It’s totally cool if not, but do you have any tips for an American learning Chinese? I’m just starting to get the hang of tones on certain Mandarin characters

I recently read some of the book “Chinese Revolution of 1945-49” by Michael Lynch (I believe, not sure tho) and the shit I learned about ROC/KMT was SOOO bad, like they were funded by Hitler (before he allied w Japan)to kill Communists and when they fled to Taiwan they killed several thousand indigenous Taiwanese people who weren’t serving any threat to them whatsoever. I didn’t even read the full thing yet so I still have more horrors to discover

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I wish it could be that easy, social democracy is easy to explain and works in a way that isn’t very complex, it’s easy to understand and put in practice which is more than you can say for Marxism (much love to Marx and Engels and Lenin, but it does ANYTHING but appeal to the lowest common denominator), but the unfortunate reality is that these people (good people who strive for equality, no matter how you feel about Soc-Dems) will be voted out eventually and Fascists will be put in their place to make up for the lack of record-breaking quarterly earnings for private companies. As soon as they have their chance, they’ll be much more unfair to the SocDems than the SocDems SHOULD HAVE BEEN to said Fascists.

He really do be Man

Are they talking about the Cheshire Cat? I don’t know any other purple cats.

Those people just want a cool iPhone screensaver and a phonk song to match. Aesthetics are everything to them, they couldn’t care less about feeding the starving masses

I’m not doubting you, just a bit confused. Can you expand on what you mean when you say the left (presumably in Germany) are “simping the USA”? I ask specifically because as dumb as it sounds, I, an American, love keeping up with German leftist politics and all the crazy drama that surrounds it

MAGA communism is just Strausser with a less coherent world-view, and that’s saying a lot. They can’t even decide how they feel about taxation

I was VERY skeptical of watching this video when it was suggested to me, is it worth watching bc I absolutely will if it’s even slightly more based than expected. I was anticipating stuff like “actually he didn’t give a shit about communism, he was a sTaLiniSt” but lmk if it’s actually cool. After reading Anarchism or Socialism, I have ZERO patience for anyone disrespecting Stalin.

Donated a bit, I’m so sorry that this has happened to you, I know thoughts and prayers don’t go far, but let it be known that I will not forget your story and I wish you and all of your family the best. Feel free to keep in touch if possible, I fully understand if it isn’t

Truth be told, (cringe moment upcoming, prepare yourself) I may have stopped doing it bc COVID started and we stopped going to school, or I was unofficially peer-pressured out of it because of what you mentioned, basically like 2-3 people out of 20-25 would actually stand for it. It’s been like 5 or 6 years since I did it so I don’t remember but yea it was a “symbol of rebellion” for me as a lib bc we had Trump as president and I wanted to be all “I love America even if I don’t love Trump” but nowadays I just cringe and pretend that never happened

I was one of the few lame dorks that actually stood and said the pledge deep into HS, in my experience most people slowly stopped giving a fuck around beginning of HS, rightly so

As an American, I absolutely believe we should change the national anthem to “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, more people know the lyrics, it relates more to the American experience than the actual anthem and it’s more catchy. I can’t see any other suggestions that fit this criteria more

I never used to question the fact that we would say the pledge of allegiance everyday at school, but when I learned that basically nobody else does that, I was stupefied.

the USSR never dissolved it just shrank, its like a Vatican for Soviets, the most based enclave

No prob, just click my pfp or username and just hit “send message” and I can take a video of leafing thru the book so u can pause and read each page. If there’s an easier way to do it pls let me know. I’m not very tech-savvy at all and it’s a very interesting book, I bought it at a leftist book store in San Fran on vacation and loved the book, but unfortunately never got around to finishing it. Learned a lot tho

I’ve been reading a bit of “The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East” and although it focuses on Iran and Palestine, they talk about Syria plenty. If you want pics of the book, PM/DM me

I know that voting is dumb but I still don’t regret voting for PSL

Unfortunately I still scroll Reddit to see The Deprogram sub and a few fight subs. My time is being stolen still. I will say that I’m slowly getting more into Lemmygrad since being perma-banned but I still wish I could comment on some lib posts