True, just one they are unapologetic about I suppose, ‘mask off’

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a member of the american capitalist party???

My votes going to the man in prison

Why would the single largest anti communist force on the planet back communists?

To address this comment in the linked thread - The US backs literally everyone all the time.

That might seem contradictory, it isnt, the US backed Castro during the Cuban revolution by sending them material aid and money. Does that make Castro compromised by the US? Of course not, like Marx said when talking about trading stocks; it is good to deprive the enemy of its money.

Thats just how rich the US is, it can afford to hedge its bets by funding literally every side of a conflict so if one wins it can leverage this support, of course it will make its primary motives clear in who it most funds but it will usually use indirect vectors to also hedge on the unfavorable odds, usually through proxies; this is most apparent in how they initially supported the Khemer Rouge by creating the conditions that allowed Pol Pot to take power and using them as a Balwark against China/Vietnam/Laos.

i mean, i understand that you want to get more money for living expenses, but being a landlord is not “getting ahead”, sorry

I have no intention of ever being a landlord, its more in the UK the only way to actually get paid a good wage is to be one.

these days with AI, austerity and stuff that doesn’t matter for the bourgeoisie

For sure

They’ve given up on extracting the working classes surplus labour value - now all that is left is to take the ‘middle’ classes, once that goes its time for fascism.

My (now ex) partner tried to throw my work laptop into traffic and put me through an entire day of physical and emotional abuse.

I walked home on xmas day around 10pm after managing to trick them into letting me leave.

I dont know how to feel, im safe and we’re never talking again but yeah, its hard.

All I know is I have like about £300 leftover after bills every month right now, which is better than a lot of people granted - but I have 15 years of in work experience and im in a high stress job that has people relying on me to survive.

Yeah, no way to get ahead in this stupid country other than to be a landlord.

Im genuinely so cynical over all of this, I dont think it’ll ever get better here, we will elect reform/conservative next election cycle and be trapped in this neo-liberal doom spiral forever.

I was reading Thomas Sankara’s perspective on this recently actually - he made a passing reference to how after the boers where kicked out of Angola lots of opportunistic factions scrambled to seize power, and he gave examples of groups in Angola who claimed to be socialist/marxist but were actually just people looking to enrich themselves at other peoples expense and who had ties to colonial powers.

He was talking about it in a way that he wanted to avoid that happening in his own country, which ended up happening and lead to his death in a coup so man was probably onto something.

I think its just power vaccum and extreme poverty that does this,

Yeah, I had a ex-friend lecture me all the time for being in a loving relationship with someone who was 26 when I was 30, it made literally no sense to me and I refused to accept any of there criticisms and told them to get off of twitter.

Like in there mind I should only be dating someone my exact same age otherwise they felt the power imbalance would be off. I explained to them that I do consider power dynamics very deeply in relationships and its always an active conversation im having with my partners and that for me ‘life stage’ and general alignment along goals is more important - sure age gaps in the extreme id raise an eyebrow at, and of course below age of consent but this moralizing I just dont care for.

Content warning - SA

The US will likely lose but also at the cost of likely 100,000’s of uninvolved Venezuela civilians, I hate this shit.

video

Morrowind + tamriel rebuilt mod and thug pro. I think Unreal World or Dwarf Fortress is probably the oldest, maybe ss13.

western economic system is fiction

Gramsci talked a lot about how communists should try to emulate the Catholic churches structural reach - we should be doing what the church does for the working class - provide community, provide a 3rd space, charity and outreach work, mass events, teaching and reading and such.

I think we can learn a lot from how religion organizes.

Im personally agnostic and respect most moderates religious beliefs, although I remain spectical I wouldn’t shut someone out or refuse to work with anyone who was religious.

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.

Deng Xiaoping

We need to hammer into liberals that it doesnt matter where the borders are goddam drawn, every day that passes 1000’s of people are forced to murder one another because of nationalism, I’ve had a lot of indepth conversations with IRL people I know, emphasizing that the best day to surrender would have been day 1 - no amount of lives where worth this bullshit, the failure starts with the upper classes refusal to try to settle this.

Ukraine has no reason to concede territory to Russia,

This MFer would have been like ‘Germany has no reason to concede territory to Russia’ as the Red Army stormed into Berlin

MKUltra didnt end with the drug experiments, they rightly concluded it didnt work and then moved on to things that actually work - behavioral psychology.

The consequences of that can be seen in reality, the torture regiment implemented in black sites in the middle east and gitmo are both using doctrine that was created following the later MKUltra experiments on how to break someone psychologically.