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Thank you, robot.

There are a few things to consider:

Mao’s paper tiger

The average lifespan of an empire is 250 years

That the situation has always been desperate and hopeless, perhaps moreso in periods of history than it is today. We can look to the battle of Stalingrad or the Long March or the period around the October Revolution as examples of just how desperate things have been and how we have been able to prevail against all odds. Heck, Lenin didn’t expect to see the revolution in his lifetime and then in a few short years he ended up leading it.

I’m not going to go into depth on this because I don’t have the focus rn but ultimately this is a question of having a world to win and daring to invent the future. We have two propositions:

• We are in a hopeless situation with no potential for achieving revolution
• We are in a situation which has potential for achieving a revolution

The importance of revolutionary optimism cannot be overstated. (There are some good video essays out there on this topic.)

Ultimately, the choice is between an attitude of defeatism or revolutionary optimism. If we choose defeatism then we foreclose on the potential for revolution because, if an opportunity for revolution exists, we will not be in a position to seize it.

If we choose revolutionary optimism, on the other hand, we have the ability to seize the opportunity.

We cannot allow ourselves to foreclose on the opportunity for revolution because we will only ever know if something is possible by striving for it and, in achieving it, proving that it is in fact possible retrospectively.

I’d recommend considering using Balabolka as a TTS generator because if you go to Tools > Use online TTS service you can select IBM Watson as the TTS engine (and it bypass the word limit restrictions.)

I think that Michael is my preferred TTS option for Watson but it’s been a while. Whatever the case, Watson is far and away the most listenable TTS that I’ve come across.

Lmk if you want screenshots because the Balabolka UI is a bit clunky.

Reddit has been banning accounts who are using the API exploit, just fyi

Edit: source: https://www.reddit.com/r/APIcalypse/comments/15q5k0v/reddit_is_reportedly_suspending_users_for_using/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

“Honestly, my stance on this isn’t gonna change. If people felt like we weren’t taking care of them, yeah, I would feel like we failed. If you wanna interpret that as a bad thing, you can, but you’re reaching pretty hard.”

Yeah, I’d say it’s about time for LTT staff to unionise.

I think that “taking care of people” smacks of the same rhetoric as “we’re like a family” and “I like to think that all staff are considered equals here” and just about any other lie I’ve heard from exploitative upper management types.

No need to apologise, I just wanted to find the source for myself and when the screenshotted page didn’t turn up in the book you mentioned I did a little bit of digging to find the right book so thought I’d make a correction to save others the time/effort of trying to find the source.

Just move to a different instance which isn’t so banhappy. There’s plenty of instances which aren’t so heavy-handed with what they ban.

It’s not a cookbook but you might appreciate The Way of Ramen on YouTube.

It’s a neat channel that is no nonsense and it does a good job of bringing restaurant methods to the home cook, a lot like YouTubers such as Ethan Chlebowski do.

Actually it’s from page 45 of The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Dan Stone if anybody is interested

“Your side isn’t entitled to my vote. If your side wants my vote, they have to earn it.”

This is even funnier if you assume that those messages were sent at 3am

The DNC will be slavering at the opportunity this presents them.

“It votes for Blue behind the screen or else it gets the Trump again!”

The worker’s councils were recreating the basis of capitalism and interfering with regional and national interests in favour of their own petit-bourgeois aspirations. They wanted to become a labour aristocracy and they threatened the economic foundations of proletarian democracy with their narrow, self-interested trade union consciousness. Yugoslavia’s model is a perfect example of what would have happened if this was allowed to proliferate and to threaten the revolution.

If the Mensheviks didn’t want to get outlawed then maybe they shouldn’t have aligned themselves with the interests of the aristocracy and the Kadets over the proletariat 🤷‍♂️

Imagine being salty that the October Revolution overthrew the bourgeois Provisional Government. The soviets had established themselves as the legitimate organ of proletarian power and they seized political power because the Mensheviks and the Constitutional Democrats did not represent them.

Lol, I’ll bite. How do you think that Lenin strangled the revolution in the cradle?

Do you mean libertarians, or “libertarians” as per Murray Rothbard’s quote:

“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over…”

Nah, I didn’t do that. I just pointed out that they are either a supporter of capitalism (or reactionary politics) or they support revolutionary/evolutionary socialism, all of which are inherently authoritarian in their own ways.

The material conditions that give rise to authoritarianism is a different question altogether. I was specific in my choice of words for a reason.

“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.”

— Marshal Zhukov

Let’s not pretend that your politics aren’t inherently authoritarian as well.

Either you support capitalism (or worse), which is grossly authoritarian as it inflicts massive violence not only via warfare but through mass starvation and deprivation, or you support socialism, in which case you have two options:

1. The violent overthrow of the current system (spoiler alert: that’s a very authoritarian thing to do!)

2. The gradual reform of the current system, meaning maintaining the status quo for an exceptionally long time as we ever so slowly creep our way to a more just economic system while countless people starve, go homeless, die without healthcare, end up in yet-another war and so on (which is a very authoritarian proposition, just throwing away the lives of the poor in your own country—not to mention those in the developing world—just so you can have a neat and tidy reformist approach that doesn’t rock the boat.)

I’m thoroughly enjoying watching Twitter xit itself