Small pain point about living in a neoliberal hellscape is that we can’t have a Pokedex-style encyclopedia app about everything.

Wikipedia comes close, but it only explains “relevant” things (so no specific documentation for a niche program), it’s horribly biased against material reality in anything politics, and there’s no manuals or how-tos in it.

A while ago, a soldier from the USA did self immolation to protest against the Palestinian Genocide.

Even though he was literally screaming “Free Palestine”, the reporters said that his protest was for “unknown reasons”. The audio of the video of his self immolation was muted.

I won’t disrespect this man’s choice, but it simply wasn’t effective.

I have a belief that neoliberalism is fundamentally born out of lack of education or class interest.

Like, this sort of greed argument doesn’t work when you consider indigenous tribes or when you actually study about why do humans evolved the hording habit.

I used to be friends with a guy that thought that anti-monopoly laws against Google and other Big Tech companies was unjust because they were the first “innovators” and that all-day public education was bad because schools become open grounds to “drug dealers”.

It doesn’t help that he’s also a massive homophobe and denies that evolution happened.

He lost a business and is stuck doing gig jobs for now. Petit Bourgeois brainworms are hard to kill, I suppose.

I think only you can decide that. But isn’t the US National Anthem played? Doesn’t the flag get displayed? Would you play in the US team if you were a professional football player knowing that you are representing the nation?

Note that we aren’t going to abide by some religious dogma. I would be okay with cheering Jesse Owens at the Olympics, for example (not for the US, but for him). But the fact that the US is hosting the games does change the moral calculus a bit.

Maybe it’s spectacle. Some guys harm their own health in order to get more views, including but not exclusive to raw meat eaters.

I’m sure that most of the audience isn’t gonna adopt a raw meat diet, but watching someone rant about dietary conspiracies or eating garbage is part of their entertainment. I think it’s like mukbangs.

tldr: If it attracts views and doesn’t harm bourgeois profits, it will be done. If it draws attention away from class war and into culture “war”, it will be done.

Low key sad that I’ll never be able to learn every language on this planet. So many cultures, so little time.

I’m not well-read on this topic, so take this with a grain of salt. Another comrade might give a better answer.

The answer is no. Lenin wrote that Imperialism is a highly developed phase of Capitalism (“highest state” is a bad translation). Neo-colonialism is defined by Kwame Nkrumah as the following

The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty. In reality its economic system and thus its political policy is directed from outside.

if you want to read more, read both Lenin’s Imperialism: the Highest State of Capitalism and Kwame Nkrumah’s Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism

Nkrumah takes an African perspective on this issue. So I believe it’s important to study the historical context since Africa suffered from both regular colonialism and neo-colonialism.

Physical disks were one of the reasons why Playstation 2 was the most popular console ever. This decision is betrayal.

Comrade, I’m sorry that you’ve suffered so much. I’m also happy that you’re able to get away from them. You will get your peace, that I’m sure.

That sucks. Here in Brazil there was a lot of shit that happened against the Indigenous people, but it was mostly concentrated on the coastline up to the 1940s and there isn’t a lot of cultural bias towards genocide ( some massacres unfortunately happened and nobody got punished).

Still, the “pity” exists here as well. It’s hard to describe it.

Also, I hope you got some peace after school.

I can only imagine the shock of learning Native American History.

I’m not even USian, but I was genuinely horrified after learning its history by the Communist perspective.

Like damn, I thought that it was a regular country with a rough economy, but it is literally unredeemable from its inception to today.

On a more positive note, Native American’s endurance is also inspiring. Hope I can meet one one day. May Turtle Island be free someday.

No problems!

Also, whenever you install a font, you need to restart Word and other programs if they are open during the installation.

Agave, find v38 (or the latest version) and download the .TTF files.

To install a TTF file, you just need to double click it. Windows will open a window and you’ll just need to click “install”.

For Sarasa, you need to download the right font since there are so many. You need to go into the Single Family TTF package and choose the “Mono” Zip file. Hinting basically means that the letters are easier to read (it’s math).

DO NOT download any TTC files. They can’t be installed normally like we did with Agave.

Then, unpack the zip file into a folder and choose a Mono font that has the right CJK characters (since Japanese and Chinese have different appearances for characters). If you want Chinese, I think you’ll have to so find all TTF fonts in the folder that have SC (for simplified Chinese) next to the name.

mfw when I’m bout to bring 1 billion people to greatness.

Yeah, same.

If you like geometric fonts, there’s also Agave. Frankly, I don’t like to use this one for writing, but it’s very pretty to look at.

Shout out to my High School Sociology teacher who started my radicalization process by teaching me that neoliberalism started with Pinochet. 🫡

Not only that, IIRC the CPC was almost terminated by the KMT. So they had grow twice.

The more I read about the Chinese Proletarian Revolution the more I understand why some people called it a miracle.

Thanks for letting me know about this font! I liked it

Oh yeah, clouds are awesome. I like those that look like those white exhaust trails that airplanes leave behind but in series.