Yes for real biggest issue with it, its basically a harris voters power fantasy lmao

I know exactly what you mean OP, i’ve been pushed out of social circles for my communist views before; granted those people where likely never my friend, but it only takes one fashoid to paint you as a ‘red fash’ for not believing china is literally 1984 x200 to the politically uninformed that their cognitive bias and general feel due to the media pushes them to agree with them and act tribally.

Dont get me wrong, im highly social; I have many friends, different productive social circles; this is just one group of people, but the sad part is i’ve lost some people I was on good terms with for years and I would be lying if I said it didnt hurt, it does! I hate the alienation and tribalism present in the social fabric of the west, you really do feel that tolerance for ideologies left of the liberal orthodoxy has basically become 0 in the UK at least.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/1/16/live-celebrations-in-gaza-as-israel-hamas-reach-ceasefire-deal

Shitinayu just delayed the ceasefire vote and said he wont be withdrawing troops from the egypt border.

Kosovo and Iraq want a word, the US has literally never not been involved in a war in some capacity.

Media critique and enjoyment are separate things; I have ideological-communist perspective criticisms of things I would give a 10/10 (breaking bad, better call saul, the wire are all inherently conservative and reactionary pieces of media for example)

Thats why I would separate the two during online conversation as well, no ones wrong for enjoying things and ideology is just something to think about when discussing the abstract and circumstances of art rather than how it made you feel.

blind leading the blind

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067633/

In this fictional documentary, U.S. prisons are at capacity, and President Nixon declares a state of emergency. All new prisoners, most of whom are connected to the antiwar movement, are now given the choice of jail time or spending three days in Punishment Park, where they will be hunted for sport by federal authorities. The prisoners invariably choose the latter option, but learn that, between the desert heat and the brutal police officers, their chances of survival are slim.

critical support to comrade fire my only thoughts of sympathy are with the slaves the liberal cracker class are using to fight this fire, some of who have already died.

Genuinely fuck the prison-slave-fire fighting industry in Cali; it exposes liberal-left tolerance for modern slavery.

The cruelty of dangling early freedom in front of the largest prison population on earth to protect petite-bougie-bougie interests in exchange for a slave contract that has above 50% mortality rate; often times when they get released early they cant even work in Cali due to being ex-convicts lmao. (failed state)

We value the working classes lives over pointless imperialist conflicts every time without fail.

He literally said in an interview that american gas is going to be much cheaper and preferable to russian gas, dont worry about it (it is 3x the price)

Hes acting as a heel that is serving to legitimatize the fucking godawful kkkraker fascist government and serve as an easy punching bag that can make people rally around our politicians in the UK on a point they all agree with.

Its blatant upper class collaboration between the UK and the US, nothing more, UK politicians get a poll boost because they can score some easy PR wins, Musk likely gets better trade deals.

evil jeff is ‘likely vehicle’ for ‘stealing my girlfriend’

A comrade never forgets

And the worst part is that one day very soon, this technology is going to used to start making videos of people commiting crimes. Sickos have already used it to homemake CP

If it helps frame this, those same sicko’s where already doing this through stuff like photoshop and the like, its not really creating new creeps, just lowering the effort > outcome of it all.

It’s very obvious that this problem is only going to escalate, millions of people are calling for regulation or rules, but the scumbags engineering the tech remain anonymous and completely unhindered in their efforts.

Yeah whats going to happen IMO is that companies will hollow out creatives gradually by firing them/letting them go when AI advances to the stage that it can recreate the labor they would be doing to create the same product. HOWEVER what I think will happen as a consequence of this is that…the products will just be shit and no one will buy or care about them, and the companies will collapse as the shareholders/AI grifters escape with all of the surplus labor value.

You gotta remember the inherent restrictions AI generative stuff actually has; it cannot by function make a ‘new’ work of art, just regurgitate previous works of art and reshape them slightly. Truely ‘new’ art will not come from AI, and that will be the value artists will retain, as that requires abstractions, and more importantly; human experience to create.

Fundamentally all art is a story about a human being, no AI is ever going to make me shed a tear.

Its general leftist discourse really, I used the anarchist label loosely as his aesthetic is dressed up that way. In his y/t comments he said hes generally ‘lefty but I dont want to label it’, which to me is pretty anarchist.

