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General Discussion Thread - Juche 112, Week 30

Welcome again, everyone! Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!

We have a Matrix homeserver, where I am your ~~overlord~~ friendly server admin :), at genzedong.xyz. See this thread for information about our Matrix space.

Short reading list for new MLs here. To find theory, try marxists.org, Anna's Archive, libgen, or Sci-Hub (for scientific articles). If an article is unavailable, try the Wayback Machine.

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In January 1923, the young journalist Ernest Hemingway covered the Lausanne Conference for the Toronto Daily Star. His first encounter with Mussolini left him distinctly unimpressed. Ushered into a room along with other journalists, Hemingway found the Premier so deeply absorbed in a book that he did not bother to look up. Curious, Hemingway “tiptoed over behind him to see what the book was he was reading with such avid interest. It was a French‐English dictionary—held upside down.” :::
\ Hmm… there is something awfully ominous about this.
AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
Good wrap up of 'left' Dem politicians and AOC in particular, but especially fascinating to me just how close libs can get to realizing the futility of electoralism without ever actually getting there.
- I think that moment is very far gone where she rejected any inkling of anything further than moderate politics
Varios talking heads from and around the Russian government have been carefully talking about another "partial mobilization". I don't like this.
- Ask an AI to generate a middle eastern skyscape
  Giant mosque with several D O M E S
  
  Domes are cool. We should bring back domes in architecture
It's fun fighting libs with you all 💕 I just wish they would learn lmao
In light of Makan CPUSA finally getting banned, I've come to realize that his posts would on average gain the most traction out of anyone here.
Particularly the ones about videogames.
Are we all just secretly gamers? Terrifying prospect.
- I don’t know about all of us being full on gamers, but it seems most of us at least play some video games.
- why did he get banned?
  
  Official ban reasoning says it was because of comments he made in the matrix server. His recent post appeared to spark a discussion about the CPUSA which didn't go down very well, I assume it had something to do with that.
- finally
  I take it you were looking forward to it?
  
  Not really, just that he's been with us for years and it seemed rather sudden.
- I hope someone continues to make those style of posts he made about the video games with discussion questions like that
I hope you all have a nice week :D
- I hope you have the most amazingly wonderful fantastic week Oppo
Happy (Cuban) National day of the rebellion. Long live Cuba, Long Live the Revolution, Long live the 26th!
Im so glad you clarified your only the admin and not an overlord, I got worried for a second.
- I'm definitely not your overlord. Nope, not at all, not sure why you'd ever think that. Definitely no sarcasm in this comment.
  
  Somewhat related: I thought of the pun "cis admin" the other day and am having trouble thinking of a setup to the delivery that doesn't suck.
I finished the first class trial in my fanfic and the battle of moscow is coming up, make sure to check it out.
My city will start to turn off street lights at night in order to save money due to high electricity costs lmaooooo
But Slava Ukraini!
- Incidents go brrrr
  Criminality go brrr
  Quality of life go brrrr (but downwards)
  But hey, at least we can give 10 euros everyday to Mr elenskyy!
lmao
- Look at all these brainworms
This thread is titled “Block The Rich” but I misread it as “Block The Reich”.
I was going to ask you why I misread it like that, but I think that we all know why.
Bruh i thought i was a terminally online internet consumer demon and that i knew about every dystopian thing happening until i started reading this book 'Survival of the richest' by douglas rushkoff, this guy has me beat, he mentions some businesses that make things for billionaires that i thought he was joking (for how absurd they sound) 😂 but actually exist. Look up "seasteading"
- I’ve heard of that but seeing pictures of it….why would anyone even want that?
  
  My brother used to refer to that kind of thing as "taking money from billionaires without using guns"
  
  Libertarian brain rot
- Honestly I kind of like the idea, I just wish it wasn’t just to dodge taxes.
So reddit's favorite billionaire just changed the name of Twitter to "X." Kind of dumb, and I obviously don't like the Muskrat, but so many libs seem weirdly butthurt about it.
- What does that make twitter videos then
  
  Something with an accurate domain name
- The musk stuff is the current liberal raison d'etre, its fucking weird
  
  He's the new Trump
Cringeposting but damn im sick off all these trends about ryan gosling, Drive was my favorite movie since its release goddammit and now it has been hijacked by the sigma tate boys. Now i cant put the movie soundtrack while driving at night because i will look like those dumbasses 😔 i loved that soundtrack before it was cool.
I have stumbled upon some sweet drama that would be perfect for a post in c/shitreactionariessay. One keeps finding gold nuggets as they dig deeper into this rabbit hole, which has made me torn between writing an effortpost of a dozen paragraphs and links about some journalist that will be forgotten about in a couple of weeks or letting it go and doing something productive with my life instead.
What do you say?
- we've had some posts here about this guy's ~~tweet~~ 𝕏 post; I wouldn't personally spend time researching some typical anticommunist who says Lenin was worse than Hitler and provides insightful comments like "Vladimir Lenin turned Russia into one giant gulag", but if you've already done so I'm sure there are some people here who would be interested
This morning I spent more than four hours reading Justifying Genocide: Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler, mostly because I am really interested in seeing how the Armenian massacres influenced the Third Reich. I was surprised to see that anti‐Armenian sentiment was actually very common in the Twoth Reich, to the point where some popular writers described Armenians as being worse than Jews. I am very interested in seeing how much of this transferred over to the Third Reich.
On a more personal note, I really want to sleep; I feel awful. I napped for one hour yesternight and I don’t feel tired enough to stay asleep… I’ll go retry anyway ~~but I’ll likely end up wasting time again~~.
ETA: I feel better.
any scifi/fantasy novel/series recommendations?
- "Sten" cycle by Bunch and Cole, even if just for the based afterword, but it's a good reading and its one of the most fun dunks on monarchists, it shows literally perfect immortal enlightened ruler straight from the wet dreams of r/monarchism and how horrible he fucked it up anyway. Also a lot of bashing of capitalism dystopias, american imperialism and it even have WW2 Pacific theatre in space for some reason.
  Plus there is the two Scots joke being dragged over entire volume, that is significant achievement in itself.
- What's your poison? Hard sci-fi? Lighter stuff?
  
  hard sci-fi with complex details. and i also like comedy fantasy series as well like discworld. brandon sanderson stuff is also fine with me.
- The Orville is good, though its a show
  For books, I liked The Martian
- Westworld season 1 (dont bother with the rest), if you haven't watched it.
  Mushoku tensei, best fantasy worldbuilding i've seen on anime. It also started the infamous isekai genre.
  
  fair warning: Mushoku Tensei has a mentally-40-years-old-but-physically-13 MC in a very questionable relationship with a minor
europeans waking up to the fact that granting american companies open market access to their market is a mistake.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36895441
Apparently a whistleblower just confessed to US Congress that aliens are real and this is big news for some reason. Is it just me, or have they confirmed "Aliens are real" like 6 times in the last few years? Why is such an obvious distraction so captivating to people?
- The world is boiling and roasting, China is surpassing the US, Russia is winning against NATO, the brics multipolar world order is emerging, the dollar is slowly crumbling.
  They need a distraction and they need it big, the next barbie movie don't suffice
I walked into a big hardware store the other day to buy a notebook for my new job. There was this completely random stand with Karl Marx piggybanks for some reason lol. Wild to see Marx out in the open.
Anyone got any info on the coup in Niger? who's behind it?
Moscow got attacked with UAVs last night. Supposedly they got intercepted and jammed, but this resulted in them crashing into the business district. No casualties have been reported.

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