Overall a great video, and she did go over this a bit, but it should be stressed that our participation should be limited to

• Supporting our own candidates in our own working-class parties (IE not the democrats or any capitalist party). These “bourgeios socialists” like AOC, bernie, and mamdani, are not educated enough to realize that by calling themselves “socialists” while running in a capitalist party, they’re watering down the definition to mean just a more equitable sharing of the imperial spoils. None of them are advocating ending the US war machine.
• that it should be used only as a platform to spread socialist ideas, which of course can’t come about through the system of bourgeios democracy.

A common tactic of US imperialist and western supremacist socialists, is to ignore the history of the failure of capitalist-party-entryism, especially in the imperial core. Lenin’s advice to the british communists stressed both above, and still ultimately didn’t work out, due to the bribery of the labor aristocracy from the spoils of imperialism.

I always explain it like: imagine putting theatre nerds, sci-fi writers, and optimistic revolutionary communists into a room, and asking them to come up with a space opera.

I can’t recommend highly enough Losurdo - Western Marxism, audiobook here, for the basis of all these “euro-communist” / western chauvinist marxists.

It’s also going this way with phones too. US cell carriers aren’t carrying chinese smartphones like the rest of the world, which are already like 3 years ahead in tech from apple, google pixels, and samsung. And US review sites just ignore chinese smartphones now.

It’s a self-embargo based on western chauvinism that seems to be working out.

Good drainage, lots of air in the soil, don’t overwater, and make sure they have sun. That’s it for most plants.

If they don’t look good, stop watering and put them in the sun, and don’t water until they’ve dried out.

Bringing back the bacon and egg cheeseburger, or making it not woke, idk

Radioheads reactionary politics aside, if ppl hate their music, that’s perfectly fine, it’s a preference like any other. No need to make rants about ppl not liking the things you do.

I get it for plugged-in devices, but for mobile devices where battery-life is important, the lightweight browsers also tend to use a lot less battery and CPU.

FF on android for example uses like double the battery life than some of the more lightweight ones (especially that use the android-native html renderers).

These rule, thx for these.

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Definitely. Christianity was an extremely powerful tool to “pacify” populations, and columbus pretty much inaugurated the era of Christian colonialism.

“If they can’t pacify you with the bible, then they use the gun”.

Italy is also a very extroverted culture with a collectivist, outgoing tradition that even today opposes social atomization that capitalism creates

Almost the polar opposite of anglos. Italians are outgoing, social, community-focused / communitarian. Anglos are reserved, individualistic, and care more about unlimited freedom for individuals than collective betterment.

North Italy especially had a very revolutionary tradition, throughout various periods there were more communists than liberals, especially after the russian revolution, and during the 1950s-70s. It was one of the main fronts of the cold war, which is why the CIA put so many resources into killing them during the years of lead and stamping out their orgs via gladio.

The Italian and other southern and eastern european expats to the US during the early 1900s formed the core of most of its communist / socialist organizing too. They were highly-communitarian minded people, pretty much the opposite of anglos.

Highly recommend comrades read Paul Williams - Operation Gladio.

The vatican and catholic power structure was always allied with reactionaries in both europe and latin america, and helped latin american countries hunt down and kill leftists, including liberation theology priests. The last pope, pope Francis, even helped imprison and kill several during the argentian junta.

Highly recommend reading Paul L Williams - Operation Gladio, because it gets into this history, especially the cold-warrior alliance of the CIA / NATO, the catholic church, fascist lodges and stay-behind units in Europe and SA, and the mob. The vatican played a large role in many of anti-communist atrocities of the 20th century.

Then you don’t know any maoists.

• On MLM / Gonzalo, and the shining path. 2 3, 4

Nope. The BPP existed and mostly died out by the time Maoism / MLM became a thing in the 80s.

The BPP also had close relations with Cuba, the USSR, and China, all of which would be big no-no’s for modern maoists, who base themselves on opposition to AES.

Country dependent I suppose. Chile and Argentina are going to have high numbers pro-israel and pro-us ppl of because those countries helped the US kill all their leftists for several generations.

A lot of catholics too are going to follow the vatican’s pro-genocide line.

He’s like many of these western marxists like mark fisher and zizek, who take long established marxist terminology, defang them, then repackage them as products.

Enshittification is a less-descriptive stand-in for the trpf, just like fisher’s capitalist realism is a stand-in for Gramsci’s cultural hegemony.

Read his book enshittification. Within the first 20 pages, he decries the “authoritarian regimes” of china, russia, and the middle east with “superior western democracies”, and is scared that the US and Canada will become just like them.

Cory doctorow is a white supremacist liberal whose opinion on anything should not be taken seriously. He has less understanding of class or class analysis than probably the least read person on here.

He already wrote this book, and it was supremely worthless. Half of it was just getting into US legal cases, and the overall recommendation of the book was “here’s how liberalism can still win and we can beat those authoritarian countries and not become like them!”