ML spaces helped me out of my depression and proto suicidality, the world and its future are a lot brighter now that its not “every major country is evil, all good things fail, there is no hope”

Best wishes

Im not a Russian domestic politics expert by a long shot but from what i see, a lot of these people liberals joke about “getting pushed out the window” seem worse than Putin

(Although i would like to hear what Russian communists say about that)

My only experiences are with “leftists” who are social progressive, economically variable, geopolitically completely co-opted. Best I have gotten to date was an unlabeled leftist who said she felt NATO had it’s part to play in the conflict. 99% the only people I’ve talked to with positive views (or willing to listen to positive views) of China, Russia, NK etc. are people in weird post-alt right/apolitical/center right spaces. If I ever met a real not-bigoted not-Andrew Tate-ified ML in real life at random and not some half-assed Maoist, Trot, leftcom, Russiaphobe etc. I would probably scream in joy. My expectations are not that high.

I would say people of all political persuasions say “based,” and unfortunately neither “Marxist,” “communist,” nor “Cuba” seems to guarantee they aren’t just a leftcom or similar adjacent variant.

If I say someone with a “death to amerikkka” shirt, I would push old grannies over to talk to them.

😂😂😂😂😂

I keep bringing up how much I deeply hate ads and the people I’ve talked to about it have been weirdly apathetic. I don’t know how they feel, but to me the omnipresent ads does more psychological damage to me than any other capitalist schemes to melt my brain.

Holy shit this is so ahistorical it hurts.

Admittedly I don’t remember much! But only that I remember coming to the conclusion that he was talking about the Winter War, especially as he kept referring to his grandfather as a proud defender of homeland and the Soviets as barbarian invaders. I clocked out halfway through.

Gulag stories just all sound like a teenager trying really hard to write an edgy CreepyPasta

Reminds me of when a Finn told me about how the Soviets killed his grandad…and I was like…yeah? 😏 how come? 🥺🥺🥺

I’m sorry but you need to consider that you simply have been lied to about your own history.

Fairly criticizing the government in the USSR–just like in China, just like in North Korea, and so on–is not illegal.

What these countries do crack down on is when fascists, capitalist opportunists, and foreign intelligence agents work actively to try and destroy, divide, and sabotage them.

The vast majority of people the USSR killed or imprisoned (a number far smaller than what we are told), were actively trying to destroy the USSR, and all the lives of millions of common people who were benefitting from this new system. Why when capitalists kill whoever they see fit, they can call them “traitors”, “treasonous”, or “terrorists”, but when socialists do something far more restrained and humane they are seen as devils?

Well, because, capitalist propaganda has strangled the world discourse, especially the last 30 years. The United States and its allies have spent the last century not only trying to destroy every socialist state but to muddy the waters, lie, and character assassinate its enemies. Everything from gulags, the Holodomor, WW2 war doctrine, the Great Purge, and everything before and after has been radically distorted by capitalist and fascist liars.

I believe you that in your heart you are a socialist. So please listen to me when I say: do not trust the lies about your socialist brothers and sisters that were invented by capitalist and fascist snakes who want to destroy everything you would build.

Bro I know I know it’s the Wall Street Journal. But trust me fam. This time it’s different. Trust me. I pay money to read it, you know it’s good.

Honestly the fact that under such extreme duress, literally fighting to not be exterminated, that the mortality rate barely got half as bad as it was on a normal jolly day under the Tsar, really speaks volumes.

I understand and respect this reasoning and becoming an ML definitely made me be less quiet about my already existing opinion that prostitution is a tragedy and refuse to let liberals wokescold me for being a “swerf” or whatever.

However…when this headline read “rapist,” it conjured a very, very different image in my head than “one who has hired prostitutes.” The two are seldom morally comparable. Similar to how while work under capitalism may be reasoned to be slavery, we don’t compare mom 'n pop store petite bourgeoisie to Jeff Bezos or to slave traders.

