this includes the right to sell off the country to Western capitalists. However, if people are starving and dying because of a lack of social services and infrastructure, that’s not a problem of human rights. According to the West, that’s just natural law.

The Soviet Union abstained from signing into law the UN Declaration on Human Rights explicitly because its negative rights of political and economic freedom directly opposes the construction of socialism, which requires opposing the economic and political power of the bourgeoisie. The West is perfectly happy to say that they support economic and political rights for all because in practice the bourgeoisie dominates due to their existing wealth.

I think someone just forgot to add them. Laos has a very low profile on the international stage.

I’m also studying that subject!

Here are some good books:

• Communism, the Highest Stage of Ecology (very technical, focusing on ecological policies in AES states)
• Socialist States and the Environment: Lessons for Ecosocialist Futures (this one focuses on ecology in the Soviet Union and China, requires prior interest in said countries)

Yeah, it’s pretty hard to be an advocate of American fascism if you’re non-white or a woman. You’re essentially cheering for either your own extermination or for you to be locked in a house.

China’s transition from a Soviet-style socialist economy (where there wasn’t much space to be corrupt, and in which Mao tried using the Cultural Revolution to create an atmosphere of continuous revolution to purge any inklings of corruption) to a socialist market economy created avenues for government officials to make corrupt earnings. For a time, the CPC tolerated a base level of corruption in exchange for quickly facilitating industrial development and investment from the West (e.g. a government official works faster when bribed than when not, and foreign companies are generally used to bribing because that’s what they always do).

Over time however, this kind of corruption invites anti-government sentiment, allows bourgeois ideas to permeate government officials, and could lead to Soviet-style collapse where the corrupt officials decide they want to become the new bourgeoisie. Once China’s economic growth slowed down a bit, the cost of bribes also became more of a drain on development.

This is why Xi Jinping began a massive anti-corruption campaign in 2012 and initiated reforms of China’s anti-corruption state institutions. This campaign was originally led by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (China’s national prosecutorial agency), which silently collected evidence on corrupt officials until evidence against them was overwhelming and they could be thrown in jail.

To see how they operate, you can watch the TV series In the Name of the People ( English subtitles here; https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJpCdaWK6PVpeWbeUSjw4dBWt5IKK5Buj ). The series shows how prosecutors work to combat corruption in a fictional provincial government, and was officially funded by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate so the Chinese public could understand how fighting corruption worked. You’ll notice that the officials who report corruption will get lighter sentences if they themselves are corrupt, or even advance if they themselves are clean.

In 2018, China transferred the task of investigating corruption to a new department, the National Supervisory Commission (国家监察委员会), which has broader powers to investigate corruption within both the government as well as the Communist Party via its co-located sister agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中国共产党中央纪律检查委员会). This lets China attack corruption at the state and party level.

Ultimately, corruption is a result of the incentives that exist for government officials. Only by changing these incentives can you remove the possibility of corruption. For example, a dirt-poor state will never be able to stop corruption, because even the government officials will be desperate to get money. Corruption will also flourish if officials are not punished severely (e.g. by firing squad) for it. Fighting corruption must also be seen as a viable pathway for career advancement to incentivize officials to snitch on others’ corruption.

China is building a base level of wealth to make corruption unnecessary, anti-corruption prosecutorial institutions to make corruption dangerous, and an atmosphere that combatting corruption is good for one’s career (so officials snitch on others’ corruption) so that corruption becomes impossible.

Good. If the DPRK can show that if the US invades it, SF and LA will be glassed, then the cost won’t be worth it to US capitalists.

Honestly, if Hegseth wants to exclude anyone from the military who isn’t white and male, I’m all for it. Doing so would eliminate a massive portion of the US military (which usually depends on poor nonwhites) and further weaken US imperialism.

China has shared piano booths in public parks that let people go practice piano inside, similar to your idea: https://www.sz.gov.cn/en_szgov/news/latest/content/post_10845676.html

That’s a cat and mouse software game of getting the drone to disregard EWAR signals while still tuning in to command signals. That can only really be tested in the field on a per enemy basis.

Looks awesome! Here’s the footage of the laser systems working: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=895645883310687&vanity=globaltimesnews

According to the US, Iranian missiles launchers have all been destroyed and Iranian launches are supposed to be declining.

This is stupid. The USA makes no consumer routers.

I was looking forward to getting a new WiFi 7 router with Multi-Link Operation (no current routers have the full MLO featureset: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5o_Qu3XToQ).

Not anymore, I guess. I can’t wait for router prices to quadruple to be ‘made-in-USA’.