Nah, a coconut pulverized their lib brain before making this post.

The House of the Spirits has characters that fit this description to a tee. The book was written by Isabel Allende, a cousin of Salvador Allende, and is a stylized retelling of life through the transition in Chilean politics post-colonialism through Salvador Allende to Pinochet.

The book ends with the character and narrator Alba saying that, despite previously organizing for Allende’s socialist party, and getting raped by the military coup forces after, she will not seek vengeance on those who have injured her, choosing to believe in the hope that one day the human cycle of hate and revenge will be broken.

Yes, let me lie down and let myself get run over by capitalists because then maybe they won’t also run over my children.

Because of her simplistic writing on ‘cycle of violence bad’ while ignoring Marxist analysis, Isabel Allende seems to be a darling in liberal circles. Obama gave her a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

DPRK Explained’s videos are great! He talks about North Korea like a normal, regular country. The North Korean music he finds (posted on DPRK Explained Music) are always quite relaxing.

I don’t know where y’all get the idea that I want humans to escape from Earth. That would be incredibly stupid.

We need to go to space for resources to increase living standards at home and avoid further ecological destruction. For instance, the only good sources of helium-3 (an excellent fuel for fusion) is mining from the moon or gas collecting from gas giants. Nothing is alive in space, so there aren’t downsides to mining there like there is on Earth. Socialism is also the only way to prevent space resources from only bulking Jeff Bezos’ (or his childrens’) pockets.

I, for one, do not think socialism means forever stalling at 2030s-era tech.

Eh, it’s a matter of investment into the technologies required for bulk space transport. Infrastructure like space railguns (basically a really long Hyperloop section that points towards the sky to shoot payloads into space) are feasible today (and China is researching them already: https://newatlas.com/space/china-railgun-spacecraft-orbit/ ), and more out-there ideas like space elevators are a matter of time. In order to reach full communism without strip mining the entire Earth, getting resources from lifeless space is essential. That will require lots of people in space.

The interesting thing to see at this time is if China can show another way to sustainable population management. Capitalist countries seem intent on shrinking their overworked populations into nothingness. South Korea’s birth rates have only decreased further, even as their population keeps shrinking.

Like killing all the German communists.

It will be a challenge of the century to see if socialism can fix this crisis where capitalism clearly hasn’t.

I certainly hope that, as China improves living, working, and social conditions, that birth rates rise back up to replacement rates or higher. That would cement the superiority of socialism and prepare the world for the population required to expand into space across the solar system.

If we had real foresight before WW2, we should have convinced Hitler to invade Zionist Israel. Have the fascists annihilate each other. If the only thing the Nazis cared about was ‘fighting world Jewry’, the logical thing to do would be to invade Israel, the center of it all.

Of course, this never happened because:

• hating Jews was only tangential to the Nazis’ real purpose of defending capital
• Nazis and Zionists collaborated.

Westerners only single out the Jewish genocide because 😱 they were white! None of the other genocided peoples are white, so it’s OK.

Thanks for writing this. I watched that video a while ago and was fuming from the number of times Brian blames China for something the US itself did before as well.

Brian seems to believe that 1) whatever the US space program does is good while whatever China does is bad, and 2) China can magically and immediately adopt the US’s best space tech, and that China deliberately doesn’t because communists want people to suffer.

The anti-satellite weapons complaint is particularly eregious. The USA, India, China, and Russia have all tested anti-satellite weapons, yet Westoids only complain about China and Russia. As with nukes, all strong military powers need anti-satellite capabilities for the same reasons. In fact, anti-satellite weapons are often adapted for anti-ICBM uses as well. Live testing is the only way to make sure they work.

The ‘rocket first stages falling from the sky’ point is only a problem with China’s current expendable rocket tech. China has several reusable rocket startups (see Dongfang Space for more info) and once they are up and running, the first stages will be able to do controlled landings instead.

Similarly, hypergolic fuels are simple and just work, making them great for initial rockets in a resource-strapped country like pre-2000s China. Now that China has more money and research talent, it is shifting to less toxic propellants like methane and kerosene.

To him, ‘checking biases’ means opening Ground News and adding every ‘China bad’ fact he can find that’s even spuriously related to space into the video script.

China has a pretty vibrant yuri manga (called manhua) scene, and I guess that is soaking into the new Chinese anime (donghua) scene as well.

Mihoyo is pretty notorious for making a lot of their female characters super gay. For example, in their pre-Genshin game, Honkai Impact 3rd, nearly all the original main girls are gay for one another. Here’s some official lesbian scenes: https://www.hoyolab.com/article/550051

This looks awesome! Here’s the art source: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/77055903

It seems impossible for Western fascists to comprehend that most people don’t have the primal urge to invade and genocide everyone around them once their country is strong.

US physicians like the for-profit insurance system because they are paid 2x or more than in single payer systems. For example, I know Canadian physicians who doubled their pay upon moving to the USA. It is a bribe by insurance companies for doctors to be apathetic towards capitalist suffering.

In America, the terms Latino, Latinx, and Hispanic refer to basically anyone from any country in the Americas that is below the United States, geographically and ‘culturally’. It’s essentially a label Americans use to say, " oh you’re from one of THOSE removed countries".

The great great grandson of a Spanish conquistador who massacred thousands of indigenous people to claim his own plantation is considered the exact same as the granddaughter of an indigenous person on the receiving end. Both are called Hispanics, making the word an utterly meaningless label.