Munrock ☭ @ Munrock @lemmygrad.ml

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I remember being sat in my classroom as a primary school kid with my teacher showing us that photo on the newspaper days after the event and him telling us to think about what happened to that poor brave man.

AFP: A coup happened in Niger, an African country. What’s your comment?

Mao Ning: We are closely following the development of the situation in Niger, and have noted the statements by the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States on this. China calls on relevant parties in Niger to act in the fundamental interest of the country and its people, solve differences peacefully through dialogue, restore order at an early date, and safeguard the overall peace, stability and development of the nation.

From Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regular Press Conference 2023年7月27日

That's the most recent published official comment on the matter on the MFA website.

but I feel we ought to engage, just a little.

I agree with pretty much everything you said; I think where we differ is in how engaging just a little should be done.

We each of us has a finite amount of effort to give, and in my view one of the biggest factors in how fruitful that effort will be is who you spend that effort on.

I think that Liberals who have taken it upon themselves to troll, sealion, castigate or enlighten us are one of the worst kinds of people you can spend that effort on. The Liberal mindset has a staggering amount of inherent arrogance, and when that's paired with a determination to either vex or 'save' you, you're better off sowing seeds on concrete than trying to turn them around. They already decided they were right long ago. And they're certainly not going to give any credence to a list of sources or an FAQ, if they even bother to look at it.

I don't disagree that we have a responsibility to educate, rather I think we have an additional responsibility to be discerning about who, when, and how to reach out with that education. It'd be interesting to see how many of us that converted from liberalism were set down that path by arguing with a Marxist compared to how many of us were prompted by questions, doubts and contradictions raised from reflecting on our material conditions.

I'm not sure if I'm being pragmatic or bitter, but I'm of the view that they're not worth the effort. Liberals that are of the kind of mindset that would be willing to listen and reconsider their convictions won't be found amingst the types that come into these kinds of places swinging Xinjiang and Ukraine around like a hammer. The kinds of liberals that do that will dig in and be stubborn, and would rather double down and make asses of themselves than admit to any mistake. And more importantly, those kinds of liberals are in the imperial core, where they have no real political agency because they can't change the system from within and refuse to do it from without. Their opinions don't matter, there's no material difference to the work of AES states whether those liberals are class conscious or not. I mean it in the most pragmatic way possible when I say they aren't worth the effort. Education effort should be spent on people at the periphery, in Africa and South America, where the fronts of this ideological struggle are and where changing someone's mind could affect how they vote, and the cases they make in support at their local elections.

Did the article mention the thorium reactor that they're building in the Gobi? The Guardian also did a piece about China's green energy progress, and the thorium tech was completely ignored.

Between China having huge thorium reserves and the same reactor tech being able to run on nuclear waste, they're opening up a path to removing fossil fuels energy entirely.

allowing members of the bourgeoisie to hold political power is pretty much the definition of revisionism.

Here's one of the holes.

Being a member of the CPC doesn't grant you political power any more than being a registered Democrat or Republican does. You get a vote in party matters just like Pubs and Dems get a vote in closed caucuses or primaries, and that's the extent of 'power' you get it at basic membership.

Being a wealthy party member gets you less advantage in the CPC because of the strict regulations on how money can be used in politics, i.e. you can't influence through donation. You also get excluded from considerstion for promotion. You get the same voice as every other member, and put on committees that match your area of expertise, but you're not on the promotion track toward the Central Committee if you're a billionaire.

Jack Ma built up Ant Group in the private sector and got rich but not promoted, Jiang Zemin built up First Auto Works in the state-owned sector and got promoted but not rich. They are not the same.

Step 1: Depose capitalism and liberate the working class.

That's it. You can do anything you like to abolish sex work, but if capitalism remains fhen economic coercion will remain and sex work will eventually come back. When capitalism is gone, the economic coercion that makes transactional sex exploitative/unethical is gone.

I'm allergic to cats and just lived with it while my cat was alive.

I'd happily double the suffering to have him back.

WMDs in Iraq

Gulf of Tonkin

Nord Stream Sabotage

Kiev 2014

Indigenous populations everywhere they colonize

Partition of India

Japan wanting to surrender before Hiroshima

I mean there's so much stuff you have to actively forget to maintain the delusion that you're supporting the good guys when you support The West that it's no wonder liberal brains are just slush. The only reason they don't have brain matter dripping out of their ears is because of the thick globs of sticky, viscous fascism blocking the exits.

There's not any ideological continuity between Imperial, Soviet and Capitalist Russia to attach a persistent national/cultural identity to, but Christian Orthodoxy has been a pretty consistent presence across all three. So I guess the propaganda leans into making that an identity cornerstone while making the three different systems of government look superficial.

Wonder how this imagery sits with Chechens and other religious minorities?

Doesn't even need to be bots. Just Western public in general deciding they know what the people of the Donbass want and voting on the poll. They wouldn't even need to spam. There's just hordes of the lumpenprole tools

Yeah, being 'apolitical' is still a political ideology. And it's a bad one because of its inherent apathy. It's responding to the corruption and injustice at the highest levels of government by ignoring it. And when they're an eligible voter in a democracy, being 'apolitical' is consent and support for the actions of the incumbents.

But you also have to distinguish that from people who don't have the spoons to talk about politics at any given time. Making people too emotionally and/or physically tired to address the systemic issues is a core part of the system. That isn't on the individual.

The proxy trade war with China

Can someone make a series of these? Hong Kong to Afghanistan, to Xinjiang, to Wuhan, to Australia, to Ukraine, to Taiwan... did I miss any? It's all one big blur

Being pro-NATO or even thinking that they're a 'defensive alliance' is the biggest tell. You have to have your head in the sand to take that position.

I'd leave the Southern Cross in - it has always represented the Australian land mass. It's not politically loaded.

On the other hand, the Commonwealth Star represents the original 6 colonies and "The Territory of Papua and any futre territories" and needs to fuck off. Replaceit with something that represents a forward-looking restoration of indigenous culture and synthesis of settler cultures; The aspiration to build something worthy out of the cultural destruction of colonialism.

And then obvs the Union Flag in the canton should be replaced with either a Hammer and Sickle or a Drop Bear riding a surplus US submarine.