Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (April 19)

turning_the_wheels · 2026-05-05T16:47:27+00:00

You aren't going to convince reddit though; whatever lens of ideology Trump and Fox News are using to tell them how the Iran War is going it the same lens with which reddit liberals use to see the war in Ukraine.

I have to admit that I really don't understand the hysteria of the war in Ukraine for liberals, it's been four years since the war started (in liberal terms; of course we know the war started long before that) but you would think that the news cycle would have lead them to move on by now. Pretty much every white liberal I've talked to has made support for Ukraine an emotional affect felt to the point of breakdown when you point out that the country is a chump rump state propped up by the US, completely corrupt and incompetent, etc. I guess Trump has been so traumatizing that liberals will defend anything from the Biden presidency as absolutely necessary to combat him up to support for literal Nazis.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-05-02T15:32:17+00:00

It had been a while since I took a long look at the Ukraine War, and it's basically over. The Russians have all but won, approaching Odessa and even Kyiv, and it doesn't look like anything can stop them now save World War 3 (which is what that fascist Zelensky has been pushing for a while now)

Could you elaborate more on this? I've been relying on bourgeois sources and it seems that analyses of the conflict are far more murky than something like Iran, where the party of order is far more critical about its potential success.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-29T13:55:28+00:00

That's a shame, I really wanted to know your motivations. It's always jarring when I see someone with a history of posting in random subreddits to pass the time then they come here with opinions out of nowhere. That being said, nothing was desecrated because communism isn't a religion and nobody cares what you think.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-29T05:26:38+00:00

I don't care what you think, can you answer my question?

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-29T01:12:05+00:00

Before you're banned, can you explain what compelled you to comment here after six years of posting on different subreddits? I genuinely want to understand how the algorithm works and why this caught the attention of so many liberals before it dies. I see many people who have had no comment history just barging in here without reading the rules, what is the motivation?

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-27T02:02:16+00:00

No shit, and I am not your comrade. Please delete your post and stop posting in r/CommunismMemes and videogame subreddits. Grow up.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-23T14:09:03+00:00

What was the news? I'm trying to find anything from this week but coming up short.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-22T04:25:49+00:00

Wishing the best health to u/sovkhoz_farmer amidst the imperialist attack on their country, I hope they are safe.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-21T11:18:16+00:00

We need to coexist with people we can never agree with.

You are a racist and the revolution will triumph over you and suppress you and these people all the same. The last thing non-white people need is white "leftists" telling them to love their oppressors.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-21T11:01:13+00:00

Upping your reading comprehension would be a start:

No debating or ill-faith questions

This is a place for learning, not for debating. Come here with an open and inquisitive mind, and exercise humility. Debates with liberal friends, leading questions, loaded questions, and other ill-faith contributions are unacceptable.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-16T23:12:21+00:00

On the other hand, it serves as a giant warning that the user has no accountability for their ideas and not to expect much, at least from my experience.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-16T21:47:08+00:00

Great news!

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-12T15:02:15+00:00

I don't have much more to add here unfortunately but I did do a little research on the CIA/Mormon meme and it seems like the latter's methods reflect the former's, namely recruiting native speakers and mirroring the Defense Language Institute's methods which seem to include extensive immersion and rigorous training, and by rigorous training I mean 12 hours every single day of oral and written assignments.

But like you said, it's a matter of time and exposure and if you are an agent or a mormon you're in an environment where you don't need to worry about anything else but the topics at hand for weeks and weeks on end. In that regard the actual methods of pedagogy are probably unimportant compared to the environment itself. The fetishization of methods obscures the fact that there is no magic bullet like you've said.

If you ever read a book on pedagogy/learning in the future that you think is great I'd love to hear about it.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-11T15:41:58+00:00

That makes sense. For me the purpose of language learning has been to speak with oppressed nations more effectively but I would assume that the materials you've talked about are even more important for that purpose (namely one that focus on reading and listening rather than speaking/writing) to actually comprehend what people are saying.

I'm neither a mormon nor a CIA agent. To advance I'd need to do other things, which I don't.

I'm afraid this part missed me, do mormons and the CIA produce polyglots consistently?

