Killing fascists doesn’t inherently make you antifascist. Fascists kill each other all the time!

Doing something constructive feels really good once you’ve finished and gotten a reward for accomplishing it. Games hijack this gratification system and instead trickle little rewards at you constantly so you always feel like you’re accomplishing something.

Agrivoltaics are so cool!

Damn that’s wild, all I can do is verbally describe sounds and smells to myself in my internal dialogue.

I’m a 3 for memories, a 4 for everything else. Before my head injury I was a 5 for everything (no idea what that’s about lol)

I can describe a car accident in great detail and draw a picture of it, but in my brain I’m just verbally describing the car accident to myself as if I’m the narrator.

21 people were arrested for organizing the Tiananman Square protests.

14,000+ were arrested for involvement in the George Floyd Uprisings.

🤔

I think the US is worse. Even if you think China is a subtle imperial power (how is that supposed to work, exactly?) then you have to acknowledge they’re the lesser of two evils. Unless you think you’re going to dream up an idealist third option to replace them both?

Do you think zero people outside of China look up to their accomplishments?

What the fuck are you talking about? I’m siding with China. You know, the worlds second largest economy? A billion people?

Hardly a little grassroots movement. I live in the reality where China is the only serious challenge to the US. What about you?

When was the last time the US committed cultural genocide?

When it caused one million deaths in Iraq through direct and indirect warfare for no reason. It currently has a direct hand in the genocide happening in Gaza right now.

Or how about when ICE was caught sterilizing migrant women in detention centers? They were doing that as recently as 2020, and there’s a long history of forced sterilization in the US.

Compare and contrast. Look at Gaza, look at Xinjiang province, try to spot the difference! Can you do it?

Neither should be looked up to.

There’s no other choice. You can’t just think up an idealistic imaginary third option. The US or China. Choose

It’s like, sometimes, if I really focus on a memory then I can start to fill in 3D space and contrasts of light/dark and especially faces. I can’t visualize color or really texture, but everything else comes to me. It takes a lot of focus and doesn’t come naturally though!

I still mostly don’t visualize stuff, but sometimes a vision will strike me out-of-the-blue when I’m reminded of it. Weird.

Oh no, libs don’t take me seriously! 😭

they’re also indirectly assisting and allied with a country that is happily trying to extinguish the entirety of Ukraine.

Hyperbole does not help your case.

A war to extinguish a nation looks more like what Israel is doing in Gaza. Compare the number of children, medical staff, UN aid workers, and other noncombatants that have been murdered. Compare the total eradication of all homes, businesses, universities, hospitals, religious institutions, historic sites. Russia, by contrast, is waging a war of conquest and assimilation.

All China is doing is trading with them, and not even trading weapons or munitions! It’s just normal commerce. Let’s compare again with Israel and how the US is providing it unlimited bombs and heavy equipment and fucking jets it needs to do its genocide.

When you compare the two the stark contrast makes your hyperbolic claims into a joke.

With abusive conditions that all but make it impossible for the poorer countries to satisfy their terms,

They forgive the loans they give to those poorer countries when they can’t repay and are always willing to refinance.

Compare that to the IMF which sells off public assets to private interests and imposes austerity measures onto the people, letting the US infiltrate the government and set up counter-terror operations and win exclusive trade deals to superexploit the people.

Again, compare and contrast. The US isn’t merely worse, it has different objectives. One is imperialist, one is internationalist.

Every global superpower does their fair share of this shit. The countries we should actually be looking up to are the socialist/communist ones that rapidly accelerated their growth and citizens’ quality of life before being destabilized by an existing global superpower (namely, the United States).

This is why China is the way it is. China has to ally itself with Russia and it has to wield state capitalism, or else it would end up the same as every other socialist experiment the US destroyed. If China cut off every country that US says is evil then it will lose all its allies, and then the US will just turn around and declare that the world needs to stop doing business with China.

Instead, China saw right through that, and with BRICs the dedollerization of the global economy is inevitable. The Communist Party of China has done more to destroy US imperialism than any communist party in every other country combined.

Grow up.

I couldn’t visualize even slightly before! Total aphantasia.

Now if I focus really hard I can briefly see images and memories. It still doesn’t come naturally but the difference is staggering.

When was the last time China invaded an oil-rich country, overthrew their government, and killed a million people?

If you want to dream up Chinese imperialism whenever China builds roads in another country, you still have to grapple with the fact that they don’t build those roads on the graves of martyrs that died trying to defend their homeland.

I only seem to dream if I’m not sleeping well. I can pretty reliably make myself dream by having coffee before bed. Otherwise, nope, there’s just a vague sense that time has passed when I wake up. If I do dream it’s highly visual, though.

I remember when I learned people weren’t just being metaphorical when they talked about “picturing” something in their mind.

Do you have an internal dialogue? Or is it all visual? Cuz my internal world is basically a lightly illustrated book, 95% dialogue and occasionally I can imagine a vague image.

No, we left this lib behind a long time ago.

We’re all China-stans now.

Progressives need to learn this lesson: liberals will always shift the blame.

I was a 5 before my head injury, now I think I’m a 3 if I close my eye and really focus on it.

But also? I’ve liked adult literature the entire time. “Visualization” is overrated.