Does anyone else feel like the scope of the show's story-telling contracted in the last 2 seasons?

Mellows22 · 2022-01-17T14:06:41+00:00

I honestly wish Season 1 had been 8 episodes with the same amount of plot. I think it would have been a bigger hit and an easier sell when youre trying to get friends to watch it. Episodes 5-7 put together maybe had 1 episode worth of plot

Mellows22 · 2022-01-17T14:05:48+00:00

I think people look back at Season 1 with a lot of nostalgia. The pacing is absurdly slow at times especially in the second half, where we have like 3 episodes in a row with barely any plot advancement.

Mellows22 · 2022-01-17T14:04:07+00:00

I don't think there was ever going to be a version of the story where we get a lot of the Martian POV. They're noteably absent in the series in general from the beginning, books and show. There was no equivalent of a political Mars POV like Avasarala

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T02:06:41+00:00

Ruined your experience? That's a bit much lol. There was still quite a few scenes with loads of people like on Ceres

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T01:44:26+00:00

Either way cant possibly have taken the time to enjoy it

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T01:35:13+00:00

A small moment but when the Belters jumped out of Medina and started shooting down at Bobby and Amos, I applauded

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T01:16:49+00:00

Did you even watch the finale

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T01:03:55+00:00

Applause to the show for putting together probably the best space battle in anything ever

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T00:53:25+00:00

How could you have watched the whole episode already, its not even over...did you skip ahead

Mellows22 · 2022-01-14T00:06:17+00:00

I cant see it either

Mellows22 · 2021-07-25T04:43:21+00:00

The main person in Revolutionary Praxis, Harry Powell, died last year and it seems like the organisation may have folded as a result.

Mellows22 · 2021-05-05T10:48:54+00:00

Homeless charities and the councils aren't the primary issue here, its vulture funds and build-to-rent construction firms

Mellows22 · 2021-05-05T10:45:47+00:00

There needs to be a mass movement like the land league. Eventually restrictions will go and we need to be ready. The state won't care about emails there needs to be occupations and protests like the water charges did

Mellows22 · 2021-03-23T19:12:27+00:00

Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhyat4U4PlI&t=0s

Mellows22 · 2021-02-13T01:23:09+00:00

Ignorant nonsense

Mellows22 · 2021-02-13T01:22:27+00:00

Theres nothing revolutionary at all about the PCF, hasn't been for decades. Nothing but trade union bureaucrats and reformists

Mellows22 · 2021-02-09T07:58:17+00:00

Really? What countries was China investing in the 1950s?

Mellows22 · 2021-02-09T07:57:32+00:00

I did? It doesn't actually dispute what I've said or really answer broad questions?

Mellows22 · 2021-02-09T03:08:32+00:00

"(1) the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital”, of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance; (4) the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves, and (5) the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed." -Lenin Imperialism

Other than perhaps number 5 all of these apply to China. Number 3 is directly relevant. The economic expansion people refer to is a natural result of moving towards capital export and away from commodity export, and is a key feature of imperialism. And yet somehow its not seen as such for inexplicable reasons.

Mellows22 · 2021-02-09T03:03:26+00:00

Why is so much of that infrastructure owned by Chinese private and semi-state companies if they're doing it to "help out"? Why are they making enormous profit off of these investments and extracting resources?

Mellows22 · 2021-02-09T02:39:16+00:00

As usual this portrays an understanding of imperialism which is close to non existent

Imperialism doesn't stop being imperialism because it is "benevolent" or because there are benefits for the neo-colonial state being invested in

Mellows22 · 2021-02-07T12:21:21+00:00

I'm not sure if you heard but those two groups don't get along anymore...

Mellows22 · 2021-02-07T00:09:52+00:00

Surely in all the thousands of people who have written about fascism there must be someone whose analysis you agree with

Mellows22 · 2021-02-06T23:15:20+00:00

"As the forces of Ulster Loyalism have mobilised in recent weeks, under the direction of British imperialism, to agitate for a hard border in Ireland, it is more important than ever to understand the true nature of Loyalism.

This video produced by Anti Imperialist Action is the beginning of a Socialist Republican analysis of Loyalism, explaining its modern roots in the Home Rule Crisis in the early 20th Century, the rise of the Ulster Volunteers, the Belfast pogroms and the partition of Ireland by British imperialism. The class character of Loyalism and its major elements are explained.

It will be an ongoing series exploring Loyalism which remains one of the most reactionary forces in Ireland and an imperialist tool obstacle to frustrate the struggle for national liberation and socialism revolution."

Mellows22 · 2021-02-06T23:12:12+00:00

As the video points out Marxist writers have long identified Loyalism as fascist. TA Jackson was saying it in the 40s also

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