DSA can only bring “socialism” to coastal, cosmopolitan cities.
ACP will eventually bring Communism to America’s heartlands.
“Civilized” urbanoids are performatively radical, but in essence conformist.
Rural barbarians are performatively conformist, but in essence radical.
@POLREWK0M The cafe has a ping pong table outside a really good Iranian ping pong player chills there beats all the tourists/expats. I've never seen him lose once.
@Curious_Rum Useless psychologisms whose any goal is to put sensitive young men in the cuck box of middle class respectability. We know of Marx’s dad only because of Marx. You can be the deadbeat leftist nerd and change the course of human history forever.
Men are taught to understand the difference between a competitor and an enemy.
Part of sports/games/business/commerce/mate rivarly
A competitor is a player in a non-zero sum game. Actually good for the environment. It resembles play.
An enemy is serious business. You are willing to destroy parts of yourself (and others) to defeat. Becomes zero sum.
Women often don't separate these categories. The distinction collapses. Competition turns personal. Enemy and competitor becomes the same thing.
Apparently, the wisest demographic are silver spoon-suckling rich kids who globetrot through international private schools, vacation homes, and resorts from adolescence, while the Kants and Newtons, who went maybe 100 miles max from their hometowns their whole lives, are midwits.
An interesting thing is XXXTentacion rose up around 2017... that's around the time of election, a few yrs before the stoic "nonchalant" "don't be weird" zeitgeist would totally dominate
XXXTentacion could never exist in 2026, these were last yrs u could still be cringe
Clavicular will be explaining how bad hypergamy has gotten, almost tearful about the conditions that created him, and women in the replies will post, “He’s 5’11 btw” as if this somehow nullifies his point.
Clavicular does not intend to ‘provoke’ anyone; he is no Andrew Tate. He comfortably holds a vanity mirror to the dating market which has subsumed the whole of civil society, and forces us to peer into it.
He does not add or subtract anything, he does not exaggerate our features. If we recoil spitefully, we recoil at our own reflection. The irony is made richer that all his enemies, angered that he has taken a picture of the loveless, transactional market in which they traffic, resort to insulting his appearance.
Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.
This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.
Read this part:
"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."
Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏
Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.
Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.
Truth matters.
One of the best speeches at Sovintern came from a Moldovan Communist.
It was WILD hearing how thoroughly the destruction of socialism devastated their country.
Under the USSR, Moldova had near full employment, virtually no homelessness, strong industrial output, and was considered one of the more developed Soviet republics.
After the collapse of the USSR, poverty exceeded 50%, retirement savings were wiped out, unemployment surged, homelessness emerged on a mass scale for the first time in decades, and nearly half the population left the country amid the economic catastrophe.
The Moldovan comrade ended half-jokingly by saying: “But now our children at least have the ‘freedom’ to change their gender.”
After hearing that I’m not surprised to learn that Communism is still very popular in Moldova. 🇲🇩