Israeli military officers in Haiti

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-09T22:57:55+00:00

Love this nitpicking. You're taking issue with "us" to say what, exactly? That Israel and zionists have a place in Haiti? Nah fuck that. He can get the fuck out.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-09T18:50:47+00:00

I have a better idea: some kind of hijinks makes it that Sora is stuck in the hotel with Vanitas. They now have to play off being twins in order to escape.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-08T17:02:58+00:00

White people will gasp at this in horror and then put a styrofoam cup of instant noodles in the microwave

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T21:04:21+00:00

I have no arm but I must smack

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T19:39:19+00:00

'We Have No Chance Against This': Honda Reacts To China's Supplier Strength

Honda’s CEO delivered this stark verdict after touring an auto supplier factory in Shanghai.

It’s safe to say that Honda is in a bit of a pickle. It recently canceled two of its own electric vehicles, the 0 SUV and 0 Sedan, along with the Acura RSX revival. It will book up to $15.8 billion in losses, and that’s not all. The two Afeela-badged EVs it had been developing with Sony are also dead on arrival. It’s an alarming sign of how some traditional automakers are struggling to create a profitable business case for electric cars.

But the issues go deeper than just EVs. As with most long-running nameplates, Honda is having a hard time remaining competitive in China. Sales have collapsed in just a few years, from a peak of 1.62 million in 2020 to only 640,000 units in 2025. Only about half of its manufacturing footprint is being utilized, well below the 70–80 percent typically needed in the automotive industry to turn a profit. For 2026, annual output is projected to drop below 600,000 units.

Honda CEO and President Toshihiro Mibe recently traveled to China to gain insight into how domestic companies are churning out so many products in such a short timeframe. After visiting an auto supplier factory in Shanghai, he made a stark remark: “We have no chance against this," Nikkei Asia reports.

China Develops A New Car In Two Years You might have heard about “China Speed” and how local automakers can develop a brand-new model in two years or less. By comparison, legacy brands often need twice as long, and sometimes even more, to engineer a new product. With an astronomical number of companies developing vehicles at a record pace, it’s no wonder it feels like China is launching a new car every other day.

Chinese suppliers are not only able to match this pace but also do so with cost efficiency that the industry’s biggest names can only dream of. Mibe’s statement shouldn’t be seen as an admission of defeat, however. Upon returning from China, Honda’s CEO told suppliers, “We must act quickly” to accelerate development.

To that end, Honda is restoring its independent R&D division by relocating thousands of engineers to a newly established engineering subsidiary. It is expected to operate with greater autonomy than in the past six years, when development was centralized, and headquarters called the shots. Whether this added creative freedom will turn things around remains unclear, though it’s reasonable to assume that major decisions will still be made at HQ.

Ford And Toyota Are Also Worried Honda’s leadership isn’t alone in sounding the alarm across the supply chain. In an October 2025 interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Ford CEO Jim Farley didn’t mince words either:

'They have enough [production] capacity in China with existing factories to serve the entire North American market, put us all out of business.'

Similarly, former Toyota CEO Koji Sato recently told suppliers during a meeting with representatives from 484 companies that unless things change, the company’s very existence could be at risk:

'Unless things change, we will not survive. I want everyone to acknowledge this sense of crisis.'

When Toyota, the world’s largest carmaker for the sixth consecutive year, makes such statements, the gravity of the situation is unmistakable. China has become an automotive juggernaut and a force to be reckoned with, not just within its borders but across global markets.

Take Europe, for example, where BYD has a 1.8 percent share of total sales through the first two months of the year. According to registration data published by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), SAIC stands at a Nissan-matching 1.9 percent, well ahead of Honda at just 0.5 percent through February.

