My sister is a Marxist-Lenninist and embraces Mao Zedong thought but she has doubts on whether or not Deng Xiaoping method was a necessary step to China's development should I cut all ties?
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    Lussy
    18h ago 100%

    Unfortunate but the only solution in this instance is to give her the Ol’ Yeller treatment.

    One thing would be if she was a standard lib but your own sister? A revisionist? This hurts and only the sweet release of death, for her, will bring you tranquility

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  • Peace in the Middle East. At last.
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    Lussy
    18h ago 100%

    But Verse 268 clearly states, ‘lay down your arms in the event that an IDF soldier raises them, for he who forgives untold violence is a martyr before god’

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  • Trump derangement syndrome has taken my mother away
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    Lussy
    1d ago 100%

    You are missing the point completely;

    I really don’t think I am.

    There are communists like that too (many of us have been that communist), liberals breaking that off are honestly doing something reasonable

    Any liberal breaking off ties with their mother because she calls him in the middle of the night to talk about workers owning the means of production is being unreasonable.

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    Lussy
    1d ago 100%

    Don’t abandon your mom because of her misguided political opinions, especially when it seems like she’s experiencing some sort of cognitive decline? Seems pretty self-explanatory.

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    Lussy
    1d ago 100%

    Cutting ties with your mother for being too antitrump in your political discussions with her will surely bring you inner peace. Next order of business, just stop going outside OP.

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    Lussy
    1d ago 85%

    Adult convert to catholicism.

    This would be somewhat understandable if there’s a physical church he frequents that provides some semblance of a cummunity with, like, hot girls or something but I highly doubt this what this loser has going on

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  • Ethan Klein leads his fans on a witch hunt against frogan for a "who can say habibi" tier list she didn't even create.
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    Lussy
    1d ago 0%

    I know it’s super covenient to just buy it, but man, good hummus is stupid easy to make. Just grind chickpeas without anything else and you’ve pretty much made something 99% as good as sabra

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    Lussy
    3d ago 100%

    Racism is not when white dudes with cowboy hats feel afraid of Black teens and call the cops on them.

    I don’t know about you but that’s the most salient part of racism. Not sure I give a fuck about the metaphysical analysis when my literal skin color is being used to impale me with gunfire or make my conditions worse than oh, I don’t know, fucking yours or the average white dude on this here site.

    Palestine and Nicaragua are literally the last thing on my mind when im living my day to day life, talking about these things while I live in despair might as well be a form of escapism

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  • Lol, IDF soldiers are protesting being send to the Lebanon front
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    Lussy
    4d ago 100%

    Lol They’re shitting bricks about going from hitting hapless civilians to fighting battle hardened Hezbollah

    They’re not taking a moral stance lmao

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  • Don’t Rule Out Intel Yet...
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    Lussy
    4d ago 100%

    I have ruled out Intel.

    Edit2: sorry, my boomer ass grandfather just called to tell me ‘don’t rule out intel’ for the third time this year. Just told him I already did and I’ll do it again

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    One of the great precepts of our time, provided by our very own u/CommieJones https://hexbear.net/comment/5501472 Hard truth for many of you to swallow, I know you all wish your cats would piss on you to put out a fire but ![shrug-outta-hecks](https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hexbear.net%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F7cc4b291-507e-4aa2-9ba6-35d81eb4a08a.png "emoji shrug-outta-hecks")

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    Can someone help me find/download this book online for gratis? The Actor’s Other Selves By eric morris Really appreciate it, thank you chaporinos

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    It seems like these two will be at odds with one another forever, regardless of the current state of politics in India. While the far right/BJP's grip on power is waning and won't last forever, it does feel like neither China nor India will move forward with significant collaboration. China has effectively built its Belt Road all the way around the country. This is of tremendous detriment to India, literally the most populous country on the planet, because it knows the USA is an unreliable partner and its only real ally is Russia, with whom they can't even trade energy with due to geographical constraints. Moving forward, what is China's plan with India? Is there any intention to smoothen these relations?