Many of the things he’s saying can be easily applied to China as well

True, doesnt make his points any less relevant though; I see his critiques as in good faith, hes talking about commotitidy fetishism.

your last point is something i honestly cant understand in any way possible. how the fuck do you think that deng “course corrected” chinese foreign policy?? should i describe to you the kinds of crimes that the mujahedeen or the khmer rouge were committing? deng easily had the worst foreign policy of any chinese leader and the damages are still noticable to this day. ffs he even let the cia build spy networks within china for use against the soviet union.

Yeah I mean more towards the late 80s/90’s, China stopped becoming as blatant at this stuff; the support of khmer rogue remains a massive stain on China’s legacy though I agree, but I also think in reaction to it is why they are less keen to start sending guns to Palestine as they are aware of the lasting damage intervening in conflicts/acting like a hard power that had on themselves.

even today, after the xi jinping administration has thankfully alleviated some of the problems that i just described, the chinese economy still hasnt returned to a socialist framework.

It seems more or less where the USSR was in the late 70s, just with a more robust eco and less blood libel that the US is able to levy against it + more labor power.

while nowadays all the western stories about “chinese sweatshops” are usually complete bullshit, they were indeed accurate descriptions of labor conditions in the 80s, 90s and 00s.

Id argue this is more because of the economics levied onto them that they where a victim of really through stuff like the WEF leveraging their stagnating eco with population control measures and forcing them into that spot after the sino-soviet split due to otherwise being completely isolated on the world stage.

the economic policies of the cpc after mao led to the re-emergence of capitalist relations in china. by allowing private ownership of enterprises and encouraging market competition, dengs reforms created a class of capitalists who were able to accumulate significant wealth and power.

Which ones? I feel like you say this but without much to back it up, if there are capitalist classes above the CPC’s reach im not seeing it, at least in Xi’s current conception the highest class in China remains the worker elected party member due to the relations of violence and superstructre they have with it vs the lack of that inside China’s bougie class.

All things said I do agree with you in broad strokes, we shouldn’t with blind eyes support China, but I find it hard to levvy too much blame towards them for Isreal given the history and lessons they will have internalized with the failures of the Vietnam and Afghanistan interventions respectively, I think the upper cadre is doing a ‘China first, war through economics not physical force’ type of vibe. I dont know if we should want or expect China to act in similar ways to the USA where they do diplomacy through the bomb first.

While they could be doing more with Isreal and we should expect more they do still act as the bank for the axis of resistance id say, they just need to remain semi-neutral in order to not widen the alienation and narratives put forward by the west which would make their continued economic success harder, it is ultimately not much to do with them; they didnt start the war, and they have always diplomatically supported palestine and argued for the return of the golan heights to palestine.

the occupations biggest trading partner despite the current genocide.

This just seems blatantly untrue, do you have a source for this claim?

(sorry in advance of the wikispooks screen grab, its just a short summary of counter examples)

Yes they are asias largest trading partner (of non-military economic goods) but they are also leveraging them economically with sanctions and diplomatically support Palestine.

Its similar to how they export the most to America, they use their economic hard power in order to beat countries over the head with if they dont align with them in foreign policy goals, which in this instance is pro-palestine.

after maos death in 1976, the cpc, under the leadership of deng xiaoping, implemented a series of neoliberal economic reforms that completely superseded even the worst excesses of khrushchevs liberalizations. these reforms, which included the privatization of state-owned enterprises and the opening up of china to foreign investment, led to the creation of a new capitalist class in china and dramatic widening of economic inequality. even today, the wages of the chinese proletariat are purposefully depressed for the benefit of western imperialist exploiters and many workers, especially those toiling abroad, have to live in conditions not even fit for animals. the county has an unemployment rate of 6% (youth unemployment rate at 20%), an issue literally unheard of in soviet society, and the right to strike has been removed from the constitution in the mid 1980s.

I think the significance of these reforms is over-stated given that the modern CPC is flourishing because of these reforms. It fits neatly into my understanding of ‘progression thru capitalism to achieve socialism’ model that Deng put China on, rather than what I have come to understand as idealist ‘press the socialist button to become socialist’ (skipping capitalisms stages idealism)

I dont know how you can suggest China is capitulated when they routinely execute billionares, retain ideological control of capital for workers (90% house ownership rate, no significant landlord class, the best public infrastructure in the world ect)

The biggest criticism I do agree with you on is their foreign policy between 1950-1990, it kinda sucked, not gonna lie; I do believe Deng was the person who course corrected them though and I disagree with your wider assessment they betrayed socialism.