Do you understand that you are cheering for the total destruction of an island with millions of people?

I’d explain the history and actual politics, and why it’s hilarious to refer to the PRC as fascist in comparison to the RoC, but none of that shit matters next to how gross it is to call for the deaths of foreigners from half way around the world.

The DPP is fighting for their constituents (to be used as cannon fodder by America)

The KMT isn’t great, but status quo is infinitely better than having America turn your country into another Ukraine or Afghanistan.

When they fled to XHS:

No, it’s fine, i just… i didnt think it would be chinese.

Marx made statements about the proletariat without experiencing it or doing field studies

Every economist has made statements about the proletariat, how could you write any economic work without including the working class?

But also Marx was around during 1848 and went to Paris in the wake of the Paris Commune, he wasn’t Che or Stalin, but he certainly wasn’t sitting in an ivory tower writing theories without any input from the reality on the ground.

Marx thought that the most oppressed are the ones most likely to begin a revolution which is wrong

No, Marx thought the industrial working class were the ones most likely to begin a revolution, as opposed to the farmers who (in france, britain, and germany) were much more atomized due to their means of production, which was accurate to France and Germany, though South America, Russia, China, and Korea all proved that the peasant class had revolutionary potential.

Marxist framework

Marx’s framework was examining society from a materialist lens, specifically related to the means of production to understand things, as opposed to idealism; a Marxist historian analyzing the french revolution focuses on the contradiction between the bourgeoisie’s economic power and the aristocracy’s power within the government. A non-marxist focuses on the personalities of individuals involved and the ideas they professed rather than structures. To paraphrase Engels mocking Great Man Theory, it’s a shame Steve Jobs wasn’t born in ancient Egypt, then we could have had iPhones 4,000 years ago.

When something is labeled marxist feminism, it’s not adding feminism to marxism, it’s applying a marxist analysis to feminism.

What’s that a reference to?

Also Adam Smith was a college professor, that’s not a typical proletarian job.

People who went to college in the 17 and 1800s and had the means to gather data aren’t the sort to have typical proletarian jobs.

How many other economists worked typical proletarian jobs?

He worked for various newspapers and published a bunch of books.

People like you silencing dissent is precisely how the DNC deluded themselves into believing they could win while running to the right.

The only time we see the democrats accede to popular opinion and do the things they need to get elected is when is so exceedingly obvious that there is no other path that they can’t pretend otherwise, and the moment that pressure lets up, they will stop. They only told Biden to drop out when he had no path to victory, and the moment Kamala looked like she’d win, the dems embraced every policy that had killed the Biden campaign.

They had polling data, they knew that banning tiktok wouldn’t increase their chances to win, but they did it anyway. They knew that sending cops to kick the shit out of politically active college students wouldn’t help them win, but they did it anyway, because they thought they could do that and still win.

VR had such a bright future around 2014; between VRChat, tech demos of VR browsers, big players like MS and Sony getting into VR, and generic hacks to port old games to VR, it seemed obvious that companies were going to start re-releasing old games in VR (since you couldn’t run modern AAA games) and most every app would support VR and multiple users to make better use of the network effect.

Except instead 99% of games released for VR were just underwhelming tech demos and the only people who pursued creating a metaverse were short-sighted, rent-seeking, cryptobro parasites.

Try flipping it.

Yes, amateur astronomers can make out some of the clouds with a decent-sized reflector, and have even taken photos for us.

Well we still have Jupiter and Saturn.

Evil was winning, we’re watching the collapse of the evil empire from within.

What are they supposed to do? Tell their audience to run into the woods and start a protracted people’s war? Get in non-productive arguments with even less-informed chatters?

As others said, the topic is likely to come up, I am trying to prepare OP to have a respectful discussion instead of going in as some “debate me” redditor who thinks he can change an expert’s mind armed with cable news and wikipedia.

Do you really think you’d be prepared to debate someone who has direct access to primary sources and has been paying close attention to those issues due to literally living there for much longer than you? The fact that you thought you’d debate them instead of learn says enough.

Congrats, you can understand why everyone in the comic is reacting that way.

Instance admins can tell your IP and presumably browser info if they bother to collect that data.