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I feel like being vegan is less acceptable than being a communist. Whenever I talk about communism with people they do not always accept it but at least they tolerate it it seems. Being vegan though. Oh no. That's the biggest sin you can commit.
Has largely been the opposite experience for me, lol.
Even if I didn't know you lived in Europe and not the US this comment alone could've convinced me lmao.
It is very much the opposite here; the wrong person finding out you're a commie can actually get you death threats or even actually result in being physically attacked. Vegans, at worst, will just be mocked.
Young Pioneer organizations of 14 countries
China, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Mongolia, South Yemen, Vietnam, North Korea, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Laos.
I wish there were more communist video essayists who didn't primarily talk about politics but instead discussed stuff like history, writing, gaming, guns, etc. Literally anything that isn't politics, really.
There's nothing worse than when I'm enjoying a good critique of some trashy media and then the person in the video libs out and compares the villain to Stalin or makes that stupid "haha commie no food" joke or starts complaining about how evil, sinister China is planning evil, sinister things because the company that made the media is Chinese or something to that effect. It takes me out of what was otherwise a good, informative video and whacks me with severe mental exhaustion.
There's all these video essayists out here promoting their liberal or fascist ideologies while simultaneously focusing on topics that aren't explicitly about political theory, political science, current events, geopolitics, etc. and I'd like to see communists doing the same thing like a Marxist explaining the rationale behind why Soviet firearms developed the way they did, or picking apart how cyberpunk settings don't work even if they look cool as settings, or just discussing the history of ancient civilizations like the Achaemenids from a dialectical materialist perspective or stuff like that.
Like, I enjoy what Hakim does and all. It's very important work of course. I just feel like it might be easier to expose people to Marxist ideals through discussion of pop culture and the like and then use this as a jumping point to funnel people down the rabbit hole of actual political theory. Also it'd just be nice to sit down and watch a video about how to write villains and not have one of the examples used be fucking Stalin of all people - I actually did click on a video discussing this exact topic and deadass the video opened with the essayist talking about how "some people don't get punished for all the harm they've done" (paraphrased) while showing video of Stalin and I had never clicked off a video so quickly in my life. I audibly groaned.
I'm just tired, boss. I'm just tired of libs and fash dominating every discussion about everything. I want to be able to consume the thoughts and feelings of other people discussing things I'm interested in without them having shitty political takes about how Obama is a "cool guy" and a complete misunderstanding of historical socialism up to the point of treating the Holodomor as a serious narrative and not a complete invention of Nazi propaganda.
I don't not want politics in my videos that aren't about political subjects; I just want the politics to be GOOD.
I get that, it's annoying when someone who seems fine in a particular hobby area suddenly displays awful, barely related politics. Communist video essayists could do this in the same way but in the other direction, where they don't even advertise their views, but instead just sprinkle it in now and then. Long as they're serious enough in the delivery that it doesn't get confused with ironic references.
Exactly!
Yeah. It does get annoying when people have to put their anti-communist brain worms on display unprompted. Its a side effect of the success of the congress for cultural freedom.
When our time comes we will make no excuses for the ~~terror~~ injecting good politics into everything.
Hello, does anyone have resources on how I can use AI while keeping brain rot to a minimum?
I abhor how it entices me to talk to it about my feelings or offload critical thinking on it.
Generally speaking, don't take it at its word and consider it like it's an assistant, or even just an ideas machine.
Example: I've used an LLM before when there's a term I can't think of the name for. I describe what I can remember about the term and see what it comes up with. Then, if it gives me something concrete to work with (e.g. doesn't go "I don't know" or something), I put that into a web search and see what comes up. I cross-reference the information, in other words. Sometimes the AI is a little bit off but still close enough I'm able to find the real term.
Cross-referencing / sanity checks are important for LLM use because they can get deep into confidently wrong rabbit holes at times, or indulge whatever your train of thought is without having the human capability to extricate itself at some point. So whether it's a web search or checking something it said to you against another real person, you can use this to ground yourself more so on how you're engaging with it. It's not that different from talking to other real people in that way (the main difference is I would recommend having a much stronger baseline skepticism of anything an LLM tells you than with a person). Even with the people we trust the most in life, it's still healthy to get second opinions, get perspective beyond them, work through the reasoning of what they've said, etc. No one source, computer or human, knows it all.
I've had decent luck with perplexity.ai. It's an AI-assisted search engine, its results are pretty good, and it handles long queries much better than google.
Ever since that new chinese ww2 has been making the rounds, I have seen an extreme spike in westerners claiming that the cpc "waited" out the war in caves and then claimed victory, while in earnest the KMT did all the fighting. Or worse that the chinese communists attacked the KMT while they were invaded by the japanese, linking metaphorically it to "tankies/ultras/doomers/wreckers/etc..." refusing to work with socdems inside capitalist political parties.
