It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.

A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg

Factory farms where everyone is being fattened up in cages on a slurry of hate and memes.

Gimme Newspeak already. The world isn’t cyberpunk enough yet.

There are too many structural problems with the extractive economy for our current society to survive. As resources dwindle and climate change gets worse the smaller countries will start to collapse and entire regions will go to war over resources. Billions of humans will be forced to migrate out of uninhabitable zones around the globe and they’ll do anything to escape. The ones that can’t escape will eat each other (metaphorically and literally).

There won’t be a singularity. There probably won’t even be a global internet in 30 years.

The reason the slave trade isn’t a thing anymore is because the US/UK-led global empire decided to collectively abolish it in the first place.

That’s really what you think, huh? They just abolished slavery because they decided to? For what? Because they’re so nice? lol

It can only be an anomaly, because not only did the US/UK/Europe win the geographical lottery (making it an anomaly that can’t be repeated) but also the Atlantic slave trade and the rapid expansion into the so-called New World was another anomaly. Then, like I said, WW2 created another anomaly that saw literally every other empire fall and the US gobble them all up with only the USSR around to challenge them. Then the USSR fell and the US became the sole global hegemon, another anomaly that created the first global empire in history!

China doesn’t have the same geographical advantages. China doesn’t have the opportunity to steal trillions in wealth from native lands and native peoples. China can’t make a new slave trade. China will be forced to compete with other powers, like the declining US and EU as well as regional rivals like India and Russia. China can’t recreate US global hegemony, and neither can any other country because all the low-hanging fruit has already been eaten. There’s no bonanza of resource to exploit anymore, it’s all gone, and now we’ll be entering a post-neoliberal world with permanent multipolarity.

Let us not forget that global warming is going to continue to destabilize the entire world with billions forced to migrate. Country after country will collapse into uninhabitable dead zones. China isn’t going to build an empire in the ashes left by this particular epoch, no one will and no one can.

This is a new situation and I obviously could be wrong, but unless China figures out cold fusion or asteroid mining or something I don’t see them becoming the new global empire. We’re at the end of an era and something new is happening.

I don’t believe Chinese hegemony is possible. US hegemony is a historical anomaly created by the very specific circumstances of colonialism, slavery, and then the post-WW2 period that saw all the old empires destroyed.

Once this empire is dead, there won’t ever be another. The material conditions won’t allow for it.

Your country extracted super profits from the exploitation of the third world and then redistributed a small portion of that stolen wealth to pacify the workers. Mine did that too and that’s nothing to be proud of!

tankies now still demand unconditional loyalty for their anti-US crusade, with little regard for anything else.

Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism, which means the contradictions of US hegemony are the highest contradictions and take precedence!

It doesn’t matter if I personally disagree with how China is responding to Muslim extremism or how it responds to protesters or how it is supposedly “developing the means of production” with state capitalism, because China is still an ally in the fight against empire.

When the empire is dead we can deal with the lesser contradictions.

As the saying goes, you can’t be neutral on a moving train.

By refusing to condemn China, I must therefore support it. That’s how it works. You can’t just be a third positionist about this and say “I oppose everybody with my own special snowflake socialism!”

“support”

You keep using this word, but do you really think any of the people you call tankies have actually done anything to support these countries? Or, more likely, are you using “support” to mean “refuse to condemn/disavow”?

Well, count me in to that group.

I will not join the imperialist dogpile against China. My opinions about their government is irrelevant at best, and at worst by joining in the echo chamber of “China Bad!” then I am helping America pave the way for a war it so obviously wants.

If you want to call that support, then I have to ask why supposed “socialists” are joining America in attacking China!

Tankie was recouperated from dissident socialists, the way it’s used today has very little to do with its origin. Just because something starts out as a politically radical idea doesn’t mean it can’t get twisted in bourgeois society. It’s mostly just used as a smear to mean “communist I don’t like”

It’s like woke - what started as a term used by BLM to criticize oppression of minorities was recouperated and now it’s been turned into a right-wing smear and lost all meaning.

Yeah yeah, Republicans are objectively worse for workers.

Don’t pretend like the other party is pro-worker, though.

If everything is nuanced, then “everything is nuanced” must also be nuanced. As such, not everything is nuanced.

Take your post-modernism and shove it :P

I’d considered it and dismissed the idea before, but I think I was just scared of transitioning.

Then I got to feel what I was missing and knew what I was missing out on :)

When we started wearing masks at work, I started to get called ma’am a lot.

I started hormones the next year.

Which party shut down the rail union strike?

Leninism is good, actually.

Believing that everything is nuanced, though, is absurd.

Well, I was basing my idea off of Engles’s "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State". In it he writes about the role private property played in the emergence of modern gender roles (among many other things), and listening to a Red Menace podcast about it the other day caused something to twig in my brain to connect declining private property ownership to the erosion of gender roles and seemingly sudden rise in queer identification

tbh this is just a half-baked idea I wanted to share lol

When all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. There were sometimes… excesses.