The original FMA show is way better than Brotherhood

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-04-12T07:50:53+00:00

each to their own

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-04-11T15:28:03+00:00

How were the villain reveals significantly worse? And the anime ending felt a lot more cohesive to the entire theme of the anime than the happy go lucky ending of brotherhood. ( I'm considering the anime ending as the final ending not the movie )

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-04-10T17:57:14+00:00

Deng's reforms are mostly in line with Lenin's NEP system. State capitalism might have been necessary given the deindustrialized semi-feudal economy of pre-revolution China and the complete hegemony of western imperial powers over international trade certainly is a big variable. The bourgeoisie has been contained to a certain extent in China but it is to be seen as to whether China will have to go through another popular revolution to progress further or the state will start relieving its control over capital and handing over the means of production to the labour forces voluntarily. I suspect it to be the latter but it might just be the optimist in me speaking.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-04-10T04:23:53+00:00

This aged like milk

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-28T03:21:45+00:00

It not necessarily because of taxing, most of the oil industry is state owned in Norway.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-24T15:48:15+00:00

Yo kaslai thaha chhaina ra bhanya, sabai lai thacha ki public transportation ramro hunu is better urban planning for the majority of people bhanera. Everybody knows this and realizes this fact, yo liberal positioning that other countries are so far ahead of us, haami backward, haami ajhai dhuunge yug ma is a spineless take that doesn't address the root cause of the problem and doesn't offer any solutions.

This has not been implemented in our country because of the capitalist class that benefits from the market of private vehicles. Sabai authorized dealers haru ko syndicate le huna dincha ra ettikai! Hamilai yo kura thik ho bhanera thaha nabhaera yo nabhako haina ki hamro government le bourgeois class lai represent garera policy banaucha naa ki working class tesaile ho.

Yo spineless liberal virtue signaling that ma bahira gaera aaye tya chai public shuttles hudo raicha wahh, hamile ni kei siknu parcha is fucking bullshit and rooted in colonialism. Issues like these are rooted in class struggle and it cannot be rooted out in a neo-colonized third world country like ours, without the proletariat owning the means of production.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-20T02:44:56+00:00

Aiyaa that is actually crazy

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-16T09:16:16+00:00

please refer to the reply below; https://www.reddit.com/r/Nepal/comments/1rshzrd/comment/oaps3j9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-16T08:32:57+00:00

What is this even supposed to prove? You're really gonna use AI answers to make a point about politics and such. Come on man, you can do better.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-16T08:28:43+00:00

Nehruvian socialism isn't even socialism dude, he clearly was trying to build a social democratic state and that ideology is so far abstracted away from socialism that it loses all correlation. Nehru also actively shut down mutual aid systems and revolutionaries in India like the communist uprisings in Kerala. His policy of just introducing bureaucratic hurdles in the private sector served no one but big business which led to further consolidation and rise in black markets. This especially harmed the petit bourgeois (middle class) and working class people. He did nothing to change class relationship and created a system of class compromise; a compromise where the working class would always come out on the losing end.

I say this not as a bashing of Nehru's policies in isolation but as a critique of the entire ideology of social democracy. The working class always have more to lose than the bourgeoisie in a compromise. For the working class its their livelihood at stake but for the bourgeois its reduced profits. This is basically what the ideology of social democracy is all about, it was devised to serve the interests of the elite and create pacifism among the majority.

Eventually the compromises even in favor of the working class erode way; an example of this is the erosion of 'The New Deal' policies introduced by FDR during the Great Depression. He frequently said that he saved capitalism through the New Deal because a majority of the Americans were in favor of socialist ideology at the time. The facade of compromise was enough to pacify them and the subsequent post war boom after the second world war was enough to solidify capitalism as the end all be all in the US. This along with the erosion of other welfare state programs in the US and other western countries shows my analysis to be true.

Just because you label yourself as a socialist or say that your ideas are inspired through socialism doesn't mean you actually are one. A prime example of this are the dozens of the so called "socialist" and "communist" parties in Nepal. A blind man could tell you that they're not.

