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IDK abt this im constantly discovering new music that I adore. Its possible theres something thats not considered here but I think this is more of a marketing gimick chart

Yeah honestly I totally agree.

The idea that religion would be on the side resisting oppression or against it inherently is flawed. We see religion used to justify just about anything. Even within the same system and same struggles. You could replace religion with just about any societal construct and the issue comes from the leaders of said constructs and their own struggles, to be opportunistic and aid imperialism or to fight for the workers, and the workers in their stringent trust in the leaders. Just the same issues different name.

But because dialectical materialism is exactly that, materialism, religion as a concept tends to be a kind of antithetical thought.

what on earth could have possibly happened. I wish we could still see comments that resulted in the ban cuz im so curious how people go so far offtrack they can get banned for a comment.

ubgbhgbhgbhgg There doesn't seem to be an archive of this yet. I would love to see a concrete source I keep seeing it around. Everything keeps leading back to a Beijing international news company which I'm a little wary of. It's possible this is a ploy to try to reduce investment in china, not that it'd work lol.

In any case I cant confidently share it until I find something more concrete. As the person and the business aren't even named. It also keeps being covered as a "This makes AI and gadgets in China more expensive."

I live in an area where most of the population is religious including fellow comrades. The idealism portion might be a difficult hurdle to cross over for them. I'm not sure how I would address it honestly.

Pamphlets are mainly meant to educate and agitate those that are already willing so I really doubt this needs any changing. But may not be as useful within my area, but I'd still like to print and try. Thank you for creating this.

I wrote a guide for my community on how to build a movement and I had a section talking about prioritizing effort into those that would be easiest to convince over those that would resist. It's better to recruit 10 willing comrades than save 1 nazi from their pit of hate.

Thank you a lot for this, you're totally right. That's how I've been handling it and I just started to kinda forget that. The way you described it is really nice I might screenshot it for others.

You're totally right I think in my circumstances I'm predominantly encountering privileged class individuals. It does return the question to "how can you convince bourgeois to be a class traitor" to a degree.

When people are immediately inflamed by something I definitely step back on what I'm talking about. Especially with people outside the country I'm in I try to keep it more casual as I don't have a big investment in discussing it with them. Totally agree with you're suggestions. Thank you for the insight in your experiences with many difference people. It really helps me feel better about it. I think I'm speaking to a slightly privileged class most of the time and it created a kinda "survivorship bias" effect.

I relate to this immensely, I just recently experienced a similar pain.

I recently have been trouble with intense pain in my abdomen slightly right of center and went to the ER multiple times thrashing from the pain, could even feel it through morphine. Cat scan showed nothing but my family history has gallstones so they scheduled a gastro doc.

I'm fuckin pissed at this guy, I was in so much pain I needed to be wheel chaired in because I couldn't take painkillers before the tests that day and he came in asked me the problem I described it as "pain in my upper stomach area center right" and he tells me my stomach is on my left side and I clarify I meant the belly region below the ribs. He begins poking at several areas and when he hits my ribs i feel intense pain, I almost start crying instantly. He says this is simply a bruised rib, pokes my other organs again and the rib a fucking GAIN. I state the pain this time is too far to the right and before it was more center and he says "I don't know what you tell you its simply your rib" pokes it twice more and then tells me to take advil and finish the tests scheduled(HIDA and Ultrasound. I mentioned I take oxy for the pain right now and he said "no don't take painkillers just advil for anti inflammatory" as if it's no big deal and as if advil is not a mild painkiller and left. When I'm in the HIDA scan they are unable to conduct the test because my gallbladder doesn't fill (a sign of stones) and he cancels my ultrasound. Fucking for no reason

The next night I went to the ER and got an ultrasound and its fucking gallstones. fucking asshole is lucky my organ wasn't infected and I wasn't willing to listen to him. He could've gotten someone seriously injured or killed.

However doctors here often ignore women and believe they're being hysterical. I've seen it most my life with all my family members.

I blame it on doctors predominantly being part of upper class families of petite or regular bourgeois and fall for the usual reactionary tendencies. Basically two different things make them think they're better than you all the time. I trust experts but in this field, and in the imperial core, they're too often refuse to listen to anything else. The best experts hone on the truth with discussion and collaboration.

Although you do have to like... beat them to capture them. So they have these abilities but you did defeat them in spite of it. Now if they could communicate with each other and work together that's a different story

I think you may be focusing a bit too much on MAGA. Like yeah its a movement that is enacting change now but workers rights have been continuously stripped even before MAGA was even thought about. The reason why is because the workers have not organized a general strike for their own rights. (caused by a variety of factors; lack of support, distrust of others, union busting, union leaders betraying for capital interests, etc) but ultimately striking DOES hurt companies and demand better concessions within America. Many politicians are deeply invested in companies as well, take for example AI. If we had an organized general strike to prevent the use of AI in a majority of industries, we don't even need the law to be passed to enforce it. This would tank investments in it and directly hurt capitalists. It would also empower workers to fight for more of their rights.

A disconnect you might be having is this idea that the majority of profit doesn't come from the workers. While yes most capitalist wealth comes from speculative ventures and investments allowing them to use as collateral on loans. Those are primarily backed BY the excess value that is extracted from the labor force.

Capitalist forces workers to make chairs for 1$/chair and sells them for 10$. He uses another 1$ to pay for materials. He pockets 8$. (Lets assume he simply sells 1 a day for ease of math) An Investor buys a portion of his business for 10$, expecting the growth to pay off. So now the Capitalist, uses this as proof of growth and takes a loan for 18$ to buy more materials and pay for more workers. Now he has enough workers and materials to make 10 chairs a day. (10 workers make 1$/chair with 1$ cost to materials per day) Now the companies profits has grown and the Investor's share, which previously was purchased for 10$ has now grown 10 times that and is worth 100$. Instead of selling, he stays invested and uses it as collateral to take out a 200$ loan.

By exploiting the workers of 90%~ of their true value, the company has enriched the Capitalist, and the Investor, despite them contributing nothing to the process. But has enriched the worker. The Capitalist could hire more workers to grow, or could pay the workers less, or use cheaper materials to make the chair, etc. But ultimately the WORKER is the sole source of value.

It doesn't matter how complex the chain becomes, the workers are always the ones with all the power and value that is being taken from them. If the workers strike and stop producing chairs, the profit of the company drops, its value drops, the shares drop and the investor and capitalist are unable to pay back their loans.

This is the basic idea, in America there are tons of bail outs for corporations that use government funds to prevent companies from going under but the money used to do this is primarily taxed from people's pay and spending within the country. It always affects them and the oppression is not just from MAGA but from the ruling bourgeoisie class as a whole. ICE existed way before trump and was STILL killing people in detention and putting families in camps.

Overly simplified and also sorry for using the chair example again i just really like it. Pls anyone send corrections if i got something wrong with the theory.

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Unfortunately imperialist actions like this don't really "Wake people up" Most people are completely unaffected and the only ones who care are related to the issue or are already involved in anti imperialist messaging and organizing. If you ask anybody they prob have a very middle position of not wanting a war but also hating iran and thinking its justified. very "whats to be done" kinda ppl

The deaths are needless, to truly speak to the masses we ourselves have to go out and speak to the masses and organize.