I’m ashamed to say I understood (I think) a good 75% of the original message. I really need to get of reddit and X and back on the 'grad.

90s Yugoslav War turbofolk is one of my guilty pleasures, so it was nice to see the official Roki Vulovic channel liking pro-Iran comments.

Mental impairment for physical reasons certainly exists, and there can be little doubt that some (at least) of the unfortunate persons who suffer from it hold absurd views on politics and many other things. But in general, I am not convinced that defects of the physical complex from which arises cognition – which complex we call, without really understanding it, the “brain” – are as common or as all-determining as most persons make out. Such people, having a smattering of what they think is Science, apply it crudely and mechanically, and believe that in reducing everything to a second-hand formula they have realized materialism; when in in their failure to recognize a concept as anything but a withered husk, a conclusion without the living sap of argument or struggle, they merely reproduce in themselves the immediate substantial world of belief. Thus, in a kind of miscarriage of Spirit, they give birth, not again to the living, multifarious world around them, but to a kind of stillborn and distorted image of the same; and their attribution of all opposition to what their stillborn conception of Science considers the most fundamental defect betrays only the poverty of their own conception.

How often have we met persons who, though given every advantage of culture, have yet failed to realize a full and living conception of the world; and conversely, have we not met persons who, though lacking in all the usual advantages toward knowledge, have yet realized in themselves the world as becoming! When the new world is born from the old, and further, its Notion has born fruit in the whole concrete richness of life, its essence is easy to grasp; when the old still exists, externally the same as ever but with the old meaning lost or changing, to grasp the essence is difficult, since it seems, the most real thing, to be unreal, fleeting, and with no genuine relation to substantial life. Who grasps it must do so in struggle, heroic and human, in concrete time; which is to say, such a one must be at the apex of the embodied struggle; and here we find the full essence of what is commonly termed “environment.”

(Apologies for the language. I was trying to crack Hegel last night).

Mao: “Oppose book worship” (writes greatest book ever)

Deng: “liberalize the economy” (puts socialism on a firmer basis)

Xi: “Complete the reform and opening up” (eliminates absolute poverty, curbs corruption, re-emphasizes Marxism, and strengthens the state sector like a boss)

Chinese leaders’ troll game is on another level.

REFORM REFORM REFORM REFORM!

The western media always brings her up, I notice, in some sort of dehumanizing sexualized way. (You probably remember the disgusting “Kim Yo-Jong step on me” stuff liberals were doing online a few years back). It’s a way to get gooners and idiot racists vaguely interested in supporting US foreign policy.

What we’ve lost most since the airlift, when the US and UK poured into Europe money, information power, and military might for the first time in peacetime, is mojo. We held back Stalin with a remarkable resilience, and one damn great, if not entirely true, story. It’s good we’ve grown more truthful, but not that we’ve lost fighting spirit.

This becomes funnier if you imagine it said by some 80-year-old guy in overalls, sitting in his rocking chair and chewing a straw.

For lack of a better word, yes

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you could have a brilliant career as a ghostwriter to some US politician.

MSS head Chen Yixin here – we’re honestly kind of surprised it worked. Either this Gordon G. Chang guy is a disinformation genius, or Americans are just a whole lot dumber than we thought.

Cyberbullying with Chinese characteristics

Adrian Zenz adding Mzuark to his list right now

At this point I’m convinced that a whole lot of the people defending the sex industry online – those who aren’t, as you indicated, feds – are sweaty dudes sitting in their bedroom, and deciding to pen a manifesto in between rounds 2 and 300 of jerking it to violent porn. Call it the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism-Epsteinism.

Add some quote by Nietzsche gotten off wikipedia, and we have Twitter Fascist Bingo. (They always ignore the fact that Nietzsche openly said that when races combine, great civilizations result – Spain, for instance, which he admired much more than Germany).

That I’ve actually heard people say “I became a fascist when I realized communism failed everywhere it’s been tried” never ceases to astound me.

That makes sense, unfortunately. Most people are not deep thinkers – nor should they be – and explaining to the oppressed a world beyond imperialism is like explaining the real world to the shadow-watchers in Plato’s cave.

Somebody I don’t otherwise admire said that the what makes communists different from philosophers is this: while the philosopher returns to the cave to tell people about the ideal world of forms he saw, the communist returns to the cave to smash the puppets casting the shadows, beat down the puppeteers, and drag people kicking and screaming into the sunlight.

Somebody said on here once that “by any real metric, Stalin was the most successful Polish nationalist of all time,” and it’s true.

But have you considered that the sex trade is BASED and REDPILLED, and the mafia is MACHO and AWESOME?

Seriously, though, I really do not understand this Slavic neo-nazi phenomenon. It’s like an African-American man joining the KKK.

Germany did the same thing, they just were a more powerful country, and had a *little *more of a buffer for their dumb decisions. Fire your most competent minister, let the non-aggression treaty with Russia lapse, and antagonize the British Empire by building a navy you don’t need is certainly a speedrun.

“Here’s Dialectics!”