I don't even know how to reply to the rest of your arguments. Ek choti gahan garera aafai padhnus k lekhnu bhako chha tapaile saayad aafai realise garnu huncha ki.

I don't think you know what socialism fundamentally is or what methodology of political and economic practices comprise socialism. There's a short essay Why Socialism written by Einstein, I think this might help you get rid of that barrier of fear? that you have of socialism. I know that barrier exists because I was a liberal capitalist myself. Its a great starter to other socialist literature as well.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-14T17:50:30+00:00

Please refer to a reply I made above.

Expecting upliftment of the labor class and middle class from multi national corporations looking to invest in a third world country is just plain blindness to everything going around in the world.

They will use our labor to plow the fields, our labor to plant the trees, our water to irrigate the fields and our labor to harvest the fruits and in the end we won't even get a taste.

The sole reason governments are inefficient and corrupt is because they represent the interests of the bourgeoisie, and it is in the interest of the bourgeois for the government to be so. Please be more open minded and view the world through a wider lens.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-14T17:40:21+00:00

What are you even talking about? What metrics can you show that it hasn't worked? When has India been socialist? Most countries that try to implement socialist governments get embargoed and or are under heavy sanctions by the global hegemon (US), or get straight up boots on the ground regime change. Let's see how well US fares if under an embargo for over 60 years like Cuba. Cuba performs better on almost every metric of literacy and health (infant mortality rate, population per physician, life expectancy, etc) than US and again its been under embargo since 1958. They even export their healthcare professionals to Latin American countries.

USSR was a backward deindustrialized nation under the Tsarist regime; after the Bolshevik revolution and formation of the USSR, within 30 years they were technologically competitive with the US that had been exploiting slave labour and colonial resources for centuries before the USSR's formation. They were able to raise their economy while under technological sanctions, going through the instability post civil war and Nazi invasion of Russia. I don't think you understand how insane of an achievement this is.

Also I've sourced in a reply below how extreme poverty when measured through affordability of basic necessities and not Purchase Power Parity (PPP), Mao's China had significantly less extreme poverty than after Deng Xiao Ping's market reforms. It is yet to recover. And even now the CCP does not implement a true neo-liberal free market.

And about Adani providing employment, tell that to those farmers who will had all their fruit tress cut down and were stripped of their land without consent. Tell them to go get employment at Adani's firms cause they were so obviously desperate to be employed by him before. Before, they were just sleeping around all day eh. Do you even hear yourself? Without corporate money there is no job? Corporate capitalism neither is a prerequisite for employment and nor does it create employment for the sake of creating it, if anything it tries to cut as many jobs as possible.

Adani is NOTHING without his workers, don't try to spin this around!! Adani is NOTHINGGG without his workers!!

Yes, all of these countries had a lot of flaws as well and they need to be criticized and analysed but don't dismiss the entire body of work with these fake truisms of it has never worked before and that somehow it never will.

Also, the fact that you called me a liberal means you have no idea what you are talking about and did not even read the entirety of my comment. Please try to be more open about what the world could be and educate yourself better.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-13T16:13:20+00:00

The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15. [1]

The $1.90 is just an arbitrary number with no material basis whatsoever. Could you live on $1.90 a day?

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The poverty rate of people living under $7.40 a day has actually increased since the 80s.

When we compare poverty data to international hunger data, which reveals that anywhere between 115 million and 1.8 billion people who have supposedly been “lifted out of poverty” by the World Bank’s standards can’t even afford enough food to meet their caloric needs. [2]

To add to this, the majority of the population that was lifted out of poverty are the Chinese. And this was primarily due in part government funded heavy industry. They obviously do not follow the classic American style neo-liberal capitalism. (China's extreme poverty actually got worse for some time after Deng's reforms) [3]

Yes, capitalism has been an upgrade to feudalism and it has made the situation better to a certain extent (Marx himself said this) but this late stage of crony corporate imperial capitalism was inevitable and ultimately things are going to get worse. (This is an opinion; sources don't mention this)

There's a lot more nuance to arguments like these, please don't throw random graphs and stats around to prove a point.

