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Also,

Burnett: Do you hear the message of those young Americans? (Regarding campus protests against the genocide of Palestinians)

Biden: Absolutely…

…and then says the students were breaking the law, talks about antisemitism and spreads lies about the poor Israelis as usual, and doesn’t back up his previous short affirmation.

What a joke

How did it go?

For events where I need to speak or interact with people who are in opposition against me and the movement, I have given myself a lot of courage by wanting to make them uncomfortable and putting Zionazis and Zionazi sympathizers in the spotlight. I’m not the weird one for opposing genocide.

I started by being deathly shy and not giving a single flyer to anyone, and now I am starting to get the hang of talking to strangers (still awkwardly). Just take baby steps and be persistent. You’ll get there. I feel so good when I am productive and in solidarity with comrades during a protest. It’s totally worth the herculean effort for this alone as it greatly helps your self-esteem and mental health.

There’s probably a better chance for a response after 15 years now that PSL has grown immensely.

They’ll let you know if there’s any branch or pre-branch near you. If not, you’ll probably be considered to help start one. You’ll likely be invited to attend events, and it will take some time after you demonstrate your commitment before you are invited to be a member. You will be a candidate member and will have to take some classes before you are offered full membership.

Solidarity, comrade! Woot!

I’m so burnt out on driving. I hate car-focused infrastructure/transportation. I drive 35+ min to work and 40+ min home. Switching to an electric vehicle (which I can’t afford) doesn’t really help me improve the environment.

The carbon cost of creating electric vehicles is much higher than using a used gas or hybrid car. Slave labor is often used to extract lithium for batteries.

We need public transportation, walkable cities, alternative modes of travelling to work and other places.

If we lived in a socialist society where a labor pool of unemployed people isn’t required to threaten overworked, underpaid, heavily exploited workers, people wouldn’t be desperately looking for work, even if it means they would have to drive 1-2 hours plus in a deindustrialized, hyper-imperialist hellhole. We could allocate workers to work based on proximity and skillset. Win-win for workers, efficiency, and the environment.

Working less hours and more remote work would have a massive impact on the environment, as we have seen during COVID.

I plan to get motorcycle lessons to get a license and buy an electric motorcycle for economical reasons to survive in a capitalist society. My goal is to avoid any “smart” tech where I am forced to use a proprietary phone app with the vehicle (which is unfortunately very common). Funny enough, electric motorcycles don’t count for a tax deduction in the US, but only a select few (mostly) large heavy SUV electric vehicles which are magnitudes worse for the environment. Electric cars just help big car industries, the government doesn’t give a crap about humanity burning alive on this planet.

I’m also nervous about the surveillance tech that has been mandated by the US to be added to vehicles in the coming years (for example (I’m not against anti-drunk and distracted driving prevention tech in vehicles in a socialist society, though, but I believe it wouldn’t be a priority or possibly even necessary if we utilized other measures to prevent traffic deaths magnified by car-focused infrastructure)) as I predict it will be abused by police and the ruling class.

A Chinese EV would potentially be more affordable for me, but of course the US is not going to allow their citizens access to cheaper EVs that will compete against other car manufacturers here, and I don’t believe I have to mention the Cold War 2.0 we are in with China.

PeerTube even has nice features such as being able to share a clip with a start and end time and send it as a url. This is super handy when one wants to share a specific segment of a video without people feeling overwhelmed if the video is long. Open source once again actually making features and not anti-features.

I hope to run a personal PeerTube instance someday in the near future.

Lol, even the stock market sucks. We are in a bust cycle and the stock market has been relatively stagnant unless you are in the elite club profitting off of insider trading and shorting. Stocks have been going down recently due to reduced rate hikes. Most people lose money on the stock market. Biden, his fellow ghouls, and the media are smoking some heavy load of baloney. This is just hella cope.

“Stock market goes up” they win, “housing prices skyrocket” we (the working class) lose

It’s all the same to Biden. Genocide means nothing to his bloodthirsty eyes. Protecting America’s interest in the Middle East at all costs is all he and the rest of the ruling class care about.

And yet liberals are shocked when people are repulsed and don’t want to vote for this demonic warlord.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8237681/

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/04/spanking-children-may-impair-their-brain-development/

Ugh, I want an affordable tiny electric smart car. US is always a buzzkill.

No worries :)

I was just referring to Western media, mostly being comprised of violent media and content made by neoliberal whiteys. My joke wasn’t meant to be read into this much.

Crackers: Who taught you how to do this stuff?

AI: I learned it by watching YOU!

Yeah, an actual collapse of socialism looks like US committing genocide via shock therapy during the overthrow and balkanization of the Soviet Union, which was magnitudes worse than the COVID pandemic. Yet we don’t see Russia being called “well ackshually they are a capitalist state pretending to be socialist” in the same vain as China. That’s because they did have a capitalist takeover, and they don’t pretend to be socialist nor have a reason to. I totally agree with your statement here. I just didn’t have the words to dismantle the other ultra-leftist arguments, which you helped greatly.

We also don’t see capitalist, cracker politicians hiding their primitiveness, surely some socialist theory, let alone merely reading a book, would have helped:

These are pretty solid answers. This helped me connect the dots to what I have been having trouble articulating and formulating in my mind regarding this topic. Thank you very much, comrade.

This is what I am interested in hearing other people answer first. All I can say is that it is difficult for socialism to succeed in a capitalist dominated world. While I am also curious about the argument regarding class struggle, I believe each country’s path to socialism will be different in different nations. China at this time is serving a massive role in maintaining peace as much as possible and to prevent another capitalist takeover of their country. This is necessary, especially with their 100 year plan and goal toward US dedollarization via becoming a world leading centralized nation mutually benefitting in trade with Eurasia and Africa. While people were hurt in the process, I believe the emancipation of the proletariat has an improved chance of succeeding across the world than if China had the same fate as the Soviet Union.

I suspect most people would have wanted the Cultural Revolution to succeed if it would have yielded better results, but that is not what happened. What is important is understanding the material reality and how it was impacted by Dengist policies, which brought China to its current stage today. Perhaps in the future we can see other countries have revolutions and manage to stick to the socialist only road, though I believe it is likely the case that China essentially took one for the team and allowed other countries to not have to go through the same struggles and risks.

I’m not one to answer your question well. I am interested in seeing more people’s viewpoints and knowledge here as I did have a previous discussion on Lemmygrad where I learned that the Cultural Revolution was hijacked by ultras and Lin Biao attempted to assassinate Mao.

I disagree calling China not socialist. Forgive me if this is an oversimplification of China’s economy and government, but I view China as analagous to a computer with a Linux host with a Windows virtual machine, but instead they are a socialist country with a capitalism virtual machine, which they have done well hardening against and preventing a “capitalism vm escape”. Now in the current era of Xi Jinping, China has been shrinking the capitalist vm and gradually replacing obsolete components with state controlled industry, such as their recent vow to centralize their tech industry (just as Linux tools develop to a stage where users are enabled to replace the programs they rely on Windows for with Linux supported alternatives).

I dislike that millions of disadvantaged workers lost some of their rights and had to work in the non-unionized private firms to help China increase its production. I don’t know if China would have been able to reach the stage it has achieved today if they continued the socialist only road, but I believe considering reality, I am afraid they may have sufferred the same fate as the Soviet Union if they didn’t convince imperialist nations to invest into their economy. It’s a brutal world, and unfortunate things happen that not even the strongest socialist nation can stop 100%. Thus, I believe China did their best and managed to be successful, which I am grateful for as a USian.