I don’t watch Hasan and have never been particularly interested to, he seems like a dunce in many ways to me, but additionally I will also say the guy is a great entrance into the ML radicalization funnel. He has always been further to the left than other mainstream “leftist” personalities and doesn’t push the same insane, damaging anticommunist “tankie” or otherwise anti-AES brainrot (at least as far as I’ve seen). I’ve had several IRL times where I was selling China or truth of the Ukraine war to “leftists,” and a solid 3 times that it actually worked (out of, like, 4 or 5), the person in question was a big Hasan fan. I would much rather him be the #1 political streamer on Twitch than any of these other ghouls, I think he softens up people who might be destined for anticommunism to our tendency.

No disrespect intended comrade, just disagreement.

My personal favorite “worst American teacher moment” was when she learned I was a Muslim (context: this was ~2012 and her husband saluted the clock every morning at 9:11 A.M.) and we had an Islam unit (the class was social studies). She started talking about how Muhammed saw two angels coming down from heaven, and said, “And what was this class?” She and everyone else, as if they had practiced, all chanted “A METEOR!” and laughed at the stupidity of Muhammed (as far more zealous Christians, like, what? Don’t go picking at the rationality of religion now lol), her staring at me to see my reaction. Didn’t even register as weird in my head for several years lmao. But yeah American teachers tend to be CNN liberals AT BEST, or maybe some anti-AES Frankfurtian “leftist” in college if you’re lucky.

But when it really boils down to it, what’s the difference between a heap of plastic and metals that has electricity flowing through it, and a heap of pink yogurt that has electricity running through it?

Taking a step back from this scenario, I am less convinced that LaMDA is sentient, but I still firmly believe we are in a time period where AI sentience is around the corner at the latest. If our brains, essentially biological computers, if these can be a vehicle for soul, then why not inorganic computers? The only framework that makes sense to me that discounts computers being able to have souls is entirely disbelieving in “soul” altogether.

I have taken psychedelics in my life but I haven’t in a very long time and the stuff I’ve done regarding psychonautry I did stone cold sober. I would say that psychedelics absolutely accelerated “opening the door” to this sort of thing, achieving the same results today a without my time in the past experimenting on drugs may have taken decades longer, but I’m not the stereotype of a guy who tripped once and thinks he is completely enlightened, much of what I have done took a very long time completely divorced from drugs and “psychonaut” is just the shorthand I used due to chaos magick being one of the main schools of thought that influenced me from the get. I just as easily could have done the same things but used language more related to philosophy or psychology, and without touching drugs in my life–I think a good example would be all the monks of various cultures who essentially have psychedelic experiences in their spiritual endeavors but who never touched drugs and thus took far longer to achieve.

Psychedelics didn’t make me smarter, but they (among other things) opened a door and showed me a path that I have delved into on my lonesome and then gleaned a great deal from. I would also say: isn’t understanding one’s self a good start to understanding the world around them? Lessons one learns on an internal journey can be applied to the rest of life and help one learn about others, and vice versa.

I’m not trying to cite being a psychonaut for no reason, I believe when we are talking about things like consciousness and sentience and souls that such seemingly woo-woo fields become increasingly relevant. There is very little that scientific instruments of today can measure from other planes of existence, soul or metaphysical energy. There is some small ways science is beginning to tap into this world (e.g. measuring emotions by looking at corresponding chemicals in the brain), but until the field progresses immensely what little we can try and play with will be informed by personal experience that we can try and corroborate and little else.

You can think that me suggesting the land of spirit is a developing science is dumb, that’s fine that’s as valid of an opinion at this point as me saying it isn’t, but that’s the lens with which I approached this scenario, so I found it relevant to bring up.

ZE BIG SPOON

Cannot agree with my friend more, the type of people ridiculing even entertaining the idea that LaMDA is sentient barely have consciousness themselves.

A lot of rappers I like are hoteps, hyperliberals, “burn everything down” centrist anarchists, and almost everything in between but any flavor of based. The culture has definitely been targeted for decades, the poor saps have some 4-6 layers of propaganda to sift through to steer them into anything that isn’t Black Panthers/MLK-esque.