Instrument of Surrender and it’s not even close

Elon reminiscing of the days he wasn’t fucking despised and hated by the entire world.

You can’t go back Elon, you had it all and you fucked it up.

Today is the Nobel prize ceremony, 5 hours from now: https://youtu.be/lBueLHd2Ojw

And they call the blue libs “performative”.

That isn’t new really for catholicism. Confession and pastors have always been a sort of mental health grift. A form of therapy before therapy existed.

That sucks so much, No Doubt’s stuff is really radical and good for its time.

I always feel a sort of second hand embarrassment when I encounter people that feel the need to rhetorically puff out their chests. Every now and then you run into them in conversation and they really feel the need to desperately sell themselves to you.

All I can ever do in those situations is smile and nod and just politely keep my thought about their chest puffing to myself because it’s mean and rude.

Anyway that’s what Kamala makes me feel like 95% of the times she speaks.

so what are they waiting for?

They’re making radar and defence operators become bored with seeing the US blips on radar systems which buys them extra minutes when the real operation occurs.

Yeah it is. They did the same before Iraq. The basic modus operandi of US air operations is to get operators on the opposing side used to seeing the US blips on radar to the point it becomes boring before actually launching their proper operation. This buys extra minutes which matters a lot in response times for things when missiles might only be detected mere minutes before impact.

There is also a conceptual failure: the idea that more sophisticated is always better. For decades the American military has relied on systems that are bespoke, complex and wildly expensive.

Sophisticated is fine if you can produce it at a massive scale for a sustained war effort.

If you can’t, all that sophisticated shit will be gone in the first 3 weeks of a peer war.

Ideally you merge sophistication with scale.

I see the left/right line as correctly interpreting the primary contradiction, class struggle. The furthest right representing the absolute victory of the bourgeoisie and the furthest left representing the absolute victory of the proletariat.

Until that contradiction changes it will remain the basic foundation of politics in our time.

So yeah, it’s just a left right line. Dialectical.

Is there a mirror of these videos anywhere?

Sure, ships can try to go around. But most of the other gaps are not viable for large scale shipping as they are too shallow and the Indonesian sea is not calm nor does it have developed ports for shipping at large scale. Most of the shipping will have to go all the way around Australia.

Additionally piracy has not been eradicated in the Strait of Malacca, which is only 2.5km wide at its narrowest point. The routes through the other straits feature considerably more piracy and you can bet on the US quietly boosting the pirates.

I think you underestimate the harm that raising the cost of energy in the country will do to Chinese manufacturing, European manufacturing essentially collapsed as energy costs became economically unsustainable.

I think you’re underestimating how significant this would be for China due to its manufacturing.

I haven’t really done the math but how many millions of barrels can Iran and Venezuela even supply? I am suspicious that they would not be able to fulfill China’s existing needs:

All of this is somewhat moot, China recognises this problem itself and is aiming to completely electrify the country to get off oil entirely. My point however is that moving to the socialist mode before removing the vulnerability would be a bad move. They should get self-sufficiency first. Luck of geography meant the USSR was able to fully provide everything it needed within its own borders, China doesn’t have the same circumstances.

Alright I take back what I said in the mega about Maduro needing to stop public appearances this is a pretty strong point.

Sure, which is why the west is setting up the chessboard against China by assaulting them.

The west doesn’t actually have to take them over either. If they block the Malacca Strait they cut China off from most of their imports. 80% of China’s oil comes through the Malacca Strait

Yeah something like that. But in that representation then you’d be putting anarchism somewhere at the center of the authority axis.

Two axis in a class conscious compass could be authority on the Y axis from the prole vs bourgeois perspective and economy on the X axis again from the “for the proles” and “for the bourgeois” perspective.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics would be somewhere in the middle on this axis while full higher-tier communism would be the furthest left.

Bottom right and top left would still be meme ideology.

I actually really like the concept of “for the proles” and “for the bourgeois” being the basis of the axis, it neatly illustrates how socdems are more for the bourgeois than for the proles, both in authority and economy.

You interact with AI the same way a manager interacts with an employee.

It is not that surprising that working class people hate the shit, whereas everyone in management and up like it. The worker interacts with the brush by holding it and making beautiful art, the manager interacts with the artist by saying “hey artist, make me an art”.

The exec doesn’t actually make anything and this fits right into how they usually interact with people to make things. They also just expect it to get better, and like a fairly average employee they’re willing to give it time to improve which is something they do already for employees that aren’t always great.

Ahh yes I see where you’re coming from now

why shouldn’t it be time to take those big strides away from the capitalist mode?

Mostly because of dependency on imported resources. They need to get the country off oil and uranium imports for energy security in the event that they are cut off from international markets if they take the socialist mode. They import 70% of their oil needs.

I doubt there will be a re-run of the CR. It would take a lot more coalescence of the dissatisfaction to get there,

More importantly, it would require organisation. The actual CR had the country’s strongest revolutionary organiser agitating it on a backdrop of far stronger student organisation that had been inherited from the actual revolution.

They are not as organised anymore and they would be doing it all themselves without experience and without that agitating voice.