The issue is also that these people actively do not want to learn, because learning actual history means learning that they are the bad guys. I think real re-education can only take place in a Chinese-style re-education camp (depicted wonderfully in one of my favorite movies, The Last Emperor).

What’s it like talking with their parents?

Really good stuff, give me more please if you have it.

Communist here, I never stopped masking, and I force my immediate family to mask also. I have virtually no social life and will not do dinner parties unless they are outdoors.

GOOD post

Makes me think of Liam O'Flaherty's novel, Land, although I think it takes place about thirty years after your ancestors left Ireland.

To be honest, Syria has really been depressing me lately. It's the first clear victory for the zionists in the Gaza War, the Palestine War, the Middle East Regional War, whatever you want to call it. Everything else could pretty much be called a tie until then? Or maybe even a victory for the resistance? Aside from the genocide, of course. But it's hard for me to see how they follow this up with any more victories. Ansarallah has increased global shipping prices by 200%, hundreds of thousands of settlers (perhaps more) have left the zionist entity permanently, and there really is a limit to how many weapons a financialized neoliberal economy can produce. The Ukraine War is hopefully going to end soon because the western powers really are exhausted.

I think about how the height of European colonialism was just before WW1. It's been in decline ever since. Make no mistake, it's still very strong and still fights very hard and can still win temporary victories, but it's in decline and on the defensive. I think about how US economic policy is reverting to 18th century protectionism in order to combat China—where the economy is so strong now, that the communists have become free traders, battering down barriers across the world wherever they find them. 18th century economics is not going to defeat 21st century economics, especially with a workforce like the one in the USA, where the vast majority of real work is done by people of color who themselves tend to have the best politics in the country.

I think about the utterly deluded world that liberals and fascists live in, where these people are getting almost all of their news from corporate sources that are deliberately trying to confuse them. The police and military are definitely not what they once were. Reading a bit of Yahya Sinwar's novel has made me suspect that these guys really are not up to the task of dealing with a real sustained insurgency here, especially one that avoids using computers and cellphones. The issue, of course, is that 70% of the USA is white and will not support an anti-colonial revolution here, at least for the time being. But how fucked are things going to be four years from now? Does anyone think that western society is going to get better at taking care of the increasing share of the populace that is totally enraged with how everything (not just treats, but necessities like housing, education, health care, transportation) has become totally unaffordable?

I think about how revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao (and many others) were, as far as I can tell, totally confident of the correctness and righteousness of their cause, and the inevitability of its triumph. 'Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.' — Mao

Never underestimate the ability of americans to fuck things up.

Shit’s getting real because even though trump and biden are the same domestically, they have different approaches to imperialism (Biden: attack everyone everywhere; Trump: focus on China), so different countries and organizations around the world are scrambling to get into better positions before trump takes power.

I think they’re going to try again? Even if they imprison him, he’s like the eighth South Korean president to end up in prison. It’s almost guaranteed that you’re going to jail if you become president of Occupied Korea.

We should definitely do things to CEOs in roblox.

There should be a game show where dudes have to answer questions while getting jerked off by these things.

Koreans sometimes say “yanknom,” yankee bastard, so you can also use that.

I haven’t seen my extended lib family for thanksgiving since the pandemic began, and this year was no exception. They invited us to come down but I just didn’t see the point. The kids and I also have “colds,” my cousin has a newborn baby, nobody masks, and I worried that there would be a meltdown if they found out that I didn’t vote for kamala, so yeah, thanksgiving was extremely low key and pleasant at our house this year, without eighteen hours of driving, expensive hotels, mediocre food, and hours of liberals avoiding all discussion of politics.

I have nice lib relatives too, I don’t know how any of you can stand your chud relatives. Before the pandemic I would see my chud relatives for Christmas, and they thankfully never discussed politics.

Bracelets with spikes and eyeliner sounds extremely cool, and lady hitler is hilarious I guess as long as you don’t have to deal with her.

Bipartisanship is when there is a ship with two parts and they’re both full of artisans.

Damn, I wonder which one to trust, the one that constantly lies or the one that constantly tells the truth

It will go the way of the dutch tulips, yes.

Counter prediction: he does it, the economy gets worse but does not collapse, and things just continue to slowly get shittier.

Trust the plan, WWG1WGA

I just glanced at the first sentence and started laughing so much my spouse asked me what was wrong.