Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery. - Malcolm X

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中国共产党万岁!

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  • I saw this reel about a guy saying that private chinese investors are in a dire situation because they don’t have real estate schemes where to funnel their money so they are doing this scheme where they buy expensive pokemon cards in china and then take these abroad to sell to get foreign currency. It was framed in a “oh look at the authoritarian ccp prohibiting investors!” but i see it as a pretty awesome way to get rid of speculators. China doesn’t even lose anything since the only thing leaving china is pokemon cards, i.e. a worthless piece of cardboard 😂






  • Diego Ruzzarin is an interesting figure, at this point i think he is the most popular explicitly communist content creator in the world, there is Hasan but i say it’s debatable. Somehow he has managed to cultivate his audience with this mix of pedantic+cynic+edgy style and by keeping his doors open and collaborating with virtually anyone, from far-right ex-presidents (Vicente Fox) to spanish patsocs (Santiago Armesilla) to mexican joe rogans (Roberto Mtz) to even getting an invitation to Maduro podcast, all the while proudly calling himself a communist and anti-imperialist, like him or not i think his method is worth studying.






  • There is no value (in the Marxist sense) in the “cloud”.

    This is just wrong, there is a vast amount of dead and living labour involved in building and mantaining the cloud (data centers), every single piece of hardware in a server is a commodity itself, just like the software required does not develop itself. In order for them to have no value, they would literally need to pop out of nature. Same goes for data, there is a lot of dead and living labour involved in collecting and storing data, even if computers have made it infinitely easier to reproduce and distribute data than before. A single byte of data or row in a table is insignificant and near worthless, but we are talking about trillions of bytes of data handled by data centers, it’s qualitatively different.

    This does not mean i agree with Yanis, i dislike the man and his kind with every molecule of my body, but disregarding data is frankly absurd.