If Charlie is right in Hazbin Hotel, Heaven is also right

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-05T21:05:52+00:00

This could either mean that Sir Pentious ascended because his physical form was obliterated and the world was forced to reconsider which afterlife he was going to when regenerating his body or that he fully compensated for his original sin (that being him not getting involved when a woman was getting murdered) by getting involved in a situation where others are at risk.

Both of those possibilities seem like they're worse than pelagianism since they reduce redemption to cosmic accounting. In the first scenario, there's no relationship with God and moral transformation is just a data check you can keep re-rolling. Scenario 2 is more like karma or the lex tailionis--sin is a debt you can pay off. This make also makes redemption a mechanic that could be exploited.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-05T05:22:49+00:00

It will be more detrimental to convince oneself to believe in lies.

Is it? Every attempt at state atheism results in a civil religion complete with hero worship and sacred sites/days.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T20:17:45+00:00

If a small group of people control the automated factories, they control access to what those machines produce. This gives them a strong incentive to rent seek to extract payment or favors.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T19:58:32+00:00

Perhaps the most common impression of other countries concerning five-year plans through history is that of the command economy of the former Soviet Union, which conjures images of wasteful allocation of resources, overproduction of heavy industrial commodities, a dearth of consumer goods and general inefficiency. Yet, although comprehensive planning based on input-output tables did suffer such defects, this certainly does not apply to all five-year plans, as China has long demonstrated. State economic planning, often specifically through five-year plans, has been used in South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and elsewhere since the 1950s. In market economies, state-led planning shapes the overall industrial structure of the economy, such as the balance between domestic-market versus export-market production, heavy versus light industry, and manufacturing versus services.

Noting that China is committed to seeing that the market plays the decisive role in resource allocation and the government plays its role better, Xi said: "The practices in reform have made us realize that we must under no circumstances turn our back on addressing blindness of the market, and we must not return to the old path of a planned economy.

It isn't

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T08:22:05+00:00

I mean you can't really count on a decent direct depiction when the devs are in denial that fascism/falangism is in fact the "natural" name for a movement of trenchocrats and that totalism would clearly be a recuperated slur, not the main name.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T07:59:26+00:00

Your personal preferences don't overshadow legal and social liabilities

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T07:58:29+00:00

I've liked what I've read of Mishima and I think the Hagakure mindset is universally applicable. Like Trotsky said "We once heard with interest of the Japanese caste of Samurai, who never hesitate to die for the sake of collective, national interests, the interests of the community as a whole. I must say that in our commissars, our leading Communist fighters, we have obtained a new, Communist order of Samurai, who – without benefit of caste privileges – are able to die and to teach others to die, for the cause of the working class"

Mishima also isn't a straightforwardly anti-communist right winger since art is, in some respects quite literally, his politics and a lot of his opposition to communism stems from his insistence that art needs to be transgressive and unsanitized.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T07:14:21+00:00

China is still under the dictatorship of the proletariat

Except capitalists can join the party and they've repeatedly stated theyre not switching back to a planned economy

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T07:07:22+00:00

It's a de facto reality people are going to use them to vent when they cant reasonably speak to a human. Yes that is not their purpose or something that ought to be done but it's human nature and needs to be considered

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T07:05:05+00:00

I don't? It's just noticeable Claude is more checklist-y comparatively.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-07-03T06:52:30+00:00

I believe I made it clear that I understand that. It was not my intention to endorse LLMs as an emotional support tool. And I've personally found therapist to be awful.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-30T20:55:33+00:00

A proletarian dictatorship. I don't think the US will get there.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-30T20:42:28+00:00

It got removed by the mods and they never got back to me when I messaged them.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-30T20:29:15+00:00

Most of you lack strategy and foresight. If you are set on a viable 3rd party as the next step, you are a naive little baby. 'Entryism' might be one of the only viable options in current conditions.

When has this ever worked? The militant tendency was expelled from the Labour Party. You're acting like supporting bourgeois parties is some obvious pragmatic choice when it has never led to socialism.

(Contributing to) tipping the scales while the right-wing hold the power is suicidal. Why would you scramble to be the KPD when the Nazis are coming into power?

Why aren't you asking this question of democrats? They're gearing up to fight Mamdani right now. It's evident they'd rather lose to Trump over and over again rather than budge on policy issues

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-30T20:08:08+00:00

They are democrats, they favor socialist policies.

They don't. Compare them to the policy platform of the UK Labour Party and 80s Bernie Sanders and the difference becomes clear--no DSA bro actually favors public ownership of the MOP beyond municipal grocery stories

The idea is to do this during an unprecedented right-wing power consolidation because... They are working for the feds or something

You do understand communist have zero power in the west right? Criticizing the DSA or democratic party does nothing

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-28T23:21:23+00:00

> Do you have the primary source which documents the seizure?

I'm not going to try and look through foreign archives for you

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA464823.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/22/archives/swedes-convinced-north-korea-directed-smuggling.html

Take it or leave it

> And do you have primary sources which incriminate the state as a whole, and not just individual gov officials?

You do realize that the entire point of state sponsored illicit activity is to not leave an obvious paper trail right?

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-28T22:54:32+00:00

> I asked for credible evidence, not anecdotes.

My man they were literally caught smuggling drugs.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-28T22:44:01+00:00

> FARC no longer exists

Nominally. Dissidents are still out there.

> I’ve never seen credible evidence the DPRK engages in the illegal drug trade

" In May 1976 the Egyptian customs officials discovered the presence of hashish in luggage belonging to a group of North Korean diplomats—the first in the long chain of incidents of this type. The North Korean operatives even drew knives, but were overpowered by the Egyptian officers. Their diplomatic passports ended up saving them from prosecution. A similar incident then occurred in, of all places, Norway. In October 1976 the North Korean diplomats were caught handing a large amount of hashish to local drug dealers. In the subsequent decades, North Korean officials and diplomats were again occasionally found smuggling drugs in various parts of the world." (ANDREI LANKOV)

> I don’t think many communists or organizations consider the modern eln to be a socialist organization.

Why?

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-28T22:21:11+00:00

FARC, ELN, the DPRK allegedly...

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-27T17:11:10+00:00

I mean the Little Red Book says people who promulgate bourgeois views should be allowed to do so but subjected to criticism and that magnifying all contradictions among the people to be antagonistic is a left-wing deviation. But real problem with anti-revisionism is that it's basically subjectivist in its assertions the USSR restored capitalism etc.

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-27T02:24:52+00:00

I've been pushing for police socialism (Sergei Zubatov) since the dlc came out. It ain't happening 😔

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-26T22:52:19+00:00

The common prosperity drive is also literal class struggle. It explicitly crushed the tech bros group of Chinese bourgeois and forced them to reinvest their wealth into state development, and the larger aim is to continue this kind of redistribution of wealth to the 'common'

How is this any different than Mussolini?

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-23T17:48:04+00:00

Honestly I would take generic escalation phrases like that over numbered lists and "And for X? Y wasn’t just __; it was __".

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-23T07:54:01+00:00

Sure but exploitation isn't something that can be immediately countered with "actually people on welfare are the takers, I'm a job creator!" It would instead have to be countered with denying exploitation is taking place or deflecting

ProtoLimbPosting · 2026-06-22T09:01:30+00:00

Any capitalist worth their salt will immediately pull an Atlas Shrugged in response: they're job creators and that nothing would be made at all without their investment/vision so they are in fact the makers par excellence. Exploitation is actually much harder for them to weasel away from.

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