Ngl I think communists need to be more creative with their names sometimes

Great now I’m going to have to rearrange my bookshelves again

Its not. You’re confusing two halves of the posts. One was me explaining why I was thinking this at all, which was the part about weighing, examining, and understanding ideologies and their failings.

The second half was detailing the main point, which I’ve been thinking about for a while, which is that the Maoist viewpoint is extremely depressing. No matter if it’s right or not, it’s just the fact that their worldview is such, that every attempt has failed and that Mao himself failed.

I you’re right in your last paragraph. My point is not “error which ideology should I suppport” it’s that there is one theory and way of practice, marxism-leninism, among others. Ergo, if Marxism-Leninism was wrong then naturally another theory would be right [of course, there is the possibility that a new theory would need to be made, but that’s putting the cart before the horse]. I’m basically just attempting to look at thing from different worldviews to see if maybe they are correct. I didn’t detail my reasoning in depth because that wasn’t the point of the post. I was more just asking about the Maoist mindset than having a rigorous rebuttal to ultra-tendencies

Thats not what I meant with this post. I dont “ideology shop.” I suppose I can elaborate although I don’t think I should’ve needed to. It was simply examining the alternatives if Marxism-Leninism was wrong. If there are no alternative theories that fit the facts then Marxism Leninism must be correct.

And my point was not “practical success=correct.” (Although presumably thats at least part of analysis. If the USSR was as successful as the Free Territory then we wouldnt talk about the Bolsheviks the same way, no?) My point was questioning how anyone has revolutionary optimism as a Maoist if every example is an abject and almost instantaneous failure under said theory. Maybe I spent too long on the preamble but that was my main point

Okay what is up with these planes man? I swear all of them are gonna be lost in accidents before they see combat

How many HOI4 streamers are communists? Not that the post in general is incorrect, just that I have an entirely different perception of Paradox streamers. I mean in my experience sutting through these videos are an exercise in patience considering their jokes can often boil down to “uh oh Stalin/Mao gonna throw me in Gulag with large spoon blah blah blah”

I don’t have personal experience, but I would watch out. Neo liberals in the UK used a strategy of what I like to call “crushing you with tungsten to make iron feel light.” They made the trains worse and worse so they’d have an excuse to privatize them, so the inefficiency of private rail wasn’t as obvious since it was still better than the hampered government service

Tbf to Ming bros the Qing fucking sucked.

I’d say yes. Just be prepared that seomtimes they use cgi (i.e, one charecter gets hit by a truck and it…buffers? Like he gets hit twice. It’s not very good). And other times they ADR some things. It’s not too much (it’s been only two times or so by episode 14) but they’re extremely bad at it and very noticeable. Its not anything major and at most only goes on for a couple minutes in the second case, but it is really jarring.

Actually thinking about it, on a technical level in general the show isn’t great. But luckily that’s not the focus, so otherwise I think it’s good, like a 8 or 9 out of 10

In a logical world, no. For instance the war in Iraq didnt trigger article 5. But in Bizzarro “it’s only bad when they bomb us back” world possibly. The UK has said something to the affect because they are gods 3rd greatest mistake

That’s fair, like I said I’m not a programmer at all so I don’t have a say here.

Yeah I’ve seen this quite a lot. You ask an ai to not do something and it’ll do it more. And then if you omit the instruction sometimes it will not do it at all. I’m not a programmer so take this with a grain of salt, but why not have a separate part of the algorithm be “if asked for not x, write response and then delete all x.” Obviously for more complex things that wouldn’t work but for the simpler stuff maybe it would

*and aiding in shooting down missiles

I’m more like this but I’m glad some people aren’t as depressed as I am

I can’t speak on the work because I haven’t read it, but there’s a couple parts of this analysis that I do disagree with outside of that.

1.“This is perhaps illustrated most famously in the case of the Sino-Soviet split, an issue which Losurdo was incidentally on the wrong side of.” Excuse me? Were there mistakes in Chinese foreign policy in relation to this? Yes. That’s undeniable. But what happened to all the soviet aligned states? Even the most ardent of these, east Germany, fell with the USSR. Would a soviet aligned Afghanistan fared better? Neutral states like the DPRK and Vietnam had strife after the fall too. This isn’t even mentioning the Lin Biao incident. Ideologically Mao was 80% correct towards the Krushchevite soviet union

2. “Take, for example, his near-mantra that the Nazi war of extermination against the USSR was actually a colonial war.”

It…was? Fascism’s primary purpose certainly wasn’t colonialism necessarily, but it certainly engenders it. And the great patriotic war was certainly in defense against settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing. This is completely undeniable and really odd to take issue with unless your issue is just phrased poorly.

What’s that onion article again? Like “trump continues obama-bush-clinton-bush-reagan policy” or something?

Going on the Pinochet timeline, sometime next year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Orlando_Letelier

(Time between coup and car bombing 3 years)

…its still stupid that people will believe this crap even if it’s (somehow) good to spread the misinformation

I watched Jiang Zemin’s 60 minutes interview the other day and I’m starting to realize how…stupid American politicians are.

Not just trump, although I think he is certainly the stupidest, but put any premier against any president and you’d probably be able to see the difference very quickly.