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  • My world if Paul Cockshott wasn't a TERF

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  • At best, they think that socially reactionary messaging will attract rednecks to socialism. This is sorely misguided. People are taught to blame gays, trans, blacks, etc. for their woes instead of capitalists (e.g. People seem to imply trans people are stealing Medicare by continuously wasting money on gender transitioning back and forth every other day. People only worry about this because Medicare is so underfunded).

    If we instead focus on addressing their monetary woes directly, people will soon forget about why they even gave a shit about hating minorities and different genders. HasanAbi has talked about this, on how the left needs to ignore conservatives' anti-trans noise and just focus on how they can help economically.

    Conceding these points to conservatives, or even agreeing to make them a primary point of debate on campaign, is akin to agreeing with their choice of battlefield and is basically an admission of defeat.

  • My world if Paul Cockshott wasn't a TERF

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  • I don't understand why dividing on this line is worth so much political attention. A socialist society has much more important things to debate than the 5 trans atheletes in the world. Let people's personal lives be whatever, why waste energy condemning random categories of human gender and sexual expression.

    All categories, including gender, are social constructs, so there will always be outliers. To force these outliers into our artificial boxes is a stupid waste of time.

  • what do you think about assisted suicide for mental illness?

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  • I'm OK with euthanasia for terminal illness (end-stage cancer, Alzheimer's, etc.) but much less OK for mental health. Mental health struggles are generally not permanent and are exacetbated by capitalism. If someone with depression feels useless, is running out of money, and wants euthanasia (I have felt this way before), the first-line solutions should be providing low-cost treatment, smoothing over financial difficulties, and helping them feel purpose rather than euthanasia.

  • Trump Approved a Nvidia Chip for Sale in China. Beijing Doesn’t Want It.

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  • Why should China pay NVIDIA when that money could instead fund domestic competitors like Huawei, whose GPUs are now becoming competitive?

  • Jewish groups denounce fatal shooting at San Diego mosque, say that it proves need for security funding

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  • Somehow, even when American Muslims get hurt, we must worry about how it makes the Zionist Jews feel unsafe. Are we going to address the Islamophobic propaganda that is motivating these hate crimes? Nah.

  • Earlier today, I was thinking about the way Liberals define Fascism. And then stumbled upon this Twitter post.

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  • I agree that imperialism and fascism are twins. Imperialism (sometimes alongside settler colonialism) is applied to subordinate countries, while fascism is applied within.

    I would argue that fascism is a method, when the bourgeoisie decides that the appearance of bourgeois democracy is unnecessary and decides to retrench into a mask-off bourgeois dictatorship. However, different cases of fascism can have different symptoms based on the exact response of the capitalists, because fascism does not have hard beliefs other than ensuring capitalist domination. In Nazi Germany, they decided to redirect all anger toward killing minorities as well as leftists. In Spain and Chile, they didn't bother killing that many minorities, they just focused on killing leftists. Fascism behaved slightly differently in Indonesia, where they focused on killing all leftists and also anyone who was Chinese.

    When the bourgeoisie deals with an imperially colonized country, often they do not bother with the appearance of bourgeois democracy. They just do bourgeois dictatorship from the beginning, which is how imperialism and fascism are siblings.

    Ultimately, I think our disagreement is simply one of word usage. If you want, we can divide between "Imperial Core Fascism" versus "Periphery Fascism" (if you know better terminology from your reading, I'd love to learn). It's just that from what I see in common US usage, fascism is only used to refer to when capitalists do it to their own countries. The US education system never says that US capitalists massacring protestors in banana republics proves the USA is fascist, even though the USA doing so within itself would immediately be termed fascism.

  • Earlier today, I was thinking about the way Liberals define Fascism. And then stumbled upon this Twitter post.

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  • I think we disagree on the breadth of the application of the term fascism in this instance. I am referring to fascism mostly within already-capitalist countries, where it is used as a distraction to reinforce existing capitalism (Germany, Italy, Spain, also Pinochet's Chile).

