He/him. 24.
“Poor little tankie, trying to lash out. Maybe you should take out your frustration by going to the front line of the Ukraine invasion. You’ll actually increase the average IQ of the world when your brains are splattered in a ditch.”
Why do you larp as a socialist? To poison the well? I think you’d feel more included on 
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Why do you claim it’s happening? Can’t disprove a negative.
There isn’t a re-education camp in the world that can fix this level of misanthropic, warmongering brainrot.
“tHaNkFuLlY, uKrAiNe iS nOt AfGhAnIsTaN”
A lot of folk will never know they have bed bugs - the only indicators being blood from squashing them in one’s sleep, filth in their nests, blood from their fecal matter, and their eggs.
For me, I’ll know I have them when my skin looks like this after sleeping.
It is the itchiest thing imaginable. So much worse than mosquitoes or other insect bites, in my experience. When they bite, it feels like an electric shock. I’ll jolt, scramble on my bed looking for the villain, only for their ridiculous speed to make it impossible to catch them in the act.
I get paranoid even thinking about them. If I feel what feels like a bite, I won’t be able to sleep. I’ll spend all night lifting up my mattress, my bed frame, looking underneath everything, opening every vent, and checking every corner. They’re sneaky as shit, though, and can prove almost impossible to find. Worse still, they’re amazing climbers.
If you see stains like this on your sheets or pillows, be wary. You likely squashed a few of the monsters in your sleep.
They can hide anywhere. I don’t have pictures of it, but my parents had doors with grates/vents on them, and they were stained dark red and brown from the bed bug infestation. They can get in your outlets, too.
Imagine a blissful night of sleep being interrupted by this thing crawling on the back of your neck. I picked one off of me and I swear I was stunned. I started squishing the fucker in my fingers trying to figure out what the hell it was before throwing it across the room. In hindsight, I should have flushed it down the toilet. It probably would have survived, regardless. The bastards survive almost anything, especially bug sprays specifically marketed towards killing them.
Don’t let the images or my descriptions make anyone reading paranoid. It feels like even mentioning the words “bed bug” is enough to manifest them into existence, sometimes. You probably know if you have them. If you’re worried, be on the lookout for stains like those in the spoiler, and cylindrical off-white tubes about the size of a pen’s tip. Kill on sight, and show no mercy. They will show you none.
Thanks!!
I don’t doubt it and I believe ya, I just wanted more info. I’m not a fan of market reforms in the ideal, but I can, to an extent, understand their historical necessity for China & Vietnam.
addendum:
These estimates indicate that from 1981 to 1990, when most of China’s socialist provisioning systems were still in place, the country’s extreme poverty rate was on average only 5.6 per cent.
Moreover, extreme poverty in China increased during the capitalist reforms of the 1990s, reaching a peak of 68 per cent, as privatisation inflated the prices of essential goods and thus deflated the incomes of the working classes.
Can’t really fault people for thinking the PRC really did take the “capitalist road”, holy shit. If it weren’t for their major successes as of recent, I’d still think the same.
I’ve found it difficult to find sources specifically detailing the poverty rate pre-Deng and post-Deng. Income inequality undoubtedly increased under Deng (par for the course for market reforms, unfortunately), but I don’t think that’s a relevant measure when considering what “extreme poverty” is (deprivation of basic human necessities like food, water, and shelter - intentional or incidental).
If you have sources, I’d appreciate it. I can’t find anything detailing the poverty rate prior to 1980.
Thanks for the advice. My parents constantly get them, making it nigh impossible to spend the night at their house.
I swear it was so bad when I lived with them it horribly exacerbated my unaliving tendencies. They’re cursed little monsters (I’m allergic, too!) and the world would be better off if they were annihilated imo.
Almost certain war rape was punishable by summary execution.
Wonder if they know they’re regurgitating propaganda from a cult that believes there are different heavens for different races.
Begging for money. I work 40 hours a week. Cheapest rent out of anyone I know. 5x5 cell of an apartment. I get paid weekly. I get $100 in food stamps a month.
Somehow, still -30USD in the hole and still hungry. Having 1/3 of my monthly paycheck go towards simply existing is fucking nuts, especially when we’re expected to pay for laundry, electric, gas (both domestic and vehicular), internet, phone bill, health insurance, car insurance, union dues, loan repayment, hospital and doctor bills, what THE FUCK!!!
I’m amazed anyone survives this shithole. I have respect for anyone who makes it here without trampling everyone around them underfoot.
They won’t, though. We won’t. We’re the ones who “fall through the cracks”. The MILLIONS.
Really funny that they use the 800 million number given that in 1953, 4 years after the PRC’s founding, China’s population was around 582 million, yet in the past 40 years (notably after Mao’s death) the CPC’s governance has lifted 800 million people out of poverty.
Where did they get the 800 million number from? Did they get it mixed up?
my brain says it’s this one
am i stupid?
my heart says it’s this one
am i just missing something big?
If our speech is free, why can capitalists outright buy it?
I met too many folk just like this in college. I considered myself an ancom. I knew an anarcho-syndicalist, ecosocialist, democratic socialist, guild socialist, libertarian socialist, Christian anarchist…
I can’t fault them or myself too much, we are taught to identify with ANYTHING but Marxism-Leninism. I was the edgiest one of the lot for daring to even identify with “communism” (albeit in its softer, less threatening anarchoform.) We agreed on pretty much everything, yet we all identified our politics as meaningfully different based on what we named them.
Continued study of imperialism and self-criticism turned most of us into genuine communists. Some got tired of radical politics and became Hilary stans. One’s a pastor and a patsoc who believes in literal demons and performs exorcisms and shit.
The U.S. left is in an absolute state.
How long til we see this spun as a military provocation against Empire? It’s been two weeks and it hasn’t really been reported on by Western media at all, so maybe they’ll just ignore it.
It’s incredible, regardless. The PRC and the nations of South America are growing ever closer by the day.
Leave my mans alone, he’s obviously Argentinean
Eliminate self, become the internet.
inc Venezuela lifting 14 million people out of poverty
For real though, I take this as a piece of evidence that the PRC is exporting revolution. It is simply not in the form many of us imagined it would be.
There are people still alive who witnessed European Jewish settlers arrive in Palestine.
The only “historical nuance” the Israeli state offers is deathcult, promised land, chosen people bullshit. It is black and white.