What makes RationalWiki’s debunking of satanic child abuse networks run out of pizza parlors different from denialism? What makes their debunking of any particular alleged outrageous atrocity that the reactionaries invent different from denialism? What makes their refutation of reactionary claims that abortion is mass murder different from denialism?

It may not be a city but maybe a geographic feature. Like mountains, hills, valleys, even the curve of a river, etc have names sometimes and that may have been one of them. At least I’m going off my understanding of naming as a westerner as those seem to be rules found all over the globe.

Considerations:

• It’s possible the name was misspelled or lost in translation or the modern translation is different.
• It’s also possible it’s an old name and the area has since been given a new one. (Consider also it may have been a name used only by locals at the time or by the Chinese but not Koreans)
• It’s also possible there is no name anymore because there’s nothing there anymore so the name is lost.
• It could be a combination of these things.

The clue is I suppose it’s something that can be reached from the Yalu river left at late evening time by morning via whatever conveyance they were using (walking, trucks, etc). I would see if you could find a copy of this in Chinese and see what the original language characters say there (deepl can help translating).

Happy birthday!

Drugs are bad. Don’t use anything addictive or too mind-altering. I think even regular (daily) consumption of coffee is bad but it’s one of those things that under capitalism I suppose I understand as a kind of necessary evil.

Mind-control MKUltra drugs which encourage frivolous hedonism, individualism, magical/irrational thinking are of course a weapon of the enemy and often directly fund them and their proxies as well. Escapism would not be a needed thing under socialism as well, they are at most a crutch and I am very suspicious of those who advocate their use. This person you speak of is not a Marxist and may well be a fed.

The west will in the near term likely descend into barbarism, open reaction, what fascism was in the 20th century Europe. (That or it’ll pull off some sort of miraculous crushing of the global south and buying capitalism breathing room for another 40 years)

So I think we could see a revolution the next 20 years, I just don’t think it’ll be a socialist one.

I also don’t discount the real possibility that the bourgeoisie in the west try to take their ball and go home, try and do dark enlightenment, neo-feudalism, and just build a high fence around it. What that actually ends up looking like in practice I wouldn’t know but I think it’s truly possible they find a way to keep the situation miserable but stable for another hundred years with the current power structure mostly the same. Climate change is certainly set to come in on the side of the US. Technology like AI and more specifically robotics dangles the promise of automation that’s good enough to serve as a control mechanism on the population, total information control, total surveillance, etc from which the ultimate breaking free would likely only come about from the decay of such systems out of neglect and greed.

I certainly HOPE there is a revolution, a Marxist one in the global north in the next 60 years. I’d like to see that before I die, I’d like for it to come sooner than that as in 60 years I have a pretty good chance of being dead of natural causes.

But we must remember how hard it is to predict history. Asked 100 years ago socialists in our place would have said Germany or Britain, etc would probably experience a revolution in their lifetime and they were wrong. Lenin thought he’d never live to see the revolution and he was wrong about that. We must however take from the past century how adaptable capitalism is. They have our playbook, they have experience correcting for, adjusting to many of their problems that give rise to revolutionary potential and they have a century of anti-communism propaganda messaging as well as 30 years of end of history messaging.

It seems unknowable, too many variables. It really hinges on can China become a communist super-power, avoid being crushed by the west, avoid being nuked by the west, avoid being strangled and can it exert power including trade and friendship better than the west can extend neo-colonialism, color revolutions, fomented extremism and terrorism/separatism to the rest of the world? If it can, if the west’s grasp on the rest of the world slips then short of the west deciding to use nuclear weapons and destroy human civilization then sooner or later I think we’ll have won. I think we’ll know the results of this within 10 years by 2035 we’ll see the fruits of the west’s plans or China’s plans.

The west is trying delaying actions because climate change is coming in on their side so that’s a big unknown, that could really hit China hard regardless of all their efforts and become a real drain while the US is almost certain to weather that new reality among the best of all nations.

Eh they have the island chains which help a lot. I’m not saying they can strangle them like Cuba and stop everything in and out. I’m saying they can make it uneconomical, painful, expensive, economically hard on China by trying to intercept most boats. They can’t stop China from running some small boats, speed boats, etc or doing stuff over land but they can stop the big cargo ships which make up the bulk of Chinese trade and shipping, those are easy to spot using satellites and drone fleets and can be tracked out from port.

China would likely intervene against this which is why I think the US is planning on using autonomous robot death drones IF and I repeat IF they actually want to go the physical blockade route (economic may be all they try). Basically advanced sea-faring, self-propelled mines. Their special forces top leadership have talked of creating such a minefield to deny the PRC Taiwan in a battle and buy time to land US forces, I think though they’d try and use traditional naval ships to enforce it that their plan is as soon as those start getting sunk they get the angry public behind creating masses of kind of AI or autonomous/semi-autonomous self-propelled and seeking drones and just litter international waterways that access China with them.

I’m not saying the plan would work but it would escalate things in the way they want towards the ends they want which is buying time, driving up anger at China and trying to make things painful and costly and a drag on them. And more importantly towards making China hit them, they’ve been trying to get China to strike them, to give them an excuse, etc for some time and the Chinese keep ducking it and proceeding calmly with the plan. So if their plan is to use “rules based order cordon” around China and China uses military force to disrupt it then they’ve succeeded in their long-time goal there of getting to claim their actions are merely retaliation for “aggression”.

The bigger issue is still US sanctions. Once they slap those on a lot of countries significantly reduce trade with China because they refuse to confront the US or make an enemy of them because whoever does that first gets the US navy and marines in their face to make an example of them and no one wants to go first. If not the direct force then at least devastating sanctions against industry that torpedo a given country’s economy.

I have to agree. There will come a point where the US navy will do something like throw up a blockade and just steal any Chinese ships that attempt to approach Africa to buy raw minerals and China can either try and construct the most elaborate smuggling scheme in the world or they have to confront NATO with force, maybe sink some ships, maybe just escort their own and start providing military assistance to friendly African or other states who risk being couped or attacked by western forces. It’ll likely be very low confrontation and framed as defensive and limited in nature to start as I don’t see China wanting to war with the west even if the west takes off both gauntlets and slaps them repeatedly across the face. It then becomes a question of whether Chinese assistance can overcome centuries of western expertise and experience couping, dividing and conquering, creating proxy forces, sectarian strife fostering, blackmail, and destabilizing regions for profit and imperialism. It tends to be easier to destroy than to build so it’s going to be rough.

Why are you spamming this as a reply to everyone in the thread?

If by socialist policies you mean ruled by a communist party then hell yes. It would be a dream come true to live in for example China.

Even many so-called leftist spaces casually use sexist langauge, memes, etc. It’s an infection that goes deeper than racism it feels and certainly people seem less aware of it than homophobia. I continue to hope male comrades speak out when they see it rather than being silent to avoid being seen as “being a nerd” when no-one would ever accuse someone of ruining the fun for calling out homophobia, racism, etc.

And like anti-imperialism I agree that feminism is non-negotiable. You are not my comrade or worthy of being called comrade of anyone if you don’t see me as human, if you see me as inferior, if you support my oppression or make excuses for it. I don’t give a fuck about the excuses or your weak attempts at logic and co-existing with it.

Luckily at least in this community we don’t have mods who uphold the backwards, disgusting, chauvinist idea that sexual exploitation and prostitution is good work instead of abuse and something to be abolished. Though as always there is room for improvement and I am pretty often reminded this is a male dominated space.