    I don't really think settler colonialism of the Global South should be included under the definition of fascism, at least when taught to American students. Otherwise, things become very messy and too broad, as we are now including a process which brings capitalism to areas that were never under capitalism before. Why can't we just use the term 'settler colonialism' for that?

    The two also require pretty different solutions. Fascism can be organized against by convincing the working class that their interests are better served by seizing the means of production instead of going around killing minorities. Settler colonialism, unfortunately, inherently benefits those in the colonizing country, so is always in the material interest of the colonizers. Thus, you will not be able to convince the working class in the colonizing country to stop colonizing (this is part of the whole labor aristocracy debate). It requires other countries and peoples to go to war with the colonizing country to force it and its people to stop.

  • Earlier today, I was thinking about the way Liberals define Fascism. And then stumbled upon this Twitter post.

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  • I agree completely. The most I can remember from my education about fascism in US school is that it is simply when you blame minorities for problems, and is just some form of ultra-racism. There is absolutely no analysis that fascism is a method to re-entrench the power of capital while distracting the masses away from fighting the capitalists to killing minorities instead. This is why US liberals have very wishy-washy definitions of fascism, because they focus only on the symptoms and not the root causes that define fascism.

    This is because fascism was initially defined by Soviet political scientists as "the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital" ^[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/dimitrov/works/1935/08_02.htm]. It is only later, once the liberals were forced to fight the fascists, that they began formulating a non-Marxist definition, completely detached from class analysis, which simply revolved around the symptoms of hatred in fascism, and not the purpose of fascism.

  • Requesting Analysis of 2024 Presidential Candidate Claudia De La Cruz and Potential Up/Down Ballot Candidates & Parties Moving Forward

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  • She's awesome, I've talked to her in person. She's basically full ML. Through her work as both a political organizer and pastor, she acts as a bridge between PSL and liberation theology (MLK-style, which is more familiar to African Americans).

  • China uses coal power exhaust to produce cheaper fertiliser

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  • This is awesome! Hopefully it can scale to all the other coal plants China has, and thereby kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

  • As the US starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

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  • arguments against individualism and for collectivism?

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  • I think he relies a lot on shock factor in his social media posts to get people to understand the importance of adopting better health habits. People tune out when you simply tell them to have healthy habits. If this wasn't the case, we would all be listening to the American Heart Association and living with perfect health. However, when you tell people that their unhealthy food and bad sleep cause their sperm to die, then they start paying attention.

    I do think his work on building systems for human longevity is ultimately a net good for the world. The work he does today can be universalized after socialism for all workers, such as providing yearly resort trips for workers to go detox and get healthy. Until then, the path he is forging is probably the best path for longevity possible without changing the economic system.

  • arguments against individualism and for collectivism?

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  • This quote is from Bryan Johnson, yeah? Props to him for demonstrating the solutions that should be universalized to improve everyone's health.

  • Iran Turns to China Rail Link to Try to Bypass US Blockade

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  • Mexico is building a ginormous railway to bypass the Panama Canal.

  • Mining beast unlocked: China’s massive 248-tonne truck ‘crab-walks’ through extreme terrain

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  • Would it not be easier to just rotate the solar panels? A self-driving van on a campground with other people sounds like a very bad idea.

  • Whats the historical context behind the One-Child policy?

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  • I think a fall in China's population by ~200 million by 2100 is very reasonable. Some amount of population decrease is already locked in because of the previous years of 1.2 children per woman.

    Here's an article that forecasts this based on a slow increase from China's current birth rate of 1.2 per woman to a normal 2.1 per woman, which will result in a population by 2100 of 1.2 billion (200 million lower than China's current population of 1.4 billion): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chinas-population-could-shrink-to-half-by-2100/

    It is best to ignore the catastrophic projections of China's population falling to 700 million by 2100, which are based on the 1.2 per woman birth rate not changing at all, which is completely unrealistic because China will and already is implementing pro-natalist policies.

    The competition aspect is sort of inevitable with a large population. People always want to be making more money than their neighbor, and if you have a shit ton of neighbors, then you have a lot of people to beat. I don't really know what can be done about this.

