General Discussion Thread - Juche 114, Week 34
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Somebody asked my about my Christmas plans and man how are we already almost 9 months into the year
honestly, fuck doctors lol. maybe is just recency bias but we've had a terrible run of doctors here, they literally do not care about people and only care about money.
I am still gay
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We're both based pyro ❤️
From a recent protest in support of Palestine
Already seeing more and more social media comments going like 'this is AI!!!' on nearly every vid I come across. Whether it's a cat video or a car or whatever. Most of the time it's not even AI. I feel like if there are no rules implemented things will get out of hand.
Personally I kinda like the possible future where AI ruins mainstream social media. We'll end up with networks that are all based on IRL referral from person to person. We'll make crazy shibboleths IRL and use them on the networks to verify that user accounts haven't been taken over by bots.
This made me laugh
Sometimes I get reminded of the scale of things and realise that whatever I'm doing on this small piece of land doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. Like, the city of Beijing would cover half my country while having twice its population.
Sometimes it's a comforting thought actually.
One week to go until my holiday and I will fuck off for a couple of weeks. Can't wait.
It's quiet with the party work. But that has been a trend for a while. It's just 'make new members!' without any actual actions set up by us. Hell, anarchists seem to be getting more out on the field than we do these days. Seriously contemplating just joining another org that is active outside of doing pyramid scheme shit.
My gf really liked the Kneecap movie and it seems to have improved her radicalisation. Especially when it comes to anticolonialism. Which is funny because I wanted to go in the first place and she was like 'whatever, I'll come with you I guess'
job seems fine for now.
had no phone calls and i did so well the email queue system broke for an hour my brain is this unstimulate while at work
I have an idea of an app that gamifies learning theory like Duolingo. Not sure if I ever start but maybe this already exists?
"Complete your fifth workplace agitation this week for bonus coins!"
For what it's worth, I'm unaware of any.
Sukarno is Being Smeared By Indonesian Liberals on X Currently, Whats Your Opinion Comrades ?
That's actually so sad to see...terminal liberalism :/ . I never witnessed this amongst people i lived with in Indonesia. The impression that I got was that Sukarno's coup is downplayed, but he's still highly respected by most Indonesians. High likelihood you would get beat if you were saying this stuff in public in Indonesia.
Sukarno wasn't a communist but he was infinitely better than the brutal military dictatorships that followed, his personal shortcomings do not change that fact. The indonesia example is yet another lesson to learn from for communists elsewhere, communists need to be armed and engage in violent struggle or you will be killed.
On Sukarno? From an anti colonial POV he became a leader for a nation in a troubling time after independence and I think he did pretty good
UPDATE : Indonesian Liberals proven to Being Dumb as fuck once again.
Claiming Roblox is Being investigated in Indonesia for PDFile Stuff thats been Like.. Going on all around the world, and My Country Government doing the right thing, but then these dumb fucks think its 'MuH Gobernmint CeNsorship'
I'm inclined to say, based on my experience with individualist rhetoric, that liberals are not so much "the moderate wing of fascism" as they are simply "fascism in denial" or "fascism with diplomatic characteristics." They spend a great deal of time and effort convincing themselves and each other that they are in favor of people getting to live the lives they want to live, which is the surface level diplomatic part, but underneath that is a very controlling rhetoric and framework that subtly steers people toward blaming themselves for everything that happens in their life. Whereas the "conservative" or "reactionary" (in the western sense is what I'm most familiar with, term may not be exact same meaning elsewhere) is very blatant and crude about telling people that the world owes them nothing and they that need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, the liberal finds this icky but nevertheless has internalized the actual beliefs behind it, so they preach pretty much the same thing, but with nicer language.
Instead of the conservative who says "it's your fault", the liberal says "it's your mindset." Instead of the conservative who says "you're owed nothing," the liberal says "we all have to work for what we want."
At first glance, it sounds more innocent, friendly, and possibly even empowering, but what they share is a disinterest in challenging the status quo and a strong belief that if you don't sync up the status quo, it is their duty to fix that. They will "encourage" you right up to the point that you actually want to get forceful about changing the world, at which point they fall back on their rhetoric of diplomacy and pacifism. They fear force and being seen as someone who is forceful, which they associate with immorality, but they nevertheless act in its name all the time.