Psychologically, taking a bath each morning leaves me extremely relaxed.

American Tabloid if you’d like some historical fiction. TW: lots of racism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFYv6sixE0g

tbh it was just a joke… i do listen to a lot of drill tho if ur interested in hearing about it

pop smoke crip walked so i could run

Not in this thread, one of the post titles on the main page.

Please could we do trigger warnings and sensor the r word in a similar way to Hexbear? Thank you.

That’s fair, I was trying to engage with xhs’s ideas.

As Marx said, “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”. To understand where we are today, we need to go way back in time and approach history from the perspective of class analysis. How the mechanism for class mobility arose in China, and how that evolved into the deep bureaucracy of the modern Chinese state today.

And if one cannot understand that, one cannot understand why Mao felt the need for a Cultural Revolution. Remember that Mao himself claimed to have read Zizhi Tongjian for at least 17 times (!!), I’m sure he knows very well how the deep bureaucracy of the Chinese society works.

Please can you correct my understanding: Modern day China has a bureaucratic class, Mao has noted the tendency toward a new bureaucratic class, Ancient China had a bureaucratic class, we have not seen the system sustain itself without a cultural revolution.

While, yes, the bureaucratic tendency is real, are we not witnessing the system attempt to renew itself? We are having a discussion over an unsubstantiated article, all we know for sure is that they were removed as part of corruption investigations. We must simply wait and see.

thank you

When I think about Xi’s published writings which I saw recently here or on Hexbear described as a bunch of speeches from ribbon cutting ceremonies, is it right to conceive of this as his thought being related to party discipline, strengthening of the party, which can also be seen in his anti-corruption purges? I was reading xiaohongshu’s latest post talking about 3 CMC officials being purged - it seems to me both China and America have purged their upper ranks which I think corresponds with the qualitative shifts taking place in warfare at this moment. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Hello, does anyone have resources on how I can use AI while keeping brain rot to a minimum?
I abhor how it entices me to talk to it about my feelings or offload critical thinking on it.