General Discussion Thread - Juche 113, Week 45
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The Spanish Communist Party has issued a call to other communist parties in Europe to send help to deal with the floods and our party will send a brigade of volunteers soon
Be careful out there folks. There are spanish neo nazis organizing in Valencia. In case your team needs an idea on how to identify them, some of them are wearing shirts like this one:
Wish you the best! Valencianos need a lot of help.
There's this news article going around about how DPRK soldiers in Ukraine are 'gorging on porn' because they can now access the internet. The proof? 'A usually reliable source tells me that...'. That's it. That's the source. And of course people accept it as the truth.
Source: the ghost of Kiev (excuse me, Kyiv or whatever dumbass way they spell it)
To my actual surprise my comment calling this out got double digit likes so I guess people can see through the bullshit
my dad, an insane anticommunist, is in love with china he recently discovered how developed china is and wants to visit China lol.
which bring me to ask you, how should i spproach him about their politics, he has convinced himself that theyre "more" capitalist than the US and thats why theyre so developed 😂 its pretty funny because you can find communist iconography in every video
In CGTN, there are videos in spanish explaning how democracy works in China such as this one -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEoFJ6-dBbc
This could help with you anti communist dad. That's what I have been exposing my father in law and my family in general.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Is your dad one of the willingfully ignorant person who use redefinition of words to conclude that successful example of Marxism are success of Capitalism? Did he even know about the actual definition of Communism? I know that my abusive ableist family had fled mainland China before the Communist takeover to continue their toxic authoritarian tradition from the Chinese warlord period, but my family now praise the mainland Chinese government for their leadership to the current prosperity of China despite their hatred of Communism. Is your dad similar in some way?
I just had someone who was apparently a part of Operation Prosperity Guardian reply to me on reddit really mad that I made fun of the two US pilots who bombed Yemen and later died in a jet crash in the US. I told them if I were flying the jet it wouldn't have crashed lol
if I were flying the jet it wouldn't have crashed
Yeah, same, cause i would've landed it in Yemen, asked for asylum, and told them to give the plane to the Iranians or Russians to reverse engineer. Really the only moral thing that a US pilot can do, short of kamikaze-ing their plane into the nearest US warship.
ah I was referring to the plane in which they crashed, which was in Washington state during some kind of training mission or something. I agree with the spirit of your comment though
Bowe Berghdal?
skills issue 🤣
Another week.
Ever since the elections finished over here I am in some sort of political pause it seems. The party hasn't really communicated something in the last few weeks and I haven't heard from my group either. I get that in a year with two elections, who are now done, a pause was necessary but idk it's not like things have stopped. Get back to work I'd say.
The strange thing is that I just sort of forgot too. Like, it was only last night that I thought about the party work in weeks.
In the meantime life is great actually. I finally settled in my new office and I feel really welcome. Made some new coworker friends who invite me to do stuff. Gym is going great and I am on a roll the last few weeks after working out from home for over a year. I eat healthy. Haven't had a drink in months. I feel calm and at peace for the first time in over two years I think. I got some nice things planned.
Not really sure why I write all of this. But I guess I had to get it out somewhere. I was sitting on my couch last evening thinking about how I truly feel happy for the first time in a while and it feels nice.
Though I do hope party work starts soon.
So the RCMP (Canadian federal police who love to harass and destroy the lives of Indigenous communities) intend to use social media to basically trap "extremists" in Canada. That might be cool if there were some kind of criteria and accountability to communities. But with the "victims" of Communism memorial and what not, it will definitely be used to beat down protestors trying to stop pipelines etc., and protect the ruling class from any workers movement.
Plus we have a wet noodle fascist that will likely be prime minister next time around so... Yeah
It's not just RCMP but also the local level counterparts.
Yeah, I wanted to be specific lol
I said 'death to Israel' on my country's football (soccer) sub and I got a warning from Reddit lol.
I should have just said that 'at least Tel Aviv is a progressive place! They have gay prides!' like the other comment.
i said "Israel loves genociding and funding genocides", which is obviously factually true, and it get removed on tiktok (which is controlled by the feds)
Hamzah Saadah says that there is a gay bar in Ramallah. (The IOF have probably flattened it by now, though.)
how inclusive of them to also murder gay people, truly the most moral army there is!
The fr*nch
Indeed the fr*nch
my pro-genocide relative voted for kamala lol, at least its consistent
Today is the US presidential election. And everybody online and offline is in the most annoying state of hysteria imaginable.
Since it doesn't make any difference who gets elected, I think I'm just going to sit back and watch the fireworks.
