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- Comment on Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics? 3 months ago:
Honestly the only way to make sense of any of this that I have ever found is panpsychism, Advaita Vedanta etc.
This is all just a “dream” or non-computational “simulation”. Everything is consciousness. Physics is an emergent feature of consciousness.
- Comment on Only the free speech he agrees with is allowed. 3 months ago:
Hey! The mine was in Kenya or something!
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 6 months ago:
Luddites were not anti-technology. They saw the progress of technology IN a primitive capitalist system and understood that technology would never benefit them, and always be used to subjugate them more.
If technology only benefits 0.1% of the world, and lead to the world dying, does it benefit humanity at all?
- Comment on Dating apps are as if someone turned the job application experience into a pastime activity 6 months ago:
Dating apps are the most obvious version of the commodification of love.
- Comment on We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago 7 months ago:
I feel there is a misunderstanding of what a bourgeois revolution is. Sure, soon before the English Revolution, there was the institution of stock markets and corporations. But bourgeois revolutions don’t “make” capitalism. They institute capitalism as the main power and system.
Before the English People Revolution, nobility and owning land was the real power. After it it was owning capital. That’s what makes it a bourgeois revolution.
And sure? There were “capitalists” fighting to maintain the existing power structures, just like there were workers fighting against the bolsheviks in the Russian revolution, right? That’s not a very compelling argument.
The capitalists could, through ideology and propaganda, be working against their own interests. Or they as individuals actually benefitted from the system as it was, despite not being the class in power.
In any case, revolutions happen when the existing dominant class is abruptly removed in favour of another. You can’t say this happened in England before the English Revolution.
- Comment on We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago 7 months ago:
The whole period from the Wars of the Three Kingdoms until the Glorious Revolution.
- Comment on We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago 7 months ago:
You’re from the UK and you don’t know about the English Revolution…? Where a constitutional monarchy was instituted, and the capitalists came into power?
- Comment on We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago 7 months ago:
“Capture”. Did no one study the bourgeois revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries?
The capitalist class revolted against the aristocracy and built new systems of government to benefit them. That is the origin of the modern state and capitalism.
The state as we know it has always been just a tool of the capitalist class to control all other classes. That’s what the state is, a tool of class control.
- Comment on V Rising - Official Release Date Trailer 8 months ago:
Vrising
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 8 months ago:
I don’t think so… people just don’t understand what I mean by liberal I guess. Not their fault, politics is totally fucked in the US.
- Comment on Fox show hosts said Taylor Swift "should be conservative" given her background, because to them it's an identity. 8 months ago:
You are just describing all Liberal ideologies (which modern conservatism is - I don’t mean liberal in the USA sense)… it’s all vibes and identity, it’s pure ideology without any material analysis. Things happen because of “ideas”.
- Comment on How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists 9 months ago:
Holy shit… bro please don’t be racist like this in public. You should keep this shit to your brain and feel deep shame for it. No one ever taught you that?
The Chinese didn’t break any laws or “steal” anything. China had different copyright laws, and western companies agreed to share technology as part of their agreements with the CPC to operate in the SEZs. If they didn’t want China to have the tech, they could’ve just not taken the deals and go build their factories in India, or Bangladesh, or Malaysia etc.
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 9 months ago:
It’s not called the Egg Theory. Its called Advaita Vedanta and it’s the oldest religion/metaphysics we have written records for.
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 9 months ago:
I, me 😆
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 9 months ago:
Like a dream, you are just me. The floor I walk is me. The air I breathe is me. Everyone I meet, everything I feel, is just me. Nothing is real except I.
- Comment on There is no point in trying to escape the simulation; Odds are, we don't exist outside it! 9 months ago:
It makes no sense for it to be a simulation like a computer simulation. It’s a simulation like a dream is a simulation. Everything in the universe you observe is you. Waking up from the dream is realising this, and realising nothing exists, just being.
- Comment on How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists 9 months ago:
There sure are billionaires in China. But they don’t control the political structure like the billionaires do in the US. They are controlled by the political structure. When has it been the last time the US or EU executed a billionaire for harming the environment?
- Comment on How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists 9 months ago:
That’s because the Chinese experience was very peculiar. When American and European investors and industry giants went abroad to outsource manufacturing, they brought in the capital and left with the profits. But the capital, and technology or knowledge, never spread in the colonies or neo-colonies. When China “opened up”, they were real clever about it. They said: “sure, you can open your factories here where there is an abundance of cheap labor. But in exchange, we want the knowledge and technology”. And since opening up China to foreign capital has been the wet dream of capitalists and proto-capitalists for the past several hundreds of years, they accepted the deal. So China was left with the know-how to be able to set-up their own national industries. And the profits of exporting manufactured goods was used for strategic industries and infrastructure, unlike most colonial and neo-colonial experiences where the profits are just pocketed by a national bourgeoisie.
