It’s because there is attention on it, the US has done shit like this since it’s founding (over the corpses of natives), and despite it being such par for the course stuff done the world over for imperialist super exploitation, this time there is too much attention on it, and so “AI DID IT! Trust me bro!”
I’m more interested in the Frames, I always wanted to try and get into VR but it was always either too expensive or too Facebook.
This wasn’t intended as an attack and I wasn’t trying to be passive aggressive, I was trying to help. As someone struggling to over come life long crippling social anxiety, I’ve been trying to move from being a lurker to actually posting. But it turns out that participating in discussion takes enormously more energy than just lurking, so I did not put in adequate effort into my attempt to help.
I was overwhelmed trying to parse your comment, I’m still terrible at breaking things down into smaller, easier to process pieces, and so all the bundled up errors in your post was too much for me to try and break down and address, but I still wanted to at least try and help.
I was trying to read the rest of your posts in this thread, but I couldn’t get through them all as the way you look down on people hurts my stomach. Please, we mean no hostility, so stop giving us yours. (thank you in advanced)
Mean while in China they build walls of green around sand dune deserts and slowly erase the desert (de-desertification), Build, use, and export more Electric Vehicles and Solar Panels then anyone else, have more kilometers of train tracks than the rest of the world combined, and make Clean Tech and Efficiency Improvement Innovation after Innovation.
Amazing what a country can do when it’s State isn’t driven by the interests of Capital and it’s exploitation of people near and far.
I think me and Ahmed gave the same answer, but with mine being indirect using an example, and Ahmed’s answer being direct, so maybe people had a harder time understanding Ahmed’s answer.
I’m not so sure about the reasoning here, Fascists also drink water, breath air, and eat food (at least until they become “the only good Fascist”)
The material conditions determines the consciousness, the superstructure shapes peoples view of reality, the ideological belief that people’s ideas are separate from the conditions of their life and the metaphysical belief that historical events are independent and separate from each other doesn’t support the existence of Nazi Germany (or Fascist Italy or Imperialist Japan), doesn’t explain why people would do such horrible things in one circumstance yet wonderful things in another, yet Dialectical Materialism as applied to History does, Fascists aren’t born, they are made, and it isn’t a magical decision pulled from the void, or heaven or hell or a soul that makes them, but rather the shit those around them tells them, in the news paper, on the radio, along with material conditions like starving or being worried you’ll end up on the street, and the Capitalist controlled misinformation sources tells you it is this or that persons fault you are suffering, anyone convenient and that isn’t the Capitalists.
Pacifism is that lofty luxury that those who want to actually have a future cannot afford as Fascists wont hesitate to shoot us in the face thinking that it’ll somehow make life better for themselves, and the further into Fascist Ideology they are pulled by Capitalist lies the more painful it would be for the Fascist to believe what they are doing are mistakes.
Those suffering and dying under slavery and oppressing cannot turn up their noses at the idea of using the tools soaked in their own blood the masters used against them back onto the masters as a part of becoming free. Capitalism has already murder well over a billion people the world over to maintain it’s death grip over us.
“Propaganda” “Propagating”, interesting, that makes a lot of sense. As for manipulation, it is a bit of a loaded term, when exposed to new information, one may make a different decision than they otherwise would have, you could say that the exposure to that new information had “manipulated” them, but that wouldn’t make the information necessarily untrue or the “manipulation” as being a “bad thing” (metaphysics territory).
As far as lies go, you don’t need them nor would they even be all that useful when what one advocates for is the truth anyway. (like Scientific Socialism(Marxism Leninism))
Thanks for the mini history lesson by the way.
This post is an excellent example of why reading Marxist Leninist Theory should not be treated as optional, there is so much wrong with the post I’m not even sure where to start, and I don’t really have the energy for it either, so unfortunately we’ll just have to leave it at that. (BTW Cowbee has an excellent guide to help you get started Basic and Advanced)
I struggle to pay attention to long videos (it’s an hour long) unless I’m already interested in it already, so I’ll take your word for it (pretty sure I have ADHD or something), on the other hand I’d love an article or a PDF file I can just read, the interaction of having to actively pay attention to read helps focus my attention, and so I can work through hundreds of pages of a PDF after maybe a good week, but an hour long video is a bit much.
As far as (so called) “isreal” goes, there existence is highly dependent on US support, more concrete action to disrupt anything going to them from the US, if successfully done, may be more effective at stopping their crimes against humanity. A successful Revolution would end the support completely, but perhaps there are …illegal to say… sort of things that an organized effort could pull off in the mean time (though such things can’t be safely discussed in a public forum.) (hypothetically) (in minecraft)
There are two major errors in this text, the first is in failing to understand the class nature of the oppression, such that it is treated as “black people versus white people” when in reality it is “working class versus billionaire ruling class”, when understood like this the 10 to 1 against us becomes closer to a million to one in our favor, it is useful for the ruling class to keep the people fighting amongst each other and not against them, so they spread lies and nonsense (racism is useful to Capitalism, so they spread it around).
The second error is in thinking there even is a non violent path in the first place, as the root of the problem is Capitalism, it has no conscious or empathy, and will sooner kill us all then give up it’s power over us. And so a small, short, but condensed (by comparison) moment of violent Revolution is needed to finally end the ongoing huge, constant, but usually dispersed and often hidden from the public view violence of Capitalism once and for all, by building Socialism on it’s parasitic corpse. (and maybe dance on it’s grave a little).
