I once met a guy who moved to UK from hong kong and they were hardcore US supporter and wanted the US to nuke the entirety of the middle east and claimed that especially muslims were invading western countries like the UK and taking over and enstating the dreaded “Sharia law”. He also wanted the US to Nuke china and destroy it.

Meanwhile everyone I’ve met from the Mainland is totally chill and very very very educated about world events and speaking multiple languages. I’m still friends with all of them. One recently joined the Communist party so I’m super interested in talking with them about stuff.

IDK abt this im constantly discovering new music that I adore. Its possible theres something thats not considered here but I think this is more of a marketing gimick chart

not even mentioning the suppression of the Ainu which continued even after the “empire collapsed after ww2”

its a little bit of an odd one but Japanese imperial flag i think would be a nice one to see. Although I kinda consider Japan occupied by the US now, and its flag is changed, it still uses the imperial flag in celebration of many things related to its war crimes and to honor their dead soldiers. Additionally because of their lack of effort in rectifying the atrocities they’ve heavily strained their relationship in the region and most Japanese citizens don’t even know about atrocities committed.

Yeah honestly I totally agree.

The idea that religion would be on the side resisting oppression or against it inherently is flawed. We see religion used to justify just about anything. Even within the same system and same struggles. You could replace religion with just about any societal construct and the issue comes from the leaders of said constructs and their own struggles, to be opportunistic and aid imperialism or to fight for the workers, and the workers in their stringent trust in the leaders. Just the same issues different name.

But because dialectical materialism is exactly that, materialism, religion as a concept tends to be a kind of antithetical thought.

I’d be okay with that just to have as a placeholder for all future events like this.

what on earth could have possibly happened. I wish we could still see comments that resulted in the ban cuz im so curious how people go so far offtrack they can get banned for a comment.

ubgbhgbhgbhgg There doesn’t seem to be an archive of this yet. I would love to see a concrete source I keep seeing it around. Everything keeps leading back to a Beijing international news company which I’m a little wary of. It’s possible this is a ploy to try to reduce investment in china, not that it’d work lol.

In any case I cant confidently share it until I find something more concrete. As the person and the business aren’t even named. It also keeps being covered as a “This makes AI and gadgets in China more expensive.”

If you mean the definition we use in america it is; Capitalism creates many middle men for all kinds of systems. This is because creating a supply issue and selling the solution creates a whole new market and thus profit. However this also increases complexity and connections that need to be gone through just to access something you could before, from the supplier. Each time a middle man is added, the price also increases for the end user.

Additionally bureaucracy has its origins ins Feudal society and serves as a method for oppressing the proletariat, often with more well off proletariat. Often these systems are used to increase complexity explicitly to prevent the proletariat from resisting the demands of the bourgeois class. An example of this that is extremely popular is when you need assistance at a bank service, or with a refund online, or account recovery, and find that the support system is operated by a bot, which you must navigate its many particular menu’s to find the issue you have. Which it of course might not actually have. Inevitably leading you to find the option which leads to an actual person to solve your issue. Sometimes leading them to reveal that you called the wrong number, causing a transfer which risks disconnect, or requiring you to call a different one. All of which costs time and exhausts the caller with the goal of forcing them to give up navigating a system designed for them to do so.

The complexity of US law is another Example of bureaucracy oppressing the proletariat, as is US tax law. Mistakes made in such cases are at such a high risk that often one must pay for an expert in such cases to even have a chance of navigating the environment. Done intentionally to extract as much out of the proletariat as possible through mistakes. Often many innocent people accept appeals simply to avoid the complexity and potential punishment for fighting a crime. Only to violate their complex parole and be sent to prison.

[[What you’re reading is referring to this most likely]]

But, Marx and Lenin believed that once revolution or transformation of state has occurred, it by no means suddenly creates something new. They use this to target what they primarily speak of when they talk about bureaucracy, that is remnants of the Old bourgeois state. This is part of the obligations of a newly created socialist government. To use the powers the have to dismantle and whither away the bureaucracy that was established by the bourgeois and in doing so dismantle a branch of power they still hold over the proletariat.

It’s important to remember that the bureaucracy, although appointed by bourgeois and is in service to them, is of course staffed primarily by the unelected proletariat class traitors. They are typically referring to Police, Professors, Lawyers, and other peoples who can only hope to gain cushy positions where they are seen as superior to the rest of the proletariat by using their position to betray the proletariat to bourgeois class interests. These take the form of Police who oppress the workers uprisings, the Lawyers write laws allowing harm and pollution to workers or suffering people or create tax loopholes for the bourgeois, Private Scientists who falsify data for profit such as with oil companies and climate change, etc. These individuals who hold roles that are to be replaced with elected officials and subject to removal by the working class. Instead of holding these positions of superior to the workers, they become simply an extension of the workers will.

