If you check your account page you should have a section to fill out your info + your shill-o-metre.

You need to level up the shill-o-metre in order to get a pay rise.

you get your pay roughly on 10th-12th every month.

“I wonder to which extent (the) CIA is responsible for the widespread of American-made cultural products, like pop music, rock and fast foods, and which artistic or cultural movements became influential through artificial means.”

I’m willing to wager they influence it far more than we think. Given military involvement in Hollywood and competitive FPS gaming it’s very much not out of the question for them to have influence in other forms of art and entertainment. Especially with china’s entertainment industry on the rise with tiktok blowing up and video games like genshin impact being immensely successful, we have been and will continue to see an increase in state interest and involvement in art and entertainment.

I was a “Free Market Libertarian” for most of my adolescence. Mainly because the selling point of individualism to a outcasted socially awkward autistic queer kid was a massive power fantasy. What happened was two things.

1. real life and experience with real people who didn’t hate my guts (no pun intended).
2. My vaguely socialist/social democratic irish republican father. I came from a pretty well off family of teachers and other academics so money wasn’t a major issue (until recently at least) and i was pretty sheltered as a result. Combine that with plagues like r/PCM and other internet personalities and you have a dumb kid who thinks he’s smart but unable to see through the bullshit because the height of her struggles was people at school thought they were weird and a couple of mental health incidents related to being outcasted or treated poorly. I had no real lived experience and as such just spouted bs because the internet forum guys made a half assed argument and i bought into it.

But then, real life happened. My friends start being directly affected by capitalism, as i got out more i started to directly see people struggling, as i got more involved with other queer youth and pride and the like it only became even more apparent and then, a mentor i looked up to and helped me so much through rekindling my love for reading and my love for the world takes her own life over the stress of keeping a stable living. That was the breaking point where i couldn’t lie to myself any longer. This is where my da comes in. I was ranting away about how abhorrent it was that a society could just let someone down that hard and how her death was completely avoidable and unnecessary it was. This lead to a long conversation of him telling stories of his involvement in left leaning movements and irish republican movements in his life. I was always pretty patriotic and that seed of an idea of “end all unnecessary suffering in Ireland” being a serious, attainable goal rather than just a naive fantasy really broke a lot of mental boundaries that liberal ideology had instilled within me. This lead to me to getting into different leftist spaces eventually reading lenin’s state and rev and joining r/genzedong.

I’ve come along way since then and I’d just like to thank you guys for being unfathomably based and stuff like book recommendations over the past 2 years of shitposting, it’s been a real inspiration to go out and make real change in the world.

So, i did a lil bit of digging and found out this channel is linked to China Uncensored, which for those who don’t know is one of those “ebil seeseepee” “chyna collapse! 1!1” channels and Is linked to falun gong, those guys who were doing those ShenYun shows.

I think this is a good example of how they use several channels covering popular topics and media in order to spread their ideology to groups that have already been shown to be very susceptible to it (in this case, gamers, which as gamergate showed are the perfect group for instilling and spreading their reactionary views, being mostly younger men from 15 to 35 feeling alone and ostracized from others. With the youngest of the bunch being their big targets.).

This is all notes taken straight out of the classic Alt-Right playbook and has been the method these types have been employing to great success since the early 10’s and now we are fully seeing the scale of these efforts with the sheer amount of young, far right reactionaries we are beginning to see pop up and far-right grifters such as shapiro, peterson and tate being big celebrities. They have faced a level of sizable backlash from liberal progressive types but they still continue to influence countless young men into support absolutely awful things and enabling their horrible behaviour, which saddens me.

The takeaway really is always think through, challenge and research what you are being told, ESPECIALLY if it confirms what you already thought. It’s as simple as that yet a shocking amount of people i know don’t do this. It’s okay to be wrong, it’s not okay to be ignorant and all that lol.

For piracy downloading linux iso’s or if I’m on public wifi, but i usually turn it off it outside of those cases.

I mean… Lenin also WAS kinda pretty NGL.

Personally, nearly all my profile pictures are just fictional character i like + bi flag and/or hammer and sickle in the background so idk much in the way of “professional” pfp’s lol but in that scenario I’d probably go with some sort of historical photo of a leftist figure, preferably someone less recognizable to your average lib depending on how “professional” the environment is. As much as i love ol’ joe he was absolutely correct in saying a pile of rubbish would be heaped apon his grave. So pick someone deemed more “sensible”.

I’m a lil late to the party on this post, but becoming a socialist really helped me curb my doomerism and allowed me to be way more optimistic than ever before. It’s just a liberating feeling being able to recognise and critique both capitalism and our selves and be able to improve and move foward.

AES is also massive hopium and seeing how far they’ve all come/came is evidence enough a better future is possible.

To be dramatic, frankly. It’s proof that we don’t have to give in and we absolutely don’t need to suffer alone and aimless. We can work things out together and make things better for everyone, one step at a time.

We don’t have to accept the homelessness, the hunger, the pain, the quiet desolation nor the crimes committed towards our fellow man in the name of capital.

god i sound cheesy. But then again, i mean it all wholeheartedly.

I wish all my comrades the best, keep fighting the good fight in your own little way.