Unfortunately the US has very comparable inventions: https://news.mit.edu/2025/hopping-gives-tiny-robot-leg-up-0409

This tech race is neck and neck.

Looks cool! Will mess with on my home server.

If I remember correctly you can make small edits without an account, but making new pages requires an account.

Are you adding them to Prolewiki? If you want, I can send you the raw markdown files. I have them stored on a personal archive

If not, I guess I’ll try applying to be a Prolewiki editor again. I just don’t like the entire backup wiki being my posts because no one else can add to them.

I wasn’t able to become a Prolewiki editor last time I tried, so I can’t add the stuff myself.

If the ban ends up being permanent, it would be good to make a public promo post inviting their refugees onto https://lemmygrad.ml/c/thedeprogram

Good thing I backed up the wiki on here. Could you move it onto Prolewiki also? I can provide raw Markdown files of all the wiki entries.

Crap, that’s not good. Is the ban on reddit gonna be permanent? If so, tell all your friends to move here.

Good thing I backed up the entire wiki on here.

This is so fucked. If you buy U.S. air defense systems, they can just turn them off whenever they feel like it. At least when you buy Russian weapon systems, you can point them at Russia (like Ukraine) and they still work.

Of course, these two things can both be true, but the US-backed color revolutionaries are louder due to their funding. Nepal’s geography sort of dooms it to being a shithole unless China pours a ton of money into it, which they haven’t gotten around to yet.

Thus, this is just like the Hong Kong protests, where some of the protesters were legitimately pissed over high living costs, which was not really a problem caused by the Chinese, but rather the native Hong Kong government. And then the U.S.-backed color revolutionaries stirred it up into way bigger shit by just conducting tons of domestic terrorism.

Once the Nepal-China railway is finished tunneling through the Himalayas, Nepali lives will get better. Let’s just hope that this color revolution doesn’t ruin that opportunity forever.

This ghoul’s face pops up everywhere handing out goodies to color revolution actors.

I agree. I will say that switching to trial by jury does result in some marginal improvement at the extremes. Even the worst cases of trial by jury, i.e. Jim Crow era, were reflections of the rot of U.S. society as a whole, while the most egregious cases of trial by judge can be caused by just one corrupt judge.

Examples include:

• Steven Donziger, who sued Chevron to force them to clean up their destruction (entire lakes and rivers filled with toxic oil) of the Ecuadorian rainforest from past oil drilling. Instead, Chevron got permission to hire a private judge, who made Donziger lose his law license, put him in jail, and pay millions in damages to Chevron.
• Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, who sent thousands of kids to private prisons for no justifiable reason in exchange for monetary kickbacks from the private prison company

I think by ‘wide blockade’, OP is referring to blockading the South China Sea by way of the rather small straits connecting it to the wider Pacific. The U.S. game plan is to park warships in the Strait of Malacca and the alternative straits (spanning from Taiwan, Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia; notice a pattern with US vassals and regime change attempts?), thereby blockading China.

I don’t think rare earths are super important for chips. Rare earths are more important for small, ultrapowerful motors, magnets, and other devices useful for robotics and military equipment.

However, the US is falling behind on power production to power all the AI they want to run.^[1] Basically, it may not matter than US chips for AI are twice as powerful as Chinese ones if China has the excess power production to just run 2-3X as many of them.^[2]

Either way, China’s work in this arena provides the Global South an alternative to just being dominated by US AI in the future. This still doesn’t help Americans in the US though, who need to fight their own fight to prevent from being sidelined, replaced, and ultimately exterminated by US capitalists and their AI.

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I agree with your points. I don’t think any leftist party can officially have accelerationism as part of their platform for obvious publicity reasons to the uninitiated. However, I can’t really see how it hurts for USians to privately root for it by sucking money out of the USA and pumping it into the Global South.

Firstly, we in the USA unfortunately have a very limited timeline at this point to win the revolution. There are only two permanent ways to resolve the class contradiction. Either the workers get rid of the capitalists, or the capitalists kill all the workers and replace them with robots.^[1] This is why Sam Altman and co. are so excited about AI.

In less than 100 years, the US capitalists will probably have AIed and automated everything, from AI production chains to robot cops. They will never need a human worker to touch shit again, and there is nothing said worker can do about it. There is nothing a worker can do to fight against robot terminator cops. It will allow capitalists to genocide, or mentally lobotomize, the former ‘working’ masses who are now nothing more than a nuisance, unwanted livestock.

