If I had the talent, I would 100% go the Cameron route. Make slop with good craftmanship and just mid-brow enough that people argue whether it’s slop or not while I blow the millions of dollars on projects I actually care about.

Most sinitic languages use the same basic script plus or minus some words for vocabulary differences because it’s a logographic script.

That’s what I originally thought, but technically every single major Chinese topalect has their own unique set of characters. I’m not sure if Taishanese has its own script, but I know Cantonese does, which isn’t the same as the vast majority of Taishanese people would remind you. And in any case, written Cantonese is pretty different from written Mandarin even with simple sentences but it’s not just the difference in characters but the fact that the characters that they do share with each other have diverged in meaning since Middle Chinese. 食 is a root that means “food” or used in words like “edible” (食用) in Mandarin, but just means “eat” in Cantonese. There are also grammatical differences that affect order of words. And this is all considering that he spoke Taishanese not Cantonese.

At best, he would’ve learned the Mandarin character set but written them out with Taishanese/Cantonese character order and substituted those Mandarin characters with a more appropriate Taishanese/Cantonese character when saying them out loud, meaning that he essentially would have spoken Taishanese but written with some bizarre Mandarin/Cantonese hybrid. So, writing “吃” like standard Mandarin but saying “食” since he doesn’t know Mandarin.

I also should have elaborated that I’m extremely skeptical that a 6 year old member of the Taishanese diaspora living in the US during the 80s would’ve been exposed to the Taishanese/Cantonese character set. It’s mostly based on my experience with Cantonese people. I largely associate people typing with Cantonese characters with young people. Most older people just write in that Mandarin/Cantonese hybrid. Maybe that’s a misconception on my part.

“Professor” Jiang (he’s not an actual professor) has fed connections if not a fed himself. There’s a Twitter thread about Jiang’s background: https://nitter.net/zhen_ming_/status/2035083436860612639

He immigrated to Canada when he was 6 and he only learned how to speak Mandarin at college. He spoke Taishanese at home, meaning he most likely didn’t know how to read Chinese characters until college either. Basically, he’s a lot more removed from mainstream Chinese society than what he lets on. I don’t think he even lives in China. People are just listening to an anticommunist Chinese Canadian with a vague foreign accent and thinks that he must represent Chinese Mainlanders somehow.

Oh and he also thinks that “Israel’s success is due to it becoming a world laboratory, creating goods and technologies exported to the rest of the world.”

Balkanization has to happen first. There would have been no Chinese revolution without the overthrow of the Qing dynasty. The Qing dynasty had to be overthrown before ideological ground could be cleared for the May Fourth movement, which led to the formation of the CPC. Had the Qing still exist, Mao et al could have never succeeded in what they set out to do and virtually no peasants would’ve signed on to socialism. The US equivalent of the Qing dynasty is essentially the federal government or the US itself.

A balkanized US is a US ruled by various warlords, most likely coming from the ranks of the (ex) US military and the (ex) US security apparatus. Ideally, various Indigenous nations like the Navajo Nation would also become de facto independent with their own military to defend themselves from settler warlords. Within this context, asymmetric warfare is very much on the table. Socialist guerillas in what was once the state of Utah wage insurgency warfare against the Christofascist state of Deseret, which is fighting multiple fronts against the NCR and the Navajo Nation. One JDAM dropped on socialist guerillas by the Deseretian airforce is one less JDAM dropped on NCR aqueducts and Navajo infantry.

I think the way urban infrastructure is laid out is the missing piece to “why are leftist movements in the US dominated by labor aristocrat/petty bourgeois activists and college students?” Protests centered at colleges and universities make sense because you have young people with free time living together in an environment with some semblance of walkability. It has less to do with the inherent politics of college students themselves. When protests take place less than 10 minutes from a dorm, whether a student should attend the protest or not is just whether they want to spend 10 minutes walking to the protest. They don’t have to spend hours getting stuck in traffic, and they don’t have to pay for parking.

