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MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]

@ MLRL_Commie @hexbear.net

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Marxist-Leninist-Rondeyist-Losurdoist, the only correct combination of names.

Life motto: If Deng didn't do it, did it even happen?

  • "actually we're doing animals a favor by breeding them for mass exploitation ☝️🤓"

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  • There are cows, chicken, and sheep that can survive without humans just fine, right? Or is that all just selective breeding to a point of non-survivability? Astonishing if so, I've never considered this before.

  • "actually we're doing animals a favor by breeding them for mass exploitation ☝️🤓"

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  • Do they eventually die off as a subspecies? I dont know much about sheep, but I assume there are sheep that don't have this problem that can allowed to live freely and reproduce in their stead. But are there just more sheep than can be ecologically allowed in existence right now?

    Rereading this, it sounds confrontational, I don't mean it that way. But is the goal to, through this, limit the population of sheep that can't survive without humans?

  • "actually we're doing animals a favor by breeding them for mass exploitation ☝️🤓"

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  • This does present a conundrum that I don't know how to tackle: sheep as they exist in agricultural contexts need human intervention to prevent overheating, so what's the way forward? Give them good lives outside of current production structures (so they can move more freely and live until old age with assistance) while still shearing them to save them from overheating? I can't think of any solution that isn't "kill them off and don't let them reproduce".

  • "Except in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa" oh okay then

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  • Agreed! I'm always feeling like comrades don't realize that being 'correct' but losing isn't useful or valuable. Learning from those mistakes is the only way to interact with strategic losses

  • Donald Trump invited Zohran Mamdani to visit the White House on November 21

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  • Damn it, I thought Trump was comparing him to Kwame Enkrumah and I was excited that trump even knew to make it. Thought for a second Trump might actually know about him

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from November 10th to November 16th, 2025 - The Trials and Tribulations of Tinubu - COTW: Nigeria

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  • Had a discussion just recently here about this. There are so many good reasons to ignore this critique about DPRK. There's also just this assumption that every representative body works so that you have disagreements and such up until the very final vote. Any reasonable system would have that worked out and have everyone agreeing before it gets there. Or at least everyone knowing how everyone will vote. Then, it being a 100% vote is just a rubber stamp that, indeed, the procedures were followed and we take responsibility for the actions now. It's basic democratic centralism one where or another (either hiding disagreement from the West or deciding to agree after all previous steps)

  • Can’t believe I’ve found myself going back to using physical cookbooks in 2025

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  • And some pictures of the pages! I'm willing to share any out of my vegan cookbooks of course. This is a good idea for like a mega thread lol. Just share a recipe you like with the site.

  • Weekly exercise check thread #4 💪🪻

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  • Running like 5 days a week instead of anything else because my shoulder still hurts. Excited to get back to strength training but damn it takes a while to heal

  • which capital?

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  • I have a version printed in Moscow in 1982. Pretty neat and it was cheap to find 2nd hand. I'd just look on your country's second-hand shops for it. Like eBay or Facebook marketplace or whatever. Any version is pretty good. First read it's not gonna matter much which translation! You can read about the translation fights after hahaha

  • Economists agree: You’re not crazy for feeling like the rich get richer, and the poor are doing worse. Welcome to the ‘K-shaped economy’

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  • Well if you limit your scope to the west, the anti-bellum imperialism+social democracy push made the K less prominent. But if you expand the scope to all of global capitalism, it's been a K since our boy Marx at least

  • this becomes more true with every day that passes

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  • Fully agreed. I will once again admit to appreciating videogamedunkey, whose Bad Graphics video's prescience lives on.

  • Imperialism Reading Group - Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic - Week 3

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  • Damn I appreciate this so much! At the end, you should try to put this somewhere? Tankietube or something so we can share with comrades!

  • [CW: Transphobia] Congrats to North Korea for winning the U-17 Woman's World Cup!

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  • I sympathize with this, though I have a 'philosphy of science' critique of these sorts of critiques--the forest missed for the trees sort of thing. Holistically considering quotes and portions of huge things as evidence of something while actions and a holistic look may still show its opposite. That is all to say, this doesn't convince me, but I get that it can be convincing.

    I didn't read this all--I won't lie by saying I did. But I took an example:

    "The main factor in this change is alleged to be the fact that it is now not objective conditions, but man that plays the decisive role in history:

    “It is not objective conditions but man that plays the decisive role in the development of history”. (Kim Song Il: ‘On Some Problems of Education in the Juche Idea’, in: ‘On Carrying Forward the Juche Idea’; Pyongyang; 1995: p. 144). "

    This seems very easy to me to clarify as the combination of the idea that objective conditions are also created by humans, or at least the most dominating ones. It is just highlighting the opposite in a dialectic which Marx, Lenin, and Stalin were needing to push the other pole of in their times. When Kim Song Il was writing, it was much more important for the movement to recognize the human aspect.

    It reminds me of what I read recently (will have to look it up) where Ho Chi Minh talked about Lenin 'bending the stick' the other way by saying a more extreme argument to bring the opinions towards a better understanding of the dialectical motion

  • [CW: Transphobia] Congrats to North Korea for winning the U-17 Woman's World Cup!

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  • As Losurdo puts it, Marx sometimes didn't imply an end to the state saying "the falling away of the state AS SUCH" and other times clearly implied it would go away entirely saying "the falling away of the state" and then discussing the ways that no state power would be needed. It seems Marx just slipped sometimes into that line of thought, but I don't judge the main body of his work for that slip (the historical materialism and analysis of capitalism)

    But what do you consider ways that the DPRK rails against historical materialism? I've never heard this claim, genuinely!

  • The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities

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  • Cesare said it first and better, fuck Foucault (nonsexually)

  • The AI Drones Used In Gaza Now Surveilling American Cities

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  • Agreed though I like the wording of:

    Fascism is the expropriation at the periphery ever present in Capitalism. Sometimes the periphery is within Geographic borders and defined by race, class, or any myriad of classifications.

    But that rolls off the tongue a bit worse lol

  • "Yeah, I read philosophy."

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  • Thanks! I enjoyed putting my thoughts down too, glad you liked it. I do think hating MA for his faults is still fine, for sure, including all the horrible shit he used his power for, like every other leader of of Rome. But separating that from the very useful pondering and tactics for avoiding the emotional downsides of failures is useful and allows us to utilize it despite his failures as a person and leader

    Also important to note that much of his writing was just journaling, so he may have been simultaneously been a chud outwardly talking about "strength and power and decisiveness" and all that when not contemplating his own troubles alone with his journal

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  • Also, just to have it stated: I am a losurdoist about statelessness. It seems like a major utopian mistake of Marx to really believe this. The state as its current function can be aufgehoben through new functions, but it has more functions than just class struggle for the ruling class that won't go away. Defense of the revolution might never end, though it will change in form to something much less violent and negative. So I don't think the DPRK is anti-marxist but it also is not attempting to throw away the state. I was just speaking in hypotheticals that most leftists understand to explain the rationalization you made and how it could be otherwise.

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  • Honestly though, in terms of slop-machine art, this one is top tier. Except for the weird scales approaching the arms, it's like really well proportioned and pretty. I'd bet someone edited a bit of it to make it better