I have… it was “continental philosophy” slop IMO. Overly complicated language, creates its own convoluted terminology, nothing is clear or meaningful. What points it had were barely decipherable through the smokescreens it creates.

Charlie from its always sunny: “It’s simple, I just count how much wisdom is on each page.”

Overall a great video, and she did go over this a bit, but it should be stressed that our participation should be limited to

• Supporting our own candidates in our own working-class parties (IE not the democrats or any capitalist party). These “bourgeios socialists” like AOC, bernie, and mamdani, are not educated enough to realize that by calling themselves “socialists” while running in a capitalist party, they’re watering down the definition to mean just a more equitable sharing of the imperial spoils. None of them are advocating ending the US war machine.
• that it should be used only as a platform to spread socialist ideas, which of course can’t come about through the system of bourgeios democracy.

A common tactic of US imperialist and western supremacist socialists, is to ignore the history of the failure of capitalist-party-entryism, especially in the imperial core. Lenin’s advice to the british communists stressed both above, and still ultimately didn’t work out, due to the bribery of the labor aristocracy from the spoils of imperialism.

Treasure island. Just a fun adventure book while I’m learning knitting.

1. Don’t de-link from the world market. We can’t really blame the USSR for the cold war, and the US successfully alienating them from the rest of the world, but there were times in the USSR’s history when overtures could have been made, especially to non-aligned countries.
2. Don’t shy away from a market economy; create a socialist market economy that serves the people. People love treats, and if the capitalist world is able to give them treats, and you aren’t, then people will lose faith in your system over time.
3. Make sure the military and intelligence forces are controlled by the party, politically educated, and vigilant against opportunists and careerists.
4. Don’t get involved in war quagmires, or fund revolution abroad. The US set many traps the USSR fell into, and used its larger resources to force the USSR to drain its economy and focus too many material and human resources on the military, which isn’t a productive sector. In a poker game where your opponent has more chips, and forces you to pay a high ante, you should always fold except with the strongest of hands. After you get nukes, you can just always fold and never pay any ante, as has been proven by the PRC and DPRK.

The PRC and other socialist countries have mostly addressed these.

Read or listen to Allen Carr - how to stop smoking. There’s an audiobook on torrents.

Does anyone know of any massive double blind study where they see what actual mp3 bitrate where people stop being able to tell the difference in quality?

I’ve tried and can’t tell the difference between any 320kbps and lossless.

Instance check

I’d also like to add that hitler was very specific about his desire to emulate the US model of colonialism: and do to eastern europe, what the US had already done to its native peoples.

The only difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny, is that bourgeois democracy was far more effective at indigenous genocide than fascism was.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/nazi-germanys-american-dream-hitler-modeled-his-concept-of-racial-struggle-and-global-campaign-after-americas-conquest-of-native-americans.html

The USA genocided an entire continent under it’s current form of government, and committed and is still committing countless other atrocities. Look at what Europe did to Africa and Asia under that same form.

Bourgeois parliamentarism is a much more stable shell for colonialism than any other form of government has proven to be. Demonizing a dead form of colonialism (fascism) lets them off the hook, and never forces them to look at what their own governments are currently doing. They get to keep their chauvinist / supremacist myth about “liberal democracy” being the superior form of government, without challenging it.

I need to make a bot to post this any time fascism gets mentioned.

The western left’s use of the term fascism, is borderline white-supremacist at this point. Fascism was a form of colonialism that died by the 1940s, and is only allowed to be demonized in public discourse, because it was a form of colonialism directed also against white europeans. It was defeated, and Germany / Italy / Japan reverted to the more stable form of government for colonialism (practiced by the US, UK, France, the Netherlands, Australia, etc): bourgeois parliamentarism.

British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially "adopting parliamentary democracy”. They haven’t changed, and their wealth is still propped up by surplus value theft from the super-exploitation of hundreds of millions of low-paid global south proletarians.

This is why you have new leftists terrified that the UK or US or europe “might turn fascist!!”, betraying that the atrocities propagated by those empires against the global south was and is completely acceptable.

Make no mistake about it: parliamentary / bourgeois democracy is not only a more stable form of government, it’s also far more effective at carrying out colonialism, and killing millions of innocent people.

It’s probably a joke (at least I’m guessing bc it was so short compared to the long writeup.)

Excellent writeup comrade.

We should stop trying to sooth our egos or image of ourselves through the criticism process: we don’t have time for it, and it doesn’t help anything.

The point of criticism is to be practical, to further the struggle by adapting our tactics to meet the situation, improve our way of thinking, to better serve the people. It’s not an exercise in ego-validation, its to help people.

I’m told heated electric carpets are dope, but they aren’t common where I live so I’ve never tried one out.

Mastodon users love US prosecutors with a history of scandals it seems. Or they’re just ignorant of that history.

Anyone else get the sense that a Hillary-style astroturfing campaign is getting started now?

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised… a lot of liberals on the fediverse have the brain of a goldfish and can’t remember all the scandals she’s been involved in.

The smart half. They know from personal experience that voting does absolutely nothing for their material concern.

This is historically completely false. I challenge you to find a single historical case where a ruling class has given up their power and wealth without violence or the threat of violence.

Meanwhile I recommend you read the links we’ve given you.

Here’s an excellent overview on why pacifism doesn’t work, and has never worked.

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

The main source for that article made a documentary called Theaters of War

Haven’t watched it yet, but here’s a torrent for it.