Hello em poc comrades!! How are we all doing? Are we doing anything interesting this week? Any fun reads lately? I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha
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Its the weekend yippeee!
Woohoo 9to5
95% of the time when anglo speaks say “the government” or “the people”, they mean the U.S. government and white people. Mfs be like “people in the 1500s used to watch public execution”, no you bastard that’s your people that used to that, that’s white Europeans in the 1500s, most of the world just kind of went along with their day stop making this into a group project. Or it’s some bullshit about “today we live in the safest times and I can pay 1.50 for oranges out of their season” yeah because some kid in Africa or South America is forced to work wageless for it, fuck you
Or it’s some bullshit about “today we live in the safest times and I can pay 1.50 for oranges out of their season” yeah because some kid in Africa or South America is forced to work wageless for it, fuck you
Fr, Sandouq_Dyatha. That’s B.S, and they call that country which does this sort of periphery exploitation but is aligned to them, a ‘{bourgeois liberal} democracy’. Like Lenin said, democracy for the slave owners.
You know, I tell ye what, it’s like Rania never left
The fastest way for Americans to reveal their racism is to talk to them about foreign policy. They’ll tout their “support” for Chinese-Americans being targeted for hate crimes due to covid conspiracy nonsense, for example, then turn around and talk about China being full of “brainwashed commies who support authoritarianism 1956 Gorge Oddbell.” They don’t acknowledge how they’re talking about relatives and friends of the same people they claim to support.
And I think they know how this rhetoric contributes to hate crimes, but this gives them a cover to hate immigrants without saying so. They get to pretend to be progressive and more enlightened than open fascists, patting themselves on the back for doing so. Meaning, they support the racist actions and hate crimes. They’re just too chickenshit to come out and say it.
I would say a Mass, Elites, and Rebels quote but I think I’ve kicked the horse dead enough.
We need an emoji tbh
Beans and baked potatoes for lunch, been cutting out tortillas and chips so this goes well when I want a break from rice
Always good to go with the classics
Yum.
I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha
This sounds incredible! I’ve been interested in doing something like this for a while. What does your reading list look like?
I’ve been reading some of the more popular Le Guin works. She’s incredible, dunno why I waited till now. I’ve also been volunteering. It feels good to help and helps with my mental state (which is bad).
Thank you! I’m definitely having fun. Most of my reading has been piecemeal but there’s a bunch of things I’m reading from and I’ll get through everything eventually. In the reading list I have: Peasant Life in China by Fei Xiaotong, The Chinese Conquer China by Anna Louise Strong (and I’m probably going to read some of Strong’s other works on China too, like The Rise of the Chinese People’s Communes and One Fifth of Mankind), Fanshen by William Hinton, Guerrilla Warfare by Guevara, and a whole lot of Mao. My other big reading plan this year is to finally read Capital.
I listened to an audiobook of Red Star Over China last year and that really influenced the direction I decided to take the story. The basic idea of an anticapitalist fantasy seires was already in my head before then but I got really inspired by Snow’s descriptions of the Chinese revolution in Yan’an. CGTN documentaries also helped (and my mom has been trying to get me to watch a TV series about the Long March for a while, which I haven’t gotten around to yet, lol.)
Le Guin is awesome, I keep starting her books and not finishing them though (which is my worst reading habit, I have a tendency to forget to pick a book back up if I get distracted from it.) Glad you’re volunteering too!
from what ive heard, americans are already sexually harrassing users on that chinese app (whose main local user base are mostly libs anyhow)
A thing that I have learn from all of my time on English internet: white men are scum. Very sexual and aggressive.
Yeah, I’ve already seen it on a few posts… fucking sad, but not surprising.
the mild annoyance i get from seeing americans treating random chinese people on a social media app as if they were literal aliens from another world supersedes any transient satisfaction from seeing americans get “deprogrammed”
edit: i hope xhs gets banned in the US too. this whole spectacle has been embarrassing for so many reasons that i cant even fit in this post and some people i know already want most americans off the site. this “honeymoon period” isnt gonna last long. liberal chinese appease the feelings of white people and suddenly everyone in this site are talking like “no war but class war! american workers and chinese workers are the same! :)”. no consistency or critical thinking at all. just memes and vibes
The onus being on others to prove their humanity to fucking Americans of people
ive seen MULTIPLE videos of white people in TEARS crying about “im so happy to be alive… to talk to chinese people… and know we were the same all along and we are all siblings” like ???
tell me im not the only who sees how weird this “wholesome” fad is.
I’ve avoided that sort of content like the plague. Its already cringe enough that all of these people call themselves “Tiktok refugees” whilr living in a country that has had a hand in creating situations that lead to people around the world becoming refugees. And that not even getting into the fact that most wouldn’t even care about those refugees or bother to look into why they’ve become refugees.
Yeah I see what you mean. It would mean much more if shit wasn’t the usual performative fad that trends for like a couple of weeks… Then it goes back to the usual bullshit. No bridging between peoples, no mutual understanding. Just the usual caricatures used in place of nuance understanding of people because people are mental midgets. Not to mention the thing seems one sided. The chinese users are the ones trying to be friendly and accomodating but the Western users seem rude and inappropriate exactly as you said and even this will not be enough. This video sums it up for me https://www.reddit.com/r/USEmpire/comments/1i34ynz/how_white_privileges_influences_everyone_being_so/
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I graduated from training today, I will officially enter revenue service! Get on my bus!!
Get on my bus!!
EnteringChoo! Choo!
(That’s the sound buses make, right?)
congrats
Fuck. There are people in front of my place that I know but I dont want to let them in if they ring. I can obviously pretend im not at home or sleeping or in the shower but ugggh. Please dont self invite unless I REALLY fucking like you.
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Hello em poc comrades!! How are we all doing? Are we doing anything interesting this week? Any fun reads lately? I’ve been working on writing a communist fantasy series based inspired by the Chinese Revolution and a lot of my reading lately has been research for that, which also doubles as theory and history reading haha
Doing fine. Heard the news about XiaoHongShu and decided to download it. Reads lately? Idk what to read, but superimperialism might be on my list. Also, good luck on your revolutionary fantasy series
I also downloaded it lol. It’s quite nice, though confusing?
Tired and overworked. Still got about another week and a half of this shit to go.
