These media depictions were almost entirely born out of the illegal dissolution of the USSR and the subsequent “special period” (Cuban term but it can apply here) that these countries faced.

It is one of the most horrifying successes of western propaganda that the images that the public is fed about socialism are images taken from the mass death and slaughter of the 90s as the most direct result of capitalism replacing communism.

As a side note, people on this site denouncing the DPRK as “revisionist” and not a “complete revolution” are embarrassing AF considering the DPRK is doing all the socialist wet dream development projects that these clowns dream about in their own countries. The people in North Korea worship their revolution while other countries deal with how their youth are addicted to western nihilism.

Chinese tourists are the largest portion of tourists the DPRK receives each year. You can even find videos on Chinese social media of tourists filming their experience.

Denouncing reunification until provocation has been the best decision the KJU era government has made as it allows the country to modernize without needing to divert resources to appeasing the ROK’s empty promises.

One patient, a 40-year-old man who had been paralyzed from the neck down for six years following a car accident, had experienced four years of rehabilitation stagnancy. After the BCI implantation and intensive training, he gradually rebuilt the neural connections between his brain and hands. Eventually, he was able to remove the BCI device entirely and, supporting his right hand with his left, write his own name without any device assistance.

This is incredible. Extreme traumatic injury can be healed by such innovation like this can dramatically transform society.

Not only did the US not get regime change they also decimated their own sanctions program against the DPRK by giving the stick to Russia.

The DPRK is rapidly developing with the 20x10 program as well as the Hwasong/Pyongyang expansion. Its an incredibly exciting moment in Korean history.

Holy shit this is where the 1984 emoji came from. Iconic.

Describing AI as a fascist artifact is really well thought out. It’s often difficult to describe the layers of extraction and oppression that a technology goes through in its manufacturing. I also like to rebuttal that technology also can’t be inherently antifascist.

Our world is full of fascist technologies. The blockchain crowd is basically living in a fascist soup of inhumane and antidemocratic ideas. A lot of surveillance tech is no better than “AI”. We are having a general problem here.

It is a bit disappointing that the author doesn’t provide an explicitly Marxist interpretation but I do appreciate not centering the conversation entirely on AI, which is just a symptom of a larger trend of capital accumulation and dispossession.

Some people look towards “Open Source” as our salvation but while I love Open Source and consider the amount and quality of open source infrastructure available to all of us a modern wonder of the world more impressive than the pyramids that crowd also doesn’t want to be “political”. The accepted open source licenses all are built around libertarian thinking, about empowering the individual who does not want to be regulated and limited in their individual expression: Not around the idea of expressing and manifesting political values. Open source licenses do not allow you to forbid using your work in weapons. Do not allow you to limit using your work only for socially beneficial endeavors. Open source is impressive, but tries to be apolitical and therefore does not help us fight back fascism. It wants to stay neutral. But there is no neutrality when standing in a wildfire.

This is a succinct condemnation of the meritocratic argument of the “Open Source” camp which is rooted in the idealism that the experts of any particular field can overpower capital just through sheer force of intellect (“biologists will solve hunger by inventing humans who never eat!”). The Free Software Movement has condemned this line of thinking since its inception and has always made the use of published and collectively owned works important for its ethical and social value and never based solely on its utilitarian value.

I’ve experienced this firsthand with NixOS. It had destroyed its own community by appealing to a false meritocracy without ever tackling any material issues such as funding and governance. The idea was that if the technology was improved that it would be the rising tide that would solve everything (or at least make the problems worth tolerating). Needless to say this tracks with the obliteration of people’s needs and justice over a ideological bent towards what the status quo defines “success” as.

I respect projects which explicitly forbid any and all LLM generated contributions in any form but I also greatly respect projects that actually have a political backbone on top of that.

The liberal analysis of art and society are entirely devoid of any dialectical materialist analysis in service of the perpetuation of capital whether intentional or unintentional. It’s idealist to completely divorce the artist from the art produced as well as to attribute to the art the full responsibility of the artist.

Any critique of art and the artist have done very little to actually change the art world in a capitalist society (nobody actually gets “cancelled”) so no wonder why this binary framing exists.

I have had the slop comm blocked for at least a year now (and probably when it was called something else), I really don’t need it when I get slop when I step outside.

The war against Iran will just become like COVID where it never ends but you’ll be given the side eye if you mention it because you’re ruining FIFA.

Sometimes I see a gross comment online and then think that the hexbear mods would remove it but then I realize I’m in XReddit and this gross comment is feeding the marketing industry (learning to be grateful )

Most GNU/Linux distributions are 95% the same software. The question is organization politics, influence, and expertise. I’ve been enjoying Debian: it’s international, woke (they are not beholden to any capitalist org or leadership personality), has a huge community of talented volunteers and is the gold standard for other distributions.

Arch is the same, I generally try to keep myself as close to the source as possible and it’s possible to use the software packaged by the CachyOS folks in Arch itself (most people just want their tuned-up G@mer kernel), so Arch could be the better choice.

Separating art from the artist is always seem to be the excuse for shitty behavior anyway or to present a narrative of the artist somehow going through a downfall socially. It’s paradoxical as the separation of the artist from the art which is inherently valuing the artist anyways!!!

Unironically Korra is probably one of the most reactionary shows on TV back then: every relationship was a toxic affair where abuse was tolerated, communism is bad because the leaders are either hypocrites or live in luxury. Environmentalism is bad because the tree huggers are secretly hitler. Anarchy is when you execute and torture people for fun and also its an ideology for the mentally unwell. Anyone who wants anything to change will cause fascism to take hold and also the fascists are heckin cool with gundams and nukes (also democracy comes when the ruling class wants it to) and last but not least: gay people get 3 seconds at the end.

The show is a cultural artifact of the 2010s liberal mind body politic, it was scientifically engineered to only be enjoyed by those who believe fully in the liberal world order as the ultimate truth. It’s probably no wonder it became the poster child scapegoat for the alt-right manosphere since it was so safe to hate on.

This basically doesn’t exist for its predecessor which was a historical analogy for the Japanese occupation and colonization of Asia, basically nothing to latch onto, just some anti-China brainworms (they named a prison “lake laogai” after the labor prisons in China) which were everywhere at the time.

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Syundei getting flak for depicting a pedophilic gay relationship on main is so funny considering thats what she loves drawing on her doujins and one shots that don’t get mass publication.

Japanese mangaka blaming this on “cultural differences” is an Epstein out of ten from me.

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I think the funniest part of the movie is when one of the terrorist goons tells zuko that saying that he’s helping the world is easy when he’s sitting on a throne built on a century of genocide and war and zuko has no comeback and nobody mentions it again.

The politics are very lib and obvious but the animation is beautiful and the action is stellar, 4/5 would use this as lunchtime slop.

They took this long??? It was a site filled with slava ukraini libs.

Surprisingly the writers are holding themselves back. There are some fun moments but they really just have a ton of scenes with the Zionist in them.

Me in a parallel dimension where JApplets became the norm and now 3 billion devices really do have java installed: “damn imagine instead of oracle java you had google dot com controlling the entire internet what a scary idea haha I love oracle”