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We will win again, hopefully. Either we win or mankind (and possibly a bunch of other species (seen as how lethal our strongest weapons are) goes extinct
I tend to be optimistic as well, I think there's a good chance the world starts moving in the right direction in the coming decades. I'm also incredibly excited for China's moon base as far as firsts in space go.
I'm both excited and somewhat fearful, unfortunately. The militarization of Europe and the increase of pro-Fascist sentiment is extremely worrying.
But as Lenin would say, "there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen".
Very much agree, my expectation is that things are likely to deteriorate in the western world in the short term, but the rest of the planet will move on. And good news is that Europe is very much deindustrialized at this point, so right wing taking charge isn't going to have much to work with.
Yes, the Global South will probably see massive improvements in living standards in the next few decades as they begin to ally more with China and leave the empire behind
As for the rest, yeah. The Capitalist/Imperialist Bloc just isn't in the same position as it was in the 1st Cold War.
I want to move to China but at the same time I also wanna stay here for when the time comes. Still conflicted on this one, because I'm definitely not planning to die on a war to line up the pockets of some rich bastard
I definitely want to bail to China myself, and already started low key learning Mandarin for when the time comes. The main reason I stay here is honestly to take care of my parents who are old and have no interest of moving anywhere. Otherwise, I probably would've moved already.
Same, i am bound by blood to my country but there is not much else keeping me here. Regardless, its a good idea to learn mandarin since that opens up the possibility of engaging with a shit ton more of people.
That's what I figure, it's clearly a very useful language to know regardless where I'm living.
And the capitalists are still coping
o7 Yuri
Somehow missed this thread. Huzzah to Yuri!
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The diminishment of Yuri Gagarin's historic achievement as "no big deal" by the usual suspects will always be hilarious because it's one cope against the achievement of a man who is destined to be vindicated in the course of the future.
In the far future, whether that's when the human colonies of Mars declare independence from Earth and or eons later when humanity, if ever, reaches systems like Alpha Centauri, when they teach human history, frankly, they won't give a shit about Armstrong who stepped on the Earth's moon (oh excuse me, I forgot the proper spin: the "first to step on another 'celestial object'").
The one human from Earth that will matter, perhaps the only one that will matter at all, to those humans who will be so far distanced from humanity's homeworld will be that person who first entered space, setting off the teleological historical narrative to the context of the journey to their extraterrestrial homes.
That one individual is Yuri Gagarin and it's both profound to realize and empowering to think that while the entire weight of the contemporary West's academic, political and intellectual classes might be arrayed to downplay the achievement of the first human to reach outer space as accomplished by the collective hands of the USSR, this is one struggle despite all their teeth gnashing that they will never win, will never be able to take away from socialist achievement and that, as sure as anyone can be, he will be commemorated long after perhaps any other human from this planet.