Came here from your reply to my comment on the General Discussion Thread. Thanks comrade!

Players are clearly mad at Baszucki, so I think we can direct that energy into agitation efforts, which I think will be useful since lots of players are migrating from Roblox to Polytoria, similarly to how many of us originally came from Reddit and moved here when the original Genzedong subreddit was quarantined, and when more users came to Lemmy when Reddit removed third-party support.

Matt Easton/Scholagladiatoria is great imo for an unbiased overview of various weapons across history. He also distanced himself from more right-wing history channels such as Shadiversity (Sargon’s and Metatron’s buddy) a long time ago.

I was given recommendations to Klim Zhukov before, so I will also recommend him here. He is a fellow communist, though you might need to use subtitles if you don’t speak Russian.

Malcolm P.L. has a bunch of interesting history videos beyond the usual scope of Medieval Europe or Feudal Japan. This one for example discusses the socio-economics of Iroquoian armor, and the pinned comment even explains how specialization in production produces class divisions

Oo po. There’s also a Philippines community here as well in case you’re interested.

A bunch of Roblox players (myself included) have been migrating to a different game called Polytoria due to Roblox’s CEO (David Baszucki) fucking up a lot of stuff lately. So many players have been migrating in fact that Polytoria’s servers are slowing and/or crashing, though devs are working to fix it.

Maybe I can agitate there? Maybe by bringing up that Baszucki’s actions are an inevitability under Capitalism, and that he (like virtually every other CEO) only appeals to shareholders instead of the community.

Epstein seems to have been interested (involved, maybe?) in the overthrow of Gaddafi, particularly with Libya’s frozen assets.

I’ve seen my fair share of gore and shock content in the past but these documents take the cake for being the most vile and unsettling shit I’ve ever read holy fuck

I usually have a strong stomach for these things (Probably due to desensitization. Growing up on late 2000’s and early 2010’s internet unsupervised fucks people up, evidently) but this has been one of the few things I’ve ever seen so far to make me feel actually sick to my stomach.

We have been reminded once again that the Bourgeoisie are irredeemable in every conceivable way, and only Communist revolution can save us.

In around 2014 I was a loner and impressionable kid who was drawn towards edgy memes and “SJW Meltdown” compilations. Then when I entered highschool in 2017 and made new friends, my radicalization slowed down as I interacted less and less with far-right echo chambers, though I still had various right-wing views like anticommunism, supporting US intervention and supporting the Hong Kong protests.

And then the pandemic hit, and nationwide lockdowns occurred, leading to the replacement of face-to-face classes with online classes, which I struggled with due to shitty internet which, in my experience, was actively throttled by PLDT (one of the oligopolies in my country controlling internet and telecommunication services) to attempt to pressure us into paying them more. (Thankfully we use a different service now)

Long story short, I also observed that The Right was actively discrediting science and pushing anti-vaxx nonsense in favor of consuming literal horse dewormer (ivermectin) instead, which lead to me fully leaving The Right and becoming a centrist/socdem. By the middle of the pandemic (around early 2021) I got tinnitus (but no apparent hearing loss based on hearing tests I was given) which fucked my sleep cycle, and my (highly religious) family decided the solution was to pray, which I did, to no effect, leading me to become atheist.

I became disillusioned with liberal democracy’s incompetence with dealing with the pandemic and fighting against the rampant misinformation and the cults that peddled them. Eventually I ran into Stalin’s works (Specifically, Anarchism or Socialism and Dialectical and Historical Materialism) and later Lenin’s, Marx’s, etc. works, and by the middle to near end of 2021 I fully accepted Marxism-Leninism.

Funnily the thing that always stuck with me from my anti-SJW era to now is my skepticism towards so-called human rights and Rule of Law, but the big difference between then and now is why. Back then, I supported then-president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs and extrajudicial killings (he’s in The Hague for that now lol) and believed human rights only protected criminals from punishment for depriving their victims of those same rights (in other words I believed in “an eye for an eye”) while nowadays, I find human rights in their current (Liberal) iteration to be deeply contradictory and hypocritical since Capitalism, by design, actively deprives the workers of their rights to their labor, and actively relies on constant exploitation to not simply collapse under its own weight, and only Communism can sufficiently guarantee these rights. And Rule of Law is just a tool by the imperial core to decry non-imperialist countries as “rogue states”.

The bourgeoisie are evil and fucked up because it is in their class interests to be so; Their interests are to accumulate capital and preserve or expand their power and status no matter the cost. To them, the ends (Capital accumulation) justify the means (Endless exploitation and the destruction of nature and basic human dignity)

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”

• Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 17

The above quote continues to be relevant to this day especially when it comes to global power dynamics. The bourgeoisie cannot expect to be loved, as they actively exploit the proletariat. Naturally, they turn to fear, whether it be through police brutality at home or ruthless imperialism abroad, among many other things.

