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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.^[https://www.versobooks.com/products/59-four-futures] 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 ^[https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas] ^[https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-2-profit-strategies-for-our/]


    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.

  • 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.

  • Brian Berletic (who lives in Thailand) made an excellent analysis of the situation: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3vpN5q2Zkmg

    TLDR: Thailand has 2 pseudo-governments: the civilian government run by US-backed billionaires, and an independent Thai military which opposes US influence over Thailand. The US is using Cambodia, which they already mostly politically captured, to pressure the Thai military into another conflict to weaken them.

    The phone call of cooperation between Cambodia and the Thai cilivian government was leaked by Cambodia on purpose to foment Thai outrage and force the Thai military to spend resources responding.

    Berletic lives in Thailand and has spent several years recording the attempts the US has made to politically capture Thailand and turn them into Bonbon-Marcos-style Phillipines.

  • Eh, as long as the worker gets stock in the company that they can cash out later if the startup goes big, then the treatment is kinda whatever. That is the tacit deal.

    Never work for a brand new startup for the pay. Work for the opportunity of getting rich on its stock.


    Startup competition is the progressive part of capitalism. As socialists, we can use them to quickly iteratively develop technologies and production (E.g. China). Only once the startups have become monopolies or have started making money in ways detrimental to society do they have to be controlled/nationalized for further socialist development.

  • Good point, though I don't think deforestation is a big problem in China anymore. What more efficient food production does allow is reforesting excess soy farming fields, which will definitely sequester carbon while restoring the environment.

  • Yes, you could just bury organic carbon for carbon sequestration. However, using your custom engineered yeast enzyme to do this is pretty dumb when you could just use waste plant biomass like SinkCo Labs does.

    Herein lies the fundamental economic problem with carbon sequestration: you spend money to produce nothing.

  • Not really. This falls under CO2 utilization, which converts waste CO2 into more useful stuff. Because cows/pigs eat the yeast protein, and we eat the cows/pigs and burn them as calories, we re-release the CO2 in our breath.

    This tech is better classed as precision fermentation, and unfortunately has little to do with fighting climate change.

  • Hasanabi doctrine proved right.

  • Thanks, fixed!

  • You have to consider the population density in China. One nuke aimed at an 'important target' could pretty easily kill a few million Chinese as collateral.

    This would obviously give China all rights to launch a counterattack.

    Unfortunately one Chinese nuke cannot do the same to Americans because Americans just don't live densely enough, which means for a sufficient response China probably needs to launch 5+ nukes per one American nuke.

    Of course, the Americans will just launch four or five nukes in response, which will kill ~20-30 million more Chinese. At which point, everyone will be nuking each other.

    TLDR There is no such thing as limited nuclear war because any limited strike on China will probably kill enough people to justify a massive counterattack, at which point full nuclear war will have begun.

    I made a previous writeup on China's current position in a nuclear exchange with the US: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5407827/4903187

  • "he truly believes a second Holocaust is coming"

    Y'all are the ones fucking committing it! The Palestinians y'all are merking are direct descendants of the original Israeli tribes.

  • In fact, the CPC actually collaborated with the Dalai Lama and Tibetan nobles at the beginning to slowly phase in economic and social improvements in a kind of proto-One-Country-Two-Systems plan. The CPC even gave the Dalai Lama a high position in the Chinese government as a Vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and as the chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Preparatory Committee.

    Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama and co. got pissed at the loss of their all-powerful privileges and decided to do a CIA-sponsored revolt. Of course, they got no support from any of their serfs, who were quite happy to be free, and so they fucked off to India.

    After that, the CPC had a mandate to speedily implement all the reforms.

    Here's some good resources:

  • Vampires are the ultimate bad-boy romantic aesthetic. How skilled at romance must a woman to wrap an immortal being around her finger? In that sense it's kinda empowering.

    Right now, werewolf romance novels are rather popular on reddit romance novel communities. This is the exact same kind of dude as a vampire except you also get animalistic boinking.

  • Pretty much, yes. Having read both, the horny energy is exactly the same.

  • I think allos (myself included) ship other people so we can live vicariously through them. I don't have time or energy for a romantic relationship RN, but watching others get together is kinda fun.

    This practice is kinda harmless for fictional characters (and romantic subplots are usually the norm in said shows), but can definitely make IRL aces uncomfortable. Sorry about that, we should probably stick to fictional characters only.

    I think vampires (specifically the hot mysterious dude kind of vampire) are popular mostly because they fulfill a certain niche of romantic fantasy. This niche used to be filled by the plethora of romance novels, which are mostly consumed by women. Today, romance novels have been supplanted by many more types of content, including stuff about vampires. Also, you can't really blame normal, horny people for thinking about banging anything. R34 is a thing for a reason.