I’ve done it before. It’s not a bad idea. Thanks!

Even if the supplements don’t do much, it’ll make me feel less bad about missing the sun so much and placebo can do its work.

I somehow prefer Putinist to whatever the fuck “Rashist” is.

I used to like winter. I used to be depressed year-round.

Hate winter, now. Midwest blows. Convinced I have seasonal affective disorder. Convinced you’re abnormal if you live in the midwest and don’t have it.

I was going on walks, working out. Now I don’t wanna leave the house, ever. Winter blows.

Mfw harsh truth is propaganda and liberals are begging for hopeful lies

Working retail at this time of year is hilarious. Thanksgiving and the 4th of July were panic-inducing enough. Inching closer to Christmas… can’t wait for all those last-minute shoppers.

Same situation, down to the years! 🥦

Vegetarian. Would go vegan, but it takes a more principled person than myself, at least for now.

The DPRK (WPK) maintained principled stances before, during and after having 90% of their infrastructure leveled, 10% of their population killed, and their country brutally occupied and divided by imperial powers from all sides. They maintained their principles during the Sino-Soviet split. The collapse of the USSR. They have survived tragedy after tragedy and remained principled throughout it all.

I am not saying that the PRC does not help the DPRK. I am also not accusing you of being chauvinistic. I, however, think this is a chauvinistic idea, that the DPRK can only survive because of its socialist superpower neighbor(s). The DPRK has survived because of the DPRK.

I will say I work in a very dangerous or crime-heavy location, so we have to deal with cops a LOT. An obscene amount. There is a rather arduous process involved… store management needs to be there to grant access, a warrant is required, etc.

Well, it’s mostly private surveillance so it’s ok. Muh property rights and all that.

Thing bad when gubment does it. Thing good when corporation does it!

I got a write-up for sitting on an SCO machine for all of 2 minutes when it was a ghost town in the store. Got called into the manager’s office and they showed me the footage.

It was surreal. Creepy as fuck. A reminder: we’re watching you.

Sometimes I stand around and look at the cameras, point at them even. I’m watching, too.

Work in retail. The amount of cameras is downright dizzying. Sometimes more cameras than people.

I’m with Engels on this one.

He’s been the ruling class’s guy from his first oration to millennia beyond his death. He bore nothing but contempt for the masses and sought whatever opportunities he could that would make his pathetic life more comfortable at their expense.

Peoples’ histories will eventually relegate him to the prestigious honor of having been the creator of one of the world’s first gender neutral restrooms. 🪦🚻

quotes from The Assassination of Julius Caesar by Michael Parenti

True but at the same time you don´t read particularly much about corrupt communist party bigwigs in socialist media, do you?

I see your point and have been following along all of these conversations. I just wanted to add that In The Name of the People (2017) is an incredible Chinese (sorta-)cop show wherein we follow anti-corruption detectives who arrest those same bigwigs you mention. It rules, and is an example of this in a contemporary socialist society rather than something from 50 years ago in Soviet media or whatever. I recommend looking into it!

It is.

(source: Telesur)

This doesn’t exactly sound like Venezuela is beating the wardrums, at least yet. Sounds more like an international legal battle will be fought, at least at first.

Just more anti-Maduro and anti-Bolivarian propaganda and scaremongering, I think.

To be entirely honest, I’ve been basing that understanding majorly on this now-dead article (totally possible it got removed for being too pro-DPRK by the south Korean government).

https://archive.is/BoWUU

Re-reading it, it weighs projected growth vs. actual growth between OECD countries and the DPRK. The DPRK does not currently seem to be reaching those goals, but I will say that five-year plans do take time. Typically five years, lol.

Here is comrade @afellowkid’s translated summary:

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/398663

Jilin Province is located in Northeast China, in Manchuria, and shares a border with north Korea. Jilin is important in the history of the Korean struggle for several reasons. It’s the place where Kim Il-sung joined the resistance movement, and also where, as a teenager, he founded the Down-With-Imperialism Union, which contemporary literature in north Korea considers as the original foundations of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK). A large number of Koreans had fled to Jilin to escape the brutal Japanese colonial occupation of Korea, and Jilin was home to the largest base of Korean resistance.

In the struggle against Japanese imperialism, Korean and Chinese communists (and at various points, nationalists) were part of a united front. In fact, at the urging of the Third International (Comintern), which at the time was organizing the world communist movement, Korean communists joined the Chinese Communist Party. It’s estimated that, when the merging process was consolidated in 1931, as much as 90 percent of the Chinese Communist Party was actually Korean, as their efforts at recruitment among the peasants in the region had been much more successful.

– Foreword to Socialist Education in Korea by Kim Il-Sung, written by Derek R. Ford and Curry Malott, emphasis mine.

I didn’t say it was right or correct. I said it was a Venezuelan national issue.

You’ve quite a penchant for putting words in others’ mouths. I am only saying that chalking this all up to imperial ambition or the whims of a single political figure is myopic and betrays a lack of historical context. The borders exist as they do today because of the British empire. Guyana was a British colony until 1966.

My view? I never said anyone was wrong. I never said anyone was right. I’m examining the reality of the situation. In the real world, calling Venezuela an empire is silly as fuck, as is insinuating that Maduro is making all of these decisions single-handedly.

Russia and China regularly and correctly call out the U.S. for trying to be the world police. I don’t think that they should police Venezuela in the U.S.'s stead. This is a Venezuelan and Guyanese issue. An issue whose blame falls squarely at the feet of empire.

True, but that still doesn’t give Maduro free reign to go “Hehe mine now :3”

I’m kind of bewildered by the great manning going on ITT.

distract the Venezuelan people from their conditions

random unremarkable region has some of the largest mineral and oil deposits in the world

Does one not obviously feed into the other, here? Venezuelan access to those deposits obviously implies a healthier, stronger economy.

I think blowing this up into something it is not is a dangerous game. Venezuela is not an empire, nor does it aspire to be. It is a nation in the global south that should maintain the sovereignty to define its own borders, especially when those borders have been encroached upon by comprador / puppet regimes funneling wealth back to the ACTUAL empire. Especially when those borders only exist the way they do because of ACTUAL empires!