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genes are not real

[chanch @perchanches]

Lysenko is maybe the most misunderstood and frequently slandered scientist of modern times. Lets take a deep dive into what he actually said in his report to the Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 1948. 🧵

[chanch @perchanches]

@Logo_Daedalus Why not Kanye?

[Ezra 红外战线🇨🇳🇺🇸 @Ezra_EX]

You’re an older man navigating a changing world, so I’ll try to be patient and straightforward. The portrayal of collaboration between Chinese textile workers and American shoplifters feels extremely naive at best (given that shoplifting in America is often mocked in China as a sign of decline and decadence) and at worst politically offensive, since everything in the film takes place without any connection to the Communist Party. It comes across as no different from various American-aligned “left-wing” NGOs that seem to exploit Chinese labor issues to meddle in China’s domestic political and social affairs and undermine the Party.The characters being "left-wing" activists influenced by Marxism do not make such meddling and intervention more acceptable, and if anything, that makes it far worse. I am not getting into the specific characterization and look of the Chinese characters that most mainland Chinese would find incredibly irritating, as these are comparatively minor issues.

The old narrative of American corporations exploiting Chinese workers while selling to American consumers feels outdated and tone-deaf in 2026. Most Chinese workers now work for domestic brands, from fashion giants like SHEIN to automakers like BYD, which are outperforming American companies thanks to cost-effectiveness, style, and a focus on the local market, making them less dependent on U.S. buyers. Accusations of IP theft, whether true or not, are largely aimed at Chinese firms, which tend to ignore Western IP restrictions, instead blending the best Western ideas with local innovations to create superior products. In real life the Demi Moore character is more Chinese than American, with the dynamic increasingly flipping so that Americans are the ones trying to steal from her.

The primary way China resists US financial and military hegemony is geopolitical, and the secondary way is cultural. Shared economic solidarity is just pure nonsense and fairy tale. China combats US hegemony by defending its sovereignty in Taiwan and South China Sea, as well as indirectly supporting other Eurasian powers (Russia, Iran, etc.) to force American influence to retreat back to the American continent. It secondarily defends its own cultural autonomy against liberal (and yes, leftist) American values that are alien to Chinese society. A politically respectable film that touches upon US-China relationship would at minimal need to acknowledge the nefarious attempt by the American ruling class to influence Chinese cultural society who wants to remain sovereign, and that the American working-class correspondingly must strive towards re-industrialization based on the national and social condition of America and make America itself a productive economy instead of mostly a nation of consumers. ILB touches on none of these dynamics and is just very dated ideal of Western Marxist framework about some form of "solidarity" that neither exists nor is desirable. Shoplifting, discount shops, and even strikes in retail stores are grossly inadequate if not irrelevant and contradictory. (Like honestly if this were real life, a sudden, drastic hike in Chinese wages as demanded by Chinese workers in the film would lead to a big hike in the price of the clothes, hurting the American characters and their demand for cheap consumer goods in the first place).

The actual point in 2026 is that Americans need to build their own domestic productive factories and revive its industries (and with them, dignified productive jobs) to serve its own people like China is doing, and stop vainly leveraging its financial power and the strength of the US dollar (enforced by the US military, though increasingly weakened these days) to obtain cheap foreign goods to feed its de-industrialized and disaffected masses. There is nothing remotely like that in ILB, in which the Americans are all purely parasitical of the produce of Chinese industries (whether they are the discount store, fashion designers, retail shops, or shoplifters), and that somehow greater pay of the former can lead to long term affordability for the latter. It is a one-sided consumerist film hiding behind its sentimentalism about “art” while affirming the structure of US hegemony but with the leftist fantasy that this is somehow sustainable just by demanding better benefits and cheaper stuff or something. American workers supporting protectionist tariffs in the hope of industrial revival is more subversive than this.

[Rap Game Edward Bernays @edward_bernayz]

When I’ve been calling the Chapo-RedScare-CumTown-TrueAnon crew CIA opps for the past 5 years, I was both “funnin’” and 100% literal 😎👍🏻

[chanch @perchanches]

Evergreen:

https://t.co/DqnyCnNzJS

[RTSG @RTSG_Main]

Lysenko was the world's first scientific looksmaxxer.

[chanch @perchanches]

Prescient

[microplastics rectifier @facetedcarapace]

Every stylish outfit these days seems like it's built around a quirky pair of pants . You can wear a wife beater stained with bbq sauce if your pants fancy enough

[chanch @perchanches]

@FyodorOnegin @C0mmunistCowb0y Very relevant and normal

[chanch @perchanches]

@FyodorOnegin @C0mmunistCowb0y He popularized jibber jabber online.

[chanch @perchanches]

@FyodorOnegin @C0mmunistCowb0y Ironic how you even use haz’s vernacular (jibber jabber) in your very well thought out criticism.

[Cosmic Cowboy I 宇宙牛仔 @C0mmunistCowb0y]

Everyone tap the sign:

[chanch @perchanches]

This reminds me of when Haz mentioned on his stream years ago about how we “already live in socialism” and made a point about how information (not profit) is what drives capital expansion now.

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[chanch @perchanches]

This is just the result of horror being cheap to make and the only genre that relies on a concept or idea to sell it. Everything else is too indebted to the bloated old ways of the studio systems; expensive talent, IP, cgi ect…

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘BACKROOMS’ now could earn $60M+ domestically in its opening weekend.

Would be one of the biggest openings for a horror film ever.

[chanch @perchanches]

@Yukeedookie @shanewallick @fredsoda You can’t see the shitty old houses, crumbling streets and unfinished construction behind some trash and graffiti?

[chanch @perchanches]

@Yukeedookie @shanewallick @fredsoda You think poor dumb people are in charge of infrastructure development?

[chanch @perchanches]

@shanewallick @fredsoda So you think people are just hallucinating that everything is shittier than it should be? Guess which image is from the “richest city in the world” ? Why should anyone trust your retarded metrics if it doesn’t account for the differences we can see with our own eyes?

[chanch @perchanches]

@shanewallick @zermatist He’s making a joke retard. Why are you YIMBYs so smug and so dumb.

[chanch @perchanches]

@shanewallick @fredsoda You really think a crisis at this scale is just a kind of spontaneous financial stupidity and not something systemic? What are you 10 years old?

[Ambitious Llama🦙 @MusingsofAwe]

Once you start studying Chinese economists there is no going back. The Chinese understand structuring & regulating markets to a T.

They also understand the aim of markets, improving human well being. Not just number go up. Number go up is a means to the well being.

[chanch @perchanches]

@Bishox42 @adelamr92 Why do you need to trust the numbers when they don’t seem to account the difference between these two places.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, admits that the trillions of dollars being used to build data centers and power grids will come from ordinary people’s savings accounts and pension funds, and says it is mandatory.

He says America needs trillions in AI infrastructure spending, and that people will be forced to “invest” in it.

“Much of this will come from savings accounts and pension accounts.”