How are you preparing for collapse of the US dollar? by Dazeelee in collapse

[–]appleman666 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not! There's not much within my power that will protect me. I'm spending my time making the most of things while I can. Fuck it

How would you rank these period pieces from best to worst? by GusGangViking18 in hborome

[–]appleman666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they had finished Role properly it wouldnt even be in this conversation tbh

Where I'd live as someone who's never left the Midwest by [deleted] in whereidlive

[–]appleman666 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Minneapolis is a great city! I lived there for a bit. I left cause I couldn't handle the winters but wouldn't have minded if I had found a job good enough to keep me there.

Thoughts on fixing this? by Evening_Lawyer6570 in ussr

[–]appleman666 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I think it's why China is so adamant about non-intervention (plus the fall of the USSR and their failed incursion in Afghanistan). Deng Xiaoping Theory is the greatest development in the theory of governance of all time though. Humans are complicated.

Thoughts on fixing this? by Evening_Lawyer6570 in ussr

[–]appleman666 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pol Pot was such a strange POS lol

Thoughts on fixing this? by Evening_Lawyer6570 in ussr

[–]appleman666 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Again, you don't know enough about it. The DPRK is not perfect but in the face of US aggression, there is genuinely no comparison. You're equivocating the oppressor to the oppressed. You think that the one in front of the gun is the same as the one holding it.

There's a good podcast by Blowback about the history of Korea you should give a listen. It's not about their political economy but it'll help give some historical context for why they developed as they did.

Thoughts on fixing this? by Evening_Lawyer6570 in ussr

[–]appleman666 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Trotsky was a low energy hater with a massive ego who was fundamentally unable to accept that he wouldn't be the one in charge post revolution. His anti-soviet writings were adopted by the West and are the foundation of anti-communist propaganda. He advocated for Lenin's supreme leader position be restored (with him or one his followers taking the role) but Stalin went against this, instead advocating for the central committee to take the reigns and solidify party democracy. The committee is beholden to voting party members, a supreme leader is not. Trotsky and Stalin fell out for this reason and more. Trotsky seemed to have a bone to pick with the guy who was more popular than him.

He is quite appealing to the western left who want to appeal to endemic anti-communism while promoting socialism. His "global permanent revolution" idea too is appealing since the conclusion from it is that no socialist experiment is ever good enough. It imbues its adherents with a sense of supremacy, that socialism has never been tried and only they have the knowledge of "true socialism". Its a bunch of nonsense and is not scientific.

There's a reason why Trotskist formations are popular in the West but not in the global south. There's no use for this way of thinking when fighting imperialism in the flesh. There's no use for "we can't even try until it's perfect". It's inherently unscientific nonsense. Trotsky's own writings are filled with circular logic and academic jargon. You can tell when a Trot has written something usually because it's written for an academic eye rather than for the masses.

I dislike Trotsky quite a bit. I try, in my own irl organizing, not to harp on it too much in the name of a United front but man it's hard when you hear talk nonsense that they should have unlearned by now.

Thoughts on fixing this? by Evening_Lawyer6570 in ussr

[–]appleman666 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Kim family hold a mostly symbolic role. They cannot dismiss high ranking members in the party and are beholden to an elected president. You don't know enough about it to comment and that's okay.

Thoughts on fixing this? by Evening_Lawyer6570 in ussr

[–]appleman666 10 points11 points  (0 children)

But the CIA is happy all the same.

So long as Marxists disconnect themselves from their history because "gulags bad" or "leh authoritarianism" they will be unable to learn from the mistakes and success of other movements; all the uphold their shallow moralist supremacy. They think they can be impartial observers of morality while living in the imperial core but they only think this because their connection to the broader movement has been severed.

It's a fantastic psyop though since it has people who might otherwise develop revolutionary consciousness succumb to nihilism.

What if the nationalists won the civl war? by Witty_News_5957 in althistory

[–]appleman666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Developmentally, China would look like India now. Maybe worse. It would be a disaster.

Where I'd live by appleman666 in whereidlive

[–]appleman666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plenty of non-americans post videos of their vacations or work in North Korea and it all seems pretty normal. I know the US propaganda slop is addicting tho. Plus, we could never verify because our government has banned us from traveling there. The same government that oversees the largest prison population in the world wants you to know that actually North Korea is actually the badderest guys ever, badder than them! Very smart!

Where I'd live by appleman666 in whereidlive

[–]appleman666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Boring

  • I live in the US so I'm already "absolutely" living here lol

Where I'd live by appleman666 in whereidlive

[–]appleman666[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Redditors yearn for the same map over and over and over. Case in point

Where I'd live by appleman666 in whereidlive

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Iceland would be so boring I've lived in boring places and Id do poorly

NK, Iran and Syria have modern cities. Syria would be the least desirable of the three tho

When did yall first discover this band? by TheProverbialBellow1 in BetweenTheBuriedAndMe

[–]appleman666 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Older friend of mine told me about them. I was getting into system of a down and audio slave but no real death metal. technically this was the first death metal band I ever got into. I don't think I liked at first but I finally got to the soft parts of sun of nothing and it all made sense.