  • Whats the historical context behind the One-Child policy?

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  • Here's a previous discussion on Lemmygrad on the topic: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/230769

    Here's a great article on the topic: https://goodsforthepeople.substack.com/p/the-great-chinese-famine-one-child

    TLDR: Historically, China, like India, had constant famines due to having way too many people, such that any small natural disaster that wiped out a few rice fields would kill a couple hundred million. China implemented the One-Child Policy in order to prevent these India-style issues of having too many people fighting over too few resources, which could have destabilized development. In a way, young people are liabilities because they must be given jobs (ideally better jobs than those of their parents). If the country's economy is not adapting fast enough to give them those jobs, then they become a source of instability.

    From the perspective of the Mao era, there was no guarantee that China's economy would rise as quickly as it did, so from their perspective, this was a very logical choice. The demographic transition model (that birth rates naturally fall as industrial development increases) that Westoids use to denigrate China's One-Child Policy did not exist as a cohesive theory back then, so there were no examples to show that the problem could fix itself and did not require an enforced One-Child Policy.

    When I talk to my relatives in China, they still think that the Chinese population is a little too high. They would actually prefer for it to fall by ~200 million so that competition is less intense and there is more to go around for everyone.

    Also remember the Parenti quote about western media's constant negativity. If China did not implement the One-Child Policy, western media would be constantly complaining about Asiatic hordes and India-like deprivation in China due to too many people fighting over too few resources. In the past, Western media straight-up did this, creating tons of Asiatic horde propaganda cartoons in the U.S.

    Since China has implemented the One-Child Policy, they instead complain about the historical cruelty of the policy.

  • A question for those who keep up with Vietnamese politics. Is the current rulling faction of CPV composed of neoliberal reformist members?

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  • Vietnam is basically following China's playbook but just 10 years behind. Like China, they allowed foreign capital to come in order to build their industry. Once they have good manufacturing, they will increase socialist aspects again.

  • Huawei Ascend supernode to support Deepseek V4

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  • Fair, I've heard similar annoyances about GPT 5.5. I think I hope DeepSeek reinforcement-trains V4 a bit harder and, in two to three months, comes out with an earth-shattering V4.1.

  • Huawei Ascend supernode to support Deepseek V4

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  • Unfortunately, DeepSeek V4 is not a full frontier model able to beat OpenAI's or Anthropic's latest yet, so there is a bit yet to improve.

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    Why did Al-Qaeda commit 9/11?

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    WSJ is pissed that a Chinese company built a factory in the USA

    www.wsj.com /business/tariffs-china-trump-trade-4495c2a4
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    Chinese Creator Depicts USA If China Invaded and Fixed It

    tankie.tube /w/pGzGiR94jUdndsWdhXLCKZ
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    Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government

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    Balancing Productivity versus Anti-capitalism?

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    Half a million young Californians aren’t in school or work. Most are men

    calmatters.org /economy/2025/10/men-in-crisis-california/
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    The U.S. grid is so weak compared to China, the AI race may already be over

    fortune.com /2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure/
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    PSL has been targeted by the US Senate

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    How should socialist-sympathetic businesses help revolution in the USA?

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    Stanford students used to chase jobs at Meta and Google. Now they want to work on defense.

    sfstandard.com /2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
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    Claudia de la Cruz becomes director of IFCO, the US org connecting US students to Cuba's international school of medicine (ELAM)

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    Full support to Russia's crusade against Google

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    Sanctions on Cuba, from a Cuban journalist

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    GDF: How Israel Cucked the United States

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    TIME magazine says "Capitalism Can't Solve Climate Change"

    time.com /6958606/climate-change-transition-capitalism/
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    Beau of the Fifth Column's Past as Human Trafficker and Enslaver

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    Ni Mingda: U.S. style “democracy” is a clever political system that prevents any real change or violent uprising against the wealthy 0.1% that run the country.

    twitter.com /NiMingda_GG/status/1674557001672667139