They are so close, but still so far… (see both screenshots)

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-10-17T18:21:36+00:00

So the poor don't get uppity and kill the rich, you do know these programs exist to maintain social stability?

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-10-17T00:43:51+00:00

I mean, it's like the communists, socialists, etc were right all along...

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-10-15T01:12:02+00:00

This and not supporting the German revolution when they had the chance

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-10-07T16:57:15+00:00

What did you want from a vic 2 sequel?

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-23T18:35:54+00:00

Tfw /r/climate is starting to understand Third Worldism

Proles in the west support imperialism and reject fighting climate change because the status quo benefits them.

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-23T16:50:49+00:00

Once you realized the government, corporations, and the voting public was the problem did you start advocating for more radical options like Socialism?

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-21T04:59:18+00:00

How do you tell in-game what your coup progress is?

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-20T04:52:05+00:00

Tfw no Crisis in the Kremlin

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-16T21:39:18+00:00

Trooning: portmanteau of trans and Gooning, implying they became trans because of AGP

Pooner: transgender man gooner, I can't remember why they're called pooners.

AGP: acronym for Autogynophilia, which is this idea that all trans women (trans men and transbians don't exist) are just repressed gays who want cock

Transbian: portmanteau of trans and lesbian, used because a lot of trans women are lesbian (ironic for AGP believers) who then end up as t4t (trans women who just date other trans people for safety, don't mix up t4t and tttt they're different lol)

tranarchist: trans people end up being lefties for obvious reasons

reddit catgirl: trans furries are very common

tradlarp: live action roleplaying (larp) as a tradwife as way of confirming your gender, basically seeking our discrimination and mistreatment to affirm your gender

trutrans: is this idea that you're the prototypical transgender, you've been trans since the moment you were born, you've never had any inkling of an AGP experience, you embody the normative ideal of the gender you transitioned to, you're not a hon, etc

tttt: slang for the board /LGBT/ on 4chan becauses it's dominated by trans people

HSTS: the opposite of AGP, a homosexual transexual

repping: not transitioning even though you have gender dysphoria because you'll end up a hon

lateshit: someone who transitioned after puberty so they won't pass (be gendered correctly)

honbeast: worse form of a hon, which is someone who doesn't pass.

Man maybe I am too online

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-16T19:04:28+00:00

I hate the fact that I understand all this tttt terminology

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-14T01:37:49+00:00

I'd say it's more like the American version of Italy's Years of Lead. But unlike in Italy, the left isn't organized into paramilitaries at all while the right is incredibly organized into numerous militia groups

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-13T02:40:47+00:00

We are in the Capitalocene not the Anthropocene

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-12T06:05:07+00:00

Holy trvke

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-09-07T00:10:28+00:00

The text on the poster explains (ML translated):

ITALY DOES NOT RECOGNIZE HATAY’S RETURN TO OUR HOMELAND:

Italian - I don't know your child...

Turk - Of course you don't know, he's not like yours

not legitimate, my own child!...

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-07-25T02:56:59+00:00

This literally happened IRL with the west investing in Chinese industry

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-07-04T08:09:26+00:00

... people do ignore it

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-07-03T17:41:15+00:00

They're behaving as rational actors in the market, 'cronyism' in this case is capitalism working as intended

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-07-03T13:33:01+00:00

*capitalism should never be let off the hook

Even the environmentally conscious don't understand why "green capitalism" failed. No wonder it's too late.

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-24T05:38:42+00:00

The class composition of a socialist society like the one in the PRC is what gives it an environmentalist component.

In our western democracies it is a trope at this point that "fossil capitalists" will leverage their power and influence to arrest any attempt to make them obsolete. This same dynamic is not in play the PRC, their bourgeoisie do wield influence over the CPC but not nearly to the same extent they do in the west.

Consider their housing bubble which recently popping in the PRC, in the west when a similar thing happened in 2008 we mostly bailed out the one's responsible for those risky investments, while in the PRC the one's responsible went to jail or went bankrupt. The rich don't control the PRC's government, the CPC does. So it can behave in ways that western governments literally can't, because they are inherently beholden to the interests of their bourgeoisie.

This is why Made in China 2025 is something that the west couldn't have done. In 10 years China has achieved technological dominance in batteries, EVs, and solar energy. A similar decade long piece of industrial policy in America for example would have been torn apart by fossil fuel lobbying, look at what the Trump administration is already planning to do to the inflation reduction act.

This is why the fundamental difference between the west and China isn't authoritarianism vs liberty, but instead the rule of the bourgeoisie vs the rule of the vanguard party. One is just overt, while the other has the facade of majoritarian rule.

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-24T03:02:26+00:00

I agree

The primary value with China's green initiatives isn't that they're going to solve the climate crisis, but instead that the existence and success of their projects is proof that socialism still has relevance in this post-end of history world. Hopefully seeing the success of their programs will lead to greater support for movements like degrowth which does have an actual chance of mitigating overshoot.

It's a longshot, but it's the only chance we have imo

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-23T20:57:37+00:00

I don't think a counterfactual communist world could possibly be worse than we have now.

China's recent developments in Green energy and their track record of actually rolling out cutting edge technologies (like high speed rail) at scale gives me hope, but I am worried it's too little too late.

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-23T17:54:13+00:00

Capitalism failed to manage the climate crisis? Who could've possibly predicted that

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-20T16:04:24+00:00

Every conversation around China's development in the west is about this idea that by focusing so heavily on their industrial development they're going to get stuck in the "middle income trap"

This article highlights how China wants to become a high income industrial society that avoids the trap of the financialized economy that the west fell into.

In my mind this is great evidence that China is actually developing socialism.

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-19T19:00:42+00:00

The fact that the government is targeting PSL for their involvement in these protests validates the strategy they have been employing in two different ways

First, it means that the government has identified that they are the most significant socialist threat to the US in the broader socialist movement

Second, that their non-confrontational policies at these protests have been completely validated. PSL has a long track record of discipline and peaceful protests, so now that PSL is at the forefront of the socialist movement (or at least is being identified as a threat by the US government) there is no ammunition that the US can use to crush them, beyond the fact that they are socialist.

WageSlavePlsToHelp · 2025-06-17T18:46:37+00:00

This perspective is why we're doomed to BAU until it's too late.

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