Version without the paywall

One bright spot in U.S.-Southeast Asia policy remains the U.S,-Philippines alliance, which appears stronger now than at any point in the previous decade. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has made a sustained effort to court the Trump administration and was the first Southeast Asian leader to secure a meeting with Trump during his second term.

And ofc my country remains a US Puppet… Pro-US political commentators here justify US involvement by citing our territorial conflict in the South China Sea, even though the article shows that Vietnam is warming up to China even despite their own territorial conflicts there as well.

Vietnam, which had seen its relationship with the United States expand significantly under the Biden administration as both sides had a common interest in deterring China’s expansion in the South China Sea, was dismayed when Trump announced a 46 percent tariff rate on Vietnamese exports in April.

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Given the uncertainty stemming from current U.S. policy, Hanoi has warmed ties with Beijing in recent months, with Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting Hanoi twice in 18 months and Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary To Lam traveling to Beijing in August 2024.

Hasan allegedly used a shock collar on his dog on stream, and chuds are clinging onto this to discredit his views.

I don’t know if he really did/does or not, but in the video clip of the supposed shocking, it looks to me like Kaya (his dog) stubbed her foot on her platform during the moment she yelped.

That’s true… If there was a FOSS-based alternative (like how Lemmy and its instances are alternatives to Reddit, or how Bluesky/Mastodon are alternatives to Xitter) I can see myself jumping ship and using that instead of Facebook/Messenger, with the only obstacle being that I kinda need Messenger for checking college announcements and communicating with professors and classmates, since that’s what everybody uses.

I watched the video, and it is mainly talking about Vavilov’s genetic studies and his rivalry with Lysenko who rejected evolution and genetics in favor of the pseudoscientific Lamarckian/Inheritance model, on top of the liberal tradition of having Stalin live rent-free in their heads. Also at around the 6 minute mark they massively misinterpret communism as “believing the right conditions make tougher men”

My guess is that they shoehorned Stalin into the conversation because that’s what generates clicks.

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Personally I use Xiaomi. (Before that, I used Vivo. Both are Chinese companies btw) Their phones are pretty high quality despite their cheap price compared to other phones of similar quality, but they put ads in their system apps (But this can be mitigated through various means) and have a few analytics-related settings, but you can turn those off after snooping around in settings if you’re concerned about privacy.

Sorry guys I ate it with a comically large spoon (I was hungry after Stalin devoured all the world’s grain leaving nothing left)

i think it’s more of a tell that we are literally educated to serve the USian market, not necessarily means that our countries are americanized or westernized.

Here in the Philippines, it’s both😭

When I was in Elementary, our schools had an English-Only Policy where speaking our national language (Tagalog) outside of Filipino classes was penalized. We also have an entire market for overseas work (OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers)

I believe AI (whether for images or other things) is first and foremost a tool. I remember shortly after the GenZedong exodus here we even played a bit with AI image generation. (There was even a thread for generating images, but idk if it’s still around anymore or if the bot dedicated to it still works.) Although this was when AI was just getting popular. I would much rather write stuff with my own words and do my own research instead of rely on something like ChatGPT or Grok to do the same though.

Personally, I’m not a big fan of the commodified AI slop nowadays, (although you can blame capitalism for that, and AI, with its pattern detection, only accentuates the soulless nature of capitalism) but it is clearly here to stay. Although if used well, AI can be actually entertaining. (Neuro-Sama for example)

My main concern with AI is privacy and transparency. Services like Google have recently been pushing for AI in places that involve your personal information such as your phone, and they make the excuse that collecting your data is needed for training their AI. If AI was fully open-source and trained exclusively on voluntarily given data instead of scraping it without permission, it probably wouldn’t have the bad rep it has currently.

Edit: Deepfakes are also potentially problematic IMO. As AI image and video generation gets better, it may become harder to discern if something is real or if it is AI generated in the near future, so I believe that an AI use disclosure should be absolutely necessary.

I’ve also heard that sites like YouTube will implement AI systems to estimate users’ ages based on the content they view, and apply restrictions accordingly, such as blocking the viewing of videos deemed problematic, and an ID will be needed to prevent these restrictions. But considering that the majority of YouTube’s “kid’s content” is either brainrot or ElsaGate content, this will more likely be used to silence opposition, such as coverage on Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

I have just watched Takopi’s Original Sin and it’s some really heavy stuff. It sheds light on some very real issues in today’s society such as bullying, domestic abuse, suicide, etc., and how unfair conditions can lead to such behaviors. However, the ending feels a bit… Libby, for lack of a better term? (Spoilers ahead)

I think you may be interested in Engels’ The Decline of Feudalism and the Rise of the Bourgeoisie. This link is the Web Archive version, as the one in the original site seems to have been taken down due to copyright. Hope this helps!