For people who aren’t students, it’s a very particular slice of society. Where I live, it makes little financial sense for normal people to drive to the nearest urban center, pay for exorbitant parking, and drive back after the protests end. The only people who would actually go are essentially petty bourgeois progressives, people who have the means and the politics to actually attend protests.

And since college students themselves exist within the context of petty bourgeois institutions and often come from labor aristocrat or petty bourgeois class backgrounds, it should be no surprise that protests in the US are very petty bourgeois in character. Average protestors are either college students being submerged in a petty bourgeois environment or petty bourgeois progressives. Frankly, they stick out like a sore thumb if you put proles next to them.

Have you seen how much gas costs now? You’re better off just giving the money that you blew on gas and parking to Palestinian gofundmes. Protests are only good for networking and finding an org with a nearby branch that is close to where you live so you don’t have to waste money on gas.

Forget about protests. Like, now is the time to talk to your neighbors and local orgs and prepare, ideally alongside your neighbors and local orgs, for what’s to come. Preparation needs to be made, and it needs to be better than buying bulks of toilet paper from Cosco along with everyone else also buying bulks of toilet paper from Cosco. Summer’s approaching, and given climate change and what’s going on in WANA, I would not bet on amenities that people living in imperial core countries have taken for granted like AC and electricity.

“B-b-but you need to be in community.” Randos who commute 2 hours in the opposite direction from your 2 hour commute to a protest aren’t part of your community. Your neighbors are your community. Whatever local org that’s nearby, be it a church or a group of volunteers with vaguely progressive politics, are your community. Those are people who you need to actually care about because when the shit hits the fan, who are you going to rely on for help? Who can you help?

It looks like Rock’s win pose from Garou: Mark of the Wolves although Chief is a lot buffer than Rock.

Nice try fraud, but everyone knows you have to take a series of three tests before you can get your woke certs. And that’s just for the tier 1 woke cert. I bet you don’t even have a woke applicant id.

The people who will choose to stay at Bluesky instead of returning to Twitter or choosing another social media site will be the most unhinged freaks imaginable.

It’s on the same level as a slogan. Slogans and jokes are not supposed to be a substitute for serious analysis or even a political programme. It’s like getting mad that “peace, land, and bread” doesn’t include clean water because aktually people need clean water more than they need bread or arguing that “Black lives matter” shouldn’t apply to African comprador leaders in charge of African neocolonies.

France’s nuclear weapon’s policy is incredibly unhinged. Their plan for not letting West Germany fall to the Soviets was to completely glass West Germany with nukes.

Legends say that it is only with the widespread falsehood of “Fallout 2 > Fallout 1” that will harken ashinadash’s return.

He references Chinese philosophical ideas and texts much more than anarchist ideas and concepts to give you an idea of how little anarchism factors into his work. And like every single Chinese philosopher in existence, his works make more sense after reading Confucian text.

100% agree. Coming up with a word that amounts to “I consoom X artform” is ridiculous. It pushes discussions of the artform away from the people who actually produces the art, whether direct production as in the artists or indirect production in the sense of the workers who make it possible for the artists to even produce the art (for film, this would be the stuntpeople, workers in charge of creating the set, makeup people, catering staff, and so on). Instead, the light is shined upon various bickering gatekeeping consoomers.

Cool, you’re still around. Welcome back.

I can’t believe it either, but they fucking did. And now they will fucking pay for assassinating Khamenei.

They’re a lot worse than Gen X, who don’t get pandered a whole lot in comparison. You could tell by how so many sitcoms that Gen X have watched haven’t seen a reboot or a revival or a cinematic universe. The A-Team basically got a movie in 2010 and that was it.

Is Gen X nostalgia even a thing compared with boomer and millennial nostalgia? We haven’t exactly seen a Cheers reboot or a Happy Days revival.

That’s a really good idea. I use some bash script with whatever package managers I’m not using for the particular machine commented out.

Don’t forget Bush Sr.'s response of “I’m not an apologize for America kind of guy”

“I’ll never apologize for the United States - ever! I don’t care what the facts are.”