Cimbazarov

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[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I felt the same vibe when european soc dems were rebuking Macron for going after LePen for corruption or whatever it was. Like if she's actually fascist, you dont decide to play electoralism with them. Doesnt help that macron sucks

Edit: I find the top comment so revealing of the liberal consciousness:

I mean for one huge reason among many others, there is no legal mechanism to do what you are suggesting.

It’s like asking why I can’t make my iPhone eat a hamburger. It has neither the programming nor the physical characteristics necessary for it to perform that action.

They see the laws of the US as material things, like the laws of physics. They dont even consider the millions of times Republicans/Trump/Billionaires/Corporations ignore and violate the laws with no repercussions. They are living in a fantasy world

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 29 points 12 hours ago

It's happening so fast and yet slow enough where i feel the population is just adjusting to it being the new normal. Very surreal

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

I dont really have it in me any more to watch someone with leftist policies win and be blocked at every step of the way

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

Jesus.

Ive had the hypothesis that the big bourgeoisie must be making out handsomely from this genocide, but i never actually dug into it.

I liked this quote from a article i saw on The Cradle "War is profit by other means" except replace war with genocide

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is my-hero right for once?

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago

There is a difference between revering it and using it as an example to learn from. Lenin was objective when it came to analyzing and learning from the Paris Commune. He may have had warm feelings towards it but his argument in state and revolution was to learn from it rather than try to acheive exactly as it did.

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 9 points 2 days ago

The goal wouldn't be returning to the USSR but returning to socialism.

Yea that would be the challenge in using nostalgia of the past. That being said I think it has some use in agitation, but it's more important to follow class dynamics and unify people based on class.

I also missed that the question was specific to Eastern Europe, so idk how strongly the Soviet Union affects the culture

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Newsom is easier to attack cause you can just blame anything bad happening in California on him. It also doesnt help that he is constantly capitulating to republicans on policies which are causing the problems in California.

Dems care way too much about appeasing Republicans on paper, when they'll literally never be satisfied and it does nothing to win them over

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Socialism is inherently materialist. With other movements you'll see a reverence to some mythological past which is used to try to unify people (e.g. Italy and the Roman empire, Germany and the Volk, America and the 50s) which are all idealist. Socialism is about unifying people based on class. I think we need to move on from the soviet union and not try to romanticize it to try to make it some goal society should strive for. If the goal is becoming the soviet union, then we lose sight of dialectical materialism, why the soviet union developed the way it did, and how to learn from it as social scientists.

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I cringe remembering how i debated someone about transgenderism being a mental illness

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

There are so many parallels from Trump to hitler or mussolini, and these liberal idiots cant stop comparing him to Stalin or Mao. Their understanding of historical figures is truly a simplistic smooth brained understanding. good guy-bad guy

Then genocidal Americans historical figures: its complicated

[–] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

China's avoidance of getting involved in the other countries' politics is a strength and a curse. I once again am coming to the conclusion that socialism can only built as an international movement

 

I feel this question is very trite, but Ive been considering how AI hasnt really had its killer app in the consumer market. The military industrial complex has floods of cash and you can see the collaboration between big tech and the government today. Also as conditions worsen the average person is not going to be able to afford the AI toaster or whatever they come up with as a consumer product. I dont see the bourgeois who invested so much into AI pivoting to something else, so the conclusion ive drawn is it will have to be the military that is going to be the main consumer.

Conditions worsening is going to lead to chaos and resistance in the streets and it seems like that is when the government can start deploying their AI-based military applications. Idk what form it woukd take, possibly autonomous systems that put down protests/demos etc.

 

Talking more about how we in the imperial core are exploited, rather than how imperialism exploits other countries' resources, labour etc. I'm trying to find a satisfying explanation for why "well-paid" workers are also exploited.

From my understanding of Marx, exploitation happens in capitalism by the worker producing more value than what they are paid. This is evident by the profit these companies make, as it wouldn't exist if their workers were not exploited. But I find it awkward to try to get this across to people not well versed in theory. You have job types like office workers that don't really produce anything and only contribute to the companies bottom line indirectly. I get that theres unproductive and productive labor, but this is also alot to explain to someone who is not deep into economics.

This also got me thinking that exploitation is broader than just underpaying workers. There's also psychological and physical abuse at the workplace that I feel has some connection to exploitation. The fact that the employer can threaten you with firing, or cutting some benefit also seems like exploitation to me.

 

https://xcancel.com/DavidLe76335983/status/1910523571199189264

deng-salute Have to hand it to him. America totally bought his propaganda

 

So was talking with a Sunni friend, and he was telling me that Iranians are not muslim. He was also saying this is a common belief in the middle east.

I couldn't tell if this was some old prejudice thing, or I am just ignorant on the matter because from my understanding they are Shia muslims and have a religious head of state (even though maybe they are not following Islam in the same manner as other muslims would approve of).

When I asked him to clarify if he meant that Shia muslims are not true muslims or if he meant Iranians are not muslims it also got kind of confusing. He was talking about the history of the split over who would be the successor to Ali, and then something I've never heard before. He said a Jewish person created a new Shia'ism with "12 infallible imams", which honestly sounds like some antisemetic conspiracy but Im just not knowledgeable on the matter. From what I searched I dont see any origin from a Jewish person in Shia'ism.

Anyways, curious to know more about how Iran is viewed by the rest of the middle east and how they view themselves. Also hope I didn't say anything offensive.

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