Dont harden yourself so much to religion, it will create divisions where there could be co-operation.

I think the correct materialist approach is to be Agnostic - we still cant prove the nature of reality so the big shrug seems like the most rational to avoid falling victim to the trap of atheist orthodoxy.

I think you’re the deluded one honestly, spending time bootlicking the state instead of expressing solidarity with people trying to stop violence our government is engaged in.

They could improve their conditions by eating something. This is purely performative.

Lifes a stage, this board would improve if you stopped eating entirely but we cant all get what we want.

The Palestinians and Jews have been throwing rocks at each other for thousands of years, we just sell rocks

Is that what you call bombs and targeting criteria to people engaging in wholesale slaughter of children?

Thinking that your opinion matters so much you are willing to die for it suggests mental illness, not political protest

‘People who care about things are mentally ill, not like me im so desensitizatized our government engaging in genocide doesn’t even make me blink’

Not the flex you think it is

Is the genocide in Gaza a pointless thing to protest to you?

Yes, but more metaphorically - to put it simply I think people are their own Karma. People carry around the consequences of their own actions.

That manifests in how they treat interpersonal relationships which in turn shapes reality.

The Marx quote about social beings creating social reality is appropriate here however, what is ‘good’ and ‘bad’ isnt universal truth but one that exists within the social reality of a time period.

Yeah when she was done moaning about being in the same subway carriage as someone she perceived to be Muslim (like lets be honest, they where just clearly SE asian im not sure how she could tell) she immediately started talking about how much she hated ‘mainlanders’ lol.

I did manage to get in some bits about how I really liked Mao and Deng though and how nicer Shenzhen is relative to HK lol…

Absolutely spot on.

I lived in HK for 6 months so im familiar with the type.

People native to hk tend to either be like cool with communism and pro China and also not a reactoid, or this kind of lady which is basically someone who was cool with the apartheid and segregation and is vocally super racist against anyone who isn’t white.

Racism.

I was on a date with a lady from Hong Kong recently and she started complaining about how there was Muslims on the subway here.

I was like, what do you mean?

‘Oh I was so scared!’

Like they wherent doing anything she just associated them with terrorism and crime.

Yeah they arent getting a 2nd date lol.

The rest is real in the sense that it allows you to pull your head above the water for a moment to see, you are in fact drowning.

The clarity on return is someone dunking your head back under water and saying ‘well, back to work!’

Only a eastern-europe fascist could consider themselves ‘far-left’ while in a relationship with a zionist and anti-soviet lol, like whats even left on ‘the left’ when your politics are ok with dating a concentration camp enjoyer and anti-communist. Typical anti-‘tankie’ bullshit honestly, they want the social capital of being a leftist while actually just being a far-right chud.

Bro is about to find out that NATO propaganda doesnt consider him to be white lmao

If anyones been following trumps legal cases they know how utterly incompetent he is in anything to do with legalism, like Alex Jones level of delusion.

However on the other hand, the ‘Trump is going to get fucked in the courts!’ discourse flying around the internet right now ignores the reality that the US upper class have literally never actually been beholden to the courts and flips the relationship on its head. (as if the puppet started to control its master)

It is idealism which is most often expressed by liberal democrats. Like the discourse around this is the vibe of ‘trump didnt have the legal backing to do this’ rather than just saying what he did was wrong.

It ignores the reality of the US world order, which is might = right. The house always wins.

Its going to be a Kangaroo court, any talks between Maduro and Trump/the military have already happened and they both know the outcome ahead of time.

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

uuuuuh have you uuhh scratches my ass uhhhh… takes big gulp of water uuhhh been like…totally… haha

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.