I’m just gonna ignore your campist gish-gallopping if you don’t even bother to skim the video. You’re not interested in engaging in critique that contradicts your worldview. Just like people in a cult would do.

The images very much embody what PRC is actually doing.

You still failed to explain what we’re actually seeing on the left. It’s visually indistinguishable from green capitalism, so you failed in using a picture to promote whatever the PRC is doing.

TIL tha green LEDs will safe the environment. /s

Edit: Lol, you posted the first thing you found when you googled Zapatista dissolution, didn’t you? The Zapatistas restructured their autonomous approach. They didn’t abandon autonomy. They still exist, therefore they didn’t fail.

You told me you reject existing socialist projects

Not all of them. Just the state-capitalist ones which claim to be socialist. Do you condone everything done in the name of socialism? Because that’s not possible with a coherent worldview. You’d have to both condone the Kronstadt rebellion, as well as it’s crushing. (Even if you claim that Kronstadt was a ploy of the whites: the official reasoning was a socialist one)

and we have not seen any viable alternative demonstrated in over a century.

That’s not true. Anarchist Catalonia was less than 100 years ago. Rojava and the Zapatistas still exist as well.

Also, there’s a materialist reason, why so many countries imitate the Bolsheviki.

And no, I don’t believe there is one correct way to enact a transitional period.

Then why do you reject critique of the chinese government with the claim that it must be necessary?

What I believe is that there is one DEMONSTRATED way to do this, and that nobody has shown a viable alternative. If there was a workable alternative then we could discuss it. It does not exist.

The only reason you claim that is because you ignore every non-Leninist/Maoist project and also ignore all the states where ML/MLMism failed. Why is the soviet union supposedly viable, but anarchist catalonia isn’t. The success rate of Marxism-Leninism and it’s offshoots is less that 10%.

You want to come back to your original point of rejecting real working socialism that’s tangibly improving people’s lives in China in favor of some mythical idea that you’re evidently unable to articulate. Go troll elsewhere.

No. I’ve stated my original point several times: the images on the left are eco-virtue signaling, which can be found in capitalist states. If you wanted to show how the PRC improved the lives of its’ denizens (which I don’t even disagree with - but so has Sweden), you’ve chosen bad examples.

If you want to see green LEDs in subway stations, you don’t have to go to China. The thing you’ve posted is existing in bourgeois states. You’ve failed to show how “actual existing socialism” is improving one’s life. If given these two options (green LEDs vs. concrete hell), I’ll take neither.

Maybe I lack context. If you think I’m wrong, you could focus on my original critique (before you defended China against phantom attacks) and explain what I’m seeing on the left. But I guess that any example you give will have an equivalent in an openly capitalist state.

No, the fantasy is that you’re magically going to end up in a worker ownership utopia going from the current capitalist relations.

You’re jumping to conclusions. I never told you how I think the transition to socialism is supposed to ocmur, yet you claim that I think it will “magically” happen. You’re fighting strawmen.

It’s incredible that somebody could be so infantile as to think there wouldn’t be some sort of a transition period after the working class takes power and has to fight against the dominant capitalist empire that tries to extinguish every socialist project.

Good thing I believe that a transitional period is necessary, then. Yet you seem to believe that there is only one correct way to enact that transitional period, which I find incredibly naive. Pretty much as naive as trying to negate means-ends unity. Especially since there have been multiple examples of socialism-aligned projects that don’t follow the ML/MLM-model.

Also, there’s nothing magical about prefiguration, either.

Try to put at least a bit of effort into your trolling not to make it so transparent.

Lol. Projection much, comrade “prefiguration equals magic”?

I want to come back to my original point: the picture on the left is nothing but eco-virtue signaling and completely compatible with bourgeois ideology. So nothing new for the so-called PRC.

So worker’s ownership of the means of production is a “fantasy” for you? So you agree that you’re not a socialist. Cool

The bullshit on the left can all be found in western, capitalist countries. It’s nothing, but ecologic virtue signaling.

I definetly want socialism. But that shit on the left is nothing, but corporate feel-good green capitalism, not worker’s control over the means of production.

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I’d prefer neither.

Edit: To be clear: I prefer socialism. Not whatever feelgood capitalism, but make it green on the left is.

The man point is that it’s not a hardware lockout. The open-source userspace driver is a working proof of concept that the hardware will still work if you ditch steam.

Would I prefer it if they severed steam-input from the steam client and made it open source? Sure! But the community is not completely dependent on Valve.

Me 2. I thought the joke was that the character is trans and is glad that it was supposedly her grandmother’s clothes.

You’re entitled to your opinion. I can accept you not being able to enjoy a movie that many people can (still) enjoy. Don’t expect me to be happy about it, though.

You can just say that some horror movie simply isn’t your cup of tea.

It’s not enviable if you can only enjoy horror movies if you’re surprised, but it’s valid to have that kind of taste.

But Psycho and Alien are masterworks of tension in filmmaking (although Psycho is technically speaking a Thriller). And Evil Dead 2 is simply the perfect movie, so, this is my verdict on the meme:

You make me sad

Can I read up on that somewhere? I’m intrigued.

So for you antisemitism starts with “jews are not allowed to genocide arabs”, huh?

And he is correct because he actually spent time learning about it.

As someone living in Germany, I can confidently tell you:

Nah.

A few days ago, I had a discussion whether or not to invite explicitly zionist orgs to an antinational event.

While I argued that being zionist and antinational are mutually-exclusive, I received the weird comment by a self-described anarchist that “you don’t have to focus your antinationalism on the only jewish state and refuge”.

Bitch, it’s not me who’s focussing on “the jewish state”, it’s you who’s bending over backwards to protect a genocidal, imperialist power because your grandpa was a nazi!

How do you spot a German at a leftist event?
It’s the one who’s telling you that you don’t get how antisemitism works.

Ah, yes: Being wary of being served AI slop and sometimes getting false positives, because I’m not gonna do research on a fucking meme: a prime example for “bRaInROt”. 🙄

/s

Mondays are the worst!

Still cool.

Ok, so my slopometer got a false positive. But I would’ve said the same thing about a guy, so cut out the misogynism accusations.

You do realize that AI upscaling is older than ChatGPT, right?