Ultimately, regardless of what metaphysical beliefs one may have, nobodies “God” is going to come down and save us, we must save ourselves, and for that we must have solidarity, work together, organize and work for the overthrow of the root cause of the oppression all people feel under the yoke of Capitalism, the staggered level of oppression in Capitalism is a “feature not a bug” as it keeps the people fighting each other, that must be overcome. (mutual aid can help with this)
As fiction exists but describes things that may not exist, I think the answer is also yes.
I don’t know about the history of the Church, but I do know that the word has been used for the handing out of legitimate and accurate information on a paper medium as a way of spreading awareness when one is censored by the State and cannot use the normal channels, and it has been used this way for a long long time before the use of it to mean the same as “lies” was popular.
That is an issue, though with that in mind one major difference between Capitalism and Socialism is that Capitalism doesn’t really care if Cops are abusive sacks of shit, so long as they keep serving the interests of Capital, on the other hand, in Socialism the whole point of the system is to best serve the interests and well being of the people in what ever capacity the current level of development of the country can provide, and so while Capitalism let’s Cops fester with power hungry racists, Socialism actively works to root out and remove corruption, finding and kicking out the power abusers.
Don’t worry about it, most Liberals (note Conservatives are also Liberals) have been fed lies their entire lives to demonize countries like China, and also many people (not just Liberals) have a hard time separating the misuse of a tool from the tool itself (Capitalists use AI against humanity) and so for these two reasons I was already expecting to get down voted, but it is perfectly fine as I do not take it personally, when a challenge comes to a persons world view, a common defensive reaction is to lash out in some way.
The “Founding Fathers” (rich slavers) had set up the “Democracy” (of the rich) with “Checks and Balances” to prevent the “Tyranny of the Majority” (Actual Democracy) precisely so the Capitalist Class (them) would remain in complete control. Considering this, it is very unlikely the modern Capitalist Class would somehow not be aware of the ways their own class has set things up to keep themselves on top and the rest of us underfoot. It is much more likely they know exactly what they are doing up on the stage, that all the real decision making is done behind closed doors, that the Billionaires and Trillionaires get the final say, and that the electoral clown show in the big party tent exists to fool the populace, only different from the start in that they got better at it. I remember when Biden straight up looked like he was having an orgasm in response to Trump “winning the election” as if it’s what he wanted to happen, like say, because it would mean they can get everything they want WITHOUT having to hide the shit they do, and so Trump also functions as a scapegoat, if they get everything the want to just “cast all the blame on Trump” Trump goes off to live in blood soaked luxury, having done his job, then the Democrats swoop in to “save the day”. Such a tactic can only work however if people fall for the clown show and don’t realize that it is the entire Capitalist system itself that is the problem and the only way forward is to overthrow it and replace it with a Socialist system.
I think you misread my intentions, I would never intentionally defend Zionists (Fascists), my focus was on whether or not bullying was an effective tactic to change a persons thinking, but I also don’t believe someone that has gone full Fascist can be reached anyways. The other point having to do with it being more important to work together with Anti Fascists to put an end to the conditions that support Fascism even being a thing, and hence “reaching those that can be reached” (to organize with for fighting Fascism). And finally I want to mention that it isn’t enough to point out Fascists being Fascists, “naming and shaming” doesn’t make the problem go away, for that Capitalism needs to be over thrown (and it can be done again)
I wouldn’t trust any non Cuban Government controlled source of information as accurately reflecting what the Cuban Government is doing or trying to do, western media is overwhelmingly controlled by Capitalist interests (that includes reuters) and they have been trying to destroy Cuba for a long long time, one weapon of the Global North (and the US especially) is massive amounts of lies and misinformation, and they’ve done this many many times. As psyops are constantly being used by the hegemon against Actually Existing Socialist countries (as well as ones that fight back and resist like Iran and Russia) everything heard not from the leaders of Cuba itself should be read with a whole BUCKET salt.
Edit: P.S. also Gusanos are a thing, if the Cubans being interviewed are not actually in Cuba itself, that is a bad sign, another issue is if complex political questions are being asked to total randos rather then actual Theory experts of Cuba’s Communist Party (don’t know it’s name) they may be fishing for useful misunderstanding. Sorry I haven’t actually read the article myself so hopefully this is still useful.
What ever method that works as long as it actually works, though that isn’t necessarily a given, confirmation should be sought on actual effectiveness of a method, and so far to me it seems, bullying may backfire and dig in a position as one who feels they are under attack will get defensive is response. More importantly the focus should be on reaching those who are most likely to be reached, like picking the low hanging fruit before you start trying to climb the tree. As the purpose is to build to a successful Revolution and thus change the world for the better, it isn’t as important that every person is reached and on board, only enough to get the ball rolling, and that means many people need to be reached, and the most reactionary are both fewer and harder to reach compared to the overall masses who are increasingly sick of being oppressed.
In my view, one isn’t really an atheist if they are a liberal (or conservative, but I repeat myself) as it is effectively another religion, with Capital as it’s “god”, it is kind of like those liberals that call themselves “socialist” and support controlled opposition, compatible “leftist”, and friend of epstein, bernie sanders.
Edit: for some reason I can’t see the rest of the comments while logged in, so I’ll put it here: I think a more accurate and inclusive phrase would be “freedom of religion or atheism”, as it would be shitty if one had to declare some religion or another without just “none” as an option.
Edit: Edit: From the rest of this thread I think people may be confused, you cannot just “ban” the “opiate of the masses”, as long as people are in pain they will seek a painkiller, and denying it to them just turns those very people against you, if the world becomes your enemy you have little chance. To reach synthesis you must collapse the contradiction by combining elements of thesis and anti-thesis in such a manor that it favors the non toxic elements of both and becomes stable.