Because they define Bureaucrats as privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people. And bureaucracy as the tendency for these opportunists to be in positions of power. Most of what they write is detailing the importance of replacing such individuals with either elected ones or replace them with process’s of the state.

I’ll find the book I read that details much of this and post it later for sources.

I live in an area where most of the population is religious including fellow comrades. The idealism portion might be a difficult hurdle to cross over for them. I’m not sure how I would address it honestly.

Pamphlets are mainly meant to educate and agitate those that are already willing so I really doubt this needs any changing. But may not be as useful within my area, but I’d still like to print and try. Thank you for creating this.

I wrote a guide for my community on how to build a movement and I had a section talking about prioritizing effort into those that would be easiest to convince over those that would resist. It’s better to recruit 10 willing comrades than save 1 nazi from their pit of hate.

Thank you a lot for this, you’re totally right. That’s how I’ve been handling it and I just started to kinda forget that. The way you described it is really nice I might screenshot it for others.

You’re totally right I think in my circumstances I’m predominantly encountering privileged class individuals. It does return the question to “how can you convince bourgeois to be a class traitor” to a degree.

When people are immediately inflamed by something I definitely step back on what I’m talking about. Especially with people outside the country I’m in I try to keep it more casual as I don’t have a big investment in discussing it with them. Totally agree with you’re suggestions. Thank you for the insight in your experiences with many difference people. It really helps me feel better about it. I think I’m speaking to a slightly privileged class most of the time and it created a kinda “survivorship bias” effect.

I relate to this immensely, I just recently experienced a similar pain.

I recently have been trouble with intense pain in my abdomen slightly right of center and went to the ER multiple times thrashing from the pain, could even feel it through morphine. Cat scan showed nothing but my family history has gallstones so they scheduled a gastro doc.

I’m fuckin pissed at this guy, I was in so much pain I needed to be wheel chaired in because I couldn’t take painkillers before the tests that day and he came in asked me the problem I described it as “pain in my upper stomach area center right” and he tells me my stomach is on my left side and I clarify I meant the belly region below the ribs. He begins poking at several areas and when he hits my ribs i feel intense pain, I almost start crying instantly. He says this is simply a bruised rib, pokes my other organs again and the rib a fucking GAIN. I state the pain this time is too far to the right and before it was more center and he says “I don’t know what you tell you its simply your rib” pokes it twice more and then tells me to take advil and finish the tests scheduled(HIDA and Ultrasound. I mentioned I take oxy for the pain right now and he said “no don’t take painkillers just advil for anti inflammatory” as if it’s no big deal and as if advil is not a mild painkiller and left. When I’m in the HIDA scan they are unable to conduct the test because my gallbladder doesn’t fill (a sign of stones) and he cancels my ultrasound. Fucking for no reason

The next night I went to the ER and got an ultrasound and its fucking gallstones. fucking asshole is lucky my organ wasn’t infected and I wasn’t willing to listen to him. He could’ve gotten someone seriously injured or killed.

However doctors here often ignore women and believe they’re being hysterical. I’ve seen it most my life with all my family members.

I blame it on doctors predominantly being part of upper class families of petite or regular bourgeois and fall for the usual reactionary tendencies. Basically two different things make them think they’re better than you all the time. I trust experts but in this field, and in the imperial core, they’re too often refuse to listen to anything else. The best experts hone on the truth with discussion and collaboration.

Although you do have to like… beat them to capture them. So they have these abilities but you did defeat them in spite of it. Now if they could communicate with each other and work together that’s a different story

Ai doesnt actually think for itself so it takes all data its searching through as being factual and non contradictory in order to function. If you just lie a bunch itll throw it off lol. it might not even be able to differentiate between completely fake names like. Gorgonzola Baker which is obviously my real name. lmfao

I think you may be focusing a bit too much on MAGA. Like yeah its a movement that is enacting change now but workers rights have been continuously stripped even before MAGA was even thought about. The reason why is because the workers have not organized a general strike for their own rights. (caused by a variety of factors; lack of support, distrust of others, union busting, union leaders betraying for capital interests, etc) but ultimately striking DOES hurt companies and demand better concessions within America. Many politicians are deeply invested in companies as well, take for example AI. If we had an organized general strike to prevent the use of AI in a majority of industries, we don’t even need the law to be passed to enforce it. This would tank investments in it and directly hurt capitalists. It would also empower workers to fight for more of their rights.

