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I definitely agree with your message.

do you have any idea how to improve?

Sorry, i'm not good with memes. I'm a bit of a boomer in regards to this online culture stuff. I leave the meme production to the youngins.

I get what you're trying to say, but i'm not sure the meme format fits the message. We're not rejecting the above in favor of communism, because all those things come with communism. You said as much in the title but the meme itself could still be misleading to someone who doesn't read the title.

We always say that other countries cannot simply one-to-one copy everything China does, but this is one case where it is absolutely the right move to copy China's anti-desertification campaign. I hope that they either send people to China to observe and learn China's techniques or ask China to send a few experts over to teach them. This is not just an environmental initiative, it has very positive long term impacts on the local economy and agriculture.

Irredeemable sick society...

Another day, another DPRK banger.

Inshallah 🙏

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Not enough. Their arsenals are severely depleted from the Ukraine proxy war and their production capabilities limited.

The DPRK never miss (in foreign policy). They are literally the world's moral compass in geopolitical matters.

i love you warmongers

ah yes, we "warmongers" who warn against bombing the energy infrastructure of another country because we don't want a war

a nuclear war caused by China

talks about Russian-Chinese pipelines getting bombed and then claims that the resulting war would have been "caused by China"... 🤡

Rookie numbers

It's one thing to bomb the pipeline of a completely cucked and subservient vassal state like Germany that will just meekly take it and say "thank you sir, may i have some more".

It's another to do it to a sovereign nuclear superpower like China. At that point you're declaring war on one and a half billion people who produce one third of the entire world's manufacturing output.

Good luck and have fun with the consequences.

After Tiananmen they can't believe in #1

But they did. For a long time they still believed that they could do achieve their goals in China via a slower more subversive approach than the overt 1989 color revolution attempt, via gradual elite corruption and infection with liberal ideology.

This is why up until the "pivot to Asia" happened you still had fairly positive coverage of China in the Western media and cultural sphere. In the 90s and 00s China was portrayed relatively positively in the media. The war propaganda faucet to demonize and dehumanize Chinese people in the eyes of Westerners was only turned on relatively recently.

If they really thought there was no hope of regime change after 1989 they would have started this much earlier when China was much weaker. They didn't because they didn't understand China (they still don't) and they deluded themselves into thinking things were still going their way.

#2 is possible but requires that the elite mistakes money for power

Well, that is how they think. But that's not the point that was being made. The point is that the logic of capitalism made it impossible for them to resist outsourcing to China, because the profits were too juicy to pass up. China understood this and took full advantage of it.

By the time the western elites noticed their catastrophic strategic mistake it was too late. Now they are panicking and for the last decade or so have been scrambling to try and find a way to reverse what has happened before the window of opportunity permanently closes.

Hence their increasingly reckless and self-harming escalations, with Ukraine, Taiwan, now Iran... They feel they are out of time and nothing is working anymore so they have to constantly take crazier and crazier gambles in hopes of digging themselves out of the hole.

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Most likely the latter.

Manufacturing new munitions takes resources, a skilled workforce, production facilities, and most importantly time. They can't conjure weapons overnight out of thin air by simply throwing money at the problem no matter how many billions of dollars of profit stand to be made. For now they are reliant on whatever they still have in stockpile, which is probably not as much as you might assume, given the fact that the West's military industrial complex is deeply infected by the neoliberal disease and knowing neoliberalism's propensity for "just-in-time" supply chains.

Finally someone saying something sensible and rational. Enough of this emotional overreaction that we've been seeing from a few of the comrades! It's not helping anyone or anything, it's just a way to make yourself feel better, but it's selfish and short-sighted. It's sad because until recently Zei had a track record of very good posts, but unfortunately it seems the stress has gotten to them.

Everyone needs to take a minute to think calmly and soberly about what kind of messaging actually benefits the cause vs what is just doing the work of the enemy for them. If some people can't control their emotions that's understandable and human, these are stressful times, but doomposting is not going to achieve anything. But they should do their comrades a favor and sit this one out, take a break from posting and go outside. Take the advice of the OP in the screenshots here, start thinking about how to organize and agitate against the empire's war. Stop trying to make prophecies and start working to influence the course of events in whatever way you can. Nothing is inevitable. We have agency.

Minimalism is a psyop to encourage more fast turnover consumerism, similar to the "fast fashion" psyop. Throw away things then buy more then throw them away again to buy more again.

Even after they became affordable for the masses people still historically cherished possessions like books and passed them on to their children. They are not disposable, consumable commodities and i'm not going to let anyone gaslight me with their new age faux philosophy into treating them that way.

I'd rather re-read a book i've already read five times before, than buy a new book every other week just because i enjoy reading a lot and i've stupidly thrown away my old books.

If space becomes a problem i just expand my e-book collection instead (and in a way such that i actually have the file on my computer, not rented from some online service that at any time can take away my access to books that i bought and was supposed to own).

Doesn't matter. I say this same thing to Trots when they rant about a piece having been written by "Dengist Stalinists", if it's not the explicit topic of the article please stick to criticizing the actual content itself. There is a time and place for Stalin vs Trotsky debates but most of the time that is just distraction and a waste of time.

Everyone knows that the WSWS is a Trot publication. Yes it is annoying how often they compulsively insert needless and unrelated anti-Stalin rants into their pieces. This is not one of those. Sometimes they put out genuinely good pieces that deserve to be read and shared. Take good analysis wherever you find it.

balatro and animal crossing probably dont have the same effect

i don't know about those two, but i can definitely say that chilling in my single player minecraft world doesn't have that effect on me

some people just take their games way too seriously