Thank you for being yourself, and for being with us.

Super duper nice, good star. Show us where anyone said capitalism wasn't a stage of final development, anyone saying it should've never happened?

You're comparing a system that lets people suffer unnecessarily with a time of lower technological development. It's literally apples and oranges, not to mention you've failed to address what they meant, something someone else spelled out.

This speaks to my naiveté, admittedly, but I didn't actually question the headline for the 2 seconds out took me to reach "The Onion." Trump may not be a unique evil regarding the wicked hegemon, but he is random enough that incredulousness doesn't quickly kick in.

Well, no matter. Because I'm STILL holding all the cards, and guess what: they're allll Full Houses!

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I hope you won't mind my ultra moment here. I think while the results speak for themselves, he got lucky.

Even in retrospect, Deng Xiaoping seems to be the rightmost someone can be and still reasonably be considered a communist. Looking at some of his unimplemented ideas and the policies that were reversed in the following decades, it's understandable why someone would think he was a capitalist roader in his time. The path he set the CPC on meant that the party had to walk a difficult tightrope, fooling the westerners by obfuscating their long-term plans while keeping the creeping liberalism at check. Whole the capacity of her administrators and will of her people played the main part, China couldn't have made it to today without fortune by their side.

Tldr I agree but only with hindsight

The current model in the west only works because the populace has been fed so much liberalism they can't tell it from reality, thus can't develop class consciousness. When it fails, it'll be because the ruling class fell for their own bs.

Who'd be Trump's Guilliman?

Hitler, Himmler, Speer etc had plans that were no more consistent with reality than the average alt history enthusiast come up with. That they also ruled one of the belligerents of WW2 doesn't make their ideas more coherent. This is just discount might makes right.

This guy gives off the same vibes as the kkk dipshits getting bullied by the nazi fucker in Wolfenstein.

"island nation"

It's a similar problem, building in the middle of nowhere without planning will similarly have future costs. More importantly, those supposed ghost cities have hundreds of thousands of inhabitants now.

From my POV anti-corruption efforts, even though proof of past corruption without doubt, isn't a contradiction. It's very much the system working: anti-corruption efforts are nowhere to be seen in liberal democracies. Like all the other improvements in AES, the capitalist economies could do it, but never do.

Besides, I wrote about incentives and inclinations, not rich guy dumb commie smart. A faulty system that benefits oneself directly or one's benefactors doesn't provide an incentive to improve to replace that system. Similarly, someone without a liberal indoctrination, even if they're engaging in some (different kinds of?) corruption, would be more likely to see issues as they come up and more incentivised to fix them. None of this is to say China or other AES make no mistakes, there're plenty of errors to be found, big and small. But the structures that exist there are different than those in capitalist economies and as I understand them, have better incentives to catch long-term wasteful choices.

Not a real benefit, I mean like fake GDP growth from price hikes. It happens to benefit capitalists, and that's all the incentive necessary.

I was sleepy as hell too.

This isn't accurate. A poorly made building is only as good as a useless patent. The shoddy work will require costly fixes or rebuilding entirely. Most capitalist economies turn this into a benefit, but communist administrators would understand that it's merely a drain on resources and labour, and be less likely to accept this preventable waste. Despite my lack of particular knowledge I'd guess that the PRC is more inclined to have a more sensible process regarding patents than the West.

I'm any case this sort of rumour is quite old, as the other comrade pointed out. The Chinese have been accused of stealing IP for decades (mostly by the people who sold the know-how) and hearsay of near meaningless papers churned out to pump up numbers was thrown around when Jiang was still in charge, probably started before.

I'm not arguing with your conclusions, but we needn't take projection or rumours from the dying hegemon at face value. This one stings me especially since I believed it for years and only questioned it once I was reminded of it, after I'd already become an ML.

Edit: You said you saw it on XHS and while I irritate myself in questioning the locals' account, that app also revealed they plenty of Chinese people aren't very worldly, so to speak. Thinking easily proven facts about the US and Europe being CPC propaganda and the like.

Warm congratulations to Estonia in their entry to the year of our lord 1938 and we wish them a very merry self inflicted ruin in 7 years' time.

Zelensky has been doing this random conspiracy shit for years. He feeds further life into these weird notions because it helps fuel russophobia in some circles and German papers don't write it when he says unhinged shit. It's genuinely a win-win on the short term and he probably won't live to make it to the long term anyway.

Nikki, just own it man. Granny and Gramps were Nazis, just admit it. You'll feel better knowing they were scum and every word out of their mouths was a crock of shit.

Also, given everything our Chinese comrades tell us of PLA soldiers' conduct in society, the above comment sounds far more likely.

Guys please help me out I can't feel as superior to these Untermenschen if they can still try new architectural styles after we flattened their country and murdered a quarter of their people I'm freaking out man

One of Erdoğan's greatest talents was his electoral success. Between his tight grip on the media (literal oligarchic control btw) and extraordinary ability to appeal to parts of the electorate, he hasn't lost the government since his party first won in 2002. This isn't really surprising in retrospect, his party is the only one that's actually organised. Until 2018 there was negligible organisation to campaign or maintain election security, and as of 2023, on a national level, it's still quite abysmal. Basically, he's been successful in part because his party has been doing that very same thing Communists have been telling each other to do, and his opposition failed to. I lack brevity as is, so I'm not getting into the roots of AKP or the events of 2015.

