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Sincere belief in any god is fundamentally just as delusional as believing in faeries, flat earth, or that you've been abducted by aliens.

Whenever generative AI (or whatever, could be the climate driven death of slop) has completely replaced the need to use actual live child actors we’ll look back at Hollywoods use of child actors as straight up barbarism and child exploitation of the worst kind.

As always, without the economic incentive to do the barbarous thing we’ll suddenly turn around and exclaim, “how could humans have done that for so long” completely oblivious to whatever horror is going on next to us at that time.

Similar example, child chimney sweeps. Small enough to get into those numerous chimneys, someone has to after all, and they’re cheap! (Paid less than adults to do a job adults can’t do, sounds familiar…) They were phased out, not by safety concerns for the kids, but simply because they weren’t needed anymore as technology advanced. In modern times we have the luxury to look back and think we’re so much better than that now, but we aren’t. Not even close.

I liked season 2 of true detective. And i loved Dark Souls 2 (at least the Scholar of the First Sin version)

China is useless and it seems like they would love to return how they were with USA before Trump.

“Enlightenment” is a real physical human possibility (but not necessarily how religious people describe it) that is compatible with dialectical materialism.

Sometimes it takes just as much effort to be kind as to be cruel.

Like, some video game, public chat, someone says like "these poison monkeys are so fast. They keep killing me".

Someone replies "skill issue".

Like ok big lol I understood that reference, but also like... Why? Now the monkey victim feels mocked. Could just as easily said "I hear you bro. Those monkeys are jerks".

Could also just say nothing.

I feel like sometimes too many people are stuck acting like insecure 14 year olds.

Music is getting worse and anyone with a certain degree of historical knowledge would agree with me

Ansel Adams' photos are glorified tech demos of the zone system. They have little artistic merit on their own. Adams should have stayed in the darkroom.

Straight marriage is bourgois

Don’t ask me this

Trotskyists should be banned from leftist unity, their prevalence in the west is only due to them being the least threatening and effective form of marxism so therefore the least discriminated. Trotsky did not have many good takes and flip flopped on most of them just to side with any opposition because he was a grifter. Calling him a Bolshevik is an insult to Bolsheviks. Anyone could organize the Red Army, just because he was assigned to it doesn't mean he gets a pass on being the most annoying leftist until bordiga.

dengism should be applied only to the nations that had adopted it already, but nowhere else. It was a costly concession to the capitalists in order to avoid capitalist overthrow and encirclement. Such concessions are no longer necessary as the west is receding in power and countries are more likely to trade with ones with planned economies in the name of multipolarity. China's now reaching the end of its usefulness with market socialism and will be entirely unprepared for the inevitable hot/cold war with the west over taiwan, south korea, or other regional conflict the west will generate unless they adopt a more anti capitalist or state capitalist system. They rely far too much on foreign trade that a war near their shores would be quite devastating. The belt and road will help this of course but is vulnerable to those countries apart of it being overthrown by western backed coups (pakistan). But i think china is definitely capable of making this transition, unlike others who stupidly regard china as just like any other capitalist country.

Religion is an inherently reactionary institution, and if communism gains power in a nation with large religious institutions it needs to work hard to weaken them. Cooperate if you must for a time in order to not actively push them into agitation, but they will never be friends and have historically been easily used by capitalists for infiltration and overthrow. Religion tied to heritage, like judaism and hinduism is another matter and im unequipped to have a real position on it so i wont include those in this. Spiritualism as well.

religious socialism should be a method of crushing religion and bringing about socialism, and is not actually possible. Not to say we should be vulgar in our hatred as thats stupid. Just recognize in the context of a socialist nation religion is an enemy force.

freedom of debate, unity of action needs more debates after the unity of action because choosing the wrong way is devastating if you never correct it.