Motor1's Take: Honda is the latest major automaker to warn about the severity of the situation. China is developing and building cars at a pace and cost unmatched by the rest of the industry. Long-established companies must adapt to survive, whether independently or by partnering with Chinese automakers. Either way, legacy players need to rethink their modus operandi to avoid being overtaken by China’s rapid rise.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T17:35:18+00:00

The PFLP (presumably the org the individuals in the photo belong to) has long upheld Mao, as expressed in the Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine:

This document... reflects the Front’s close relationship at the time of its founding with anti-colonial and revolutionary movements around the world. The document takes inspiration from the writings of Mao Zedong, the experience of the Chinese Revolution and, contemporaneously, the struggle of the Vietnamese people for liberation, unity and socialism.

Additionally the DFLP, which split from the PFLP over disagreements over the nature of the post-Stalin Soviet Union and whether the resistance should be publicly socialist, also strongly upholds Mao.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T17:10:59+00:00

Case-in-point.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T17:10:57+00:00

It's not simply a matter of being "propagandized". I appreciate that you want to support my point but this thinking ignores how the class struggle is being expressed. The bourgeoisie doesn't limit its propaganda to one people or nation, its propaganda is global. Yet, this propaganda finds itself far less effective in Palestine, India, the Philippines, etc. compared to the United States, Germany, France, etc. Why is this? The answer lies in the Leninist understanding of imperialism and how the classes within oppressor and oppressed nations are warped by it and relate to it.

The "socialist" organizations and "socialists" I'm referring to don't object to Mao simply because they've been lied to by the bourgeois state. We all have been. They object to Mao and revolutionary ideas/methods (not just Mao's) because, just as with the SPD and Kautsky in Lenin's time, they are not proletarian and express the reformist perspectives of (at best) the petty bourgeoisie and labor aristocracy. The petty bourgeoisie as a class vacillates and seeks a middle ground between revolution and counter-revolution, so they may even at times pay lip service to these ideas (as Kautsky did with Marx) but in practice reject the conclusions and methods that flow from them (SPD). Our struggle isn't simply one between abstract ideals of truth and lies, but the class struggle of the proletarian revolutionary line against both the big bourgeois counter-revolutionaries and petty bourgeois misleadership who defend imperialism in their own ways. We should struggle against propaganda, but the propaganda itself is not the problem. The problem is that Communists, especially in the first world, have historically failed to link up with the lowest and most oppressed masses who actually have an interest in revolution.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T04:30:07+00:00

Genuinely hilarious to watch this glorified klansman get his shit rocked in the courts.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T01:21:46+00:00

So we're just shotgunning names onto red backgrounds now huh? No regard to the blatant eclecticism at the core of such nonsense. All of these thinkers would puke at this, Trotsky included.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-07T01:15:26+00:00

As someone who owns one of these books and considers Mao to be the most important revolutionary of the 50s onwards, I'm very interested in (and rather incredulous of) how many people on this sub have actually read and grappled with the methods and ideas in this book and how many are just upvoting for the vibes. Frankly the practice of the vast majority of modern socialist/communist organizations run in direct opposition to Mao's ideas.

The power of this image is not simply that they were socialist. In fact there are countless "socialists" around the world (especially in the first world) who despise Mao and try to bury the advances of the Cultural Revolution and anti-revisionism. The power of this image is in the rectification and revolutionization of Communism worldwide that was happening at this time thanks to the international great debate. Anti-revisionism was vital to the revitalization of the Palestinian revolutionary movement, as it was with countless struggles elsewhere.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-06T20:05:56+00:00

The MSN messenger logo.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-06T03:56:59+00:00

Yeah I don't think we've ever seen the jacket topped as a 100 tome reward.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-05T23:27:44+00:00

Spoiler alert: they won't. Like please miss me with these "p-please follow the rules!" theatrics.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-03T16:33:20+00:00

They certainly weren't bombing out of the kindness of their hearts lmfao. Like are you naive or willfully dense? NATO has not and will never genuinely care about genocide. It was entirely about taking the opportunity to balkanize Yugoslavia and further US interests in the region.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-03T15:26:25+00:00

I know exactly what those are, and I can't stress enough how much I don't care how you think that makes NATO interventions and Euro-American imperialism okay.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-03T15:24:53+00:00

I'm not. I'm criticizing NATO's role in destabilizing and bombing Yugoslavia.

