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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?

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

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  • I've found this site a helpful little picture to use in discussions! Site with flow

    It seems to me that the democratic process, if done well, can be achieved in steps 1-11, and from there it be a more ceremonial role (which could be abused, I understand). There's no reason for a logical system to still have disagreements and rejections at stages 12 onwards if the rest is functional and the parties are working together for the betterment. This plus the instant recall mechanism through the 50,000 people represented per representative, seems to me very democratic.

    Is this the total reality there? Likely not, there's always added cultural aspects that shift how something is done and interpreted, and it's hard to know about the DPRK. But I will always push back when someone fills the gaps with assumptions based on how bourgeois politics wastes all previous steps by still doing bullshit fake politics within the assemblies. Any move away from that is positive

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  • Why would it be if all disagreement is worked out before this vote ever takes place? Then it's just like signing an already hashed out contract.

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  • You are also just rationalizing, that's what I was responding to. I could've shifted to ways that we know their system works that could explain it, but I wanted you to just realize that you were doing it. You are rationalizing with an assumption that I reversed: namely, that constant agreement within a political is a sign of undemocratic principles. I think this is a bad assumption

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  • Your evidence of their "rubber stamp" system could also be evidence of a system which is more efficiently oriented where proposals only come to that level once they are already so well thought out and we'll worked out that disagreement isn't necessary. Or that the disagreement first is worked out at other democratic levels before the rubber stamps just check it for validity/achievability. It's exactly what I would expect to happen as communism shifts away from elected assemblies as we know them to something more of a "check that it integrates well with the rest of the laws" towards the nebulous "statelessness".

    I don't think DPRK is completely there, but rubber stamping usually also has some reason for existing, and your assumption that it's a negative thing is just that: an assumption

  • 50 year mortgages the American dream now?

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  • Oh fuck is there precedence for this or did you make it up? I hope to God the latter

  • "Yeah, I read philosophy."

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  • Yeah, these people are also highly ignorant of the history and culture in which Aurelius found himself. I read it like this: MA was living in a world and culture and position where taking action, being decisive, and such were all givens. Of course he had to be able to do all that, and why focus on something so obvious? So MA was wrestling with the, for him, harder aspects of powerlessness which, though limited, were his main enemy.

    Chuds read things like it's an evangelical reading the bible: every word is the truth regardless of any context. (This is also a western Marxist tendency regarding Marx). So MA saying he couldn't change something is read as nothing can ever change so complain about attempts

  • WEEKLY BLOOMER THREAD: Please share your Bloomer news, personal or global!

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  • My partner and I are singing karaoke together at home sometimes now and it's a really fun little activity. Both practicing singing well is fun

  • "Yeah, I read philosophy."

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  • Lol, I do sympathize with this to an extent, but I do think that this book has some good tidbits for those struggling with the 'choose your battles' problem. Accepting that you won't influence everything, and letting that not impact you deeply in a negative way, can really help in focusing on what you can do. MA was definitely mixing these 2 things up quite often, where he could actually affect things but was stoic anyways, but I don't think dismissing it outright is useful to communists.

  • Zohran Mamdani calls the president of Cuba and Venezuela “dictators who have stifled free and fair elections, jaled political opponents, and suppressed the free and fair press”

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  • Skies? The food contest guy? I didn't realize he was in politics. His ability to eat does indicate unparalleled determination /j

  • It's over human physiologist, I have already depicted you as the soyleton and myself as the chadeton

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  • Oh man, this seems like it could be a fun scam guy to be online. Guy who grifts only by getting people to eat foods which will give them nastier shits.

  • Is pizza a sandwich

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  • Guy who doesn't mind pooping in toilets away from home but really feels uncomfortable peeing in any other toilet so he has to sneakily pee outside when away from home, but also leave nasty turds in others' toilets

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from November 3rd to November 9th, 2025 - The 47th ASEAN Summit + Trump and Xi's Deal

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  • See the other comments, there absolutely were people displaying acceptance of Zionists ideological points and that was the argument. The emoji was just the example that made it come up

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  • This is a misreading and a mischaracterizing analysis. From the beginning, everyone who was upset at Zionist tendencies talked about how the emoji was an EXAMPLE of the ways the Zionist arguments that were behind many choices and treatment of the site.

    There were people saying that it was a "holocaust emoji", which explicitly accepts the lie that Israel has anything to so with the Holocaust. And I cannot count how many times it was stated in the thread that "the emoji is just an example" and people are still acting like that was it. In general, it's people making the Zionist argument as described in this article

    I agree that calling someone a Zionist is a strong claim that shouldn't be used lightly. That's why I said many times that there were zionist claims being accepted instead. these are comrades who really needed to confront that they were still dealing with brainworms. That is different than being ontologically evil, but deflecting to 'its just an emoji' helps nobody.

  • BluSky now automatically hides every post by BadEmpanada with a "Rude" filter

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  • Well that goes without saying

  • Any good science YouTube channels or podcasts out there?

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  • I second this motion. Angela is the GOAT of science YouTube. Also her video on Richard Feynman was so enlightening about the bullshit of popular perspectives on science. Kinda her theme tbh.

  • New hexbear going to visit AES in Asia

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  • have actually never listened to Chapo Trap House (but I think I should),

    What's a Chapo Trap House? You mean Citations Needed, our official site-supported podcast?

  • BluSky now automatically hides every post by BadEmpanada with a "Rude" filter

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  • Santos is back and he's LIVID... On main

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  • Santos, leave the eating-contest-contestant from New York alone. Does he really deserve this for maybe slightly cheating in an eating contest a couple of times? Who hasn't watered down their food while glarfing it down? Pick on someone in politics

    Oh damn, wait, Sliwa is a politician? The eating contest guy?

  • AP calls it, Zohran projected to win NYC.

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  • Definitely, but this is where I think XHS is wrong to make such a comparison. Relative to the CPC, anything similar Mamdani does with or without a DSA fraction can be characterized as individual and anarchic

    To be clear, this isn't an argument saying that anything less than CPC size movement is worthless. It's just that similar actions have incomparable aspects due to this factor

  • Before revolution can take place, the proletariat must have lost absolutely all hope in bourgeois democracy - George L. Jackson

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  • This is all good and nice, but there's a huge wrinkle: energy. The amount of energy it takes (people, resources, money, time) to really exhaust the bourgeois methods through direct challenge WITHIN the norms is absurdly high. And that energy must be conserved or used in the most productive way possible. The energy required is so high that the #1 excuse for failures is "we needed more energy to win" and that's an almost inexhaustible resource for the bourgeoisie is a western nation, so it's always running on a treadmill moving faster than our little legs can manage--racing a giant.

    So the challenge is to find ways to manage an utilize the limited energy we have and prove that the current methods are untenable. Framing it as a problem of not trying hard enough/not exhausting it is exactly how we fail to confront the bourgeois system at its weak point.

    I think George Jackson didn't mean "exhaust" in reference to how hard we must try, but "exhaust" in terms of how many possibilities we can prove are untenable. Forcing the bourgeois systems themselves to prove that it then the trick.