Lmao. Shame to see this take on Lemmygrad of all places.
If this is a genuine good faith opinion you hold, I honestly don’t intend to argue it with you. Countless articles, essays, debates, and comments have been written about this exact thing, so much so I don’t intend to repeat the same point ad nauseum. You can search up those writings for that and read them yourself.
I’ll save my breath, and let China’s future on the world stage do the talking.
东方红。
Every Zionist should be put in a camp, Obama was a genocidal maniac, Stalin was based, North Korea is good, China is socialist, killing billionaires is morally correct, JDPON Don 2028, death to the Ukranian Nazi regime
Its called freedom of speech, liberal
This is amazing comrade! Please, take your time to rest and heal well! Eat plenty healthy and drink lots of water, and most of all rest the best you can. Wishing you the best with all my heart <3!
Please read the other comment I made in this thread, I hope it helps you beat it!
Firstly, I would like to preface by saying this is a tough addiction to beat, and is the addiction that defines our generation. Do not beat yourself up about this. I’m sure I speak for most of us comrades here to say that we care about you and your health.
That said, I’ll echo what other commenters here have said: 100% try a dopamine detox for u, for a full week or two. If it’s possible for you, inform your close friends/family what your are doing and that you may be harder to reach for a week. Basically, I would just turn off your phone and only use it when absolutely necessary, turning it off as soon as you’re done. Make sure to get a plethora of material that can at least somewhat entertain you without digital devices necessary and make them as convenient as possible to get to while making your phone as difficult as possible to access. Stick your phone in a drawer or something and have a stack of good books and maybe a crappy cheap MP3 player on your desk if you can find one. Granted, this is just about the most extreme option.
If the nuclear option is a bit impractical (which, for most people, it will be) I would set your phone to completely 100% grayscale and use the app ScreenZen or Mindful to set screentime limits for apps and block websites and such. If you care about privacy, I would turn off the network access for these apps as they require a lot of permissions that can be easily misused, and can work 100% offline. Mindful is open source and has privacy in mind, but if you’re properly paranoid (me), you’re gonna wanna get rid of its network access anyways. I personally find ScreenZen without network to be more useful as a leash to keep yourself on. It’s the only app I have found that allows you to set time limits for websites and allow cooldowns for apps rather than just completely blocking it after a certain point. Mindful might be more your speed during your detox phase because it completely hard locks sites and sets strict time limits for apps, but it’s up to you. Both have anti tamper protections that will prevent you from changing the settings unless absolutely necessary. I can let you know more about how I would personally configure them if you’d like. I would keep Mindful on for at least some long stretch of time—even after the detox has ended—before loosening the leash a bit by switching to ScreenZen, because you don’t wanna end up in the same place again.
On computers things get a bit more difficult, but scrolling is honestly not as stimulating on pc, at least to me. Regardless, you wanna take steps to prevent the scrolling from happening anyways. Fair warning: I never personally struggled with desktop scrolling, so I never did this, but there are anti scroll browser addons like this one for only chrome and this one for firefox and chrome (I can’t find one for safari on desktop lmao). I’m sure there are other methods too in order to bypass. You’ll have to experiment with that yourself unfortunately.
Best of luck to you in your journey. May you reclaim your brain.
Criticizing yourself based on whether you’d use it as a wallpaper is actually an amazing idea, so I’m stealing it!
Thank you very much comrade! Your resources will be put to use!
Excellent reply comrade! This comment is absolute gold for disproving a load of the atrocity propaganda, my only hope now is that he actually listens to it. Thank you very much!
Yeah, that would be why he loves it so much unfortunately
Stories existing in the same universe would have happened with or without capitalism. Sequel books are simply a way for authors to expound upon the events in their universe that they may have felt weren’t concluded in the original/needed more than one book to be completed. Think of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey—two separate works that share major characters in the same general time frame, but that contain different adventures and thematic frameworks entirely. These stories predate capitalism by at least 2,000 years.
The caveat I guess would be book series that drag wearily on beyond their creative, natural conclusion for the sake of profit wouldn’t exist without capitalism, obviously.
Thank you for the compliment, comrade! It is in times like these that we all must remind ourselves of what is at stake, and be able to hold ourselves together in times of great strife. A principled communist should never know despair.
May your resolve never falter, and if it were to, may it return to you a thousand times stronger than when it left!
“In the final analysis, the economic development of the United States and the need of its workers to maintain their standard of living means that our struggle for national liberation is not waged against a given social regime, but rather against the whole nation… Let us prepare, then, to fight against the entire people of the United States, for the fruit of victory will be not only economic liberation and social equality, but the acquisition of a new and very welcome younger brother: the proletariat of that country.” - Che Guevara
You are correct in your analysis that the West is parasitic, and that its people are complicit, but it is ridiculously hyperbolic to say that westerners “shouldn’t be kept around” after the revolution. Is this pessimistic exaggeration or are you seriously proposing we commit a mass genocide against the West? It’s ridiculous.
We are not guilty of the sins of our fathers and grandfathers. We did not choose to be born in the West. I god damn well know I did not choose to be born in this fucking hellscape we call Florida. The people of the West are a product of their material conditions. No matter how caustic, twisted, and vile their opinions may be—you change the conditions and you change the rules of engagement for the Western people.
There will come a time in the future where even the treatlerite Westerners will give up their treats—or rather, lose access to their treats—and become properly proletarianized. There will be a day in the future where, over the ashes of the United States of America, and of the European Union, and of every hegemonic imperialist to ever exist, a new people will be born—a Western people forged and tempered in an era of scientific socialism instead of bathed in endless YouTube videos, plastic toys, porn, and addictive poisons they call foods. A Western people willing to take part in the emancipation of the international proletariat, and willing to move the wheel of history forward yet another revolution. No matter how impossible it may seem today, this will happen. Some day.
Socialism will win.
In the meantime, downtrodden Western comrade, we must struggle on! We struggle from within the belly of the beast! Perhaps the most significant of all struggles! The struggle is here, at our very doorstep! We must take every opportunity we can—we must allow this struggle to consume us! For every sin that this empire has committed—for every sin that this empire has forced us to commit—we must strike back a thousand fold! It is we who will make the change here, and it is only we who can end this empire of evil.
The way I see it, us western Marxist-Leninists have three choices:
Despair. Give up. Be complacent. Make deranged claims like those you made right here, in this post. Ideate and fetishize your ineptitude and allow yourself to succumb to the empire. Simply await whatever may happen to you, and hope the third world comes to save you.
Hope. Struggle. Fight on right here, right now. Organize your community and play your part in breaking the back of colonialism.
If you really cannot take it, and you have the means. If your spirit is broken and the dangers crush you from within, then do this. Learn every skill this empire can give you. Take its knowledge, its investment, and its training, and then pick up and move before you allow this economy to recoup its investment in you. Move to China, Vietnam, Laos, hell, even Russia or Iran. Wherever you can go. Take part in building up the axis of resistance, in defending the third world from the West. Depending on where you go, you may even help in building socialism across the seas. Fight back against the empire from outside of it.
Steel yourself, comrade. We have a world to win.
Welcome back comrade! I saw and commented your post before this about an internet addiction. I hope your break went well and you are doing better <3 🫂