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No longer using Dark Mode on Summit.
Wow, my mood suddenly improved.
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Well, just got banned from the book server I loved over discussing communism. I know, not a great idea (possibly the worst idea) but they had a political channel and it wasn’t explicitly against the rules, and I informed them numerous times early on that I would stop if I was warned.
I certainly learned my lesson.
Edit: I also asked what was and wasn’t allowed and they informed me that anything was allowed so long as I was respectful about it.
Let me guess: it was something to do with Stalin, gulags. the Holodomor, Mao, Tiananmen Square, Stasi or anything of that caliber?
Every place is cool with discussing communism so long as it’s conveniently only theoretical and nothing actually historical because the 10,000 lies dumped on every actually existing socialist state with an utter refusal to consider those well-funded narratives are wrong.
tl;dr It was Mao.
We went back and forth about Chinese revolution for a short bit and they asked if it was worth all the people who died from starvation and the executions of educated people. I said the second part didn’t even happen (I’m pretty sure this is what did me in), I probably should’ve looked into it and tried to debunk it properly but it just looks so wrong on it’s face. Why would the Chinese even do that? Why would anyone do that (Pol Pot did because he was a crazy person but besides)? Given that the barefoot doctors program existed they clearly didn’t mass murder doctors, what the hell even is this claim?
I’m sorry that happened to you. Strategically speaking, maybe it would have worked better to hunt down a source on it and post that? But at the same time, it sounds like they were trigger happy about finding an excuse to ban you anyway.
In my experience, communism or not, few places on the internet are actually moderated with any kind of fairness or consistency of standards. Lemmygrad is one of the few places I’ve seen where I mostly agree with the decisions made and think they are genuinely trying to be principled about it. And I don’t say that to kiss ass, it’s just sadly true how rare it is in my experience. Much of the time, even in my liberal days on the internet, my experience is that moderators either act based on the letter of their law and ignore the spirit of it. Or they act basically on what they feel like doing in the moment and then (maybe) cite a rule after the fact to try to justify it.
Thank you. I don’t know if it would’ve helped in this specific case, but you are right comrade. I should do more reading and gather my sources properly if I end up doing something like this again.
How do we fit CIA/NED/FBI/FED interference in this model?
1st box is FBI 2nd box is NED funded “NGO” 3rd box is CIA
Photo from a protest in France
This guy has an awesome shirt
I think being the communist businessman on the commune would be pretty cool. “Our budget is the state and our quarterly target is whatever makes the proletariat happy, what about you, Sony rep?”
“Our budget is the state and our quarterly target is whatever makes the proletariat happy,"
“but at what cost?”
An even funnier job would be the notar, that would stand next to it and sign it as well just so it’s apostilled for some reason
I need that and the “bum-ass clown lawyer” from that CumTown bit except dressed like a North Korean general.
I don’t know the cum town bit, can you link it?
Gold
Genuinely how it feels using Chinese open source Ai guilt free:
Is there a particular one you are using right now if you could recommend? I am currently using some AI for a project but I try not to use most of the ones from the West. Currently, I am doing fine with DeepSeek but I wonder if there are others?
Oh I just use deepseek to. My work doesn’t really involve anything ai can actually be used for so I mainly just use it to store random ideas or search of specific surface level things [and searching through things that aren’t in my language]
Ah okay. My project isn’t super serious but I am also a little out of my field (long story and some poor life choices but that’s for another day). DeepSeek has been helpful with reorganizing some jumbled notes and helping me get a base understanding so far.
Somebody called the h3h3 drama Klein/11 and I’m on oxygen right now
I guess the Israelis wouldn’t be dancing over these towers.
I know Nolan’s Batman is fascist propaganda, but I find it funny that Afred told a whole story about a man robbing and throwing away the precious stones that the British (Alfred included) were gonna use to bribe his tribe leaders.
Then Alfred’s whole conclusion was that man was simply doing it for no rhyme or reason, just to “watch the whole world burn”. And also “oh, and we burned the forest down to catch him.”
And Bruce doesn’t even question it??
Nolan Batman movies are textbook examples of gaslighting.
Everyone says they’re good but then you sit down and watch one and it’s goofball city for 2 hrs.
Saw a recent review roasting The Dark Knight and it was both poignant and funny.
I think The Dark Knight is a shitty attempt at a Christ allegory by Nolan.
