We got most of the tech from the jetsons ppl could envision in the early 1960s (video calls, smartphones, smart watches, smart homes), but still don’t have flying cars, cloud cities, robot maids, and moving sidewalks going everywhere.

Highly recommend reading Domenico Losurdo - Class struggle for more on this.

It gets into how there’s not just a single class struggle, i.e. working class versus bourgeoisie, but many different and related class struggles. Both Marx and Engels held this multivariate view of class struggle too, and it was only later that chauvinists, anti-feminists, and imperialists restricted its meaning to the workplace only.

CIA training? As in the central intelligence agency? They are an intel agency, not military advisors. And neither can do magic (like makeing soviet era leftover equipment to be anything else)

The phoenix program, what’s that?

Same. Cardboard box or round scratching pads are still getting used every day for months. Every other toy, a day or so max.

Hitler particles off the charts

Israel : “no”

US : “alrighty then, here’s 10 billion dollars”

• Obama admitted to supporting and arming Neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalist groups like the Azov battalion in Ukraine to overthrow it’s former pro-Russia govt, 2. Ukraine now has a pro-US, nazi-glorifying government with ultranationalism, anti-semitism, neo-nazi pogroms, and attacks on LGBT groups.
  • Leaked transcripts show Victoria Nuland, a US diplomat in Ukraine, picking Yanukoviche’s replacement in the coup.
  • A leaked phone call of the Estonian foreign minister states that the famous Maidan sniper attack was actually ordered by the US-funded opposition. This means that Yanukovich’s government was not behind the sniper attack, but somebody in the US coalition.

Please report racist comments like these.

Solar now meets about 10% of the nation’s power needs, up from 3% at the beginning of last year, the government said.

That is impressive for under 2 years. Lets hope they can keep that pace up, or accelerate it.

It’s so difficult to keep up. There’s a complete reversal every two days now.

A lifetime ban is probably not enough here. He should get some charges because what he did was extremely dangerous.

Do you have a link to what got removed?

Some things that help me at least:

• Only use bed for sleeping.
• Don’t use screens at least an hour before bed.
• Keep phone out of arms reach when in bed. Ideally in another room (these devices weigh heavy on our psychology, and the further they are from us, the less distracting they are).
• Leave blinds open at night so you wake up with the sun. Try to sync your body / circadian rhythm with your environment if possible.
• Get lots of walks and outside time during the day. If you have a lot of energy, work out more during the day.
• No coffee / intoxicants in the evening.
• Drink lots of water.
• Don’t try to fix your sleep problems at night. Most of your remedies should be getting on the right foot the next day, and making habits of those.

There are no pacts between lions and men.

Read the article above. He’s very anti-immigrant, and anti-communist.

A few that I can think of: Rockhill, Smith, Enfu, Boer, Manoel, Foster, Cockshott, Shaikh.

We lost Losurdo pretty recently, and he was IMO one of the best of the last few decades.

It’s not just having a “command economy”, it’s in whose interest the economy is being commanded for. The PRC went through an intense anti-colonial / communist revolution to disempower the feudalists and reactionaries, and capture the state to bring it under a worker-peasant control.

If western nations want to repeat the success of the PRC, they need to repeat China’s steps from 1949. They would each need to go through violent revolutions to capture the state and overthrow bourgeois democracy. Otherwise, capitalists will still hold power, and their economies will be commanded to suit capitalist interests.

Competent vs incompetent managers of empire.

Any negative speech: especially harsh, slanderous or divisive, that provokes equally charged emotional responses.

One other thing I’d like to add: It’s not just that rage-inducing content is out there, that’s always been there. It’s that it gets rewarded by big tech, by making sure that highly responded content, gets pushed to the top.

Capitalist tech companies have an incentive to platform this content because it increases the on-site time, and their own popularity, to the detriment of their users mental health. It also helps them push pro-capitalist narratives that atomize and isolate people who should be united by a shared humanity and class status.

tbh we’re somewhat guilty of this in lemmy also, with the Active sort allowing new comments to bump posts to the top of feeds.

The only real way to fight it, is to keep an eye out for these toxic / combative threads and posters, and remove them if necessary. Since we don’t capitalist incentives to keep people on site or serve ads, it serves no benefit to keep rage-bait posters around.

I got banned from Hexbear for posting a video of BE calling out ChapoTrapHouse because they supported Platner. Being against Graham Platner a few months ago was akin to being an “anti-left utra”.

That doesn’t sound right. I don’t know the circumstances of your ban, but I don’t see anyone supporting imperialists like platner on hexbear, I would think it’d be bannable offense supporting him. Most marxist spaces don’t like BE because he’s an ultraleft who demonizes most socialist projects, and is also extremely twitter-poisoned and has cringy takes on other topics.

It’s quite literally because of BE that the entire US left had to steer clear of endorsing a genocidal Nazi US marines doing tours at Abu Graib.

You’re vastly overestimating the importance of some youtuber.

And it’s up to others to help Cuba. But sadly Cuba has been let down and international solidarity isn’t what it used to be.

We shouldn’t get too caught up in putting all hope in external saviors, it’s not the way any communist project has operated, including Cuba itself. They did the work to liberate themselves and free their country from US domination. They’ve already been through this before during the special period after the fall of the USSR, and will continue to modernize and do what’s necessary to be self-sufficient.

It’s an ultraleft tendency to demonize other socialist countries for “not doing enough” to help, usually demanding military intervention and getting sucked into quagmires and afghanistan-like traps. It’s not anyone’s place to demand intervention or what form it takes. The PRC is choosing to do economic, and not military intervention, to help Cuba. That’s their decision and its not for ultras to criticize.