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I admit I didn’t expect you to go into the specifics of it but this is some next level shit that never crossed my mind!

Tbh I’d chicken out trying to do that now, but I’ve definitely been in a few jobs where it felt like I could get away with it. Makes me miss even more the days when you could easily work fully remotely. Maybe one day…

Reading through the other comments I was thinking “is this the cursed island?”. What a surprise, it is indeed this shithole…

This was a scary read, can’t even imagine what you must’ve felt like then and afterwards. I’ve seen my fair share of dodgy people on the streets and from all the horror stories I’ve read online, I’m always super paranoid and get uneasy whenever I’m out after 8-9pm, and see someone sitting in a car parked on a quiet road at night, or just standing around… and I’m not even in the “target demographic” for these kinds of harrassments.

Can’t even imagine what it must be like to go out every day knowing this can happen to you and nobody will do anything about it, it’s infuriating. And to think you weren’t even in a bad area, nor was it that late… not that it seems to matter much recently. One thing I’ve noticed (and maybe I’m reading too much into it, or maybe it’s something obvious that I’ve just discovered now because it’s not something I had to worry about for myself), is that many women walk with their arms crossed, even in busy/safe areas; I’ve seen almost no men doing this. I interpreted it as them being uncomfortable, tense, anxious, or just “on the defense” in some way. And if it’s that, it’s truly terrifying - literally everywhere you go, you’re made to feel like that, day in and day out?

It seems increasingly difficult to have a normal life on normal island…

Interesting. I need to learn more about this from this friend of yours, for academic reasons

Maybe a few will develop class consciousness.

Most of these types I interact with are blaming the poor or some specific government “bad apples”. A few do seem to almost “get it”, but still have way too many liberal brainworms and draw some milquetoast or outright reactionary conclusions

It’s an uphill battle trying to instill any sort of class consciousness in these people, as expected due to their material conditions

This has been 100% my experience as well. Most of the really good coders I’ve met are the types that also do it as a hobby outside work and also are reactionary/turbolib empire bootlickers. Literally regurgitating MSM slop and thinking they understand societal problems because they’ve read an op-ed in Bloomberg about why we need AI to fix the economy rather or something like that.

I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world

I’d also add to that the fact that this one thing they focus on has often been put on a pedestal (like coding for instance), which gets to many of them and makes them overestimate their abilities in other areas (“society says coders are smart, I’m a coder, I make good money, maybe I really am better than others, even at other things too” - an attitude I’ve encountered quite a few times).

Yeah, we need to stop doing that. I’m so sick of coders that act like they’re big brain geniuses because society put their profession on a pedestal for the last decade or so

if they just gave Russia a bit of respect

Too racist for that, fortunately

Lol isn’t there a faction in the Republicans that basically wants the opposite (getting Russia to help them against China)?

Yo I had the same dream last week

I found this to be really useful as well, it’s systematic and fairly thorough: https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1953/materialism-and-dialectical-method.pdf

“The only constant is change”

It’s cliché, but I think it captures the essence of it pretty well, especially for how concise it is.

Diarrheatical materialism

I’m digging this new roman lore drop

Unfortunately Lenin came before Xi. Marxism-Xism would’ve sounded much funnier than Marxism-Leninism

For those who may stumble upon this and think OP was exaggerating about this sort of drivel being directly from Mein Kampf…

Dang, wish I’d known that sooner so I could’ve called out people I’ve heard paraphrase this. Thanks for adding the quote!

Why is that abstract, but redrawing borders on a map isn’t?

Ok, thanks for the reply. It does sound somewhat similar to what I’ve heard (empty shopping malls), but not quite as dire as others would make it seem. All I hear is the economy is so bad and people are unhappy and the government is struggling to keep order but it seems blown out of proportion since the arguments for this are always the real estate bubble and how empty the shopping malls are.

I guess that’s the impact in Genshin Impact

Thanks for sharing this!

not great state of the economy.

I have a question about this, how did you see this reflected in the things you saw? Did you get any insight into how it’s affecting day-to-day life? I’ve heard this plenty from Chinese liberals, but given their bias and all the “China collapse” stories that have been circulating for many years now, I’m always a bit skeptical.