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u know it’s very telling how easily manipulated americans are by media by the whole NVIDIA affair going on.
You got ur John doe acting very mad as if Jensen Huang betrayed america when HE is quite literally the owner of NVIDIA and is within his authority to do whatever he wants with his company, like circunventing sanctions to sell chips to China, mfers acting like NVIDIA is a state owned company 😂 which is quite ironic for the US.
I get that big shareholders are mad but brother u are just a sheep the f you care that he sold whatever secrets to China.
I think gases are a pretty good analogy for Historical Materialism.
A gas is literally septillions of molecules bumping into each other and moving unpredictably. However, due to statistics, gases as a whole are predictable using a handful of numbers (temperature, pressure, volume, number of molecules etc.).
Likewise, human society is formed by billions of individuals who have barely anything to do with each other, but we can still analyze society using a handful of abstractions over it (ie: means of production, relations of production, class interests etc.) and, through them, predict roughly how history will unravel and change it.
What do you think?
My soft spot for Melachon hardening after I find out he’s anti nuclear energy [Im going to actually lose it with European leftists]
But no seriously why are European greens and such so anti nuclear. I get not being vehemently pro nuclear, but why am I apparently having to be pro nuclear with neoliberals and Trumpians on my side?
Edit: also what’s with banning flights between 11pm and 6 am? That honestly felt like a really random policy proposal
French nuclear energy is 100% a colonial endeavour supplied by neocolinial relations with the former French colonies in Africa. France does not source its uranium internally.
I feel like the answer to that is to find sustainable equitable trading partners [including Russia if need be] and eat an increased cost for fair, non-neocolonial trade rather than just dropping nuclear entirely
I completely agree. It would be absurd for France to completely ditch nuclear energy in the short to medium term. We saw how “well” that worked out in Germany.
Although, to be honest I would still support Melenchon even if he insisted on going through with the anti-nuclear thing as long as he pulls France out of NATO.
Right right. Personally [since its in my feild] im biased towards nuclear energy. But Melachon would generally be a net positive. Although the recent platform i read from LFI was that they were pulling out of the integrated command structure and not the alliance entirely so im not entirely sure.
Im also biased towards Melenchon because im used to older men like him being more KKE or Galloway types in terms of social conservatism or being lethargic in terms of action like Zyuganov, so I’ll let him get away with a lot more than I probably shouldn’t tbh.
Do you think pulling out of the Euro would be feasible as well?
It will be painful but yes, it can and must be done. Is an absolute necessity and a precondition to any genuine economic transition out of neoliberalism. If you do not pull out of the Euro you will never have sovereign control over your own financial policies and therefore cannot set your own economic policies. Unless you ditch the Euro it literally does not matter who you elect, you can have a communist party get 99.9% of the votes and they still would not be able to govern as they wish. The country would still be shackled by a foreign entity controlling its currency. You will just be dragged down along with the rest of the Eurozone when the crisis hits.
Obviously most leftist parties in Europe, including LFI, are not ready to hear or understand this at the moment. Nor are most voters. Normally i would say they have to learn by failing, by winning elections, trying to govern, and then running into a brick wall and having their entire agenda be scuttled by Brussels and the ECB. As happened in Greece. My fear however is that we are so close to the precipice of the big crisis that we cannot afford to go through that painful learning experience, because the fascists will completely take over if the left crashes and burns like that. And the right has no compunctions embracing a nationalist line on things like the EU.
I think france might push it over the edge if there’s another Eurozone crisis hitting them. If the EU tries to impose the same austerity it did on Greece onto France then I think ditching the Euro would become a lot more mainstream
The anti nuclear people around me are against it because it is not a renewable and because of the major fallout if something were to go wrong (despite them being really safe).
Personally I blame Gorbachev and chernobyl but in any case it just feels like, exactly what “no investigation no right to speak” is for. Like they kinda gesture at the whole field of nuclear science and radiation and go “i dont like it” and propose a plan to completely wipe out their main source of energy based on vibes.
Its kinda the same as the people who hate on the three gorges dam [beyond the racism and anti-sinoism]
If I had the choice between 100% renewables or nuclear I’d go for renewables but in a world where an energy transition is much needed I welcome nuclear energy to help that transition with their clean and reliable energy. I feel like we need to be realistic too and nuclear is a part of that.
Yeah. Its also the fact that france is not like the US or UK. 70%+ of electricity production is nuclear. If they just prioritized renewable over nuclear itd be fine, but its the fact that they want a complete phase out, going from increasing renewables by about 50% [ish, just going off wikipedia here] to increase renewable share from 17 to about 25% to wipe out fossil fuels, to a whopping 560% increase to account for both nuclear and fossil fuels.
My other thing really is like “this is the hill youre gonna die on? Really?” Its like when that one canidate for the French throne wouldn’t accept the throne unless to tricolor was replaced. I dont think there’s a lot of people who wouldn’t support them if they didnt have a 100% anti nuclear platform, but there’s probably a lot of people who are, for good reason, skeptical of the idea of repeating the German folly in a country more reliant on nuclear power.
Some photos from the recent celebrations of the October revolution from Russia and Belarus!
The problem with being a “smart kid” is that it’s mostly about learning to suppress yourself to behave around adults. It’s pretty tough to look a children today doing stupid things and being like “damn, I wish I allowed myself to do that when I was a kid”
My suppression was mostly from external forces. (I was a horrible child) For me the worst part was being forced to learn at a pace determined by the position of the stars when I was born not my strengths and weaknesses. Almost all the teachers I had would have been better as cattle ranchers. They acted like children are broncos to be broken in and forced to behave for their master.
