He streams quite often, not continuously sadly. I think he said in some comment, that he's afraid of being demonetized or something.
Makes sense then :). Not trying to be mean or ableist, it's just hard for me to keep focus with the AI voices. Hopefully the AI based TTS-voices will get even better in the future!
The content of video itself is great, but I personally dislike the whole AI voice thing. It makes it a bit of a monotonous listening experience.
Rest in peace, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong!
NYTimes is already out there wishing for a "less conservative communist leader":
Mr. Trong represented a conservative Marxist-Leninist faction within the party, which includes another faction seen as more pragmatic and moderate. His death is likely to raise hopes in the West that a less doctrinaire leader could emerge. Mr. Trong, the only one in the 18-member Politburo who grew up during the Vietnam War, was a generation older than many of his peers.
In Denmark the conflict in Russia/Ukraine has resulted in accepting American troops being stationed here, and of course a massive $20 billion USD investment in the military, over the next 10 years. The articles are in Danish, use a translator if you're interested.
Denmark has for at least 70 years always said no to having American troops stationed in our country, so it's quite a big move. Very few political parties have been criticizing it this time around, except for the most left-wing ones (obviously including our very-small communist party).
Participated in a pro-Palestine protest today in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was wonderful :).
2.500 people had signed up for the event. Some said 10.000 people showed up, others are saying 15.000. It was absolutely packed with people of all kinds and ages. I went with my 60+ year old dad.
I don't have enough pictures to make justice of the scale, but we went from a part of Copenhagen named "Nørrebro", and walked to the Danish parliament.
Photo from the parliament here and here.
A birds-eye view of how many showed up at the parliament: https://odysee.com/@kovpak:c/394458251600888:1
Currently reading Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media by Parenti :). A great book, but also somewhat depressing. Even though it's quite old, it definitely still holds up. It kind of seems like nothing has changed.
The first few seasons are great. The 4th season is a bit of a mess. First it was cancelled, and later renewed, if I remember correctly.
You can read something China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, said here.
Basically saying to show restraint, to limit civilian casualties. And that the UN should push for a two-state solution.
Otherwise, you can follow the CPC's official news paper, People's Daily, and their "World" publishing here
And in general, Xinhua, the largest media organ in China: here. Also this and this.
Michael Parenti's book, "Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism" has a chapter covering faults, or rather, ineffiencies of the former USSR. I would look up the exact chapter, but my I lent the book to my dad, who was very interested in reading the book. It's an amazing book, so if you end up reading the chapter, I recommend the rest of the book as well :)!
If you don't have the means to buy the book, then it should be available on a lot of different sites, like archive.org, libgen and so on.
Also, shameless plug for the Michael Parenti video archive on YouTube.
It's an amazing documentary. But also quite horrifying. It's quite disturbing having them describe and depict how they killed all those innocent civilians, who they suspected to be communists or left-leaning. It's definitely worth a watch.
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Yea. The entire comment section, and guy himself are going through all the DPRK-bad tropes.
Not really related, but I recently re-watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, the animated series. There is so much blatant anti-"communist" propaganda throughout. Like the whole "no war in Ba Sing Se" thing is clearly designed to mimic "communist brainwashing", Stasi and everything related to bad/lib/western takes on non-western intelligence service(s). The same bad tropes are also repeated in Legend of Korra, with the equality movement, "the great uniter" and so on.
They're all clearly written to be the bad guys, and everything they believe in is compared to the usual anti-communist propaganda - equality=bad, he's actually a bad guy (liar) underneath the mask. The great uniter=bad, sends people to concentration camps while promising unity.
Again just reminds me of a classic joke: