The obvious answer is that sports are generally not characterisable as capitalist or proletarian on their own - you can imagine people whacking things around the land with a stick prior to the enclosure of the common land and subsequently formal development of golf.

Counterexample: Foxhunting where inbred Anglo nobles on horseback follow a bunch of dogs tearing a fox to shreds will always be reactionary.

Most reactionary: Big game hunting or that thing where inbred *nglo nobles on horses hunt down foxes with dogs

Least reactionary: Probably football

Herodotus said
From the river to the sea
All the way back
In the 5th century BC

The Musk farce to the Perot tragedy

Palestinians are being exterminated in Gaza for almost two years now.

Palestine Action, the only Western org that’s actually doing something to stop the genocide, has been proscribed in the UK, meaning anyone supporting them, including supporting them on social media, will be hit with terrorist charges for supporting “terrorism.”

They asked if I’d read Lenin

“I didn’t know he wrote books, but I do like his songs though.”

Gaming is the only artform that hasn’t reached anywhere close to its potential and has entire genres that are actively harmful to people (gacha trash that preys on gambling addictions, H-games where you r-word lolis). The world would be better off if we just delete every single game in existence and start over once we have global communism. Call it games 2.0.

mfw the environment in which I live in can simultaneously change and be changed by me

reread my comment

Okay, that came out a lot more unhinged than how it sounded in my head lmao

I’m sorta the opposite: social relationships are so shallow and superficial in late stage capitalism that most social relationships can be replaced with a chatbot. If your social relationships can be summed up as water cooler conversations with coworkers and catching up with your drinking buddies, you might as “socialize” with a chatbot instead. Say what you will about a chatbot, but at least a chatbot won’t stab you in the back like the case of socializing with coworkers or turn you into a functioning alcoholic like the case of socializing at a bar.

If your social relationships are limited to having pointless conversations about the weather or traffic or your favorite sports team, then what is the point of the social relationship in the first place?

I just assume a large percentage of his viewers see him as a freakshow and are watching him purely for the novelty of seeing a human cockroach, but many of them will turn because their main form of social interaction is him and his chat.

People don’t understand warfare and don’t understand logistics.

On Contradiction

On Contradiction was written within the context of the Warlord Era when China was de facto ruled by various military cliques. With China being ruled by various military cliques, these questions had to be answered:

1. Which warlord can you win to your side?

2. Which warlord can you threaten into joining your side?

3. Which warlord will toady up to you once you’re strong enough?

4. Which warlord do you have to ruthlessly crush and make an example out of?

It does not follow that the communists had to declare war against every single warlord. By far the biggest example against this was Zhu De, who was a warlord until he was persuaded by Zhou Enlai to become a communist instead. And when Zhu De became a communist, his troops under his command as a warlord joined the communists as well. By the end of the Century of Humiliation, Zhu De was the first of the Ten Marshals and first commander-in-chief of the PLA.

I suspect this “pre-party formation” will meet the same fate as all the other “pre-party formations.”

I still get a kick how the US got all the important Nazis through Operation Paperclip while Canada got the leftovers and cheap knockoffs like Banderites.

The Mortal Kombat movie worked because it was just Enter the Dragon with supernatural elements and 80s-90s one-liners like “Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole.”

If you don’t know the language (assuming it isn’t English), then you’ll never truly reconnect with your roots. At best, you’ll have an orientalist (or orientalist equivalent if you aren’t Asian) understanding of your heritage as seen through the eyes of Anglophones.

The only real path towards reconnecting with your roots is:

1. (Re)learn the language.

2. Talk to people in that language.

3. Consume social media in that language.

4. Read blogs and articles is that language.

5. Read books in that language.

Them’s the breaks.

Some people are just cranks.

The way I think about it, the more I think revolutionary defeatism only made sense within the context of WWI. Seriously, try to apply revolutionary defeatism to WWII:

Are British socialists supposed to wave around “neither London nor Berlin” signs while the Blitz is happening?

Are French socialists supposed to stay home while the Nazis overthrow the French republic and establish a collaborating regime in its place?

Are USian socialists supposed to draft polemics about how the IJN bombing Pearl Harbor was just inter-imperialist rivalry and that USian socialists should focus on overthrowing the regime in Washington DC instead?

There’s a reason why the CPC completely stopped hostilities with the KMT as soon as Japanese imperialists invaded Manchuria, even going so far as to wear nationalist uniforms.

I personally haven’t seen India get branded as imperialist and that’s even factoring in super racist Chinese and Pakistani accounts who do nothing but shit on Indians for asinine racist reasons. At best, people hate India for being soft Zionist and for Islamophobia.

Nah, people (sadly) just see you as “that weirdo with a mask.” You’re kinda outside the political spectrum to most people. It’s like if you’re running around wearing only a loincloth.