I can’t tell how much of this is a quote or whatever but I’ve noticed that US, Japan, and European leftists seem very averse to the Triad theory of empire, which I would also expand to Aus and South Korea, maybe not all the way to semi-imperialists like India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Somalia

Imperialism is not just being a mean country it is about how your country interacts with undeveloped nations and developed imperialist nations

On some level I kind of appreciate your exuberance, I guess. But this doesn’t have anything to do with Mao Zedong thought (“dengism”).

The purpose of the anti-imperialist geopolitics of contemporary China is to destroy the value chain system created by imperialism through crosslinking and peripheral development. This also has the side benefit of being the way you actually develop an economy without simply ramping up exploitation of the periphery or destroying and enclosing semi developed nations (like the former USSR experienced). If China followed the path that Demsuccs in the first world demand, they would be failing to develop their rural production and quality of life, competing to provide amenities to their workers while also walling themselves off from all capitalist economies, making it incredibly easy to isolate and famine siege China. MZT does not treat all areas of production, agriculture, the military, education, etc as a smorgasbord for capitalists.

“Bail communism out”? I assume you mean Eurocommunist shitheads, the “antiwar US left” that’s entirely supplanted Marxism-Leninism with new left French critical theory ideologies like anatchists and succdems, MLMs, trots, and libertarianism?

Yeah, 6/7ths of the population sure isn’t waiting for those shitheads to get it. Nobody cares if yhe CPUSA and PSL and whatnot take umbrage with Russians or Nicaraguans or the specifics of what Maduro is doing. Their audience is each other, certainly not the global south, unless they want to lecture. I’m sure they’re looking forward to your newfangled lecturing.

this is actually the point at which mearshimer no longer deserves our attention lmao, the actual ideology of dudes like him and chris hedges is very lacking

they’re very generic and stupid old men

you can always agonize about the perfect option over the course of a year after jumping ship!

hey don’t hold back, i already bought another ~$110 USD samsung off newegg and put LineageOS on it haha making it for a friend

I won’t nag you to switch until you have a second device handy haha that’s when I did, but switched from a secondhand iOS device bought off a friend for almost nothing

that’s almost a requirement for the job but thanks for adding it

see, crickets

lmao you should run the campaign strategy for kamala if this ends up being their pick, you’ve already got the tone deafness down!

name ONE thing he has done other than just be governor

okay has he done anything other than exist and be a spaceman that you can’t get from the embedded wikipedia blurb on google

i know who rod blagojevich is and he’s not even governor any longer, same with newsom and others. you probably didn’t know who this guy was either

that’s a solid answer but is he known for literally anything else

who tf is mark kelly

bro didn’t even read my comment he dumb as hell

who??? (I read his name and title but still literally who???)

lol get mad and downvote all you want nerds, this guy is a nobody. prove me wrong by explaining one thing he is known for lmao

Very true about Sweden and Netherlands for these purposes

So what do you use instead? Not iOS I hope LOL. LineageOS is the best option I’ve found. I’m not a Tech Philosopher, I want control over my device.

we need a bot for this now that we have healthy instances again

Yeah this is very true but I am trying to realign my more personal non business stuff away from all services like that

Ultimately they will require digital ID. No can do

Yes, they. The three ISPs he has to choose from. Context. He’s not going to meaningfully opt out from dealing with the scale of the services Google provides online by choosing slower internet. We have to encrypt our traffic, secure our browsers and devices. And even then they will passively circumvent many of our efforts not to scrutinized.

In the end privacy is for me a way of judging the quality of my connection. But I do need a quantity of that connection, and if I’m going to shield my traffic obsessively anyways I’d pick Google Fiber.

We’re picking between three companies that all collaborate with whatever law enforcement or spy agency comes knocking or visiting.