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Cake day: March 27th, 2022
  • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•Hasan Piker interviews Cuban journalist
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    3 days ago

    it’s true that because he hasn’t put things into practice his viewpoint is limited, but i think it’s fundamentally more than that, too. he’s clearly gifted with a prodigious memory, and he reads things, but i don’t think that’s the same thing as rigorously studying something such that you have a thorough understanding of what it is and therefore how to change it. if he did, i don’t think he would be employing the strategy and tactics that he is now, quite frankly. and, whenever i’ve seen him explain things like capitalism he seems to flounder, despite how well-read he is. of course i very much doubt his philosophical development is anywhere close to sufficient either. another red flag for me is that he refuses to politically label himself, as if labels have no meaning or value.

    the very first step for i think everyone of our political leanings is to seriously, meaningfully educate and develop themselves, and others, in groups and individually. i get the sense that his development is hollow, and this and his material interest are the main reasons why he would choose such a fundamentally flawed educational strategy i.e. streaming. worse yet, it gives the impression to both himself and his viewers that his work is more education than it is entertainment. i think that’s the primary reason why it leaves his audience unprepared, is because not only is it interpreted as educational when it’s primarily not, but it gives the false impression of knowledge and understanding to the viewer.

  • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•Hasan Piker interviews Cuban journalist
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    4 days ago

    i think there’s some truth to what you said, but i think his primary issue is that he’s simply not educated enough. being scientific socialists takes a scientific rigor that he simply does not possess, and since he’s constantly reacting to liberal content like you mentioned, i don’t think it’s possible for him to ever become developed enough on his current trajectory. it’s a shame, since his audience is so large and he could be an important educational force, but watching liberal reactions from a very left liberal for hours a day is anything but educational

  • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 8
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    4 days ago

    i watched it and had pretty mixed feelings about it all around. as far as the russophobia is concerned though, i actually thought everything to do with ilya’s (the russian main character) family had much worse implications than anything else. the issues for queer people in russia are at least believable, but the ancillary stuff was not: ilya’s father was both an important figure in the government, and also suffering from dementia at the same time, for multiple years (i mean, really???). and ilya’s brother was a coked up exploitative asshole trying to milk ilya for everything that he was worth. that stuff really stuck out to me as russophobic, because what kind of government except a totally inept and fake one would keep on a prominent figure with dementia? this despite all the issues in the past with western gov leaders having dementia (biden, reagan, possibly even bush, etc).

  • chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 8
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    8 days ago

    self and class consciousness is tough man, especially if you’ve lived that way your whole life, you learned to live like that from a very young age, and furthermore if you have childhood or other trauma that incentivizes you to keep yourself from becoming conscious in order to avoid processing painful memories without a sufficient framework (or social support) to do so. unless you have a material interest, a material need to become conscious, most people don’t, and that’s okay. that doesn’t make them any less rational

    on the other hand, jealousy and lack of contentedness seem like internal contradictions for you to work on personally, regardless of how you relate to or interpret others. in my opinion jealousy is a cognitive error taught to us by liberalism, and the correct response is actually something more like inspiration or wonder. in my own personal experience, my feelings of jealousy were derived from insecurity (material, leading to psychological) that i experienced as a young child, and resolving those feelings has made it much easier to not feel jealous of others.

    if you feel that the way you interact with things (from what you said, primarily how you consume media) is the only possible way for you, but you don’t feel content about it, i would explore why it is that you feel that way. if you feel that the way you interact with things is truly inferior than the approach of others for any reason, and yet you still feel compelled to interact with things in the way that you do, i would investigate why. and if you’re uncertain which of those two statements is more correct, i would investigate that as well.

    i think it’s not enough to just point out errors of liberalism in the fashion of mao and expect them to be magically corrected. if we fully accept the rationality of every human (on an individual and class level), then there are always specific material reasons why we learned to think incorrectly, as it were. in the same way that diamat gives us the tools to investigate the history of society in terms of its internal contradictions, dialectical materialism also gives us the tools to investigate - and resolve - our own internal contradictions, resulting in more correct and less liberal cognition.

    sorry for the text dump hahaha. it’s just something i happen to have been thinking a lot about lately.