It looks like İmamoğlu is the only one who has beaten Erdoğan at any level and is believed to be the only man who can best him in a general election. He's got a charisma that's eerily reminiscent of Erdoğan himself, he's shown himself to be quite the builder of coalitions and it was his organising work that won him İstanbul in 2019 and won the party many other provinces in 2024 local elections. I'm harping on the organising issue in part because it's that important (as is obvious to ask comrades here) but also because the CHP's attempts in 2023 to fight AKP organising was to claim it had collapsed, which was revealed the day after the election to be entirely devoid of truth. Also worth mentioning is Yavaş, mayor of Ankara, similarly believed to be a rival to Erdoğan. He's not. He can't stop the anti-Kurdish rhetoric to save his life, meaning there's no chance he can get majority support of the Kurdish people and would lose nationally.

On the 17th, İmamoğlu had his diploma annulled for bs reasons (a university diploma is required to run for the presidency), on the next day he and 100 others were drained, around half were charged and arrested 3 days later, protests began on the day of detaining. They've largely been led by CHP, which turned them into electioneering without an upcoming election. The party leader engages in some resistance rhetoric but their main function has been to sheepdog people into not putting the budding revolutionary enthusiasm into anything revolutionary. The protests overall have had a clear Kemalist bent, so nationalist fascists are a-ok but anyone implying Kurdish liberation sympathies is expelled. I know there are some comrades among them closing themselves in Kemalist symbols intentionally, but haven't seen any socialist symbols by themselves. Youth attempting spontaneous action usually get arrested since they lack organisation, as such don't know what to do beyond the next 5 minutes or how to act around the pigs.

Internationally, Turkey is just a periphery vassal. After the ottoman empire became a semi-colony and eventually fell, it's been trying to "reach the level of modern nations." Plunging oneself intentionally to the horrors of capitalism, without the scientific understanding and approach of Communists, purely on ideological grounds and trying to embed oneself to the imperialists order of things on their terms is a tried and failed strategy. While this is clear in retrospect, I maintain that it was as idiotic in 1929 as it is in 2025. The great depression happened 6 years after Turkey was founded, it's beyond me why half the founding crew didn't question they're Francophile education and liberal tendencies. That being said, Erdoğan has 2 recent victories: the fascists in control of Syria maintain their junior partner or whatever position with Erdoğan and Trump's in office, with whom Erdoğan has his rapport. He's also in good standing with Europe and hailed as the defender of a free Ukraine, but I don't think that's something he can cash in anyhow. His relationship with Europe has always been one step forward, five steps back after he has some head start when he first came into office as prime minister.

That's how things have been as I've perceived them. I don't know whether İmamoğlu will be released, whether he will win if he is, whether his candidacy will be upheld by the government that incarcerated him in the first place, but most importantly, I have no idea whether he'll be better for Turkey or the world. Internally, I would expect that things would go back to parliamentary system, not because İmamoğlu would want to give up power, but rather because I expect the coalition that topples Erdoğan to crumble in turn. I expect the economic conditions to stabilise, between the "sensible" liberal policies and western money. Kurdish liberation won't be a hair closer. Socialists won't be more free to operate, such as they are. He'll be more likely to go along with European schemes in the region, especially anything to support the Zionist entity, but his party is partial to taking random principled stances against western interests every once in a while.

I absolutely detest Aaron Sorkin's writing. I hate how entertaining it is, I just watched an hour's worth of the newsroom clips. I enjoy it, but I can't stand all the smug, self-satisfied liberal drivel. West wing is even worse in that regard, it's chock full of apologia for the worst active war criminal on the planet, given the veneer that he's just a guy trying his best to save the world he's in the process of murdering.

I dislike video essayists read one (1) book and make a 40-120 minute video about a large topic using mainly that one book. This is also one of the good reasons to look down on the musical Hamilton and the people who like it too much.

I may be skirting the definition of small but DRM and client side anti-cheats. Some of them are basically malware, sifting through the user's files. Fuck knows what's stopping it reading my browser, getting my banking info or email. Besides, a DRM's only as good as how long it takes folks to produce a crack in the first place. Once it's out there, best publishers can do is lock out further content, and truth be told, I've yet to find any such content that's worth the money or the time to play.

I really dislike the Legend of Korra. I adored Book 1 as a media illiterate kid. Then it got worse and I got older. The gang isn't very likable, much of their adventures feel like a waste of time, the gaang's story got butchered and the world building got obliterated. I seem to be in the minority in disliking even Book 3, Zaheer, and his flying technique. (stranding still, floating isn't a natural behaviour of air and isn't encompassed by being the leaf)

It's not your fault in any case. The authors use that well known medieval vibes setting out of ignorance and convenience. Not maliciously perhaps but they clearly don't give much of a shit about historical accuracy or coherent political-economical-social orders that can survive scrutiny.

The reason it's always European medieval vibes is because everyone in the Anglosphere and adjacent ones are familiar with them. Think about it, among stories that gain popularity with western audiences nobody tries to specify the position of a duke, but anything inspired by west-Asian or Chinese history is followed a 90 second/2-3 page explanation.

but this is all action that could be taken by a social democratic state

Yet never is. Perhaps ultras should realise that an analysis cannot be based on woulda coulda shoulda, and the purpose of a system is what it does. SocDems are only ever strong and fervent when they're backed (indeed pushed) by labour movements. On the other hand, the only regimes that work to eradicate poverty, create prosperity for all are the socialist ones, governed by those Communists ultras cannot help but invent flaws about.

Democrats have actively pursued policies that would help a couple thousand a bit every time, while their base expect/imagine SocDem reforms that take a few decades to overturn instead of months. The idiot redditor.world who replied to OP proved that without realising.