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Hello future and past oomfs... For organizational purposes, I'm making this pinned post + listing all my personal tags here.
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That said, I'm a suggestive blog... please blacklist #lu.gestive if you don't want to see fat muscular furry men. Also my likes are NSFW.
I don't think that "The big push for AI is starting to flag" because "Tech companies are Out Of Touch And Don't Know What The Consumers Want" or because like The Moral Arc Of History Is Bending Towards Vindicating Independent Artists. I think the reason that the "AI Push" is "starting to flag" is because it was a fucking bubble, and it was based entirely on unsustainable speculation and moving money around in circles based entirely on Vibes, and obviously this kind of growth was never going to be sustainable, but then the PRC released DeepSeek (using the power of democratic centralism) and undercut the entire industry by like a Bajillion Ass Dollars and revealed the Whole Grift of the thing to everyone and now venture capitalists don't want to invest in it because they realized that it's not actually a Print Money Machine. you people are way too credulous and need to read a fucking book.
you people believe way too much that the system Works As Stated. you people need the saving light of dialectical materialist analysis. bashing my face into a wall
Ahmed Hammad, @life-111, is a Gazan (vetted by @90-ghost) whose baby is on a respirator and needs an operation tomorrow. He has to raise 800$ for the operation or they will take his baby off the respirator. HIS BABY WOULD DIE. YOU CAN AVOID THIS. PLEASE DM HIM FOR HIS PAYPAL, GOFUNDME WOUD TAKE TOO LONG. BE THE HERO HE NEEDS!
[ post comparing a country that hasn't gone to war in 40 years, is leading in green energy, has been building infrastructure in the global south and given interest free loans (which are often forgiven) to some of the most impoverished countries on earth etc. to a country that has been at war for its entire existence and has been doing nothing but plundering other countries' economy ]
guy who is from the country that has been at war for its entire existence: damn it really sucks that both countries are shit. and like the same. they have the same problems. it sucks how similar they are. damn it sucks for the people of both countries that the countries are like that. cause they're the same.
It’s important to state China’s superiority in having the much more humane socio-economic system and also acting as a positive force for global politics. But I wanted to include scholarly research that demonstrates that—at least the former anyway to keep this post from being too long.
The following screenshots are from pages 275-277 of Kyle Ferrana’s book Why The World Need’s China. I have opted to keep the citations and the author’s footnotes within the screenshot rather than cropping them out for the sake of length.
If anyone is curious about China’s foreign policy, which the above blog mentioned, I highly encourage you to read Ferrana’s book. Several chapters are devoted to explaining the way the current world order was created, shaped, and how it is currently maintained. He uses a plethora of research to definitively show China’s positive role in the world.
Please read the book before making lazy “both countries are equally bad” assertions.
Hey everyone, my name is Abdelmajed. I don’t usually talk much about myself, but today, I want to share a little piece of my story.
I was born and raised in Gaza, a place that has always been my home 🏡. I grew up surrounded by my family, my friends, and the streets that I knew like the back of my hand. Life wasn’t always easy, but we had love, laughter, and dreams. I used to think that no matter what happened, home would always be here. But life has a way of changing things in ways we never expect.
Over the past months, everything I once knew has disappeared. The streets that were once filled with children playing are now silent. The houses that held so many memories are now just rubble. And the people I loved—some of them are gone forever. 💔
log onto tumblr and you learn that cowboys are secretly leftist and pirates are secretly leftist and superhero comics are secretly leftist and vikings are secretly leftist and greco-roman antiquity is secretly leftist and knights are secretly leftist and the concept of the appalachian region is secretly leftist and all genre fiction is innately secretly leftist and every animated show you ever watched as a kid is secretly leftist and you never have to think about the political subtext of anything ever and you log off tumblr and for some reason people are talking about a descent toward fascism
and btw communism is actually fascist so be sure to confine whatever acts of resistance you may be thinking about to ones that don't challenge power or aim to seize it ok?
The bombs have returned to Gaza.
Two months of ceasefire was not enough for the people of Gaza to rebuild. With the lack of aid and resources, they would have needed centuries. Even so, in the interim “peace”, the Al-Anqars did their best to bring their life back from the unbearable. Birthdays were celebrated, and Khaled even got engaged. But now that the planes and missiles and drones are back, there is only pure survival left.
Nabil, the patriarch, has sliced his hand open with a handsaw while collecting firewood to keep his family from freezing and requires an operation to reattach the tendons. Noor, the littlest, is not getting enough food. The prices since the war’s reigniting have skyrocketed once again. We, the people reading this, are their only hopes.
PLEASE, this is truly the only way to support individual Gazan families. The Al-Anqar family is 14 people, spanning three generations. Every euro matters more than you could ever know. WE NEED FUNDS FOR NABIL’S OPERATION (€700), FOOD, WATER, GASOLINE, AND MONEY FOR THE RAFAH CROSSING, PROVIDED IT OPENS AGAIN.
