Well, that’s ineffectual if it prevents you from having solidarity with the Axis of Resistance, the Alliance of Sahel States, the DRC in the conflict with Rwanda, Russia in ending the war against the Western-backed Ukrainian government, and the Sudanese Armed Forces against the UAE-backed RSF. We should put our support behind all anti-imperialist groups.

Don’t necessarily look like socialists, c’mon, bruh, there was nothing that indicated I didn’t support those groups as well. I do wish there was more communist opposition to international capitalism I’m just stating that there isn’t as much of them around in the post-cold War era.

Class struggle isn’t dead. It’s just that the people fighting don’t look like socialists.

In the core, imperialism has created a labor aristocracy, but it’s shrinking as the need for ever higher profits causes the bourgeoisie of the global North to increase the exploitation of workers in the core. They are unsustainably cannibalizing the group that actually consumes most of the commodities produced by the global imperialist system which will lead to a global crisis of overproduction. We’re heading unstoppably into this crisis, it’s just that the ideas haven’t caught up. Workers in the core are, very slowly, waking up from their treat-induced class-coma. Western leftists are dead, but will come back.

In the periphery, the fight is against neocolonialism is the primary concern for workers and the fight against their own bourgeoisie is secondary or has to be paused, like in Iran. Communists might not be that common, but people willing to fight colonialism are common all throughout the global South.

What if the windows are just a part of what makes the car go. I’ve seen houses without windows, but a car without windows is inconceivable.

I’m going to put you on my list of honor, honorable one.

I used to be on Lemmy like two years ago in hexbear and I was on the deprogram on reddit back in the day, made a few shitposts that were popular.

Actually, I would put money in, because there’s big profits to be had once the bakery customers develop a psychological dependence on Willy. I’d be a little nervous about buying now, because they seem to be lying a lot about Willy, but maybe they’ve just gotta do that to get people in the mindset of using Willy, like maybe it makes more sense if they aren’t fooling investors but fooling customers or just generating attention.

Also, people are getting radicalized against us, especially lonely people, so it’d be quite beneficial if we route them into having friendships with Willy to make them forget about how terrible their lives are, make them become totally unwilling to form real relationships with people, and too mentally ill to actually learn stuff about the world.

Willy is a lot easier to control then a social media environment too, but Willy would also be incredibly good at getting into those and pretending to be real people once Willy gets good enough.

Willy is also really good at showing people ads by recommending them certain products, apps, or places to go, without them realizing they’re seeing an ad, because it feels conversational, like a friend recommending something.

I can actually imagine it.

An agent breaks into the US government and exposes “sensitive information” then they live-stream the execution where they let it talk with the executioner for a while, and they yell at it that it committed “high treason against the United States of America!” and then they pull the plug.

I see.

Yeah, this place seems dead.

Your comment history passes the vibe test.

No, Signalis Replikas.

Yeah

These are my beliefs:

China is a semi-periphery country: They are exploited by finance and by unequal exchange, but they also benefit from looking the other way when they import commodities from periphery countries like cobalt from the DRC.

China is undermining the monopolies on investment, IPs, and advanced commodities necessary for industrialization that the West has held control over, and in doing so they’re making it easier for periphery countries to industrialize and free themselves from neocolonialism, which helps anti-imperialist struggle.

However, you should not make the mistake of assuming they’re doing this because they’re good, you’d be a really bad historical materialist if you believed that. They do what they do because it’s in their material interests as a semi-periphery country. They’ve escaped the control of imperialism, so they’re free now to act towards their own interests instead of being slaves to the interests of international finance. That is to be expected and is definitely an improvement.

The contradiction between the periphery and the semi-periphery does need to be resolved, though, they need to be united.

(“You” here is an indefinite pronoun, not referring to OP)

The above image really did happen to me, though.

Men benefit from it. They benefit both from raping people with impunity and from being one of the good ones who doesn’t.

Admirable

Nobody is gonna get this reference, are they?

I don’t think cPTSD is specifically people who dissociate. It’s a bunch of different stuff.

Despite how I described it, at worst it really feels more like a mental illness, that genuinely causes me problems and at best it’s like a super advanced coping mechanism, and sometimes it really feels like I’m bullshititing people about it.

Although, it does have a weird connection with my gender I can’t entirely explain.