I think that 70 years of McCarthyism poisoned the western discourse so much that without rebranding communism, it won’t happen.

The overtone window is so far right that people mistake the center-right for the left.

Just saying communism or socialism is enough to brand one as such and close any form of debate.

History has been weaponized against the people in such a way that there is two versions of each events in the communism world - and no amount of verification and denial will make the participants realize that it’s mostly fog of war and propaganda.

Right now, there is rampant sinophobia and russophobia that helps re-inforce the “communism bad” narrative.

News from North Korea are ridiculized and each success is turned into a “but how many person died for dear leader” joke.

In the western world, the media control is total and the political system is hopelessly liberal, to a point where it’s a central democracy in which the only ideology possible is how to enrich the current kleptocrats.

Revolution is nearly impossible, as social movements are seen as disruptive, and the latent fascism of the west make the proletariats think they are better than their neighbors. This blatant lack of empathy makes it impossible for the proletariats to stage protests and class solidarity.

The proletariat has been atomized, bought and browbeaten into submission and will not move forward while the kleptocrats pillage the commun good, and build themselves survival systems for the systemic collapse of our ecosystem.

So, I think the future will see a collapse of human populations, a replacement of human expertise by technolocial systems, all of that to make the news kings - the childrens and chosen ones of the current kleptocrats - the new custodians of what will be left of humanity and our ecosystems.

I don’t think the current post communist-era countries have what they need to counter this trend.

Fascism is rising again, and will oppose what could be the hope of all, for personal gains.

But after that, maybe communism and humanty has a chance…

Ahh so you’re not a real Scotsman! This community sure love it’s sophistry …

That’s a very good take.

But don’t forget that some of the most stupid of us (mainly the CEO’s), will buy in the hype cycle and wreck the life of a lot of people by making the move to generative ai thinking it can actually replace people in their corporations.

Why not? Both needs skills to accomplish very well.

I’m not a frontend guy, but I like to mess with frontend stuff once in a while!

Flex is so fun!

Managing css masterfully is a skill in itself!

Us Tech sucks.

I work with it every day and it’s not going better as time pass…

It’s going stupider.

So much this!

Not libs.

They think it fails because ideological arguments

So mich this!!! You really distilled it!

What I did is just discord like the first article with a Huh, I didn’t know that to a friend, with no other context.

The the next one, Huh, look what I found… ect, ect. . Now they feel north korea is more than meet the eyes

The first thing to show them is the wikipedia article on north korea media coverage.

It should cause a bit of a cognitive dissonance.

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

Here, I even went fishing for the link to help.

Then, there are a lot of tourists who took pictures of north Korea and brought them back.

They are telling.

https://www.ericlafforgue.com/gallery/Countries/North Korea

I particularly like eric lafforgue because he took illegal pictures and was simply banned, destroying the myth of getting killed/maimed/whatevered from disrespecting the rules.

The last step is to show theses articlea from what happens daily in South Korea, which most people think is an actual country and not an american subsidiary.

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

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

And then compare Chaebols with the Kims

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

The conclusion after that is that both Korea are under duress, for completly different reasons.

One is limited in ressources and isolated, with a lot of poweful enemies and few allies.

The other is a feodal state controlled by corporatism and outside interests…

That’s true.

In Canada, a lot of the “value” produced is just Canadian selling the same houses to each others at inflated prices, at breakneck pace.

It’s housing hypertrading, it’s Kafkaesque…

It’s not even a secret, it’s not even hard to find rich people saying just that.

It’s simply the only thing that is going on.

We are stuck with people who think life on earth is just a way to get to heaven where everything is perfect, so they don’t care what happen here.

These people are taking a lot of long term decisions in the industrialized world.

We are also stuck with people who exploit their way to power, and frankly don’t care what happen in the future.

These people are also taking a lot of long term decisions in the industrialized world.

We are also stuck with the naive people who think everything is alright, because they wish it so

These people could be the balance of power but they instead choose to do nothing and sit on their hands because they think that in the end, everything will be alright.

I’m kinda depressed suddenly…

The plan is to let a lot of people die from the climate crisis and place the rich children in those positions.

I just don’t get why you’d be on board with death penalty at all.

What does it solves exactly?

It’s so abusable and there’s no take back… I feel it’s mostly an emotional solution to material issues… It also has been proven to not have a detering effect.

It’s mostly the same as torture. Ineffective, abusable, permanent.

I’m not saying this as an attack or something, I’m just genuinely puzzled at any kind of support to death penalty.

It is.

Pharmaceutical, chemical industries, some high tech material … They also count assembly of parts in semi-automated factory for final product as manufacturing.

I’m not sure it’s cheating. It’s just that manufacturing means more than just steel and base products…

You can still have good manufacturing output but not be producing base products. It just means that you have a different import/export profile.

Just look at the us imports/exports, you’ll see what I mean…

It’s useful if you just don’t do…That. it’s just a new fancy search engin, it’s a bit better than going to stack overflow, it can do good stuff if you go small.

Just don’t do whatever this post suggested of doing…

That’s a good take. Just take note tho, cultural products are products of their culture and society. Videogame are not inherently “bouggie”, they just happen to be produced by these type of interests in our current time.

That’s quite a take.

You sound like someone who’s ideological first, anaytical last with that kind of comments.

Library still exist and are still consulted.

Google still exist and still is an advertisement corporation first and foremost.

AI will also be misused, but it can also be a good tool. It’s just not as magical as people tend to think it is.

It’s the same colonial model, with the same type of results - exploitation of humans and natural resources in a country that can’t fight back due to governmental capture or the collaboration of its bourgeoisie. It’s pretty well documented, even wikipedia has artciles that didn’t get liberalwashed on it.