They acted like children are broncos to be broken in and forced to behave for their master.
I know how it is. I was seldom punished, but it was mostly out of fear. Like, I saw children getting punished and avoided getting punished by behaving.
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Being forced to constantly watch videos of “unruly” young guys “suffering the consequences” and “learning” by my religion certainly didn’t help.
To this day, I still have to struggle against staying in line or playing safe.
also, about the strengths and weaknesses, I have a feeling that school treat grades like employers treat profit. I mean, reducing a person or a result to a single number.
I really hated writing in High School because it was solely for exams. Nowadays writing is my means of self-improvement.
“You’re so smart”, “you’re so mature”, “you’re so wise.”
On the inside: “When is it my turn to be a kid who can do stupid kid stuff and have adults be the smart/mature/wise one to learn from?”
I don’t think I got it as bad as some. I feel like I sort of partially had a childhood and partially didn’t. But I also feel like there were a lot of times I had a problem and figured out how to solve it on my own because I didn’t feel like I could go to the adults with it and get proper help. Whether because they were too busy or I was afraid to ask or whatever.
Trump needs to be careful calling himself Mr. Veto. The last guy who got called that…well, let’s just say the “no kings” people of his day took it a lot more seriously
Nah, he’s safe. Americans are too docile to do anything based.
I think you could make an argument that “american” is a political identification not a nationality and that people who are directly opposed to the central tenets of america (white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism) are not american.
I think it was Malcolm X that talked about that. “Don’t hate the roots of the tree”.
Like, Black Americans are at the table, so to speak, but they aren’t allowed to eat, so they are not beneficiaries of the American project. Therefore they are not Americans.
The CIA amd or FBIis ready to assassinated a few more movement leaders if they get too rowdy
Maybe it is because I am back in The Netherlands with its lack of serious communist movement but I struggle not to fall back on some sort of hedonist doomerist lifestyle at the moment
Falling into old habits when you go back home is a common occurrence. Switching your language can actually change your personality.
damn, wish i had the money to have hedonism as an option
To be honest I also had a phase like this when I was broke and struggling with addiction. Being neurodiverse and sudden life changing events are not a great combo.
Have an excellent week, everyone! A reminder that study is a lifetime duty of any comrade, and a shameless promo for the reading groups beginning on Hexbear’s c/Marxism and c/Soviet today!
As always, communism will win.
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Understood! You have an awesome week as well, Cowbee!
I hope you all have a nice week :D
thanks, you as well ! <3
You too Oppo! Have a good one!
You too, Oppo! (. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)
thanks oppo
You too Oppo!
You too comrade!
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
https://theonion.com/america-defeats-america/
the thing about the onion is it can pull off a good satire until it comes time to satirize the basic principles of ‘liberalism’, but then it pulls it off so well on accident because it’s still arguing we SHOULD preserve the status quo of liberal democracy and the ideals of electoralism.
i think about this article all the time when thinking about DOTPs
Satire be like, haha fuck reactionaries, I like capitalism.
Since its still pretty new and very beautiful I’m posting it again. Someone tore down the Germany flag from the German parliamentary building and flew the Palestine flag.
Noice! most based german
people severely underestimate the astroturfing of internet but also have really hilarious ideas of russian infiltration yeah i’m sure this user is actually a russian operative in lemmygrad of all places. ??? if they have a seed bomb why throw it in an already ideal garden
No, grad is a hive, it’s the internet’s central russian bot hub. /s
oh yes i forgot, we are all russians, either paid handsomely as real people typing away in fluent english (even referencing niche internet jokes), or bots (carefully and meticulously trained) yapping away for the sole purpose of (???), as Lemmygrad is a prime place to recruit hapless non-communists!
(do they still think the russian government’s goal is spreading communism…?)
Or better yet, I’ll just mention I’m slavic. I’d love yo see their reaction.
well they’ll call you a mindless, stupid drone, a subhuman orc, someone whose geography consigns you to misery (and imply something about genetics probably as well), but that’s not racist because you’re Slavic so all those things are actually justified and even true and don’t qualify as Actual Racism
/sarc
(last part is not me being like “ohhh my god other racialized groups just have victim complexes they’re not actually having problems” whatsoever)
The situation with slavs is difficult because on one hand you have:
Ustasha,Banderites,Chetniks,Polish and Czech anticommunists, etc.
On the other you have everyone else, including the oppressed slavs.
(Also doesn’t help that I’ve got a ridiculously pale skin tone.)
i think it is important to keep in mind that all those ustaše/banderite, etc. scum are deeply self-hating and mentally colonised. if one reads their garbage “writings,” they constantly claim to be “goths” or “aryans” or whatnot…
to your last point, it is important to remember that “race” is a social construct not based on any actual biology.
not having sleep really makes you a different person i caught myself caring about anglosphere social media sentiment and literally paused and went “that’s so stupid” and now i’m going to nap. i love sleep
one thing i’ve gotten in the habit of at the tail end of my schooling is just unashamedly clocking out and stopping my work when it’s late and i don’t care anymore. i wish you could do that all the time everywhere i think it’s your human right to rest because it makes you more functional but when has this system ever cared about being welcoming to humans
