Another good point. People still have things to lose. It takes extremes to get ordinary people to be willing to fight. Not only that. From weapon standpoint it takes more and more people willing to fight, in order to combat the technology superiority against us. Literally the entire US military is designed for this. Fighting against a lesser armed foe.

Maos peasants weren’t people propagandized from birth to worship capitalism and be good little nationalists that believe every other nation on earth is a shit hole, and taught that communism is the literal devil incarnate. I’d take the peasant over that any day. You could actually talk to those people without the threat of semi-automatic weapons being pointed at you. It’s easier to start with a nearly blank slate then one that’s had this level of propaganda drilled into their being.

This but also… I kinda feel the same about people that treat these “influencers” as if they are supposed to be infallible, and then freak out over every instance of imperfection. Has their been a left side “influencer” in history that didn’t say some unhinged shit in their life or have some bad habit or acts? I mean shit, imagine what kind of tweets Marx would have had? He was a great man but he wasn’t a saint. I’ve seen plenty of people on here say we need to not like, worship influencers and treat them as infallible, and yet those same people rant when some influencer shows themselves as having faults. So what is it? Are the supposed to be perfect or aren’t they?

Some people have shit takes. I’m not gonna defend a bad take, but I’m analytical enough to know people aren’t perfect. I sure as fuck am not. So I look at it like this, Yugo and the dudes on that podcast have done more to bring more people into communism, real actual communism, then I have, so I’m not gonna cast no stones. And I’m sure as fuck not calling him a Nazi for having a rage fit over how fucking crazy Americans and chuds in general are. I hear these people every day. If an intelligent and learned communist can hear the things I’ve heard, and not at any point think, even once, “there might be something wrong with these people” , then I’d have to question if that person was real.

I don’t agree but when I look around at the people in this country… I mean, I get where someone might say something like this… I have developed a fear of talking to people because of the crazy shit I hear. The first few times I heard someone say something so crazy that I legitimately thought “no way a person just said this?” I was shocked, but now I’m constantly shocked at how often it keeps happening…

I do, legitimately think a large portion of Americans lacks critical thinking, and have some absolutely bat shit insane thoughts. But in all seriousness, the majority of it is literally just propaganda, brain rotting media, and purposeful failure to teach critical thinking at young ages. Critical thinking isn’t just something that happens magically later in life. You have to teach it, and schools in this country…lol. The system is designed to keep us uneducated and compliant. They don’t want us to think for ourselves, to act for ourselves, and definitely not to question ourselves and by extension, what they have told us. Anyone that argues it’s not is either not paying attention or not here to witness it. Then, when someone lives long enough like that, it just becomes a core foundation of who they are. It’s not some metal disease, it’s just, all they know.

And while shit like pollution can affect the development of the brain, I would say, saying a whole country the size of the US is that way because of it, is a bit of a stretch.

China has done a fuck ton to be where they are at and saying “do nothing, win” sometimes can feel like belittling all the hard work and sacrifice their people have done to get China where it is today. They are just humble about it and not actually looking at it like a race. They have a goal and they intend to reach it. That’s it. The only one that sees it as a race is the US, and all they are doing is trying to hold on to an old lead they got through cheating and sabotaging the competition. But that isn’t working on China, particularly because of all the work they put into building themselves up.

Edit: a spelling error

The east is creating hope for the world after centuries of the west trying to destroy it.

China is building the world we should have had. The world that could have been so much sooner. Had it not been for the Capitalists and their imperialist dogs.

"You know those guys that are kind of buddy buddy with Russia but have abstained from giving any aid unlike what the West has done for us? Lol what if we pissed them off real good? "