That post on [email protected] got me fked up because one of the comments there was like “authoritarian communism” is an oxymoron actually 🤓 and another was like “Marxism is not materialism” and it had double digit upvotes.

Like jesus WHAT THE FUXK are you on about. Read Marx and Engels. Read Lenin.

It’s like arguing with toddlers.

They can call us whatever they want but it doesn’t change the fact that this instance is more reflective of the opinions of the Global South than their State Department opinions ever will be. Lol

outrage liberals are the worst

actually authoritarianism is when my parents forces me to go to bed but china doesnt do that so…

take your opinions elsewhere

most of us are white (and live in Anglo America and West Europe)

This is disappointing comrades.

Do better.

Yup my original comment should be taken in jest.

Just do what you can.

I have hope in my Western comrades.

Why should China be incapable of reaching anything more than one quarter the per capita GDP, with therefore roughly one quarter the living standards, of the U.S.? Is it some xenophobic illusion that the average Chinese person is only one quarter as smart, or only works one quarter as hard, or cannot work out a way to achieve more than a quarter of the living standard of an average American? Or to put it the other way round, that the average American works more than four times as hard, or is four time as smart, or can work out a way to remain living more than four times as well as the average Chinese person?

Well you see actually China uses rote memorization unlike us in the West where creativity™️ and free thinking™️ is taught in schools.

Silly Marxist, that’s why they can’t be richer than us.

To those downvoting, take a look at this thread. Then come back here and tell me if you have objections to the analysis.

Thread is copy-pasted down below.

Let me teach you Marxist 101 wrt this whole Matty Healy thing. The force that drives social change is primarily the internal contradictions of a society, which of course reacts to external influences. The primary contradiction internationally is imperialism at the moment. (1/9)

In a postcolonial world, formerly colonised nations are in the process of healing from colonial trauma. A component of decolonisation is the reclamation of one’s own culture as this affirms and empowers the identity of the colonised. (2/9)

But the colonialists themselves were responsible for epistemicide and cultural genocide. They imposed their norms, including the gender binary which is rooted in capitalism, onto our ancestors who had their own differing attitudes toward gender and sexual diversity. (3/9)

Anti-queer attitudes (in the capitalist sense) among Malays is learned. The knowledge of their previous attitude is repressed. This is not to say that their attitudes were perfect but change happens and the Malays would’ve made their own progress on this issue. (4/9)

The West has a track record of continuing the White Man’s burden, screaming human rights as an excuse to criticise our practice and lecture us on what to do. They’ve also weaponised social issues to incite colour revolutions in parts of the Third World. (5/9)

Matty Healy’s act of “protest” against our government is one that will backfire against us. A white Brit kissing a man to challenge the authority of Malaysia is a microattack on our right to decide for ourselves the values we follow. (6/9)

He also presents the act of two men kissing as a Western imposition onto our people. This adds ammo for a people who are ignorant of their ancestors’ nuanced attitude towards this stuff to label the LGBT people as a threat to national sovereignty. (7/9)

This is why what he did was reactionary. It was a reaction and it will incite reactions that inhibit the progress of our revolutionary efforts. It sabotages our attempt to improve the conditions of gender and sexual diverse people in Malaysia. (8/9)

The government will point to this and can use it as an excuse to enact further restrictions on the practice of the local LGBT community. We will have to face the reaction of the government which they see as necessary to maintain the status quo. So, fuck Matty Healy. (9/9)

I actually forgot that Shit Reactionary Says existed for the past few months. Actually made my experience here really pleasant.

I unblocked it recently to see what’s up but quickly blocked it again.

I don’t know how some of you all do it.

There is only so much AnonymousNazi has to say before it gets really boring and the same arguments get rehashed over and over.

Also I expected it to become more active since the recent surge in users but seems like it’s been steady.

I think if it’s cordoned off better (maybe labelled as daily quote or smt else to make it clear) in addition to the suggestions made in the other thread, it should be re-enabled.

I don’t particularly mind the very online jokes but in general I think the culture here is a slightly more serious than another random posting board, so keeping it to the minimum, with more “basic” jokes about would be less jarring.

I was investigating some current NGOs and other groups in my country and somehow it lead me to this site and org called the Global Peace Foundation.

The website definitely looks like a 3 letter agency, and what I found funny was that in the board of directors one of the ex-Presidents of Guatemala was there.

unrelated, but welcome back

The Left focuses too much on racism

The Left is US election duopoly and State Department controlled paper apparently

I’d personally say race isn’t focused nearly enough by most Amerikans.

Could add a question in the future survey about activity to see if this rings true.

Unequivocally racist too.

Perpetuating the totally not chauvinist sentiment of hurr durr china steals my intellectual property and doesn’t innovate and gets like 20+ upvotes.

Had to unblock this community just to reply to this post.

I’m not sure. For Singapore, shifting the PAP back towards it’s SocDem, roots

Nah this shit is hilarious. Bringing back PAP to it’s SocDem roots of betraying the communists and killing/jailing them?

Classic succdem behaviour honestly. Makes me cackle.

I was thinking about the typical “hours in a week” question but I realise now that it won’t actually capture those who lurk and those who engage.

I guess the latter (amount of comments per week) would work but who actually keeps count on that. I wouldn’t even know what to choose if I were asked it.

Maybe just a simple yes/no question about being a lurker? Unsure if the results would be reliable/useful in any way though.

The Anglo-Saxon world, with all due respect to the British people, has a very good idea of how to hammer in liberal ideology into the heads of the people. They are exceedingly good at it.

No lies detected whatsoever.