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Cake day: June 27th, 2022

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  • Excuse you for not believing that this video showing a list of known criminals isn’t actually the lowest social credit scorers in town. We don’t check the facts when a video from china gets a scary music and english overlay or commentary in this part of the world, thank you very much.

    The peoples of the global north are little more than an audience at this point, especially when it comes to what’s going on where they aren’t. They sway like dead seaweed to whoever holds the best funded frequency. And on the rare occasion that they discover a contradiction inthe general narrative and their lived experience, they choose barbarism.


  • But Sanders has been talking in this manner for years. He participates in rhetoric that only has invasions and bombings as its natural conclusion, but when the great beast starts heaving to start killing people in earnest, he calls foul. This isn’t anti-war, it’s pro-war machine with anti-war aesthetics.

    This also means that to the extent that they haven’t evolved beyond him, his audience are turn into a multitude supporting western/Usian foreign policy 99% of the way to hot conflict and getting cold feet there.




  • I’m going to chime in because I’m confident I know how they meant and I don’t want to see this discussion get bogged down in “but he didn’t literally boil babies” levels of discourse.

    As much as all of us around here they’re around the word balkanise, it’s clear that the imperial hegemon doesn’t need its former adversaries divided into chunks, merely subservient. Japan is subservient, they accepted a deal that would make their exports much less competitive, even though they didn’t have a plan to deal with its ramifications. They accept usian bases in their land, because the constant spill of American rapists and the possibility of an outright occupation are a small price to pay if one of happy as a vassal anyway.

    Yeltsin was the same. The drunk fuck didn’t give a toss how much he pissed away the wealth of Russia, or how her people suffered. Unfortunately for the sрooks that got him elected, his successor and his base of support wanted an equal relationship with the west. Even as I say that, I believe (pure conjecture, have no source) they’d have accepted a position like Germany if it came without the ritual humiliation Germans get their kicks from. At any rate, if they wouldn’t just be subjects, they’d be subjected, or at least the hegemon would try.

    Anyway I didn’t write any of this with the belief you didn’t know, just to have some clarity.


  • When it comes to any of these organisations, obfuscation is the name of the game. They’ll make some kind of a list or make a note of government funding if they’re pushed enough. Even if they seem to disclose their funding, that’s not sufficient reason to take them at their word. Consider, if a usian non-profit gets funding from the government, who’s going to go after them for not saying as much?

    Regardless, the NGO workers that believe in what they’re doing are liberals, they’re gullible enough to fall for whatever western MSM tells them, and people who’re just there for the pay won’t give enough of a shit. I don’t even mean this on the apathetic sense, what snakeoil seller will go out of their way to test the efficacy of their cures?

    For the record, I know dick about China and I’m happy to engage with some critique. Hell, I’ll even read through Trot and anarchist commentary as long as they’re not referencing their facts from the great Satan.

    So you’re just not going to hear them out, huh? After all the effort they went through to get that BBC hit piece. I mean I kid, but not really, with any real critique trots and ultras can’t provide tangible improvements. They have to resort to imagined faults.








  • “The current system is bad, the the only alternative (successor) is super horrible! No freeze preach, no grain, no consumerism. How could anyone live like that?”

    Imagined ideal my right bollock. You’ve never met a communist advocating for some ideal, let me tell you that much. Although against whatever you imagine happened in the USSR, it might as well have been a proper utopia. No night raids nor thousands of dissidents killed daily, for a start.