A disconnect you might be having is this idea that the majority of profit doesn’t come from the workers. While yes most capitalist wealth comes from speculative ventures and investments allowing them to use as collateral on loans. Those are primarily backed BY the excess value that is extracted from the labor force.

Capitalist forces workers to make chairs for 1$/chair and sells them for 10$. He uses another 1$ to pay for materials. He pockets 8$. (Lets assume he simply sells 1 a day for ease of math) An Investor buys a portion of his business for 10$, expecting the growth to pay off. So now the Capitalist, uses this as proof of growth and takes a loan for 18$ to buy more materials and pay for more workers. Now he has enough workers and materials to make 10 chairs a day. (10 workers make 1$/chair with 1$ cost to materials per day) Now the companies profits has grown and the Investor’s share, which previously was purchased for 10$ has now grown 10 times that and is worth 100$. Instead of selling, he stays invested and uses it as collateral to take out a 200$ loan.

By exploiting the workers of 90%~ of their true value, the company has enriched the Capitalist, and the Investor, despite them contributing nothing to the process. But has enriched the worker. The Capitalist could hire more workers to grow, or could pay the workers less, or use cheaper materials to make the chair, etc. But ultimately the WORKER is the sole source of value.

It doesn’t matter how complex the chain becomes, the workers are always the ones with all the power and value that is being taken from them. If the workers strike and stop producing chairs, the profit of the company drops, its value drops, the shares drop and the investor and capitalist are unable to pay back their loans.

This is the basic idea, in America there are tons of bail outs for corporations that use government funds to prevent companies from going under but the money used to do this is primarily taxed from people’s pay and spending within the country. It always affects them and the oppression is not just from MAGA but from the ruling bourgeoisie class as a whole. ICE existed way before trump and was STILL killing people in detention and putting families in camps.

Overly simplified and also sorry for using the chair example again i just really like it. Pls anyone send corrections if i got something wrong with the theory.

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Unfortunately imperialist actions like this don’t really “Wake people up” Most people are completely unaffected and the only ones who care are related to the issue or are already involved in anti imperialist messaging and organizing. If you ask anybody they prob have a very middle position of not wanting a war but also hating iran and thinking its justified. very “whats to be done” kinda ppl

The deaths are needless, to truly speak to the masses we ourselves have to go out and speak to the masses and organize.

Really don’t think we have to worry about “normalizing obesity”. There’s several markets that exist slowly to shame people into being thin, often through dangerous means.

Obesity comes with difficulties sure but people aren’t becoming obese because there isn’t enough shame for it, or its been normalized.

I learned Japanese in a year in a really really really intense study program I made for myself but you can chill on it and be able to be conversational on it p quickly. Same for spanish which i also speak. (Tried to learn it on duolingo for 5 years but gave up with little progress and did it this way, like with Japanese.

Apps and textbooks have trouble teaching you languages that are spoken in REAL life. To learn a language you just need comprehensible input. I also used flashcards to study words with Anki.

The strategy I had was: Step 0: have good motivation to learn it(have friends/family/partners who speak the target language) Step 1: Learn the alphabet of the target language Step 2: Begin Study of the top 2000 most common words Step 3: Learn simply phrases preferably with those words that I would use. Step 4: begin speaking as soon as possible. I started speaking to people when I only had like 600 words under my belt. Step 5: Listen and Read childrens media related to the language(this part suuuuuuuucks) Step 6: As you are nearing the end of top 2000 words you’ll encounter new words you might be curious about or you might want to use. Add these to your study deck. Step 7: Study simple common grammar rules. BUT DONT OVER DO THIS. (If you know 100 grammar rules but 10 words you cant say much, but if you speak 100 words and know 10 grammar rules you can communicate quite a bit. Think of it like grammar is a multiplier and words are the base number) Step 8: Speak, listen, read, and (if you like) write in the language as much as possible. Replace your TV with target language TV. Music with target language music. Try to focus on listening sometimes and other times just chill with it.

You have to be ok with embarrassing yourself. You’re like a baby learning, just keep going. Eventually youll find you can string entire thoughts and jokes together. Repetition is super important, input and use stuff over and over and it becomes second nature and you understand or speak it without thinking, much like your native language.

Around 10,000 words is what is known and spoken for most young adults. Focus on stuff your interested in or stuff you think youll need to talk about. If anki sucks to do and you cant keep it up just focus more on input with the language through other sources like media or books.

Depending on the difficulty of the target language you can get conversational p fast. Remember, babies are stupid and take like 18 years to get to 10,000 words. But we’re smart adults and can structure our study towards our goals.