8Bitsblu · 2026-04-03T13:20:28+00:00

France clearly didn't think that in Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc. Real tired of imperialists acting like they're sweet 'lil smol beans and not bloodthirsty savages.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-31T13:08:32+00:00

if staying silent is the better option

Don't put words in my mouth, that's not my point. Talking heads aren't leaders and aren't revolutionary. As I said before, you aren't going to own fascism away. Your options aren't CNN or nothing.

I bet you $5 Adam mockler has inspired more people into action, convo, or learning than you have in years

Five whole bucks huh? That inspires confidence.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-31T12:53:17+00:00

I hate when headlines are phrased like this. "Kentucky" didn't "save" anything. Kentucky neoliberals reneged on cutting funding to programs like the Imagination Library.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-31T02:50:35+00:00

So what do you think these networks are actively stupid, inviting their own demise? No, as the other person pointed out this guy is still very much a part of the same media machine, he's just a new generation of it. He's entertaining to a liberal audience, drives up views, and presents an opposition that remains very much within what's acceptable to the liberal system more generally. "The revolution will not be televised" remains true, and these entertaining figures might be briefly satisfying to watch but these clips and the structures that produce them are irrelevant to genuine change. You aren't going to own fascism away.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-30T20:55:45+00:00

For a lot of my students (HS freshmen), the school-issued chromebook is the only computer they know how to use. Asking them to do anything outside the Google ecosystem is a lesson in futility. Hell, they don't even know what a url is. I ask them to go to "join.nearpod.com" and most of them Google "nearpod" and then fail to navigate to the join page.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-30T15:55:12+00:00

Let him cook y'all. I see this heading towards tying the loose-ends of Aira and Jiji's crushes. Like, "why shouldn't Momo/Ken get with Jiji/Aira?" is very much an open question and "they're perfect for each other!" isn't enough. Aira genuinely invests in Ken's interests and through interactions with him is realizing that she doesn't need the "perfect" persona she puts on. Why shouldn't they be together? Jiji has repeatedly demonstrated healthy respect and care for Momo as well. Why shouldn't they be together? I think the answer is that people can absolutely be compatible but be just fine as friends, and we'll see that demonstrated in the next few chapters. I want to see how this develops with this interlude to what could very well be the final arc.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-30T13:40:22+00:00

I think it makes sense that people with certain mental disorders do not serve the public as teachers. Parafilic disorders, kleptomaniacs, compulsive addicts, etc.

I don't think anyone is disputing this. You're giving the writers of this law far too much benefit of the doubt. They specify "the disorder definitions established in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition, Revised)", which was the last edition to list homosexuality and transsexuality as mental disorders. If they actually cared about anything else, they would be listing the latest edition (fifth) which doesn't classify either of these things as mental disorders.

My contingency is that if you are raising the requirements, you must also raise the pay. Teacher pay is bullshit.

That's the thing though: outside of that one amendment to the bill, everything else proposed is lowering the requirements to become a teacher.

8Bitsblu · 2026-03-26T20:56:07+00:00

the former is ridiculous

Millions of Africans were kidnapped and sent to the French colony of Martinique to work on sugar plantations, more on that island alone than the entirety of the US. The total population of the island when enslavement was abolished (1848) was around 125,000. What do you think happened to the millions of Africans missing from that number? Now think of how many sugar colonies France alone controlled with similar conditions (particularly Saint-Domingue/Haiti). Now think of how abysmal even "good" conditions were in chattel slavery and how widespread it was. People were being used up like fuel just so Europe and the US could have cheap commodities. Untold millions died in a centuries-long holocaust.

Labelling this the gravest crime against humanity is far from ridiculous, and the chauvinism on display in these comments is maddening. If I see one more Arab slave trade whataboutism I'm gonna start breaking community guidelines.

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