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I am curious how many of them had been on the side of “BUt wHY WOUld U EVaR NeEd 30 rnD MAgZ?!??” and had been pushing real hard to make shit hard to get (without having money to pay the poor ppl not allowed tax). And would be right back to pushing said bans/fees on working people if the Dems win. Some of my lib friends get so confused about why I would want to be a communist since I have had guns most of my life.
Which is at least are good moments to point out that Marx himself said that attempts to disarm the working and poor classes should be met with force. And that all current and former AES nations and revolutionaries know that being armed is important. They just don’t have the deeply embedded gun culture that the US has (and of course that most bourgeois nations have heavy control over regular people owning guns).
I am also kind of more scared of new lib panic buying gun owners. As a lot of them would be less likely to have actual gun safety if allowing their fear take over. Just flag the shit out of people around them and more likely to keep their finger on the trigger instead of outside of the ring.
I wonder if the ROK has been getting high off their own (and of course the US) propaganda about how backwards DPRK and its people are. They just believe that folks in DPRK are too stupid to even know how to pull data. Which in a way kind of gives DPRK a small edge in being able to use such stereotyping to catch their enemies slipping. Like the quote about if you are weak appear strong and if you are strong to appear weak. The US showed many times how such a headspace of just assuming that fighters in so many “third-world” nations/areas are dumb and can’t possibly be tactical. Shit always backfires.
That looks like if Lara Croft was in Hellsing or Black Lagoon. Pretty dope style.
I unironically didn’t even realize this was supposed to be a “China bad” piece until the end (I read the post’s text and didn’t go to the site). lol They might get some passes from the gov if they preemptively were to cut their greed levels of pay and split it into raises to the workers. I love to see people who seem to go out of their way to flaunt how rich they are get yeeted.
There are a lot of books that don’t have (and likely not going to have) audiobook versions. So there is some use for getting better text to speech with the extra stuff an AI could add. And of course have accessibility options that don’t have such robotic sounding with bad pronunciation.
That being said, shit is about profits first and the other stuff is not the focus. While I would love to listen to some books with the voice of the authors (or even could be neat to hear voices of podcasters I like read them). I would rather hear hear them read by people that either just really like it as a hobby or wanting to practice voice acting if the authors/podcasters aren’t in control of their voice an AI is using. Which reminds me that I should check LibriVox for some non-official audiobooks that I want to read but am too busy to do so.
It is wild how both wings of the capitalist party keep managing to one-up each other in presenting/supporting folks that are copies of dystopian movie villains. Like just over the top caricatures of of evil mega-corp baddies in Robocop or something. Trump folks back a “big-shot fuck over everyone to get to the top” character that is freaking tropes for days in the context of movies. Yet they believe beyond all belief that he is actually a hero “fighting for the every man” against corruption. The libs blindly believe that their entitled fake “from these streets” VP is actually even concerned about helping real people and not just as much a trope as Trump. Then we have the most needing to have his face mutilated Matthew Miller mouth peace of the empire promoting genocide.
Movie villains like these fucks are made so over the top to be clear that they are evil. To the point that viewers of said movies laugh at how stupid the populations in them are for supporting them in the first place. Just like how people today can’t believe how average Germans or Italians would be so dumb to allow fascists to take over. Even if I weren’t a leftist, I would still be weirded out by how fucking sad this shit is (and still think how much I want someone to just fuck up Miller’s whole face).
I too struggle with how over my head some of the crucial theory books can be (I have to be in the correct headspace to read a lot of books in general these days). But I have found Luna Oi’s translation of the Vietnamese school book on ML to be a helpful read so far (started and made more progress than the main works). It being meant for students and having just so many footnotes giving context is nice for a starting point (imo). I will admit that some of the footnotes and citations can be visually overwhelming, but I got used to them after I started just reading and getting into the information.
The link says it is a pre-order, but it has been released.
“Do you support Hamas?”
“I do not support Hamas.”
“WHY CAN’T YOU SAY THAT YOU DON’T SUPPORT HAMAS?!?!?!”
I hope that he is given the same treatment that the IOF has given so many Palestinians when the revolution comes.
I agree that they seem to have just taken the US support as a massive attempt to both get their cause seen by more people (which is helpful in changing hearts and minds away from the “they are PPK and PKK are ‘terrorists’” which was how they were presented by even US propaganda). And to use the really good opportunity in the fight against ISIS to get any and all supplies they could from the US in order to keep their area defended for the inevitable attacks from Türkiye after ISIS. Though I am not sure how many weapons and other defense related items they were able to get (but supplies are supplies). They still need to make sure to walk the fine lines with the Syrian government to be sure.
The most fucked thing that they have been left with is the ISIS prisoners and their families. The longer that those massive numbers of people are left in limbo due to all the nations that they originated from not wanting to take them back. The worse shit will be when those folks break out of containment. Shit would be great to use by Türkiye especially as an excuse to “legitimately” invade. Which means brutal genocide of the Kurds from both sides. And if the open air prisons go on long enough, it will be easy for bad-faith actors to eventually paint them as doing what Israel is doing with Gaza/West Bank. Which isn’t what they are doing, but multiple generations of families being imprisoned (even if said prisons weren’t setup by the Kurds for that length of time in mind) for crimes against humanity that the new generation didn’t commit will be easy to use for propaganda.
The Kurds are resourceful, but trying to figure out how to allow people out without it turning into a bloodbath is beyond fucked. It might have been easier (and still beyond fucked) to have not taken prisoners and kill anyone and everyone that flew the ISIS flag before “victory” was claimed. They know that a majority of prisoners actively plan and openly speak about the torture and murder they will commit if they are able to get out. Which I imagine is what the long term goal of Türkiye and other hostile powers wish to make happen. The nations that want to keep their hands clean of bringing ISIS families back home to have to deal with are fine with Kurds being killed. Just like how the US and the West have done with green-washing themselves by pushing shit off onto “third world” nations.