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    >The posturing in the western media is shocking. I’ve taken to reading the Israeli opposition daily Haaretz in order to get some sort of balance. >For instance, this morning the NYT and Guardian headlines are screaming about “U.S. officials” warning Israel of an imminent Iranian attack. This same morning, Haaretz reports the opposite — that U.S. officials are warning Iran of imminent Israeli preemptive attacks. >After the attack on Beirut that murdered Hezbollah leader Nasrallah the NYT and Guardian claimed that only 7 to 11 people were killed when 6 apartment blocks were pancaked. The same day Haaretz reported that official IDF sources claimed that over 300 had been killed. >Haaretz has published strong reporting on October 7 as a “mass Hannibal” involving the slaughter of hundreds of mostly socialist and/or secular Israelis at the hands of the IDF. U.S. media has yet to even examine even the possibility of a “mass Hannibal.” >Haaretz is a proudly Zionist publication operating under heavy wartime censorship! Americans are treated like mushrooms: kept in the dark and fed pschitt. I don’t believe anything published by U.S. media about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. It’s WMD’s on steroids. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/john-mearsheimer-is-not-very-impressed-with-israels-shock-and-awe-campaign-against.html#comment-4109344

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    I’m not saying this is always the case, but the fact that it’s the case at all is fucking insane.

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    Something that has an app for both iOS and Winsh*t, etc

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    Apple, Microsoft, Sony…it’s cool to hate them but can we please direct some fucking ire to this absolute pinnacle of piece of shittery that’s always on the frontier of the shittiest business practices in all things IT? How has this compamy escaped a class action lawsuit by the entire population of the world?

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    I swear to fucking God. I know none of you will believe me. The story of how and where i found it is equally unbelievable. But please…comrades, nothing might be happening right now but watch the news starting tomorrow to see how the butterfly has been set in motion. Here’s what’s going to happen: Events will take place tomorrow that will immediately spell doom for the US in its trade war with China, providing the latter with over a trillion in forex reserves. These funds will accelerate a major component of China’s generational plans by the way of financial aid to one country: Venezuela. This investment will restore all of Venezuela’s refineries and in turn, maximize its natural gas production capacity to make it the world’s greatest exporter of energy. The entirety of South America now has full access to cheap energy, and Venezuela’s soft power begins to dominate every latin American country, causing revolutions all over the continent (yes, even in Arg*ntina). That’s all I can reveal. Now, let me get to how I know this and the actual communism button: I entered the subway station at 4:37 pm today. I saw the station clerk behind his desk gesticulating wildly at me. Confused I asked him ‘what’s up?’. Wide eyed he tells me, ‘come here’. I walk behind his desk to find a small red button labeled ‘touch when man in white spandex and clown shoes approaches at 4:27 pm’. I look at my phone to check the time. I’m stunned. What is going on? I ask him if this is a joke. He says, ‘I thought it was when I clocked into work today…until you arrived.’ ‘…Are you going to press the button?’ He does it. His computer screen instantly changes from Windows 13 or whatever the fuck to KDE. The terminal opens, and reads out the major events for the upcoming years. It signs off with ‘hasta la victoria, siempre’. Nothing at the station seemed to change. Until the next train arrival was an Amtrak that was on time. It clicked for me. The red button, the punctuality of the Amtrak….I had just pressed the Communism button. There is zero doubt given the evidence I mentioned. Just enjoy the ride now. Ask me if you have any questions. Future events, etc

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    What the fuck, guys?

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    https://www.reddit.com/r/PuertoRico/comments/1fiky9k/mi_jefe_es_un_comunista/

    An absolute banger of a thread lmao I swear to god unlike the r/cuba sub which is a complete shithole, r/puertorico is pretty much as close as it gets to being radicalized

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    I grow facial hair annoyingly fast and honestly, I hate how look when I’m not baby butt clean shaven. But I realize that maybe I hate my facial hair because my beard is a little patchy I’ve heard minoxidil has been used for facial hair growth. Has anyone ever tried it?

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    I want to go into sales because they seem to earn a shit ton of money. Are sales folks proles? Labor aristocracy? Would I be a class traitor for selling something and earning, like, 10x more than the artist/engineer/ laborer who makes that thing?

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    You’ll see people on anti-work posting stories about their bosses taking advantage of them and the responses are almost always, ‘quit your, get a new one and double your wage/salary’. ‘Bro your job and your boss suck, just quit and get a new one with 2x pay’ Or ‘I hate my line of work, what should I do’ A:‘Just get a job at a fortune 500 and transition into a different role’ Or ‘just go back to school bro’ I’m studyied engineering and this theme hits even closer to home to people like me. ‘Oh you earn 50k as an engineer? Weird, the entry level pay of people in my company and everyone I know ever is 120 Million’ The general sentiment on reddit and places like antiwork is one of anger, frustration with our economic system, or general despair. But the frustrations always seem to be ‘I am living paycheck to pay check in a big city earning 200k’ and not ‘I have a PHD and I’m struggling to find a job that pays above minimum wage’, which is more of I’ve encountered. Why does everyone seem so fucking comfortable?

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