- Comment on Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out. 9 months ago:
I thought of another joke:
Ah so that’s what the kids call the “Sephiroth”? I always thought it was just a pretty man.
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 9 months ago:
Which is why I love it 😆
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 9 months ago:
That’s true, Kojima was just supervising director on that game. But I feel the politics of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are very typical for the series and Kojima’s games.
Metal Gear in general is very much about American Imperialism.
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 9 months ago:
His games have good politics, that’s something 🤷♂️
- Comment on Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out. 9 months ago:
Ah I finally understand Kabbalah!
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 9 months ago:
The mock trials was during the cultural revolution, which was a movement born from the students and had nothing to do with Mao or the CPC. And again, cannibalism is just a ridiculous accusation to throw, as if that happened it would’ve only happened during the great famine, which was mostly caused by natural events.
I don’t “defend” or “simp” anyone. I just look objectively at facts and can do so without the bias and judgement of American fascist think tanks. One of the benefits of being from the global south I guess.
Also, authoritarian is extremely misleading. That is a useless category. China is no less authoritarian than France or the US. The chairman in the CPC has as much power or likely less than the US president.
Local democracy in China is leagues above what’s in the US and Europe.
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 9 months ago:
If you want a serious answer:
If communism is “from each according to their will, and to each according to their need”, productive forces must be immensely higher than what had been achieved in the USSR with central planning, or even in capitalist countries like the US. They devised a system of “socialist oriented markets”, where the state under the communist party would guide capital markets but allow certain liberties for a new capitalist class to emerge and through the profit incentive internally develop the productive forces. But all this with much more control and limitations than in a capitalist country.
You can argue this isn’t socialism, and that it’s “bad”. But if we want to argue facts, China has seen the biggest increase in productive forces in the history of humanity. And coupled with that the biggest increase in quality of life as well.
I’m not gonna say I 100% support China or the Chinese model, but I am cautiously optimistic. Specially in the last couple of years. Seeing videos of people travelling to Chengdu, Chongqin, Harbin etc. truly looks like the future.
You can indeed see China with your own eyes. I suggest watching some travel videos. And if possible, go there. You would see how much their system is working, like it or not.
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 9 months ago:
Nice anti-communist think tank talking points you got there. Do you have any reliable evidence that shows it? All the evidence I can find kinda of points to the opposite?
Ruling billionaire class? If you’re a capitalist in China and you even slightly fuck over the environment or your workers you get executed.
Mass deaths…? You likely mean the deaths through starvation in one of the worst events of drought in history, which then never happened again? Or the deaths of the fascist reactionaries that fought against the revolution?
State capitalism? Just go read a bit on socialist oriented markets and the theory behind the Chinese socialist model. You might not agree with it, but if that’s state capitalism, you can give me some and I’ll smile.
And brutal authoritarianism? You literally never read a single source on Chinese democracy. I bet you live in a place that is infinitely less democratic.
- Comment on Cold calling real estate agents - is there a law against it? 9 months ago:
the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
- Comment on When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player 9 months ago:
Psychopaths can just as well have morality systems… they will just look very different from yours.
Morality is ideological definition of right or wrong. To you, scamming someone might be wrong. To a psychopath, getting money from a sucker who’s less smart/strong/awesome than you is right.
Might makes right is a moral system… it might be “imoral” to you, but it’s a moral system nonetheless.
- Comment on When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player 9 months ago:
What you suppose is your “internal” morality compass is an “internalised” one.
I wouldn’t kill my grandma because I love her, not because it’s “wrong”. I won’t kill anyone, I guess, because I don’t like seeing living beings suffer. Not because it’s “wrong”.
Morality is always an internalised “system”. It can’t be “natural”, it’s always ideological.
But that doesn’t mean that being materialistic in analysis of our existence as humans would make you do “evil” things. If you try to analyse us as a species scientifically, we realise that we literally evolved to cooperate and be nice to each other. Our chemistry makes that necessary. We hate being alone and seeing those around us suffer, because those things produce “feel bad” chemicals. We love helping each other because that produces “feel good” chemicals. On average of course (as you mention psychopaths do exist).
In fact, a purely material analysis of us would show that greed, individualism, destroying the planet, killing all animals on it, making large portions of our species to suffer in poverty etc. are counterproductive. Those things all make us individually feel worse and have worse lives. We would have the best lives if everyone around us had access to all amazing developments of the past centuries freely, if the animals and ecosystems of the world were protected, if the people around us cared about us and lived with us, not despite us. And none of that is moral, or based on morality. Just science and materialism.
- Comment on When people say the phrase "Don't hate the player, hate the game", it removes responsibility from the player 9 months ago:
Ok? Not sure what you mean by this hahaha