I don’t appreciate your last sentence.

Fair point. I hope I didn’t sound like a dick.

You have a good point, but my thing is that I already don’t have much.

For number 2, I was venting. And I didn’t do it nonchalantly.

And people always talk about internal validation, but that only gets you so far. Which, I’m sure this isn’t healthy, allegedly putting stock in how others treat me, but it’s literal human nature.

And I never said I could decide for someone else. I just see where the wind is blowing. I know you’re not trying to, but I never said that consent is for me to decide for others. I’m almost a libertarian-ish. I believe everyone has the right to decide their own path.

I’m aware, this just sounds like the usual stock advice. And I have BPD. I appreciate your intent, but my hope is that going through this much shit will eliminate the toxicity that usually comes, since we operate on similar waevelengths.

Idk anything anymore.

I should also note that my depression has gotten so bad, that I have to actively force air into my lungs, food tastes like plastic, I struggle to breathe, I sob, I feel empty.

I feel the same way about Chengdu. Maybe we can link up.

It’s hard for me to quantify this, since it’s fiction and I skimmed it

What’s wrong with Yudkowsky, if I may ask?

From what I read and am planning, possibly.

It seems like the shitlib’s complaint isn’t that the U.S. military is a fascist, neo-colonialist, imperialist army of mindless Stormtroopers, but that the violence isn’t focused or financed enough.

It wasn’t until the last line of the video that I agreed with the title

Wait, he does?

I LOVE and highly recommend Miniminuteman

I thought it was the CIA that had JFK assassinated? I’m not necessarily overly doubting you, just wondering how you came to that conclusion.

This is always such a useless and thought-terminating cliche: While it looks (and arguably is) horrible that the Communist Party of China has or is affiliated with billionaires, the truth is that billionaires (at least not ones connected to state-owned enterprises) have almost no political power in the government as a whole.

Billionaires and the rich are tolerated for different reasons, but ultimate power rests with the CPC, which control the commanding heights of the economy, and almost always direct it in a pro-working class way.

Even Lenin argued that socialism is basically a more advanced version of state capitalism, except with the proceeds going towards average working people and society as a whole.

Comparing modern China to the USSR is almost apples to oranges. The USSR had very little time to build socialism, and had to brute force it.

According to Marx’s original writings, he strongly argued AGAINST this. He argued that it would be best for a socialist society to slowly and steadily nationalize/collectivize workplaces and economic entities, as they maximized gains from the slow capitalist transition, because they outlived their usefulness, and centralization would be the next logical step, instead of random companies accumulating profit inefficiently.

I’m hoping to plan something to escape the U.S. before then

I’m also curious where you see that Xi has mostly targeted revisionist Shanghai politicians.

I’m not disagreeing with you, or not entirely, but I feel like you have something specific relating to this.

I have alot of respect for Li Qiang, and while I understand being wary of officials advocating even for limited market forces, he seems to be one of the more genuine and driven and simultaneously pro-marxist officials in the party.

Is there anything in particular that makes you very wary of him?

How can you call the CPC revisionist? They are arguably the most orthodox (aside from mainly Cuba and Vietnam) of communist parties.