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I wanna learn about communism but I have tried to read theory and I just think Im too stupid to understand it. Is there any introducing communist ideas for dummies or people with cognitive limitations or learning disabilities guide.
I think Marxist theory can be accessible to everybody. I say this as someone who has serious issues with reading caused by ADHD and probably Dyslexia. I don't know if I've mentioned this recently but I have to go over every post I type or response I make with TTS like three times to make sure my sentences are in the right shape. Like I'm right there with you, comrade, but I think that people in far more difficult situations than ours have found the ability and tools to educate themselves on marxist theory in the most difficult of conditions. Mao gave lectures and wrote theory out of a cave. Y'know? Peasants and workers in the most abject conditions throughout history have managed to understand Marxist Theory. I say this as an encouragement.
And certainly, there are more accessible communist texts out there. The thing about understanding theory is that ideas build on each other. You have to understand some very basic concepts before you can understand more advanced ones, and it's going to be difficult even doing that not because you're stupid, but because you've been taught ideological propaganda meant to oppose Marxist theory your whole life.
it requires going into it with the understanding that you will be told things that may confuse or upset or offend you. It requires going in with an open mind, enough that you can allow yourself to listen to those things regardless and still consider and chew on them. and, unfortunately, it requires learning to trust yourself enough to be able to discern which sources to trust, and what knowledge can be gleaned from all sources, marxist or otherwise.
that said, some more beginner-friendly texts I hope that I can recommend:
The Communist Manifesto (I know it's a stereotype but it's obviously important and a valuable place to start) [audiobook] [text] [1h13m]
You could conceivably listen to the first three of these texts in one sitting, over the course of an afternoon or an evening. It would take about the length of a long feature-length film, and I think they're all relatively accessibly worded. Foundations of Leninism is a bit longer, it'd be a long afternoon by itself, closer to a day-long tv show binge, but you don't have to listen to it in one sitting. if you listen to a half hour of Foundations of Leninism a day, you could finish it in a little over a week. And I think it's ok to be patient with yourself. You're not on a schedule. You don't have a deadline about this. And I think you should give yourself permission to chase your curiosity! If there's a topic that you find particularly interesting, go investigate! Reading theory doesn't have to feel like homework.
When I first started learning about theory a number of years ago, I felt excited and hungry, because I felt I was finally being given answers to questions I'd had all my life, and in shockingly plain language, no less! I hope you can find it exciting and engaging, more than a feeling of responsibility or obligation. Theory can be fun, even, dare I say. And every theorist has their own tone and voice. Lenin is frequently funny and snarky. Mao is very blunt and speaks in a kind of technical language I find particularly engaging. Stalin writes in a way that feels very giving-it-to-you-straight.
Good luck! I wish you the best! Wanting to learn more is the first step and it's the most important and most difficult one, that many people never even get past! Your expressed desire to learn already puts you ahead of the game for many, many people in the world, who will, woefully, only think of Marxism as an antiquated philosophy of "a dead old white guy" at best or some kind of Satanic force at worst. Your curiosity is your greatest asset, and you should be proud of it and nurture it!
Hello, It's Momen Al Madhoun, writing from the most miserable area in the whole world, I am deeply thankful to all of you. Your support means the world to my family
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15 months have passed as if it were 15 years, and suffering increasing day after day 😔 Our health is decaying, we have NO IMMUNITY to fight diseases. No healthy food to feed our worn cells. Finding a quiet, clean place for us to get some rest is IMPOSSIBLE! I'm in urgent need of serious financial support so that I can take action and save my family! Our faces speak the misery we're going through! my children can't bear the ruthlessness of war life… pain and cold does not allow either of them to sleep 💔
I found in drawing a way to relieve stress and describe what we are experiencing, but even this i was deprived of, due to the difficulty of obtaining good internet and electricity for a sufficient time If you are interested in art, you can check I my blog I and find my artworks, i hope you will share them and support me to continue fighting and trying Every share and donation brings us one step closer to saving my family's lives. Your support, no matter how small, holds the power to rescue my loved ones from grave danger There are no words can describe how many times we have been displaced The situation we're living now is really hard to imagine Where do we Go?
Imagine the vastness of this universe, we cannot escape to a safe place far from the war
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trans women will be like “ah yeah I have some weird feelings about how my ex treated me” and then describe the most batshit insane acts of emotional cruelty I’ve ever heard in my life
there is nothing that makes art inherently revolutionary actually in many occasions art is specifically done to be counter-revolutionary, reactionary, protect the status-quo, push racist or bigoted ideas, etc sometimes with the specific intent of promoting that ideology and sometimes simply because the artists themselves have those politics and that bleeds into the work
art can be a vessel for a message sure but it is a vessel and nothing more, it has no subversive quality by itself, artists are not more special for having a skill or have better politics because they know color theory ALSO people just highly overestimate the impact art has on real life
