BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]

That would be true if power didn’t exist. This framing - one where power dynamics are completely flattened - is a major pitfall of liberal thought which always falls apart the moment real life context is introduced. Your arguement serves nothing but to support the imperialist world order.

I’m kind of an old and email was never used for regular chat at like any time lol

Maybe I won’t use it for anything except getting people’s contact info in these situations.

This is exactly what I did. I posted like three pics of my dog, and put it on private and never really use it except for that purpose.

I have never used any social media before or had an account on anything else, but something changed and people started treating instagram like a phone number, which is weird to me but that’s the way it is now.

Don’t feel like you must do this, but just wanted to say you’re not the only person to do no social media, but felt the need to open an instagram

well then its all been worth it

Yeah, that’s a big one. Search engines had been getting worse, but the decline was turbocharged after all the LLM hype. Search engines are practically unusable now

I think the bigger problem is that each answer it gives basically destroys a forest

If only there were some kind of way for liberals to learn the actual histories of AES states…

You’re the one this comic is making fun of

Okay, you’re brainwashed

At least in Horizon they solved the climate crisis first, before creating the ribits that would wipe out all life

Sid Myers Pirates! is one of my all time favorites!

Ogre Battle. I’d love to play a game like that again. I think Unicorn Overlord took some inspiration from it so I’m excited to check that out.

The original Way of the Samurai. It was really cool and unique little game. The sequels never really followed through on the best parts of the first one though unfortunately.

Great recommendation! Principles of Communism by Engels is the best, most concise, and direct introductory theory.

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You don’t know what you’re talking about

No problem, you’re welcome. I actually misread your last post and thought you were being sarcastic but thought I’d give that info anyway lol, sorry about misreading.

Yeah until i started learning about socialism and learning about actually existing socialism i had no clue about the nuances of China’s development either. There was a lot of skepticism about Deng’s reforms at the time and to the present, but the actions of the Party under Xi have begun the process of reigning the capitalist expansion in and redirecting those productive forces toward the goal of full socialism by 2050.

There’s an important distinction that AES states recognize - that they’re socialist projects even if they aren’t currently in a state of full socialism. Socialism is diffucult to create. Marx theorized that revolutions would take place where fully developed capitalism already existed for the workers to then take control over, and use thise productive forces to build socialism. But the Revolutions in Russia and China (and the subsequent revolutions in the global south) required some reevalution. Generally speaking, the revolutionary potential was weak in the highly developed capitialist countries and was strongest in the areas ravaged by Western imperialism. But following the successful revolutions measures were required to industrialize and build the forces and conditions necessay to create socialism. Western left anti-communists chauvinisticly tend to point to full socialism not existing already in AES as them “not doing it right” despite the fact that they are actually creating socialism, while the Western left has achieved basically nothing.

if I have some previously unexamined belief that’s rooted in racism, I do earnestly want to correct it.

I already pointed them out and you doubled down, but I’ll try to give a quick explanation.

The PRC is socialist and governed by a communist party. They have a series of 5 year plans that culminate in reaching full socialism by 2050.

The reason many westerners say they’re “communist in name only” is partially because of the reforms under Deng that allowed for capital development in order to build the productive forces that could be utilized to build functioning socislism under the nose of US imperial hegemony. Those reforms were controversial amoung communists at the time, but the government under Xi is making good on the intention of those reforms right now, and history has proven them to have been effective. The other part of the reason is Western chauvanism/rascism. “Non-whites cant do socialism right - they’re authoritarians.” This arguement is leveled at every actually existing socialist project by Western “leftists.”

So it isn’t “nonsensical” to consider the PRC to be what it considers itself to be, and has demonstrated itself to be. You just have to actually be informed about it

The original point about “can’t do socialism because of large, heterogenous population.” Besides being obvioulsy wrong because there’s examples of actually existing socialism that had or have large, heterogenous populations, i always point out that the statement is rascist. I do this because most people repeating it, haven’t even thought about how its rascist.

Its a brainworm people in the US use to explain why they can’t have the kind of social democracy they have in Scandinavian countries - at least that’s the context I’ve always heard it used. This is a “nonsensical” trueism. First, the Scandinavian countries they’re refering to are 1) not socialist to begin with, they’re social democracies. 2) they aren’t homogeneous, they also have ethnic minorities and have rascism.

That statement is not a meaningful acknowledgement of rascism, its an acquiescence to it. Its an appeal to rascism as an arguement why something just can’t happen in the US. It also ignores the actual reasons impeding social democracy, let alone socislism which is the entrenched position of capitalist hegemony, the power and depth of its propaganda apparatus, and the relatively privileged position of US workers vs those in the global south due to imperialist exploitation and extraction.

Liberal isn’t some badge of honor. It’s the default ideology in every western nation.

Exactly. Being a liberal requires zero reading or effort on any westoids part. Its the recieved ideology

In other words a liberal

You don’t know enough about what you’re talking about to be worth arguing with. I was just pointing out the stupid rascist lib talking point cause it comes up all the time for anyone who’s actually interested in learning about things you have failed to investigate but want to run your mouth about

Edit: also considering it nonsensical to consider the PRC to be a socialist nation is also pretty rascist