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Is there any actual reason to believe Trump would drastically change the Ukraine war like libs are saying? No way the ruling class of the US will let him fuck up this situation.
I can't see him accepting Russian terms politically. He's floated the idea of a freeze and delaying NATO membership, but Russia already categorically stated that they won't go for that. However, I think what he'll do is cut funding, and that will force Ukraine to surrender sooner.
I have heard this fear expressed too that Trump would somehow bail on project Ukraine and NATO as a whole but I recall him also having similar bluster in 2016 and we know how that turned out. I haven't seen any serious evidence to prove it and I personally cannot foresee a situation where he unilaterally just pulls out as a vanity project given what is at stake, and who the stakeholders are. If there was a case to be made I'd be open to hearing it tho, I am not an expert. I think it's just dems slinging mud
Tonight my football team plays at home against an Isreali team. Let's hope my team beats them. Such a shame it wasn't canceled and that the counter protest was banned. Last night a Palestinian flag was taken from a squatted house by Israeli supporters and burned in the Dam Square. And there are a lot of Mossad agents in the city for 'safety'
lmao, was it the macabi team? I saw a macabi supporter get their ass beat by some Moroccan cab drivers the zionists tried to beat up. There was another who had their passport taken, shoved into the water, and they made him say free palestine HAHAHAH
You could become a fake tour guide who purposely tells the Israeli supports to go in the wrong direction like "huh no the match in in Rotterdam trust me"
I was wondering what your opinion was lol
I've already seen some footage of clashes between protesters and Maccabi fans
Pics that go hard.
I went to the Ajax stadium to see if there was a demonstration against the Israeli club but I didn't see anything so I went home. But apparently there was a pro-Palestina demonstration near the football stadium on a nearby square, which I only came to know on my way back home. It was apparently announced a day before. I really should stay in touch more.
From what I have been reading, there were people pummeling zionists to the groud. There are a lot of videos circulating about this.
Amsterdam police are cracking down violently on pro-Palestine protestors on Dam Square who are protesting against the way the Maccabi hooligan situation was treated. They are even arresting journalists. And they are blocking the square so no protestors can leave, even the ones who were at the edge bc they didn't want to be in danger. I'm safe, I didn't go.
Can anyone see this comment?
i was watching this video about korean gender war and it has a whole segment and confucian hierarchy in china for example around 31 minute, says that confucian hierarchy is embedded in their “socialism with chinese characteristics“, is this a valid statement?
Imo, i believe it is indeed embedded in Chinese cultural and traditional beliefs which transfers to a modern day society. I do not believe it is upheld or foundational within the modern Chinese practice of socialism - it very much depends on education and educational levels of that particular area. I do believe it will get better with time, as there often is a disruption between the perspectives of the young and old generations.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I care so little about this election that a fucking change on Tvtropes is affecting my mood more than any voting.
i do not like this answer from tencent model
you can try here https://huggingface.co/spaces/tencent/Hunyuan-Large
Probably tuned on a lot of the same kind of slop that models like ChatGPT get tuned on. They (meaning companies, generally, I don't know specifically what tencent says about it) make it out like it's about "safety and ethics," but in practice, it amounts to corporate sanitizing to reduce as much as possible the chances of a model saying something that could reflect badly on the company who made it. It may not even be that there is any tuning specific to Palestine, other than "this is a nuanced and complicated issue" generic slop that covers politics more generally.
I may have underestimated how shitty it is on this. Did some playing around and it got all high and mighty about me describing Israel as doing a genocide, saying there isn't evidence for one and blah blah blah. Mind you, LLMs can get up to all kinds of bullshit (what some term "hallucination") and take one position one time and another at another time. It's not as though this means it is deterministically tuned to take the stance it did. It also said something to me about China's position earlier in the test convo, which seemed to more or less match what I've heard about China's stance on Palestine. But it really wasn't happy with throwing around the word genocide. Anyway, I still stand by the general point of these corps tuning models to try to act neutral, so as not to be controversial. Even though they definitely aren't because everything has bias. I could really get into a rant about how unethical it is to present a model as striving to be neutral when it obviously can never be.
My TTRPG group that I'm in where I live wasn't feeling well today, they said on Discord, and decided to not do a game session today...
...sadge...
I hope i don't lose my sanity
I fear a rift between my American cousins and me in the future.
recently attends my two friends wedding (one korean and one russian)
it was fine. but the russian family recently moved to israel to escape russia war?!? i agonised over attending their wedding a lot. but i left early.
It is I, Makan.
How has everyone been?