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ComradeSalad

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  • Why are some people so vehemently against genAI?

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  • Those aren’t petit bourgeois tendencies, those are pre-capitalist artisanal tendencies.

    Except for the copyright aspect, but independent artists rarely clamour about their “copyrights”, as their issue is more about how their work, whether copyrighted or not, is getting fed into a capitalist black hole machine designed to replace workers to benefit no one but a few capitalists.

    Most within the art world could care less if someone took the time to learn their style one to one by studying their work. That’s the entire point of art to a degree, as the end product is still an expression of labour value. Something that can’t be said about GenAI

  • Delusional Veterans vs. Veteran Liberals

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  • I promise you that conscripted privates were not benefiting materially in any way except through the indirect profiteering of the US by means of imperial acquisition.

    The federal poverty line for an individual in 1976 was 1,375 dollars a year.

    A private with less then 2 years active duty, or the standard conscription length, made 83.20 a month, or 998.40 dollars a year. Pre-tax.

    That’s not exactly swimming in cash, which contributed immensely to the plummeting of conscript moral by the 70s.

  • Delusional Veterans vs. Veteran Liberals

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  • Poor proletarian workers, especially minorities, did not have the resources to either run away to Canada, or the ability to subject their families to financial ruin by serving time in prison or leaving them behind.

    The people who were dodging the draft were college educated labour aristocrats who had enough money themselves or from their families to keep their heads down in Canada until the draft blew over.

    Should they have served time in prison or dodged the draft? Morally, absolutely. Materially? That’s where the idealism falls apart.

  • Delusional Veterans vs. Veteran Liberals

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  • What in the world are you talking about? You can’t just make up claims because they sound right and affirm your stance.

    The switch to counter insurgency oriented training began with the Vietnam war… which took place over 60-50 years ago. The disastrous counter insurgent performance of a military trained to fight the Soviets prompted a massive overhaul of US doctrine; especially as the prospect of war with the USSR became increasingly unlikely as the Union headed toward collapse. Actually, the effectiveness of the Afghans against the Soviets only intensified US military counter insurgency training and preparation.

    Further, the vast majority of Usian veterans are overwhelmingly post-9/11 troops trained in counter insurgency operations before deployment to Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghan, Libya, and other nations where insurgency is the primary mode of combat.

    I don’t know in what world you think the US abandoned Iraq, Syria, and Afghan in 2010. The army and national guard were rotating tens of thousands of troops into those nations continuously.

  • How will we start a revolution in the United States

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  • I love fedposting

  • A noob question on the state and its 'withering'

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  • I guess I'm slightly confused by what exactly constitutes the repressive organs that will wither away? Does that focus predominately repressive state apparati such as the police, military, and judicial system? I just struggle to understand how those elements of a state would wither away as even a classless communist society would require the maintenance of legal structures, a defensive military, and legal enforcement for civil protection and bureaucratic purposes.

    Or does Marx simply mean that the repressive capitalist version of such structures would wither away?

  • What do you think: will Israel blow up some of the flotilla fleet?

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  • Yes it will. Every demented action the settler state takes increasingly erodes what little public legitimacy Isreali PR efforts managed to meticulously cultivate over the past sixty years.

    Isreal is on the brink of becoming a politically unsalvageable pariah state that even the Imperial Core wont be able to justify reinforcing, much like South Africa.

  • We partied too hard after Charlie Kirk

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  • Could this please be marked as NSFW? As much as I'm happy that there is one less fascist in the world, this is just an image of someone actively getting shot, and the gore is unsettling. I hope this is alright to ask.

  • Is Russia’s Economy Really Just Spain and Portugal? Let’s Do the Math.

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  • Every stock bought or sold is a “service”.

    Stock activity is not included in GDP calculations and never has been.

  • You're all just Putinists and authcoms if you don't like CIA social movements!

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  • Cuba is about all I have lol

    Technically a colour revolution, but Fidel accidentally forgot to tell the CIA that he was a communist.

