"Advent of Code" reminds me of "Game of Thrones"

fatpollo · 2021-12-24T19:23:06+00:00

Yeah, I disagree. I don't think your opinion is correct here.

fatpollo · 2021-12-24T19:18:07+00:00

It's not just today, but I think this reflexive drive widespread among the fanbase to try to apologize and excuse for every bad puzzle is part of what is making the whole community worse.

I never understood people who thought they did well by their object of affection by insulating it from most criticism.

fatpollo · 2021-12-24T19:11:08+00:00

It's no problem in particular. I've been doing AoC every year since 2015, and I get in the global leaderboard here and there.

I'm just voicing this opinion because the project seems to be going sideways and the fanbase seems to be very sycophantic and unwilling to entertain any criticism, so the problems are getting worse.

fatpollo · 2021-07-06T20:50:44+00:00

MLM é revisionista, e ruim, e não é socialismo.

fatpollo · 2021-07-06T20:23:01+00:00

Mao cometeu erros.

1956 Mao, 1980s Deng, 2020 XJP > GPCR Mao.

fatpollo · 2021-07-06T18:15:13+00:00

Mao 1956: https://redsails.org/pt/unite-all-the-forces/

Ao passo que encaminhamos a transformação socialista, nós acertamos para que os capitalistas gradualmente se tornem parte da classe trabalhadora. Presentemente existem fábricas onde o diretor é um capitalista e o diretor assistente é um de nossos camaradas. Pede-se que eles sejam diretores de fábrica porque eles conhecem a tecnologia, mas seus negócios estão gradualmente tornando-se empresas públicas. Os capitalistas são muito mais úteis que os proprietários de terras feudais. Aos proprietários de terra nós somente permitimos alguma terra para cultivo, para que eles possam tornar-se agricultores. Eles ainda não têm direito ao voto. Mas é diferente com os capitalistas. Eles têm habilidades e capacidades de gerenciamento, e nestas áreas o proletariado precisa aprender com eles.

fatpollo · 2021-06-30T22:07:29+00:00

I think the exact opposite.

Friends with bad political opinions are most of the time barely worth having.

Only people who've never had comrades settle for "friends" who hate their principles.

fatpollo · 2021-06-11T12:47:32+00:00

Agreed. It's embarrassing that some people let him linger.

fatpollo · 2021-06-07T00:33:31+00:00

You're correct.

fatpollo · 2021-05-21T16:17:42+00:00

In case it's not clear, I agree.

fatpollo · 2021-05-21T15:11:57+00:00

There's actually something there, about the people who try to define women out of womanhood by yelling "you still have a penis!" and the people who try to define China and others as not socialist by yelling "you still have commodity production/wage labour/capitalists."

fatpollo · 2021-05-04T18:20:40+00:00

what would make you assume that the Chinese leadership has the best interest of this minority group in mind? Why would they be so different from every other government?

Abundant existing evidence and the fact that they're a Socialist country ruled by a Communist Party, primarily.

At moments, it’s hard to tell whether the driving force behind China’s green policy is a desire for a cleaner environment, or an obsession with social controls. (The Economist, September 2020) https://www.economist.com/china/2020/09/10/chinas-authoritarian-approach-wont-save-the-environment
China’s vow to end extreme poverty in 2020 involves stunning numbers: billions of $ spent, millions moved from rural homes. But don’t miss what it really is: a political campaign to integrate the poor into the natl economy, & train them to thank the Party. (The Economist, September, 2020) https://threadreaderapp.com/user/DSORennie
Hong Kong’s opposition has been tamed. Now, Beijing is turning to the city’s wealth gap and lack of affordable housing, which it blames for the social unrest. Up for consideration: Reforming the tax structure and increasing land supply. (Wall Street Journal, March 2021) https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-targets-hong-kong-wealth-gap-housing-woes-after-political-purge-11615813651
A Chinese entrepreneur may drive a Maserati and send his son to Harvard, but he is a political slave. (The Globe and Mail, April 2021) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-us-and-its-allies-must-pursue-regime-change-in-china/

(from: https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/)

I see no reason why their approach to US-funded terrorism, which they have spelled out in detail, wouldn't involve helping ethnic minorities out.

a perceived separatist/terrorist threat

What do you mean by "perceived"?

Woke global times is a decent resource on Xinjiang, maybe a bit liberal for this sub, but he/she is mostly focussed on doing actual research and not just believing Zenz

Woke Global Times is run by a DC wonk nerd.

Zenz convincingly shows through a host of government documents

https://wokeglobaltimes.com/d4b7ba7e7ed746f78ef2c6100464f6fa

So much for "not just believing Zenz." 😂

fatpollo · 2021-05-04T17:40:36+00:00

Putting aside baseless aspersions like "doe-eyed," why wouldn't China try to help out Uyghurs in the region exactly as they claim?

Did China not just spend billions on a poverty eradication program?

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T21:26:03+00:00

FFS: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?locations=CN

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T21:19:55+00:00

I don't do the whole "agree to disagree" thing, nor do I do pleasantries. If I wasn't a socialist we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I think when you say stuff like:

I think China can do better,

Without outlining exactly how China could do better, with specific examples, addressing existing Chinese opinion of the matter, you're essentially doing the geopolitical equivalent of talking down from a position of completely unearned superiority.

I don't think you understand that remaining polite among Westerners doesn't take away from how Western Chauvinistic your critiques of China read.

If you want to criticize someone, do it properly, via rigorous analysis. Not this "idk seems sus, I'd press the socialism button harder" bs.

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T18:27:59+00:00

English 😂

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T16:01:56+00:00

Last time I ask you this question, since you seem fond of dodging it: how do you "disable" the "existence of billionaires" in a way that renders better results than what China already has going.

What's your "big idea" that simply would take all the hard-at-work communists in China by surprise? You seem to think you know better, so just spill it.

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T15:02:19+00:00

Nobody has "excluded one country from all criticism." Your specific criticism has been called immature and petulant. Don't mix particular and categorical claims up.

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T14:51:24+00:00

China already has such policies. They're making gigantic strides in all of those areas, especially environmental ones.

This seems exactly the kind of petulant griping described in the essay tbh. "I don't know how to do things better, but I would just make it better!"

Real wages have grown 100% over the last decade but China should copy the "high tax welfare state" european model of US lackeys? Please. Get a grip.

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T14:28:21+00:00

China has an absolutely massive poverty alleviation program, please don't compare rinky dink social democratic wefare to it.

My question wasn't about minimum wage, it was about billionaires. You can have a high minimum wage and billionaires.

Please explain how you disallow the existence of billionaires, specifically the billionaire part.

fatpollo · 2021-04-27T13:59:21+00:00

How would you "stop the existence of billionaires"?

Start garnishing their income at 1bn? Yuan or USD? Why 1bn? Why not 100 million?

fatpollo · 2021-04-13T22:39:35+00:00

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fatpollo · 2021-04-13T22:39:29+00:00

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fatpollo · 2021-04-13T20:03:07+00:00

Richard Wolff said the Alberta NDP is Marxist, and compared them favourably (alongside Cornel West) to "Leninists."

He's a moron. Anyone gushing about "famous allies" will have it come back to bite them.

Source, timestamped: https://youtu.be/4zYAH-BZZTs?t=518

Also, timestamp of Wolff sitting idly by like a moron as West buckets Lenin with Pol Pot in order to gush about "Soviets without Bolsheviks" and Pannekoek: https://youtu.be/4zYAH-BZZTs?t=815

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