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My bad then, didn't mean to come at you like that.

I'm not a doomer. I don't think we live in some hopeless scenario where the world is forever doomed. I hate these words.

there has been a split going on within the news mega between doomers and bloomers

These words don't mean anything. I hate that any point I make is summarized with some dumb internet word whose definition is open to interpretation.

armchair quarterbacking to me, identical to people who say China is capitalist because Xi hasn't pressed the red communism button

If I take in all the current and past news from these past couple decades, something you have the same exact access to, and come up with a different conclusion, does that make me an armchair leftist? You can disagree all you want idgaf, but understand that these countries CAN make mistakes. I can point out these mistakes and honestly whole strategies, not out of a sense superiority, but because this is a niche internet forum. I do so to learn, discuss, and to see what others have to say.

Honestly this place needs to put China down from it's pedestal.

Cool, way to treat an extremely serious and delicate geopolitical situation like a fucking videogame or prestige TV.

I don't know how you can read anything that I posted and come to that conclusion. So much of what I bring up has literally happened in the past. Hell, my position is the same position the Chinese had toward the USSR with their lack of contribution in the Korean Civil War.

I CANNOT fucking emphasize enough how done I am with people on this site. This culture of just witnessing all this shit go down and making casual jokes about it, or treating it as if it was nothing more than something to spectate. There is such a strong disconnect between these people and actual suffering.

100% agreed

What you call dooming I see as mourning, people are giving their lives out there. In the case where they aren't, everything in their life is going to change. Maybe some of us are more in touch with what is happening than others. Like holy fuck, you think Afghanistan falling wasn't fucking terrible for everybody living there?

proper perspective of the communist position

"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love."

I think China has been made toothless by the powerful liberal faction within its government.

I love your posts and I think you one of the posters I most ideologically agree with, so let me try to clarify my position a bit. My initial post was a rant entirely fueled by the increasingly dire state of the world, a world that doesn't have a US counterweight. No country is currently attempting to bring about any form of revolution except maybe our Burkino Faso/Mali/Niger alliance. In the past, admittedly one that we lost, the movement was carried by a strong international sense of love and anger. When barbarity like what we are seeing came about, some countries (Cuba in Angola) actively gave lives fighting wars they had no part in. There WAS an era of real revolutionary retribution, it feels like it died along with the USSR. Seeing how passive current countries are in comparison to their history has me viewing them in a not-so-positive light.

Yeah, it's an emotional rant and analysis, I know that.

Two things. First, could we not see the US do the same thing they did with SK? They can fund and essentially Marshall Plan certain countries who would be hurt by the impact. Second, this is the US, it's allies are very specifically military bases. Each one of those countries would be flooded with troops as soon as they wanted to.

I said vice-versa, specifically because my whole point is that China would let a close ally be wiped with their passivity. Doesn't matter who attacks who, just saying the way Mao helped the DPRK during the Civil War would not happen again.

So I've always believed I was a dialectical materialist but I DO believe in biblical evils. I didn't realize that my belief in God suddenly disavowed me as a materialist.

We would have more likely seen the genocide escalate into a proxy war, something that would have more than likely saved lives. Let's remove troops from the equations, how about some fucking navy support hm? Anything to help even the odds for Hamas. Russia is controlled by Putin, someone who so badly wants to be part of the western club, and they STILL do more than China.

I'm religious so I do believe in biblical evils, I might view capital that way and that might be (I don't really care) "anti-dialectical". There are plenty of Marxists, usually Maoists, who opposed Dengism for the same reasons. If me calling Deng a capitalist roader is more digestible then there you go.

China being dengist is the issue, I understand the whole "we need to build our productive forces" but honestly, I've come to view capital as almost a biblical evil. It is a corrupting force.

Anyway, yeah they don't care about Baathism, but my concern was more with the allowance of the Palestinian genocide. The USSR would've put troops on the ground.

China is currently being surrounded by US allies, like I agree, but the US won't let that happen without going into a hot conflict.

It's not about letting the US "win". It's witnessing a genocide and doing nothing to help. I don't care about aid or diplomacy, I'm talking about lives. We are measuring these conditions with the death of a people. These revisionist states can very easily just...submit. The west has consistently shown that they will hollow out the core of all existing socialist projects because we all work within their framework.

I'm not American so yeah I agree. I don't expect white people as a whole to do anything for decades at least. At least to the scale that is needed.

This is going to be real armchair leftist but I've been thinking about this for a while. Everything we've been seeing these past few years has really led me to believe that we've entered a period where all of the big let's say anti-west if not anti-imperialists will wither away due to passivity. Russia, China, Iran, they will passively watch their allies blink out one by one, I'm pretty sure if the DPRK ever does invade SK or vice-versa, we will see China do the same thing Iran is doing now. The US will push every red line, the entity has gotten so bold, the of the world know this. I think we've reached a point where the Jakarta method has been perfected, the US will butcher anyone and they know that others will not retaliate.

It won't happen but I think the only way out of this horrible mess is for the left to let go of compassion in a sense. Iran should have glassed Israel, and targeted hospitals and schools. Israel could win such a conflict yes but the fucking nazis would have left in droves, they don't have the spine to live through even an inch of the hardship that our brothers and sisters in Palestine have been through. In a grander sense, and yeah yeah this is but who gives af, there needs to be mass retaliation. Like Algeria did against the French, or a reverse of what we're seeing happening in Syria. If this is the Cold War 2.0, we are seeing a USSR that watched Vietnam fall without care. This a one-sided conflict, our "socialist" bloc is comprised of China, Vietnam (lol, they WILL side with the US), DPRK, and Cuba, idk nothing about Laos. There is no plan.

This isn't meant to be doomerism, I just don't know how these countries can just...watch. China is especially, hot take I guess, but I have no faith in their current strategy.

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here's our character sheets and our summary sheets for our upbringings and cliques

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