IIRC wasn't it the KMT that kept breaking the truce and attacking the Reds?
if you want to lose few brain cells and see racism
Doing this Secret Santa thing with friends and the person I drew is a huge history nerd. I stumbled upon an old nazi propaganda magazine from 1940 and figured it was a fun gift. I had a look inside and apart from some archaic Dutch language the general subjects could be copy pasted by current day right wing parties lol. Dehumanizing language, propaganda of 'we are righteous and strong' and whatever bullshit.
I did have a strong urge to clarify that I'm not a nazi when I went to the register lol.
brainrot or not
Honestly, if you can look past the Internet culture brainrot, it's a pretty good video. You should make it its own post.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Happy birthweek? Stalin!
Went into a book store and noticed they don't have any socialist books, even though they have a whole section on economy and another on society. Even if you wanted to buy a book to change someone's mind, you can't. But they have a lot of liberal books, for example I saw one about how bad and evil the DPRK is.
I have definitely noticed this as well. The biggest English language used books store in the city has pretty-much nothing of note on that front. It surprisingly (or rather unsurprisingly) has books on how bad and evil Stalin and Mao were in the politics section, lol.
Censorship and state approved propaganda.
Happy birthday Stalin!
Crazy that I share a birth week with Stalin
Have a good week everyone!
As always, communism will win.
Thanks comrade! 
First time seeing a small ad from the DRPK
That's interesting. Was this graphic originally in English or was it translated? I would have assumed it would be in Chinese or Russian if it weren't in Korean.
It's nearly Christmas and I haven't even turned on the heating yet. Some trees and flowers in my street are even blossoming. Because that's normal.
I find it's hard not to feel a bit arrogant sometimes having ML views in the west. I don't really like feeling that way, but I have the feeling sometimes. Maybe lingering arrogance from previous socialization is part of it. But I also think a factor is that the western status quo insists on being blind to the insight and direction that scientific socialism can provide. So it's like you're on "team science but applied to politics" and they're like "nuh uh, that's communism, communism bad." And even with a basic understanding of the framework, you're already so far past on understanding how things work and why, and what could be done differently. It doesn't even mean you're good at it in a broader, practiced sense (like you might be really bad at it compared to an average party member in an AES state), but compared to the average westerner with no understanding of it, it's leaps and bounds just to have the basics.
So I don't know. I self-hate arrogance and ego in general. But maybe that feeling is my way of coping with how politically illiterate people tend to be. Arrogance rather than despairing about it or something.
I definitely felt like that for the beginning of my learning, but nowadays I just feel confused by every kind of media and discussion around me being painted in lib views, to the point of experiencing paranoia / delusion. Glad that those times are behind me, but now I tend to devolve into blood boiling anger if I'm by myself, but try to remind me to ask others questions about their understanding, instead of devolving into debate culture. lol
The Belgian government is nicknamed Arizona because the party colours of the coalition match with the State of Arizona flag and our party keeps saying that we can take down Arizona. Which seems like we have this very one sided beef with this random state.
If only it was that literal. Free the Navajo!
I mean.... I suport you taking down the state of Arizona
I'm honestly so excited for this course on Imperialism by the Critical Theory Workshop.
Edit: website source for the image: https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/upcoming-events/
The new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, might influence the future towards Western imperialist demands. 
Every time Wikipedia does censoring anti-imperialist voices, the NPOV policy may not be genuine.
Hey guys, I am hopefully back here on a somewhat regular basis.
I have a couple things to bring to you as "news".
On saturday, our party is celebrating it's 36th birthday. I have been invited but honestly I am afraid to be there, because of my uselessness and to be confronted about is. (Meaning, I shouldn't be there, because I don't deserve it.)
The school I have been working at since september has turned out to be crazy taxing on me, which I have been dealing with very poorly to be frank. I think I need to exercise a lot more and fix my eating too, does anyone have an online resource I can trust for exercising? (I am vegan and an absolute beginner.)
I am doing okay with uni, even though I thought I will fail most of my classes, because of work. Nevertheless half of the exams are still ahead of me.
I have moved to arch on my puter, it is turning my not yet gray hair into gray ones, lol.
I was thankfully able to read most post on Lemmygard, thank you for keeping me sane.
I might write about my experience in school and maybe about what kinda discussion I had with an old classmate of mine, do you think comradeship is a fine /c for that or do you have another place in mind?
Keep going comrades, keep up the quality posts!
Why do you think the party would confront you about being 'useless'? That would seem like a not cool party thing to do.
