Sometimes ultras give me the impression that the only country being imperialized by China is Philippines.

Welcome to the new Cold War era! Where everything is a psyop... or maybe it isn't... you can never now for sure!

Tombs bad I guess

I think it was Baerbock who said that. Idiotic mindset anyways, just idiotic.

The internet makes me sad. But whenever I actually go outside and talk to people it all gets better. There's hope in the world.

I've not read any fiction book lately (like, in the last 6 years or so). Only non-fiction and specially stuff related to Marxism and biology. Recently started "The Great Class War", by Jacques Pawels and "Red Theology", by Roland Boer.

I want to read some books that have been on my list for a while like "Liberalism: A counter history" by Losurdo, "The Liberal Virus" by Samir Amin, "This is Biology" and "What Evolution is" by Ernst Mayr and "American Exception. Empire and the Deep State", by Aaron Good.

Kulaks deserved worse

I've always hold sympathies for leftist causes. It is not that I was a red diaper as they say, but I was raised by my mother to help others and be compassionate. I think it is fair to say that her interpretations of Christianity and catholisism also had an effect in that, although I've never been too keen on the church. Even as a kid I admired Hugo Chavez, because while I didn't understand everything he said at the time, I knew he was talking and acting in favor of the working people in Venezuela. As an adult with class consciousness today I realize that growing up in a world where there's no Soviet Union has been quite fucked up and feel hopeful thanks to China's rise.

I feel I was primed to turn left in my politics since childhood and being a biologist the appreciation I gained for life in the planet was also a huge influence, but the pandemic was the turning point where I realized all the lies and the capitalist system as the driving force behind the crisis more than the virus. Marxism and dialectical materialism have exactly both the scientific outlook I always look for and the call to action that reminds me the world can be changed for better. Also, one day a colleague posted a video on facebook about K-pop's late stage capitalism and it was a rabbit hole from then on due to my ADHD making me hyperfixate on it.

I don't even remember how I found GenZedong, but I think it was through BayArea415. Damn, I miss him.

Such a shitty location, so Europe?

I used to know nothing about Torni until Sabaton made a song about him. And it really is a gloryfing song. So, as much as I like their music, they are indeed gloryfing a nazi. And the argument of "aCkhcHuaLlY hE jOinEd tHe Ss tO dEFenD hIs CoUNtrY" is bullshit since he was fucking SS. You didn't join the SS just because you want to fight, but because you are a nazi piece of shit. That makes Sabaton in my eyes a bunch of stupid liberals that 1. Don't really believe in anything and 2. Fetishize history and treat it as a product to consume. Liberals.

you really think US soldiers will kill their own countrymen if their not at least getting paid?

Yes. When the moment comes, the US ruling class will use every tool available as reaction to working class movements. They obviously won't escalate to that point immediately, they know it would amount to a civil war. But that doesn't mean the steps necessary to protect bourgeois rule will not be taken and probably will be accepted by a significant amount of the US population. Already the US government has and is using huge amounts of violence to pacify protests and uprisings via the police or the national guard. If necessary, all it would take them is to call a revolutionary movement anti american, or terrorist, or foreign backed, or anything that helps justify the use of military force. Easily they can blame it on Russia, or China, or Cuba, or whatever they don't like, and then the escalation will happen as necessary. Anyways, before any of that happens, the US political establishment has proven to be very good at killing domestic revolutionary movements. Before the tanks start rolling on the streets (ie. Civil war), the US will use paramilitary means to crush the revolution. That is the police, the national guard, the CIA, or even far right shock groups. You mention the way the inflation in the Weimar republic went, but you have to remember how it ended. The left in europe and Germany thought that the sharpening contradictions would lead inevitably to socialist revolution, but instead it ended up in the most vile and brutal reaction by the bourgeoisie. The only thing America differs in that regard is that right now it seems they lack a clear Caesar figure, a person or group that unifies the factions of the ruling class against the bigger threat of revolution. The closest thing to it is war, but it isn't as sure a force as fascism to hold together the bourgeois state. That's something in my opinion the communists in the US could use, but the window of opportunity to do it is narrow before someone comes to the front in the class war and plunges the US directly into full blown fascism.