Hello em poc comrades!! How are we all doing? Are we doing anything interesting this week? Any fun reads lately? I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha

As always, this thread is EM POC only!!!

  • daofaorao [none/use name]
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    5 days ago

    the mild annoyance i get from seeing americans treating random chinese people on a social media app as if they were literal aliens from another world supersedes any transient satisfaction from seeing americans get "deprogrammed"

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    edit: i hope xhs gets banned in the US too. this whole spectacle has been embarrassing for so many reasons that i cant even fit in this post and some people i know already want most americans off the site. this "honeymoon period" isnt gonna last long. liberal chinese appease the feelings of white people and suddenly everyone in this site are talking like "no war but class war! american workers and chinese workers are the same! :)". no consistency or critical thinking at all. just memes and vibes

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    • vegeta1 [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      The onus being on others to prove their humanity to fucking Americans of people i-cant

      • daofaorao [none/use name]
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        4 days ago

        ive seen MULTIPLE videos of white people in TEARS crying about "im so happy to be alive... to talk to chinese people.. and know we were the same all along and we are all siblings" like ????

        tell me im not the only who sees how weird this "wholesome" fad is.

        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          4 days ago

          I've avoided that sort of content like the plague. Its already cringe enough that all of these people call themselves "Tiktok refugees" whilr living in a country that has had a hand in creating situations that lead to people around the world becoming refugees. And that not even getting into the fact that most wouldn't even care about those refugees or bother to look into why they've become refugees.

        • vegeta1 [he/him]
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          4 days ago

          Yeah I see what you mean. It would mean much more if shit wasn't the usual performative fad that trends for like a couple of weeks.... Then it goes back to the usual bullshit. No bridging between peoples, no mutual understanding. Just the usual caricatures used in place of nuance understanding of people because people are mental midgets. Not to mention the thing seems one sided. The chinese users are the ones trying to be friendly and accomodating but the Western users seem rude and inappropriate exactly as you said and even this will not be enough. This video sums it up for me https://www.reddit.com/r/USEmpire/comments/1i34ynz/how_white_privileges_influences_everyone_being_so/