It is truly a shame that he has the best audiobooks available. No text to speech, good voice, good mic. Apparently insanely difficult to achieve these three things considering that no other comrade is capable of it lmao.

He even adds little bits of information to put the text into context (like democratic socialists being cool way back then, but basically libs now etc.)

They are clearly playing the superior Dota 2!

Hell yeah, thank you!

I guess everyone’s heard of the blockbuster movies that have been coming out of China that have been the most popular recently, so i don’t need to mention those.

Always with this answer, goddamn you people! I have yet to hear of any Chinese media ever except “ne zha 2” and, like, 3 games lmao. Pls mention the big, impossible to miss movies❤️😇

Okay, then lets extend this line of thinking to cops. After all, law enforcement are humans capable of change too and if you really believe what you’re saying, you should have no problem being friends with the local PD. ICE, welcome to the Resistance^TM!

The truth is that you brought up troops specifically for a reason. I’ve seen way more “demonisation” of local law enforcement than I have of the military, even among supposed “leftists”, but you are specifically offended about troops. Why? Because your local cops police you while the troops police the vassals and colonies on your behalf. The way you feel about being harassed by cops, is a mere fraction of what the people of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan have had to endure. While the armed forces are human, their victims are also humans.

I mean, now you are just making up some weird fanfic about OP and criticising someone that doesn’t actually exist. I can come up with an equally if not more likely scenario too: This post is a response to those other leftists dehumanising soldiers so now the question is why are these leftists disproportionately talking about troops? Maybe you can make up another story about that too.

Just bad faith argumentation to be honest.

OP might be a bit tone deaf here considering the current invasion and genocide piling up on our feeds, but ultimately he is right. Fact is that, if we really believe in the philosophy of dialectical materialism and the science of historical materialism then we must assume that everyone is capable of being reformed. The question is merely how many resources it would cost and how many resources we have and what we gain out of it.

Also, you don’t seem to understand materialism fully yet (me neither, not gonna lie), but a soldier enthusiastically killing a baby is still affected by material conditions.

Material conditions are not just about having no wealth and feeling sad while being beaten down in a dark mental place, but then having a fake “glimmer of hope” in enlisting.

The conditions shaped that person and shaped their enthusiasm for killing babies as well. Of course this can’t ever absolve them since they still needed to make that decision.

Now, John Baby Killer should likely not be the first person we wish to convert, but that is merely because of our own material conditions making that decision feel extremely bad to us, and, more importantly, because of the aforementioned resources that it would take are just not worth it.

No one is asking you to be nice and kind or give a salute to soldiers while they are killing people, but we will need to reform some of them if we want to (partially) take over the military for example. Dehumanisation and, with that, acceptance that being a soldier immediately makes you invalid as a human and comrade will make that task impossible.

As someone that did not follow AI at all, besides reading about it while scrolling by, what does “AI progress” look like? More application methods? Or just “better”?

Ah, I see that Iran learned the secret “do nothing, win” technique from China.

It will be pretty horrible if you still need 5 days of work to buy food, but are only allowed 3 days of working.

Unless the wage gets adjusted as well, haven’t read the article yet.

Don’t say sike pls

Extremely rare reddit admin win? I wonder why they helped a commie sub tbh

Thank you for helping me understand it a bit better! I think I have a clearer picture now together with the other comments explaining similar things.

Thank you so much!

I think part of my issue was that I underestimated Iran and only thought of it as a victim that landed a good couple hits due to their intelligence and counterintelligence rather than a force that was united, prepared and has enough reserves and production capabilities to take on the genocidal states. Especially the point of Iran becoming stronger and Israel not having good prospects of being able to keep up in the future leading to desperation helped me understand it a bit better.

Other comments mentioned the counterintelligence eroding the Intel of the US and them relying on wonky info now due to said desperation as well.

This makes me a little bit more (cautiously) optimistic. Thank you!

Thank you for your insight! Paired with the other comments I think I have a better picture of the potential situation now.

How come that our analysis leads us to the conclusion that this war is not just a Trump crashout, but a plan that the US had and prepped up for decades, but then the attack comes and the US seems entirely unprepared?

Of course Iran had a similar amount of time to prepare, but still. A thought I had is that the previous administrations didn’t attack Iran because they concluded that they can’t overcome Iran yet and needed to wait for a more opportune moment for an assured victory?

I just didn’t think that a singular person would be capable of just ruining such plans tbh.

In this battle, after making a vertical entry into the region, there is no guarantee that your exit will also be vertical.

Took me a second to get, but damn that’s good.

Ah, so much for the China and Russia are betraying Iran narrative.

Depends on what you mean with “cook”. Yeah, I can throw pasta in a pot and boil it. I can even throw meat and a sauce packet into the pan and maybe cut a couple veggies.

That’s about it. My executive dysfunction forbids me from doing any more elaborate meals.

Honestly, I hate food and the concept of having to cook every day and everything that goes with it like figuring out what to eat/what my brain allows me to eat (sometimes eggs just taste too much like egg and pasta just feels too much like a wet noodle in my mouth, you know?) needing to go to the store, then storing everything in the communal fridge, trying to use it all up before it goes bad (never achieved that one).

If I had a pill that gives me all the nutrition for the day I would never look at food ever again. Even preparing and eating frozen food and pre-made meals are consistently the hardest chore of the day just because I despise food so much. I definitely have never reached proper nutritional value in my average week.

Of course you are not talking about dysfunctional people and you probably know of similar struggles, but people would never guess that I have these problems so maybe the people you have in mind are similar? I of course also know men that have never been taught anything before they were thrown into the world, but I also can’t really judge them too harshly.

Well, you are currently in a circle that largely disagrees I think.

From what I gather of the most principled ML’s here the take is usually that their foreign policy is unsatisfying, but calculated, safe and effective.

Interesting to hear that two of the three think of the foreign policy of China as dog shit and the other one (yugopnik, I think) seemingly disagreeing.

Pretty good episode imo and I am excited to hear more

China’s “do-nothing” approach has been extremely positive since 1991 for their international prospects, but in 2026 the world needs soviet-style interventionism in geopolitics: intelligence and covert missions, usage of soft and hard power, and even military intervention.

Well, you will be happy to hear that in many cases China is doing almost all of those things, then?