This is just to add a strategy that helps me out.

The reason I caught on to this ‘‘nuance fetishism’’ some time ago was by looking at function. What is the function of nuance? What does it do, and whom does it benefit? What is the function of ‘‘leftists’’ who parrot their western media and repeat the same shit the right says, for example? They may claim to be nominally leftwing, but functionally they’re rightwing. Names don’t matter shit, what matters is what names do. What good am I doing by pissing into the sea? If everyone is criticizing say, China right now, on every news show and YT channel, what is the point, if I wish to counteract their bullshit, of me repeating the same crap those channels are saying? Or lending a shred of credence to their factually incorrect takes? If I want to convince you about my point, will adding critiques function as strengths or weaknesses to my point? In my opinion, they weaken my point, because we cannot give an iota to reaction. This brings me to a related point to nuance which is ‘‘balance’’. Balance, Bothsiding and Nuance, are the trifecta of liberalism, and function as the same thing: justifying the status quo. What are they functionally doing? What is the function of bothsiding? When you equivocate, speak from both sides of your mouth, are you to be taken seriously? In words, you’re not taking a position, but functionally, you’ve taken the position of the status quo. What is the function of saying, for example, with regards to Palestine, that ‘‘it’s complicated’’? To not do shit about it, and condemn those that do, like Ansar Allah and Hamas. This also adds the trick of ‘‘muddying the waters’’, of ‘‘equalizing’’ opposing forces as both bad. Let’s not forget the all time Christmas classic, ‘‘harm reduction’’, or more colloquially known as ‘‘voting for the lesser evil’’, which are related to ‘‘all governments are bad’’, and function as means of quelling change or believing in an alternative.

Our comrades over at The Red Nation have some videos on Hawaii that might be helpful, and there’s also another video from Rob Kajiwara, an Okinawan comrade whom also covers Hawaii and Okinawa.

This is Rob Kajiwara’s vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lcC7yxsgys

And this is The Red Nation’s YT page: https://www.youtube.com/@TheRedNation

Hope they help, I couldn’t find jack on The Deprogram either.

Yo, is that Wisconcom, the thermonuclear guy? 😂

As expected:

That’s because all comrades are beautiful.

I think they’re more sane. There’s no open-carry, they do background checks, if you are deemed mentally unwell, then can’t carry, and stuff like that. You know, just the basic stuff you see everywhere.

*Edit: Thought I should add that our Wal-Marts don’t sell ammo or guns out in the open, not sure if it’s like that in every Wal-Mart over there, but not here. You gotta go to a certified armory with your ID and permit. Of course, there’s an underground market, and some folks go that route. But in mainstream society over here, guns are looked at very much like some libs would, they find them scary, unnecessary and dangerous. We do have gun violence, though, but nothing like school shootings, thank fuck.

Not even in PR, a satellite of the empire which by all practical accounts consumes the same ideological brainrot the US produces, does this shit happen.

*Edit: To echo some other replies, we had fire and earthquake drills, and also for tsunamis.

🤣 Hahaha

We got a new wojak thanks to him.

You think that’s crazy? She reminds me of Charlie Kirk.

‘‘None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.’’

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think it would be funny if Russia, under Putin or someone else, just stumbled into USSR 2.0. That they get there not because they meant to, but because they started to adopt some of the practical things China’s doing with development and the economy, and they one day find themselves back in the USSR.

It would certainly be a historic coinkydink.

Heraclitus was always my favorite Pre-Socratic.

I member…That’s how I found Living in China, so thanks, BSB News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41e44JwMY6Y&list=PL6UESfsY6DFtN4rbXh3WYI8OEI78Lt9vi&index=6

Edit: Changed video link to the tree one instead of playlist.

When he was born into the world, he may have wondered as a kid: ‘‘what will my legacy be?’’ What will I be known for? Though many of us are born with grand ambitions, others are more mundane in their aspirations, but Francis was a special kid, he wanted to comprehend history, the historical process, how history is made and perhaps even undone. It was this vision of such liberal self-importance that prompted young Francis to pursue the sacrilegious notion that history could come to an end. What does it mean for history to end? That no humans would be left around or alien buddies to record what we did? Could humanity teach history to apes and other advanced lifeforms so as to preserve history? Posadist Dolphin historians, maybe? Or a Bob to record what the baby Prometheuses were doing? We don’t know, but Francis knew. He saw it in 1991. The greatest threat of a good example at the time was the USSR, and while we were playing Street Fighter 2, Francis was deciphering what to do. In 1992, in some caustic enthusiasm for America #1, he not only conjured a phrase hitherto unheard, but also echoed our Deutsche freund, Nietzsche, with his concept of the ‘‘Last Man’’. It was thus that Francis finally reached notoriety, with the publishing of ‘‘The End of History and the Last Man’’.

But what happened the exact second the book was published was that Francis realized something that had slipped his euphoric and triumphant American mind: history is continuing. History wouldn’t stop for America, there’s a whole world out there that kept making history. What audacity, we would think, being born outside of Western mythology and in the warm embrace of historicity. But Francis wouldn’t have it, he kept moving the goalpost, his claim to fame in disrepute. No matter how much he tried to reinterpret the ‘‘pseudo-historical events’’ occurring in the periphery, outside of America’s history, Francis couldn’t stop it. It was thus that no matter how much he swam against the current of history, his legacy was already written for posterity. He would forever be known as ‘‘the end of history guy’’.

This paragraph was like:

A thought experiment came to mind:

Let’s imagine that ‘‘socialist indoctrination’’ exists, and it teaches people about: sharing, having empathy, community, working together, supporting those in need, and also vindicating the struggles of minorities, be them ethnic or of gender, taking back the economic power from a few and giving it to the many, making housing, healthcare and education a right, because everybody needs those, ending racism, because under a socialist society ethnic differences and cultural values are respected and given a voice, having diversity, and other wholesome stuff.

Now, let’s say this is all that our propaganda talks about, ok, now what does capitalist or liberal propaganda speak about? The individual, wealth as measure of power and influence, ‘‘checks and balances’’, ‘‘free market’’, how society is a collection of individuals each seeking their benefit at expense of others, ‘‘human nature’’, and all that crap…Now, we’ve seen the results of a society modeled this way.

Now, tell me with a straight face which sounds better? I’d rather be ‘‘indoctrinated’’ into thinking everything is about community and living happy and fulfilling lives, instead of this dystopic individualistic Darwinism we call ‘‘society’’ in our liberal democracies. Like if both were lies, I’d still be a communist, because at face value, that creates a better world, and isn’t that what we all want? A better world? Well, it’s possible, kids, and Communism is the answer.

The ‘‘inscrutable oriental’’ strikes again.

Under a google search of ‘‘inscrutable oriental’’, despite linking to the trope and explaining it to some degree, we get more examples.

Thanks for proving our point.

Hahahaha, he just stuck out with that nickname. It cracked me up the first time I saw it, and then it turned out he was actually an authority on all things Polish.

So I would sometimes be browsing and if I saw a topic about Poland and he hadn’t commented yet, I would think: ‘‘I bet Comrade Poland is gonna show up’’, and he would, and that would make me laugh again, and then I’d learn more from him.

😛 Hahaha, I was a little forgettable, too, since I didn’t comment often.