GenZedong

I wonder how many teachers/professors have interacted with me and gone "wow theyre such a good student" without knowing I enter flight, flight, freeze or fawn mode whenever they enter the room

I feel like the standard of evidence has lowered, I see so many posts from mainstream western news sources. We shouldn't be so fast to react to that sort of stuff

I think I'm gonna graduate (and take chinese classes) and get a masters from somewhere like Peking University. Obviously I'll need good grades but after talking with a professor friend I think it'll be a good idea for me, and meets most of my goals

Does anyone know where the line is drawn between promoting independence and promoting indifference? Now that we've had some time to dwell on the egg cracking conundrum. There's some good common sense answers like how support should be done to encourage self-determination.

At the same time, if we want to be representatives of the masses and make our goal to fight for the sake of each of us, this will include dealing with people who are the most lacking in material means, lacking in education, people who may have a "tainted" moral character due to being forced into life of crime etc. Some of the most willing to change individuals are those who have nothing, but these people are often viewed as undesirable, dangerous, they fail to move upwards in life due to various circumstances. Some of the most politically dedicated people in my life I've met were in rural villages, but they are completely side lined by activists, quite often.

Why is the youth so eager to go out on the street and protest or destroy stuff, but I try to push people to do something for the villagers and they ignore me. And I'm not romanticizing them in the slightest, on the contrary these people need help the most to progress, it would also be a great working opportunity. A while ago I was browsing rednote and I'm sorry for not noting this down, but I saw a post where someone went to a village in China to do something so simple as to take pictures of people who have never had a photo taken of them before and I thought that's such a nice opportunity for learning and doing a good deed at the same time. We should do something like that too. Maybe some people aren't so well spoken, aren't super educated, but there's value in organically formed culture.

These people's families often worked in factories that was the reason why our metropolises can exist now at all. They have gone through insurmountable hardships, they struggled and lived. It's not okay to just glamorize and then push them aside. There's so much to learn there, if we actually went out and did something. It would surely be more useful than flocking to the streets with signs. Why are veterans of war so venerated, but mass graves of factory workers turn to dust and end up demolished because nobody check up on them. I'm not saying pick one or the other, both are important. It's so easy to battle the desperate in the debate room with those who weren't privileged enough to inherit opportunities of education, but put yourself against them in the field of praxis. My ancestors built several houses all by themselves, shared resources with their communities no payment required, we may have starved to death if not for the kind people lending my fam potatoes to plant. No wonder these nazi shitstains lost. Let's try to learn more from the people who defeated them and I realize I've gone on a tangent again. My bad I write a lot. You don't wanna see my notes they're about as clear as Dostoyevsky was cheerful in his writings.

Walked into work to see PSL on the local news in the breakroom.

Immediate whiplash lmao.

What is happening to lemmygrad and hexbear? There seems to be some consistent issues with both every other day.

Some of the places that are getting brought up in the megathread, like Bahrain, are really making me feel I need an ML crash course in what all is actually in the region and its recent (decades) history. There's a decent amount I know, but I'm realizing how limited it is.

🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.

An actual Dutch marxist YouTuber (Left Laser) made it to the public broadcast to talk about upcoming municipal elections

wrong link, retrospectively, to prove point. was trying to find something about usa or affiliated think tanks being very open about their goals, even the ones that, and stay with me here, Harm People …