Lenin is and remains the single best cure to liberal bourgeois brainworms.

Correct me if i’m wrong but i think China just isn’t that into football as a culture. They have other sports they are very good at.

Very good video. Pretty much the textbook ML position on participation in bourgeois elections. No notes. 100% agree.

Never assume that something which is “common knowledge” for you is common knowledge for everyone else. Sometimes we have to keep repeating agitprop over and over until it sinks in, or until it reaches everyone who can be reached.

Delusional. Ukraine is in a demographic death spiral and its economy is a zombie, shambling along only by the constant infusion of western funds. It is a profoundly broken society.

Yet another socdem who chooses to associate himself with the Democrats turns out to be a pro-imperialist chauvinist. Not at all surprising.

Honestly, China should just invade it and reunite it with Inner Mongolia; it would actually be for the best.

That wouldn’t be a good idea. Mongolia is an excellent buffer state which is convenient for both Russia and China. If either country attempted to take it (which would be very easy to do), the other would have a problem with that. What needs to be done is Russia and China need to work together to expunge Western influence from Mongolia and draw Mongolia deeper into the BRICS orbit.

Support for political forces, civil society and media can be used to achieve this but ultimately economic development will be the key. Mongolia must be raised out of its raw material export dependence and develop if not complete self-sufficiency (very hard with their geography) at least a robust industrial and infrastructure base and interconnectivity with the Russia-China transport corridors.

Obviously at the moment both Russia and China are interested in maintaining good relations with Mongolia and want to avoid coming off as interfering with them or pressuring them. They are playing the long game betting on the natural gravity of the Russian and Chinese influence, given Mongolia’s location and geography, sooner or later drawing them back away from the West.

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Oh no…don’t threaten me with a good time.

The chips needed to run AI models have a typical lifespan of one to three years. When these NPUs are under heavy load, they can burn out in just 54 days. Consequently, the entire AI industry must constantly produce new chips simply to maintain its current capacity, a requirement that hinges on access to rare earths.

How is this sustainable in the long term? Even for a country that dominates the rare earth supply chain, eventually the rare earth deposits will be exhausted, no? Same problem with the rapid expansion of electric vehicles and renewables: batteries and solar panels have significantly shorter life spans than fossil fuel engines and turbines in power plants, and rely on rarer materials than just steel and copper. Therefore one assumes that a priority should be research and investment into recycling technology, as China is doing for batteries and solar panels.

Also, what do the logistics look like of data centers with millions of chips if chips have to constantly be replaced? At some point even this replacement process will necessarily have to be automated, else human technicians will not be able to keep up with the 24/7 replacement. Or is replacement done in bulk rather than on a per chip basis as they burn out?

Applying this to Mamdani, his government could be a great moment to push for reforms from the left by organising, and intensify class conflict whenever his reforms get pushback from the ruling classes.

The key to this is supporting Mamdani’s more radical reforms (i.e. those that genuinely help the working class) while not supporting the Democratic party and its institutions. Support “Mamdani the Radical Reformer” and “Mamdani the Agitator”, not “Mamdani the Democrat”.

As communists we must maintain our own independent political organizations that are unapologetically led by the working class and for the working class, and which exist wholly outside of the bourgeois parties. Anything less is entryism and doomed to fail. First and foremost this should be seen as an opportunity for agitation and propaganda, for showing workers what they can demand and what they can achieve through organizing outside of bourgeois structures.

His narrative is typical of the “populist” MAGA Republican right in the US. They don’t really have the best understanding of European politics, and Americans in general have a tendency to filter how they understand European politics through the lens of their own domestic political paradigms, projecting themselves onto European parties even though these parallels don’t always apply.

But yes, it’s true that the traditional left in Germany has completely dropped the ball on being anti-war. The anti-war sentiment in Germany is now exclusively on the fringes, represented by the AfD on the right and BSW + the various communist parties on the left. Sadly there are still a lot of left inclined people in Germany who have not grasped the new paradigm and continue to live in the past and in a mainstream media bubble.

his point is very interesting that the neofasc afd seems to be the only part properly aligning with russia and china.

That’s just not true though.

Firstly there is the BSW which is very clearly against the anti-Russia and anti-China narratives, as well as against the EU and NATO.

Secondly, the AfD is completely untrustworthy on these issues, and they are going to flip flop as soon as it becomes convenient for them to do, as we have seen from similar right wing “populist” parties in other European countries.

They are not so much “aligned” with Russia and China as they are opportunistically adopting the opposition position to the extremely damaging and unpopular policies of deindustrialization and drive to war. BSW has some very serious brainworms about some other issues, but they at least seem principled in their anti-war stance.

(Also, there are various communist parties like the DKP who are principled anti-imperialists, but they are too small to matter.)

There is no sovereignty under the rule of a US puppet regime.

No, Ukraine broke that treaty when it abandoned the neutrality that they promised to adhere to in said treaty.

The DPRK doesn’t do this shit. Objectively speaking they are less dystopian than the US.

Surveillance, military targeting and the idea of replacing workers are the three main pillars of “AI” and why there is so much investment into the technology by Western countries. All three are bad for us as socialists and anti-imperialists.

Europe just can’t stop taking L’s

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It may be more than that among the Republican base. There’s a split between base and political elites about Ukraine support there the same way there’s a growing split in the Democratic party between base and elites on Palestine.