This post has like 50 downvoters from the NATO stans. Is there a reason you’re all not coming out to defend your boys?

I banned after this, reading further down and seeing them get more and more virulently racist.

Do you think Lenin would spend his time attacking a socdems that wanted to stop genocide while ignoring their further right opponent?

Platner does not want to stop genocide, he went to Iraq multiple times to help carry out one.

And Lenin literally spent most of his life in polemics against socdems. Platner’s probably even worse than Kerensky.

Going straight to the epstein class, and bombs for Israel.

I do agree that we could learn from China, but there’s also a damn good reason why their phones are banned in multiple countries.

Yes, because the US started a trade war with them because they can’t compete (in EVs also), and a few of their vassal states followed suit.

Considering that China is known for its heavy censorship and is in good cahoots with Russia

Sources on this? The PRC only blocks western surveillance platforms because they’re incredibly dangerous to let them loose in your country. They’re one of the few countries not naive enough to let facebook and google take over their social media landscape.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/socialism_faq.md#what-about-the-tiananmen-square-massacre

so people will not accept the new system might cause real problems, so it will need more repression

Capitalists are a tiny minority of the population, and only got there through exploitation of labor power. You can call this “repression” if you like, but its basic self-defense. People are righteous in resisting exploitation.

The democracy needs concessions, needs to accept in parts the other side, this why Nordic countries have a better social equality and a very capitalist oil extraction

Capitalist countries, including the nordic ones, aren’t democracies. They are capitalist dictatorships:

• What about social democracy / democratic socialism / the Nordic model? Isn’t Sweden socialist?
• On the unraveling of the Nordic welfare states: increasing inequality and forced austerity.
• Scandinavia’s covert role in western imperialism

This is the state of US democrats right now. Literally willing to vote for an abu-ghraib torture camp candidate as a “lesser-evil”.

She isn’t a middle-easterner, so the white-supremacist killing function doesn’t activate.

Adorable

Numbers stay the same, but the words for “collection/group” change depending on the object. It goes [number] [measure word] [noun]

I’m not familiar with Japanese so I can’t say.

We can have the solace that the US empire cannot last forever, and with all the atrocities it has and continues to commit, in the long term its digging its own grave. The people of the world refuse to be kept in chains, they have risen up and will continue to do so. Class struggle will rear its head until class society is abolished, and the contradictions inherent to it are resolved.

Its about ~30m read.

This article is a good starting point: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defeat-fascism-in-wwii-it-discretely-internationalized-it/

Also read Paul L Williams - Operation gladio.

Oh and for how easy it is. If you’re coming from a germanic or a romance language, it shares almost no words and roots, which means its going to take overall its going to take longer. But in most ways its much easier and more logical. No verb conjugations, no weird plurals, easier tenses, logical word and character construction. I’d argue its even better constructed even than esperanto, which still kept the weird verb declinations.

The only extra annoyance is measure words (which english has also, ie a flock of birds, a pile of clothes).

I’ve just decided to postpone the writing for now. If you’re mainly going to be using a keyboard, then they convert pinyin into the correct characters anyway. When learning I turn pinyin off tho, so I can get used to fully recognizing the characters for reading, even if I couldn’t draw them from scratch.

2nd time I’ve had to post this today:

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

Nice, seems really legit, especially since it works offline. Thx for that.

I’ve been trying to find a decent WYSIWYG android markdown editor (that’s not just a webview wrapper), but none exist yet. This should work in the time being.

Mandarin is the 2nd most spoken language in the world, only behind english. Its also the 2nd most important language for programming, and has the largest open-source community in the world, so that’ll be a plus for my work.

I’m also learning spanish, and am much further along there than I am in Chinese. I feel like with those 3 languages I’ll never be too far from someone who can understand me.

Red Phoenix - Pacifism - How to do the enemy’s job for them. Youtube Audiobook

I def like it, although I’ve been supplementing with comprehensible input platforms like https://www.vidioma.com/

These apps have their place, but they won’t get you fluent as quickly as listening to native speakers with context.