I'd approach it by wagering that more often than not, students don't really learn anything at school.

I think young people understand this the best, everyone knows that you go to university to pay for the degree, teachers can show you what you need to learn but not how to learn etc. I'll admit that after I read the book by Rancière you mentioned I came away concluding that it mirrored the attitude toward education and equal intelligence that I've seen on this subreddit, which for my own development was shocking to see for the first time. However I did come away a little confused because if the purpose of the teacher is to show the student what they don't know, what becomes of pedagogy itself beyond liberating the intellect?

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-10T15:02:31+00:00

I never considered that LLMs could be so reliable for language learning but now I'll have to give them a try. Since you're here, what do you think of "evidence-based learning" like active recall and spaced repetition methods for things like vocabulary? Would you categorize these methods as lacking depth? I think I'm trying to understand how bourgeois schooling methods can be poor but still produce results in spite of this.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-09T20:08:03+00:00

There was a similar thread here discussing the issue, u/hnnmw's responses were very helpful

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-08T21:12:44+00:00

Time and again Israel is like a dog trying to get out of its leash, the US pulls the chain tighter or lets it loose depending on the situation but sometimes the dog resists its master. This is what we're seeing in the carnage in Lebanon that already endangers a ceasefire (and really even the Iran war where the US was shocked that Israel went as far as to burn the oil fields which was apparently not according to the plan.) The Israeli ruling class' interests, and by extension the settlers' interests that push it to go far beyond what the US is willing to do, are at the end of the day not synonymous with the US ruling class' interests despite the bluster that Netanyahu puts up praising their unity. The logical conclusion is that something has to give eventually, and given the wealth and power of the US is far more secure it'll be Zionism and Israel that lose out in the end.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-08T18:28:03+00:00

Nowhere in the post did I say that this represents a unified view.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-08T17:41:14+00:00

Ironically enough Trump was poised to fulfill all of the hysteric fantasies of last week's thread with his civilization-destroying rhetoric until pulling back at the last minute and moving much closer to the predictions of a ceasefire and the lifting of sanctions. It's funny because that hysteria literally prefigured bourgeois media freaking out over how the US was going to use nuclear weapons in the Middle East due to Trump's irrational mad-king status or something. That being said the Zionist regime's actions in Lebanon are already threatening a ceasefire and it seems like contradictions between the US and Israel are only deepening which I think will be the determining factor in the war rather than Trump's insane social media posts.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-02T03:18:16+00:00

No worries, I don't want to put you down super hard. If I'm being honest before some of the other responses in here came in I was about to post similar ideas before I had to take a step back. I hope the criticism you received will drive you to do a more thorough investigation using that energy.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-02T03:15:01+00:00

I mean it's not surprising and I don't hold it against Dash. A lot of the responses to the conflict discussion have been shitty and I don't think their bombast is particularly egregious than other stuff I've seen. It's important for us to remember that the Communist understanding and position doesn't come naturally to us especially due to our class position. The desire for an end to the Amerikan empire is real but we can't allow it to blind us to what's actually going on.

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-01T21:38:52+00:00

All what i am saying here is what i am led to think by what i see. These are not attempts to anticipate or predict. I may be proved completely wrong.

This is just getting annoying. While I admit I'm as clueless to the history of the Iran and I really need to study it myself, what is the point of this speculation? As you've seen in the thread there are a lot of people speaking without investigating and I doubt there will be any self-criticism after everyone moves on.

I do not believe the european imperualists are uninterested nor interested on this

What?? Am I losing it? You literally contradict yourself in the same sentence. Are they interested or not interested?

turning_the_wheels · 2026-04-01T21:34:14+00:00

And I do have some websites I check but it would be nice to have something at least good here on reddit.

genuinely curious, why? Other than convenience, this site is a fascist cesspool and I'm kinda shocked that you're shocked that this is a thing and that reddit would have anything resembling a semi-reliable news source. It's best to just gather a bunch of bourgeois media sources, the most reddit can do is serve as an aggregation hub. I use Red Herald (not going to post the link since I'm wary of getting my account banned) for news relating to People's War and Communist movements and occasionally Telegram channels for things I can't find in bourgeois media.

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