Harvey Dent was the “symbol” of the city (why the hell would a city have a person as a symbol in the first place), who was corrupted by the “devil” (Joker), then he committed evil by murdering people.
So good “Christ” (Batman) took the blame for Harvey’s evils so city could be redeemed of crime (through extended powers to the police ofc)
Easily the worst Christ analogy I’ve seen period. Not only is the message utterly fascistic but it’s not even well-written smh.
Wow, I just looked up the clip cause it’s been so long since I watched that scene and WTF even is that anecdote. Colonizer like, “We tried to bribe this guy into being a comprador and he didn’t go for it??? Guess he wants to watch the world burn. He is forcing me to do this. Lights forest on fire.”
It also adds a weird dimension to Alfred’s character that raises a lot of questions. Was he working for British intelligence back then? Why would he go from that to being a butler for some billionaire?
Was he working for British intelligence back then?
In most iterations, yes. Afred is almost always an ex-British intelligence agent.
Why would he go from that to being a butler for some billionaire?
Working for billionaires -> Working for a billionaire (who is probably the richest on Earth).
Huh, I guess I never paid much attention to Batman lore. That certainly adds a creepier angle to it, if Alfred is there to keep tabs or even to subtly influence what they’re doing with their wealth.
“The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!” ― Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
Kind of a very relevant quote.
Just checked out the acp chuds out of morbid curiosity and holy shit I’m actually surprised by how much bigoted they are. They froth at the mouth just with the mention of gay, nonbinary and trans people. they’re literally fascist reactionaries with the things thay say about minorities so why do they even call themselves communists at this point like they hold no principle of it.
Same reason the nazi party called themselves socialists.
the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
You’re right, I forgot for a second
If you come across this website in search results, it may be bullshitting you to one degree or another: https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/is-call-of-duty-sold-in-china/
This is an article about call of duty in China and it goes from talking about the game to suddenly:
Is cod popular in Korea?
Fish species that are most consumed in Winter are the Alaska pollock and cod, whereas the hairtail and mackerel fish are generally consumed during the summer. Delicacies such as Flat fish are a cultural dish within South Korea where a majority consumes it as sashimi, sharing its food culture with Japan.
Comical lack of oversight and has no sources on any of the information.
(I stumbled onto this while trying to find information on whether CoD is sold in China and in what form.)
unfortunately, these AI websites predate chatgpt’s popularity and have come to dominate search results since. at least they all have the same sort of layout for now so it’s easy to spot them
So is Abdul El-Sayed being positioned for a presidential run in the future?
Are the American elite going to try to use an Arab version of Barrack Obama to ultimately suppress support for Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, etc.
I personally don’t think so, the islamophobia is too high in the west for that to be the strategy they’ll just push some white man.
Even if he wasn’t a muslim, the man is just an unapologetic asshole in every interview he gives. Maybe his chud adjacent persona would work if he was running as a republican but lib voters would be turned off by him no matter what.
That is true, I find him to be significantly less charismatic than Obama
I hate myself. I went to reddit again just for short while and I hate myself so much, fuck that disgusting cesspool.
it happens. I remember when I got the permaban I was really mad and was all “fuck that place” but then I also found myself going back to look a few times a day. Don’t beat yourself up about it.
I pasted a copy of this topic to Feddit’s r/NativeAmerican subcommunity, but some reason people were downvoting it, and after three hours of no replies I simply deleted my topic.
I can hardly guess what was motivating the downvotes. Was my thread too lengthy? The La rendición de Granada thumbnail off-putting? The topic a tad too Eurocentric? Maybe I would have known if I left it up a little longer but I doubt it.
Though after looking through a few threads there (like this reaction to an artist who mistook Hawaiians for Native Americans) I think that maybe I shouldn’t have bothered them at all. It’s just too depressing for me — not that Native Americans have no reasons to be angry, but I can only handle so much negativity before it becomes unhealthy.
It’s an interesting topic and the anti-Muslim crusades definitely enforce capitalist white supremacy later on.
On another note, you might be interested in Andres Resendez’s work which sheds light on how the Spaniards genocided the Indigenous peoples of South and North America and that it wasn’t simply “smallpox and disease.”
Populations can rebound dramatically after a pandemic in the span of a few years even
Many Indigenous nations didn’t.
Because they were largely genocided.
I have an deep emergency on my hands but it’s good to make that point.
The Indigenous population of the various societies dying was not “accidental.”
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