Why would leftists support either side in this war? It’s essentially a proxy war between Russia and the US, and both countries are ruled by capitalist oligarchs.

It’s really quite sad. It didn’t take much reading for me to realize how much I had been lied to about Leftist ideology. It really just takes an open mind and a little bit of curiosity to set you on the path of realization.

One day I had had enough on being confused about what socialism actually was, as the term kept being thrown around during and after Bernie’s first run for presidency. Just a few hours of introductory reading on Wikipedia and I was sent down a rabbit hole of realizing I had been lied to about so much.

I thought this was the case for Neoliberalism and Fascism being two sides of the same coin? Neoliberalism being this situation, where the companies/private sector more or less controls the state, and under Fascism the state more or less controls companies/the private sector (isn’t this how the economy was run under Nazi Germany? Where the fascists used/controlled the private sector for their own ends?)

I mean, isn’t Russia the “bad guy” because they invaded a sovereign nation. Doesn’t that also make the US a bad guy because sovereignty means nothing to them.

I think Aether is cool. It’s a P2P app that, with enough active users on a board, allows for mod elections. Only problem is that a fair amount of the active userbase is alt-right adjacent or straight up Fascist. I have seen some Leftists posting on there, but I think it’ll take more Leftist users to change the culture.

If someone were paranoid it would seem pretty doomer. At worst you would expect birthrates to be halved over these years. But this is far from the case

Once sperm counts are above 40-50 million/ml, more doesn’t necessarily mean a higher chance of conception. However, once you drop below that amount, the probability of conception starts dropping off rapidly as sperm counts fall. The implications of this being that there shouldn’t be any noticeable trends in birthrate tied to sperm counts for now. Since the concentration is falling at an accelerated pace, this may soon have a noticeable impact on society.

There has been some research into potential causes, and I personally believe that it’s due to “endocrine disrupters” such as phthalates, PCBs, PFAS, BPA, BPS, and others. Since humans stand at the top of the food pyramid, all of these chemicals are accumulating within us. I don’t think there’s any escaping this; this is likely one of the possible Great Filters.

Anarchists can’t have a successful revolution because they can’t organize installing a light bulb, let alone organizing cross-industry production

What about Anarcho-Syndicalists? That structure is a sort of decentralized command economy, instead of the description given in that link of a “network of free contracts”.

Wait, what’s wrong with Anarchism and Democratic Socialists?

All of this needs to be broken down and discarded.

Do you have any good book recommendations?

I guess I’m just more of a fan of going about it through the use of industrial unionization, rather than using state power and hoping that centralized power doesn’t corrupt those who wield it.

What about the authoritarian aspect of using state power?

What about the parts referring to China as a form of ruthless State Capitalism?

Jreg is a comedian who satirizes various different ideologies. He’s not a political commentator or a serious educational channel, so saying he’s too cowardly to commit to a political platform seems like a non-sequitur.

Meaningless? How is satire of various different ideologies, satire regarding current events, and so forth meaningless?

the only subversive thing to be cool funny or edgy is to not have one

At 400k subscribers he posted a short video saying his political ideology, which if I’m remembering right was a form of Social Democracy.

I hope they do bring back some of that manufacturing stateside. From what I understand, the exporting of jobs overseas has really screwed over the workers here, and has screwed over workers overseas through additional exploitation and theft of their national resources.

AMD has made big moves against Intel in the CPU department, so I’d like to think they’d do the same against Nvidia. Handing over most of the GPU market to Nvidia is pretty shit overall. Hadn’t really even considered Intel making GPUs, and now I’m wondering why they haven’t really attempted to make moves in that department. Would’ve thought that with the growth of machine-learning tech, they would’ve at least started R&D for that kind of thing.

True enough. I know there’s some bad blood between Communists and Anarchists, but I can’t imagine a Communist party in a country across the globe is going to really care about that for a normal citizen. Can’t really say the same thing about America considering that documentation that came out half a year ago or so that considered Anarchists to be domestic terrorists.

Western narratives have given me terrible brainworms. Even if a Chinese GPU is proven to be better than AMD/Nvidia, and at a better price, I’d still have paranoia about there being some kind of hardware level spyware installed.

Hey now, I’m gonna need to upgrade my GPU in a couple years and prices are already real shit. Don’t make it worse please 😔

I’m actually kinda surprised about this move though. At first, when the article said US officials “asked” Nvidia to stop selling those chips to China, I thought it was a classic “oh pwease Capital owners, can you do this for us 🥺”. Later on in the article though, they’re actually banned from selling those chips. Didn’t really expect that kind of involvement to be honest.

Wasn’t there a bill called “CHIP” or something that had passed recently, whose entire point was to bring some chip manufacturing back stateside so Taiwan couldn’t be used like that? Or was that another one of those “here’s $50 billion dollars, could you maybe think about possibly building a factory here in the US sometime in the next 10-25 years?” sorta deals.

I find that hard to be true of all of Europe, at least compared to America. Doesn’t Europe have a considerably high unionization rate? Last I checked, about 10% of America’s workforce was in a union.

This is all rather concerning, though I’m not fully convinced. Granted, the archive link and struggle sessions link are quite long, so it’ll take some time for me to read through it all.

I have to question how supporting an independent Hong Kong is pro-imperialism though. Isn’t China assuming control a form of imperialism, or do I not fully understand what imperialism actually is?

Also, I don’t really have an opinion on the Uyghur situation, as I’m not well informed on the matter. From what I’ve read of that Jacobin article, comparing what China is doing to America’s “War on Terror” seems somewhat applicable, I guess? Not directly, since it’s not a literal war, but I can’t imagine there being much support from Leftists for America doing something similar; that is, rounding up Muslims in America and re-educating them with “Western “culture”” (whatever that means).

I hope this doesn’t come across badly, I unfortunately did not have (and am still having issues with finding) good Leftist sources to read a non American-dogmatic version of events for what occurred in Hong Kong and with the Uyghurs. So any information you have on the matter would be greatly appreciated.