By 2021, improved precision and the ability to work 24-7 had allowed automated rail construction to install up to 2km of track per day

I almost fell out of my chair reading that. This is one machine doing this

One of the many things Americans must learn about the world is that not all cartoons are cheap entertainment for kids

By linear extrapolation, one may conclude that China will reach its goal in 2025, while the US will only reach its goal in 2539

Diane Feinstein is worth 87 million dollars

Even if I had this kind of money, I would consider such a trade extremely dubious and probably losing as well, since the utility of this commodity is quickly depreciating

Communism does not principally deal in categories such as religiosity or morality, it is first and foremost about how analysing the material conditions and contradictions of a society lends explanatory and predictive power when it comes to its superstructure and development, which ultimately permits charting and following a maximally smooth and bloodless course towards a permanent resolution of these contradictions. So yeah, we will ally with Christ when the science says we shall, and we will ally with Satan when the science says we shall

Mind explaining the owls? I don’t know shit about Hexbear lore post r/CTH

Anyway welcome, comrades!!!

• Planting a bodycam on Adrian Zenz and watching him running around Xinjiang failing to find a 9th Uyghur interviewee
• Sitting across Janet Yellen who just ordered her fourth portion of psychedelic mushrooms
• Listening to Anthony Blinken address China from a position of strength
• State visit to the half-pipe where Annalena Baerbock does her 360s
• Trump and Biden outcompeting each other for the dumbest way to mishandle classified documents
• A squirrel giving birth on Olaf Scholz’ head while he pretends to be awake
• Infuriated lobbyists having to bribe Ursula von der Leyen yet again every time she gets a new job

France is no longer a colonial power, not because it is no longer colonial, but because it is no longer a power

In a few years, homeless people and city planners will have mutually raised their intelligence and creativity far above average by permanently having to outwit each other, in a manner similar to biological co-evolution, such that eventually every homeless person is bound to win a Nobel Prize or a Fields Medal at some point and then use the prize money to buy an apartment. This is the United States’ plan to solve homelessness.

Of course the actual figures for God must be expected to be much higher, since the source is known to be biased in His favour

First of all a quick side note, “authoritarianism” is an ill-defined and sociologically unsound concept, and there is no such thing as an “authoritarian” party or state. Isolated policies may have aspects on a sliding scale between libertarian and authoritarian, but from that you cannot infer anything about the government or the society. For instance, in 1933, selling alcohol was prohibited in the United States while it was legal in Nazi Germany, but not even the most ardent drinker would say that the US was more “authoritarian” than the Nazis based on that.

Also, the Marxist distinction between communism as the final goal of socialist society (lack of state, money, religion etc.) and socialist society itself (scarcity, need for defence against reaction, presence of state etc.) is not what the people who utter the phrase that “Communism only works on paper” typically have in mind when they say it. Their argument usually breaks down to a set of dogmatic conceptions they have about worker ownership of the means of production, economics of central planning, or quality of life under socialism.

To respond to the allegation that “Communism only works on paper” in good faith, as though it were a good-faith argument derived from the speculative nature of post-scarcity communism as opposed to actually existing socialism, is to completely ignore the context in which it is actually used, namely to signal the speaker’s disinterest in having an intellectually honest discussion about the merits and demerits of socialism in concrete situations. If you try to discuss it in the terms of Marxist theory, you will quickly discover (as you did way at the top of the comment chain) that already the premise of the argument is vacuous and nonsensical.

China doesn’t have a communist economy, but to consider them a failed communist experiment, to say they aren’t achieving communism, is a far stretch. China has a long-term plan for an eventual transition towards communism, and it is reaching all of the important milestones in time, like zero poverty and zero homelessness, transition towards clean energy, and infrastructure expansion; as communicated in the (current) 14th 5-year-plan and in the 2021 book 2050 China: Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country.

How do you focus someone’s attention on athleticism and destroy their ruggedness at the same time

Universal economic prosperity does require more than communism, just like an engineer must know more than just geometry. But engineers who deny the law of cosines tend to build shitty bridges

Not even then. Even if you look at the billionaires in their doomsday bunkers, their food supply will break down as well at some point after the rest of humanity succumbs to the climate crisis or the ongoing mass extinction event. It is impossible to decouple themselves from the fate of the working class, and the design of their lives is a delusion. Capitalism, no matter how you attempt to modify, reduce, or extend it, is inherently unsustainable in the long run

But everyone is equal in America: No matter how stupid you are, what qualifications you lack, what dangers you pose to your environment, or how many conflicts of interest you accumulate, with enough money you can do anything!

“Authoritarian” is something governments can do, not something they can be. It’s like labelling a person as “reading”

Russia, because every time you crack a Russian defence fortification it turns out there is another, smaller one inside

USSR penal code, article 08.15 (Unauthorised airing of communist beliefs):

Whoever uses written, oral, or digital communications to profess communist beliefs despite not being a communist party member shall go straight to gulag for no fewer than 69 years and with no possibility of parole.

They could have banned it for glorifying the Butcher of Lyon and that would have made more sense