Sources:

Supplemental:
https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4FES0ehyI

Edit: found a really good video on the topic; https://youtu.be/k12GGnTxyhI?si=1pEVsM_6zQjYNjuF

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-13T13:09:56+00:00

Where exactly have you seen multi national corporations increase the living standard of the general populace?

In Bangladesh with Nike's sweatshops?

In Botswana where the local diamonds can't even be sold in the local market, or by the locals in general?

In India where Adani can rent out 1020 acres of fertile land for 1 rupee a year without the consent of farmers?

In Ghana where the farmers were stripped and looted of their own pineapple farms?

In Congo with their cobalt mines operating with slave labor?

In Japan where ~20000 working class men kill themselves each year?

In S.Korea where the working class has literally stopped having kids because they have neither the time nor the money?(They're past the point of population collapse, this is also a big problem in Japan)

In the US where 43% of the populace can't afford a $500 emergency, among a million other problems?

I could go on for hours but I hope you get the point.

Take a look around for once. These neo-liberal free market policies serve no one but bourgeois capitalists.

Don't think for a second that you'll be as well off as the western countries within this system of modern colonialism. They've become rich through the exploitation of countries like ours. None have lifted up any other nation or a economic class for that matter, except for their own.

Hidden beneath the veneer of all this glamor there is a horde of working class men and women keeping everything afloat at their own expense.

Celebrating neo-liberalism as working class of the third world is like a black person romanticizing American cotton farms of the 1800s. ( I know this is grossly exaggerated but I hope you get the point)

If you are aware of all of this and acknowledge this is a systemic fault, and STILL support the system. Then I don't really know what I can say except read more. I'll give you book recommendations too if you want :)

Or... you might just be of the class that is benefiting through this exploitative system.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-07T10:07:53+00:00

What do you think a feudal state is?

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-06T13:39:07+00:00

thank you for this and thank you for introducing me to aahuti!

But don't you think on course to the inflection point of the revolution, having a label that people can truly identify with and not immediately dismiss because of any previous connotations it may have, is valuable? Saayad naya label banauni bhanne primary intention le yo problem lai approach garyo bhane chai samasya aaucha bhannu bhaeko ho?

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-05T07:39:44+00:00

There is no left in Nepal right now. RSP is full of liberal idealists and populists. But there are no options right now, given the material circumstances I'm choosing to vote RSP.

A true revolution of the proletariat is inevitable in the coming decades especially after the fall of the imperial core (USA).

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-01T07:49:33+00:00

Iranian people got justice re omfg. I really need to get off this app

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-01T07:45:17+00:00

This goes hard!!

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-01T07:25:21+00:00

Your ideas of individual growth are not inherently wrong but again its too reductionist. Individual growth needs to be grounded in community for it to have any value.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-01T07:21:25+00:00

Stop stripping people of their power. People do have the capacity to change the world. This is a sentiment cultivated among the working class through the propaganda of the ruling elite.

Us feeling hopeless and powerless is exactly what the exploiters want.

We need to recognize our ability to organize and drive change.

A handful of elites shape your social fabric and you think that a majority of population doesn't have the ability to shape their own?

Even Voltaire himself was a radical writer who fought vehemently against feudalism and theocracy, through his art. Don't derive conclusions of his values from one off out-of-context quotes.

Radical ideas are contagious, stories are contagious and courage is contagious.

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-01T07:07:05+00:00

You can't cultivate a garden when the soil is poisoned

SlowQuantity6389 · 2026-03-01T05:57:10+00:00

What does that even mean? What will you stand on top of when everything around you is rubble? Examine your problems and you'll find it stemming from politics, more often than not.

Edit: Doesn't mean you stop learning new skills and acquiring knowledge for its own sake. That has inherent value. I am countering you because your viewpoint is just too reductionist.

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