  • One quarter of 'Israelis' face food insecurity

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  • I honestly doubt it. Something in my heart tells me that those 'Israeli citizens' are most likely from minority communities and therefore relegated to the dregs of Israeli society. They're the Palestinian and arab individuals graciously granted citizenship in the larger Israeli state, and their suffering doesn't concern the upper echelons at all.

  • Locked

    How do you make someone understand that being drafted by force and ordered to invade another country is not a good thing?

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  • The automation is because it’s always been a felony not to register, same as it is in virtually every country with mandatory service, so to avoid the horrifically needless societal effects that come from giving someone a felony for a random crime, they simply automated it.

    Basically what they did with social security years ago. Used to also be a crime to not sign up by a certain age, so they just started immediately registering all children at birth.

  • Why is class conciousness in the USA so low? Why has it not progressed in so many years? Will be in a forever "We are not ready for a revolution due to lack of class conciousness" stage?

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  • At home in Belarus, and my time traveling and living in the Northeast and West Coast of the United States. I spend a lot of time in the political science part of libraries and I see it pretty commonly. Maybe not all small local libraries will carry it, but starting from a medium sized library, to large ones, its pretty common.

    I have also never not seen Settlers in a university library, which are open to the public where I have been.

  • Why is class conciousness in the USA so low? Why has it not progressed in so many years? Will be in a forever "We are not ready for a revolution due to lack of class conciousness" stage?

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  • Your local library most likely, it’s a fairly common book.

    If you meant online, there are free pdfs available.

    https://readsettlers.org/settlers.pdf

    Here is an HTML version with a clickable table of contents.

  • Already Free

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  • Yes, it sounds absurd, but 95% of the population were enslaved.

    The economy was closed off, agricultural based, and in all effect, a self-made hermit kingdom centered around a theocracy of the Dalia Lama.

    While this source is Chinese, it is excellently sourced, and should answer essentially every one of your questions. It also details the history of the slavery, and the extent to which it was baked into Tibetan society. Not to mention a population breakdown that adds up to 95% of the population being enslaved serfs, or chattel slaves.

    Chinese involvement arose primarily from three facts. The first being that if they claimed to be a socialist country, but allowed a neighboring theocratic country to practice chattel slavery, it would make them immensely hypocritical. The second being that bandits stationed in Tibet would frequently raid and pillage the Chinese countryside bordering Tibet, with these attacks only intensifying as the west sent Tibet arms and money. Finally, the third reason being that Tibet was historically part of China before the breakup in the early 20th century, and incorporating the country back into china made historical sense while freeing its population made moral, economic, historical, and ethical sense.

    http://za.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zt/12/200903/t20090319_7636208.htm#%3A%7E%3Atext=However%2C+serfs+and+slaves%2C+who%2Cmarriage+of+serfs+and+slaves.

  • Already Free

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  • That’d be like saying “The people of the Confederacy did not support the Union invasion”, with “the people” only referencing the white citizens of the Confederacy and not the millions of black slaves, Native Americans, and white abolitionists.

    Of course the “people of Tibet” would not be rejoicing at the PLA operation; as those people were part of the 5% of the population that owned the other 95% as slaves. I’m sure that the 95% were distraught they were no longer enslaved against their will.

    Also Haiti didn’t have slavery because they themselves wanted it. It was imported on a mass scale from a colonial power. Tibet had slavery because it was baked into their religion and culture with a vile caste system and violent repression.

    A country that is built upon 95% of their “citizens” being chattel slaves does not have a right to exist and be tolerated by countries around it, and such a state genuinely should be invaded if the aim of the invasion is to sweep aside a vile system that is keeping millions of people as nothing more then livestock.

  • Happy 206th birthday to communist dictator Carl Marks

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  • UK Rule

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  • No? The vast majority of the novel is set in London? The book literally says in its opening pages that the setting is England.

    You are probably thinking of “Atlas Shrugged”.

  • Would this be good or bad?

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  • You’re definitely right with everything. Only thing I can add is that the show was probably forced to be “sanitized” due to gaining popularity.

    But you are right with your conclusion.