Thebigguy @ Thebigguy @lemmy.ml

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So it’s like every other big institution gotcha 😉

As a leftwing incel I find that offensive, the right wing incels give us a bad name

Let’s see the whole carbon balance of the earth is changing instead of earth being a carbon sink it’s slowly becoming a carbon pump. We are loosing huge swathes of Forrest methane ice crystals in the artic and Antarctic are starting to thaw. It also turns out there is a whole lot more methane trapped under artic glaciers than we thought and those are all melting. I think the next 8 years are going to show that we hit the 1.5 degree target already, that’s like 70 years ahead of schedule. At some point we are going to try geoengineering whether we like it or not. I do agree that the PRC definitely takes climate change seriously but there are still more radical policy solutions that they should consider like not engaging in commercial fishing for 10-20 years if we still want to have any fish in the ocean.

Oh yeah Mao was definitely opposed people plotted against him all the time. Shit like that happens in every single political party. I’m an extremely pessimistic and cynical person, communism doesn’t get a pass from me. I’d still rather live in a country that took climate change and economic development with an eye on trying to help the poorest in society as seriously as China does, but I definitely appreciate the information freedom I get in the west even though that shit is slowly being eroded as well. What’s that old joke again? Under communism you can make fun of your boss but not the politicians, under capitalism you can make fun of the politicians but not your boss. I don’t think China is the dystopian hell that a bunch of libs and conservatives think it is, but like any place it could be a whole lot better. I’m saving up money and I’m going to sign up for Chinese lessons at the Confucius institute here and hopefully I can learn a little bit and one day visit China and then I can talk to some people and see what it’s like for myself and not just rely on images and information other people produced. I also want to try learn more Spanish so I can check out Cuba but I find it very difficult to concentrate and learn now a days.

I think there was a point when if Mao said jump you asked how high. I’m sure this wasn’t the case at all times and if you can give me some cool reading suggestions I’ll gladly check it out. I just think that sadly power dynamics like this can develop in political organisations no matter what ideology the members hold. If you really want to know my crazy beliefs it’s that hyper intelligence may not be an evolutionary beneficial trait, but who knows maybe I’m wrong maybe humanity will survive the complete destruction of earths ecosystems and global heating of 3-4 degrees which I think we will easily hit by 2100.

I don’t think Mao was a great man in the Thomas Carlyle sense, I think he was very powerful man who was at some point an absolute leader. I guess we just disagree on that point which is fine. Also when was Mao ousted exactly and where can I read about this because everything I have read Mao remained the chairman until his death. Deep seek has no problems talking talking about politics it doesn’t however want to talk about any Chinese politicians. I just tested it out.

Yep, they also purposefully moved the festival closer to Gaza. The organisers is known to have Mossad connections

Isreal knew Oct 7 was coming.

Source: I know this sounds crazy but trust me

Meh environmentalists were dismissed and often persecuted in communist countries and generally not taken seriously, sorry I’m not giving them a pass here. Modern China is much better though. Even if Mao didn’t sign all the arrest warrants and didn’t know what’s going on that doesn’t really absolve him in my eyes.

It’s cool that you find Mao relevant I don’t but that’s just my personal opinion and not a dismissal of the man himself. I forgot the dudes name but there is an American who was in China for most of the revolution and he knew Mao and said there was a huge difference between young and old Mao he definitely became more authoritarian and closed minded as he grew older. I read the little red book 14 years ago so I can’t remember much of it,I just remember not finding a lot of it to be applicable to my life at the time, maybe if I read it now it would be different.

I don’t use LLMs and I don’t code so I never use them. I was just more interested in what deep seek had to had to say about Mao and was suprised it wouldn’t even let you broach the subject. If I ask deep seek to tell me about bill Clinton it will give me a response, if I ask it to tell me about Mao or any Chinese leader for that matter which I find interesting.

Anyways out of all the 20th century revolutionaries Fidel was more my guy but that’s just personal preference I guess. IMO what is worst for socialism is socialist parties being unable to allow themselves to be criticised this was sadly often the case in communist parties.

They’re the federal government’s troops not yours and they’ll follow their masters orders they are not on the same side as you.

I’m not saying Mao was unaccomplished but towards the end he was considered an absolute leader and he was not very chill, he locked up a lot of people during the cultural revolution sometimes for quite arbitrary reasons. Some of his policies were also a disaster the backyard steel and culling of the sparrows are usually the two that westerners always like to hold on to. The mistakes he made during the cultural revolution were really bad. I don’t hate Mao I read his little red book as a teenager and I enjoyed it, I just didn’t find it to be very relevant to me. I grew up in the west though I’m sure if you were a young Indian or something Mao would hit completely differently.

I also found it really interesting that deepseek would refuse to answer any questions on Mao. Anyways we should view these people as they were human beings who managed to become very powerful and made many of the mistakes that are associated with that. Honestly otherwise you’re just doing lefty great man stuff.

True true.

Ah the old pandemic lockdown caused price increases scam making a comeback. Love to see it folks.

Cool thanks I’ll check it out.

I agree kinda, I don’t think Mao weaseled his way to becoming an absolute leader, more like history created the specific circumstances that lead to him in that position and the historical situation of the 20th century created all these leaders. We like to pretend that the west didn’t have these single person political leaders, but honestly what the fuck was Henry Kissinger or FDR? These figures exist all over 20th century history most countries literally had their leader.

Maos biggest mistake was not absolving himself of responsibility and power because guess what those things are fucking awesome and most humans who have responsibility and power love it and never want to give that shit up just look at old people.

Honestly at this point I do try to take some of the ai fears seriously, these creeps are definitely trying to replace human labour with machines the only comfort I do get is that if they really do manage to create an artificial super intelligence based on the human brain it will definitely destroy them.

Some people completely lack any empathy at all.

Life is not about bringing a perfectly shiny well kept body to your deathbed - it’s about getting there completely burned out, tires squeaking, barely alive, screaming “Wow, that was one hell of an amazing ride!”

No wonder the climate and ecosystems are collapsing.

Fair enough

I just itch my moba itch with dota

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