To anyone who thinks that this is far-fetched, they are sorely misguided. Peter Thiel and co. are already talking about this future:

People who are not ‘productive’ would best be converted to biodiesel. Barring that, “our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide. That is: the ideal solution achieves the same result as mass murder (the removal of undesirable elements from society), but without any of the moral stigma.”

“The best humane alternative to genocide”…is “to virtualize them. A virtualized human is in permanent solitary confinement, waxed like a bee larva into a cell which is sealed except for emergencies. This would drive him insane, except that the cell contains an immersive virtual-reality interface which allows him to experience a rich, fulfilling life in a completely imaginary world.”

— Curtis Yarvin, with approval/following from Peter Thiel, JD Vance, Marc Andreessen ^{[2] [3]}

Secondly, against this timeline, it is imperative for U.S. Socialist parties to organize as hard as they possibly can. As conditions deteriorate for Americans, we can expect these parties to grow in popularity. However, what we need to avoid along the way is for the US bourgeoisie to not be rabid enough, to freak out from the socialist organizing, and add back enough social safety nets FDR-style to get people to go back to sleep, just to finish the full robotization and then kill us all off.

We sort of need the bourgeoisie to walk a fine line. We want them to respond somewhat to socialist parties’ demands, so that socialists can get small wins to use to further organize, but never wins big enough to demobilize the working class, and to always have a creeping line of oppression that we can mobilize further against.

Thirdly, the US Empire survives to this day only because the Global South is still mostly weak as fuck and has no money and no power. Out of the entire globe, the U.S. is the country with the most colonially-stolen money. So if any accelerationist can take money out of the U.S. and pump it in to the Global South, that is strictly a net benefit.

Based on these conditions, if a so-called accelerationist and socialist sympathizer wants to deliberately drain money out of Americans and pump it into the Global South, there is nothing wrong with that. They just need to regulate the amount of extraction such that it maintains the necessary creeping rate of oppression. This means ramping up exploitation when other capitalists want to give back concessions, and ramping it down when things are deteriorating too fast for good organizing to take place. That way they can play the bad cop to socialist good cop and hopefully drive stuff towards a better end.

If I somehow do end up getting a fuck ton of money in the US, and the socialist parties are still falling behind, my goal will be to use the money to further drain as much money from Americans as possible and shuttle it to China or whatever other promising Global South or AES states. Even if the USA becomes a capitalist wasteland, at least the Global South will be developed enough to ignore the dying Americans.

The thing is, GrapheneOS can’t really hide his tracks. Him reporting publicly already puts a target on his back, and GrapheneOS can’t help him with that.

Western-made privacy software like GrapheneOS, Signal, Tor, etc. are designed first and foremost for anonymity from Global South governments. Most were funded by the Open Technology Fund, a CIA cutout originally founded by Radio Free Asia to make software to help CIA informants and color revolution planning. Because of this, you can’t really expect them to protect you from the West itself, especially if your anonymity is already busted by being public.

Highly recommend. It’s written by socialist Peter Frase.

This video by 1Dime in collaboration with Second Thought provides a nice overview of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5NM68BTpSk

That is the legal definition of “AGI” used in a contract between OpenAI and Microsoft.

The real definition of AGI is much worse, and refers to an AI basically equivalent in capability to a human across all domains, allowing it to be copied ad infinitum to replace any and all human labor.

As much as AGI in the hands of socialists is the best way to reach fully automated luxury communism, in the hands of capitalists, it is also the way to resolve the class conflict forever by killing everyone else and replacing them with robots.

The book Four Futures explores these 2 possibilities further.

Everyone imports shit from China, since China makes everything. This is like saying the US is captured by China because it imports most of its shit from China.

You have to look at where Cambodia versus Thailand exports its stuff to. Berletic shows that Cambodia exports most stuff to the USA, thus making it economically subservient to the USA.

He literally talks about that. Power flip-flops between the pro-US billionaire civilian government and the more independent Thai military. Every time the military takes power over the Western-backed billionaires, it’s called a coup by Western media.

Obviously neither side is ‘good’, but I would rather Thailand not become Philippines 2.0. A ‘democratic’ billionaire-run government taking orders from the USA is not a democracy any more than the Thai military is.