Something that keeps me going is being able to point and laugh at their decaying empire as the rest of the world begins to realize what's actually up. Each day, the colonizers and the west lose more and more ground as all they have to revert to is racism and chauvinism.
As a good game said, "The mask is getting itchy.."
I feel like the right-wing solution is always to suggest some bizarre therapy that no one is doing, despite the difficulty, costs, and very low probability of it actually working.
Because anything else would require a robust, structured healthcare program that is socialized to actually assist the increasingly disabled. So instead you can just spit out some woo and then shrug your shoulders when they die off.
When you point it out, they say "As Above, So Below" in justification of some Darwinian brainworms. (missing the point of the saying entirely)
Reading it over, that's actually insane. I'm surprised this hasn't been done already!
If it's anything like yeast and "4000" times more efficient than soy...doesn't that mean you could set up controlled grows and have a steady back-up supply of food? Is it sensitive to temperatures and such? Like can I just grow this in a closet?
You can still acknowledge that and say some forms of media are more engaging with certain conditions. I feel as in the future, the same way that someone with epilepsy shouldn't consume media with flashing lights, someone with schizophrenia shouldn't be subject to feedback-reinforcing loops with personalized content that has a profile built off your data.
Is it still a symptom? Yes.
How engaging the media is is irrelevant.
Most forms of propaganda would beg to differ.
Tsze-kung asked, saying, 'What do you say of a man who is loved by all the people of his neighborhood?'
The Master replied, 'We may not for that accord our approval of him.'
'And what do you say of him who is hated by all the people of his neighborhood?'
The Master said, 'We may not for that conclude that he is bad. It is better than either of these cases that the good in the neighborhood love him, and the bad hate him.'
I agree. I was making the comment in regards to a user that said me cheering on the halt of exploitation in the global south no matter the consequences in the first-world is accelerationism despite any halt of treats or disruption in the best interests of those in the west tend to differ than those "best interests" in the global south and thus would spawn reactionary movements despite whatever conditions when those treats are taken away.
Leftists can highlight that difference by trying to help people right now and by supporting at least decent electoral projects. If those projects succeed, they help a little and maybe open up other avenues of more significant improvement. If they fail, they’re a radicalization moment, and the people you were just trying to help will give you the time of day because you showed you’re actually interested in helping them.
I'm aware, that is exactly why I can cheer on the halt of exploitation and still do the work at home. Was referencing this: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8264964/6576915
Some gems, top comment aside:
"Our glorious peacekeepers in Rwanda, their barbarous peacekeepers in Sudan"
A lot of cope, but some of the subsequent threads on one of the biggest subreddits with begrudgingly tolerable views towards China is...interesting.
So! I've been running a Fallout campaign as of recent, and well...we have Super Mutants playing baseball.
Regardless! I wanted to show off some of the maps I have spent the last few months painstakingly building block by block.
Fully interactable! Players are able to navigate their characters through this map as it is multiplayer. Have been enjoying it so far and wanted to share! This was built in Talespire.
Getting a lot of mileage out of copying this around.
я не из калининграда@lemmy.ml (not a native english speaker, I believe)
i do not support the current administrations internal actions, as capitalism has brought nothing but injustice, suffering, poverty, crime and corruption. but i absolutely do support its foreign policy, especially regarding the ukrainian question. the putin government has evolved to become one of the most effective anti-imperialist forces on the planet and even if you ignore the terrible nature of the terrorist zelensky-regime one has to be grateful to our military for fighting the biggest enemy of mankind, america.
so lets detail the happenings that led to the current situation:
(it may be important to note that the current russian administration pushes a slightly different narrative due to sadly being a right wing state)
banderite collaborators parading in front of nazi officers the banderites (see picture), members of the fascist “organization of ukrainian nationalists” led by stepan andreyevich bandera were a gang of rapists and murderers who collaborated with the invading german hordes and assisted them by conducting acts of terror against civilians. It is important to note that popular support for them was close to zero. after the victory of the heroic red army, the majority of those parasites fled to the west, predominantly to canada. they received funding from american and british intelligence agencies, which were more than happy to welcome “former” nazis into their own anti-communist ranks. another subset of the banderites remained in the ukrainian ssr and conducted a campaign of terror and sabotage against the civilian population. their bloody deeds were supported by the cia and its european puppet agencies through the so called “operation aerodynamic”.
spoiler
referendum on the preservation of the ussr. its results were ignored by the anti-communists
After the illegal and undemocratic dissolution of the ussr, the leaders of those fascist gangs were glorified by the ukrainian far-right, with support from the cia. efforts to further their “rehabilitation” were primarily directed by nazi expatriates in canada. outlets such as voice of america portrayed them as “heroes”. (aerodynamic, some of these were manufactured in the U.S under Operation Mockingbird like a lot of U.S state dept. bullshit)
election before cia intervention. this division between neonazi northwest and pro-russian southeast is visible to this day
in 2004, the west sabotaged the ukrainian presidential elections and installed their puppet, viktor andreyevich yushchenko, through a color revolution. he was a terrible leader, not only dismantling the remaining aspects of the ukrainian economy and managing to make life even more miserable than it already was, but also granting “hero of ukraine” status to banderite leaders and holocaust perpetrators stepan bandera and roman iosifovich shukhevich.
(not adding picture of 2014 ukrainian nazis since you have already said you believe in that)
in 2014, america and the west orchestrated another coup, this time not even bothering to hide the involvement of neo-nazis. the new regime perpetrated unspeakable atrocities against the russian population, whom it consideres “subhuman,” as well as against ukrainian anti-fascists. in odessa alone, 39 people were burned alive in the local trade union building.
those developments led to the revolution in the predominantly russian populated donbass-area and the creation off the donetsk and lugansk peoples republics, as well as the referendum in crimea that led to the peninsula finally rejoining russia. from 2014 till 2022 the majority of humanitarian aid to the donbass republics came from the cprf.
the reason for the smo is the ukrainian western-aligned nazi regime violating the minsk accords by refusing to demilitarize, trying to join the fascist nato-block and murdering russian civilians for years on end. the russian government showed itself extremely lenient, to lenient even, as any sensible politician would have staged a military intervention much earlier. if you need further proof for the tyrannical nature of the kievan regime just look at the fact that zelenskiy has banned all opposition parties in his country, refuses to hold elections and effectively rules as a military dictator. furthermore he has outlawed the russian language, made any negotiation with the russian state illegal and is currently selling whatever is left of his country to the highest bidder. combine all this with the fact that the west and its puppets need to always be opposed due to them being a cancer of humanity and you’ll get a pretty good picture of why to support the russian military.
[Query: Do communists have to support Russia?]
from @davel@lemmygrad.ml
Also, Ukraine really does have a fascism problem and has for a long time, and the coup government has materially supported it.
next source is from @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml below -
https://mronline.org/2019/01/02/is-russia-imperialist/