No, it's not the one about how Democracy isn't Coca-Cola

The main phrase of it was something along the lines of "The Communist Party must follow the people into the fire", that is, it must defer to the outcome of votes and the popular will even when it believes the outcome will be for the worse (presumably while expressing its own view) so that it does not grow out of touch with the people and instead gains trust and credibility from them in the long term.

It's not on redsails, unfortunately, but I'm sure one of you all linked it to me in the first place.

From what I can gather, there's one Jew in the whole game (who I think is just called "Jew") and he ends up being a collaborator with a demon cult that seems to want to consume humanity. It doesn't seem like people really hold this against him long term, since he gets into more benign misadventures in the "where are they now?" montage at the end, but it seems like the most on-the-nose fash writing possible otherwise.

I haven't actually played the game, partly because I was put off by this element of the synopsis, so did I miss relevant context? Even just a "fuck you guys for making a leper of me and then demanding my loyalty" type line?

I've seen a few times people cite Furr while disavowing him in a more general sense, but I have never seen someone here talk about specific problems with him and his work.

I remembered this fact because I was looking up information on Losurdo and found a little eulogy Furr wrote for him (which incidentally had the answer I was looking for, that Losurdo did not speak Russian).

Furr seems like an absolute crank in terms of his general writing, see this text at the end of an article he wrote refuting a Current Affairs article:

I have been studying the allegations of crimes against Joseph Stalin for many years. My intention is to research every one of them.

When I began years ago I thought that it would be only a matter of time – perhaps a year or two – before I discovered that at least one of these allegations against Stalin was true, could be confirmed by primary-source evidence. I was wrong. So far, after several decades of searching, I have yet to evidence that Stalin committed even one crime, much less the myriad crimes that Trotsky, Khrushchev’s men, Gorbachev’s men, and academic researchers have confidently asserted.

I intend to keep looking. Perhaps some day I will discover at least one genuine crime by Stalin that I can truthfully say is supported by the best evidence we have. If and when I do, I will publish it and the evidence to support it.

Which is just a villain origin story, though again I must say that every refutation I have personally seen from Furr (though few in number) made sense.

So I ask again, what is actually wrong with him? Or has he merely inherited his own "Black Legend"?

So I've been putting off writing this for a long time and it'll probably need to be a series, but I've had a difficult time answering challenges from my friends who assert that China is either a Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie or of the Bureaucracy (i.e. state capitalists), and that it's a competing imperialist power along with America (and they also say Russia but I can answer that one being stupid on my own).

The problem with China Discourse is that there is a serious paucity of sources dealing with nuanced critiques rather than just "debt trap!" bullshit or whatever, since the objections of liberals and the objections of smarter ultras are very different. At the very least, the sources dealing with this Discourse are less accessible to me.

But now I'm extremely bored and also recently saw Comrade Queermmunist's excellent rebuttal against the claim of China doing imperialism in the DRC, which gave me some hope that Hexbear would be able to answer some of these claims with something at least plausible.

The main objects of concern are the for-profit national businesses causing bureacratic class antagonism, foreign policy in the form of UN peacekeeping contributions, and straightforward imperialism at the base of its supply chain, along with miscellany like this:

https://newworker.us/international/chinas-stock-market-a-lesson-on-what-socialism-is-not/

I don't know, it's all a mess and putting off ideological work causes problems. If nothing else, let this be a practical lesson to you:

To let things slide for the sake of peace and friendship when a person has clearly gone wrong, and refrain from principled argument because he is an old acquaintance, a fellow townsman, a schoolmate, a close friend, a loved one, an old colleague or old subordinate. Or to touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it thoroughly, so as to keep on good terms. The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed. This is one type of liberalism.

It catches up with you and makes things worse in the end.

And they said we should just accept it on their credibility.

I had the occasion to look this up again, so I thought I should post it for more than the shitlib I got it for (so now it's also for the three of you sorting by new at this hour)

I know it's tired to post these but come on, let me have just this one. It's so fucking dumb.

https://hexbear.net/comment/3723348

No matter the account, it keeps popping up. It is very annoying because one time it was on autoplay and I had the misfortune of hearing some of it and you won't be surprised to find out that it has very little to do with real politics and more to do with simplistic courtly dramas that liberals love projecting into their enemies.

I hate liberals. On top of everything else, they are just so fucking intellectually bankrupt that they don't even conceive of doing actual research before making totalling claims about countries they will never even visit or speak to an (even former) resident of.

If you participate, remember to be nice to the people who demonstrate good faith.

Just the worst fucking bullshit. @UlyssesT@hexbear.net was right about literally everything. I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.

DA was not at all beyond reproach, but he deserved so much better than this vile bullshit. If he was still alive, he'd be terminally online and mocking Musk on Twitter.

It's not "good" and most of the "battles" are lame, but it's funny in most of its faults and occasionally very evocative in a way I can't imagine a modern action movie being.

I did laugh out loud at the lengthy worldbuilding exposition getting impatiently interrupted by someone else who wanted to do other worldvuilding exposition. Really 95% of the movie is exposition, and that's because 5% of it is lengthy establishing shots and the like. Normally I hate endless Proper Nouns, but it works here because most of it is casual and, hilariously, a lot of it is mentioned once and never again. That impatient interjection I mentioned name drops the "CHOAM Corporation" I guess that's something in the books because it doesn't seem to be here!

It was also a really bad idea to have Marty McFly demonstrate his combat prowess while refracted through a Roblox beta asset. They only use that shit one time later and it's in a very inconsequential way!

The specter of see see pee censorship

It's in several spots, people basically saying "I've had a solid time except for all these nasty russian bots that we will soon outnumber!"

No way an American disagrees with you, or anyone else of an Approved Nationality! No, it must be a pesky ruskie who managed to reach a computer despite not having any paved roads!