since the normalization of relations Reunification Day has become more of a “peace and reconciliation” type of deal. The US went to previous ones and then sold Vietnam a bunch of Boeing engines and shit, the diplomatic relationship has been quite warm considering the history.

This snub is 100% just another Trump own goal that will hopefully push Vietnam back closer to the AES states

The US was invited, but they’re being sore losers about it this year and refusing to join in the celebrations

Not so much lines for bread but more special items that ran out quickly, the USSR had plenty of bread and sausage coming out of state-owned bakeries on the cheap. Complaints about shortages were about things they mostly had to trade for like sugar, fruit, coffee, chocolate (the Cuban revolution was a godsend for the Soviets in that regard). Even then the lines were for the cheap subsidized versions of those products in the normal grocery stores. most of the time these were still available in special foreign imports stores, but obviously these were more expensive.

America can and should be protectionist and buy American

why? So you can get something of worse quality for 5 times the price? Are you ever going to understand that 21st century globalization was designed for YOUR benefit so some sweatshop worker in SEA can make you a pair of sneakers for barely more than the cost of materials? Maybe if chuds like you opposed the international slaughter and oppression of ecological activists, labor unionists, and anti-imperialists the fucking coddled modern American “worker” (consumer) wouldn’t feel like they’re getting outcompeted by the rest of the world now. Get your shit together and realize a global proletarian revolution is in your best interest, before the armed guard drags you back into the coal mines.

a subtle slamm

perfect summary of this “new cold war”

China: gives reasonable and logical explanation of the situation while acknowledging future and present challenges to their goals

USA: *slurs*

If they picked a POC pope I fully expect Europe/USA to schism and select the first antipope since the 15th century all while claiming its totally not a race thing

I wrote a whole damn rant only for them to lock the thread before I could post it so I’m putting it here (probably before this thread gets locked again)

I agree that modern leftists cut organized religion way too much slack these days. It’s simply false in first place (hot take? It’s not the 18th century), and promoting or tolerating belief in a false thing is damaging to the intellectual, philosophical, and dare I say even spiritual development of an individual. But i get it, you have one chance at life, and religion is cope for those humans whose lives suck. I don’t hate the religious, I sympathize, just like I sympathize with literal opium addicts for the same reason, but scientific socialists (aka Marxists) should be agitating for people to get clean of the shit that is holding back their revolutionary potential.

And Marxists trying to stan Jesus Christ as a proto-communist is some of the cringest shit ever. Jesus would askew “earthly” political ideologies and just build a cult around himself, like he did historically. Just because a guy wants to hand out free bread doesn’t make his philosophy not diametrically opposed to communism. He would tell any worker’s party to go fuck itself for playing god. But there is no heavenly salvation for the blessed nor punishment eternal for the greedy parasites, the only justice that exists is what the oppressed and working classes seizes for itself in life. Christianity and all religions (except arguably semi-athesitic ones like Buddhism) impede that and frankly Marxists shouldn’t be ideologically assimilating that nonsense at all.

I really only give Islam a pass from me complaining about it (plenty of problems there too ofc) because the biggest capitalist empires seem to fucking hate it and in turn I respect Muslims’ resilience and how much trouble they manage to cause for the imperialists in response. Respect the grind as they say. Also the Wudu ritual is/was innovative from a public health perspective which I enjoy, but it really shouldn’t take belief in God to get people to wash their damn hands regularly. Same with Christianity and not being a raging, selfish asshole to your neighbors, though that doesn’t seem to be as strictly followed anyway so what good is it? But imo it is proof of the dire state of the left that the most powerful counter-hegemonic force out there right now is Islam when labor exploitation keeps getting worse. (China is still not counter-hegemonic yet, maybe one day, maybe not)

But if the Christians want to keep a mostly dead community around here it doesn’t really matter to me, hexbear is not an exclusively Marxist website anyway. But leftists shouldn’t act like they can “co-opt” religion, you’re the one who is going to get your ideology co-opted, churches aren’t ignorant to that shit and aren’t gonna let you cut in on their action (“their flock”) without a fight. And why should they? the priests did all the work attracting all their donors, Marxists should get off their asses again and rebuild authentic workers’ organizations instead of trying and failing to grift off the world’s most successful charlatans who will see right through your coup plotting.

psychotically driven work culture

this is how Americans cope with a sense of deep societal alienation and hating their own lives while chinese people still have ambitions and dreams for the future: those Asians just be crazy

here’s a hint: on any statistic you want to be as far from Mississippi as possible

they literally only are because the UK didn’t want to be “isolated” between the superpowers so they yanked France onto the council so churchill could have a colonialist bloc.

MAGA wants the cops/army to machine gun a crowd of liberal protesters so bad, and I have a sinking feeling that will happen at least before the end of this term, if not the year. Hell they might just do it themselves freikorps style. its going to be on camera though, and it will be viral and instantly memeified by the fascists. They are going to want everyone to see them or the authorities “own” the libs. Maybe they’ll even fuck that up by massacring a bunch of retirees trying to get the phones at the social security office turned back on.

he may not have been heard from because prisoners in CECOT are not allowed any direct contact with the outside. No lawyer or family visits or calls. I’ve talked with some Salvadoran activists about the CECOT and they mostly talk about the overcrowding, poor food and hygiene, and a complete lack of dignity and privacy. They didn’t talk about violence in there though, except from the guards. Even if the gangs hate this guy they may not be able to get him, prisoners aren’t even given clothes or rooms there. If he is dead it is because the guards allowed it.

“sick ai deepfake guys, love how you made Jackie even hotter”

Business Plot:

damn, sounds like the west is cooked then, guess I better side with the mastermind

from my admittedly limited conversations with irl Chinese people I think they have been ready to rumble for a few years now, I think America is severely underestimating their will and drive to avenge past humiliations. I keep thinking about this event that happened a couple years ago:

The incident happened Saturday at Lujiang Middle School in Anhui province, some 400km west of Shanghai. A video clip posted on social media shows a student walking onto the stage, taking a microphone from a professor and shouting, “He only has money in his eyes, thinks learning is just for money, worships the West and panders to overseas powers.”

“For what purpose do we study hard? It’s for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!” he added, echoing a phrase popularized by President Xi Jinping. “Do not cross-breed with Americans!” the student also said.

Libs will say Xi is just brainwashing the children or whatever but we know better. They know their own history, and these really want this next fight to show the world just how far they’ve come.

BREAKING: Trump announces save file corruption, global markets tumble

keep in mind though that the US (Trump and Biden) has blocked the seating of new judges at the WTO dispute settlement body since 2017, so the WTO can’t actually hear any complaints anymore. They did this because countries in Latin America and Africa kept suing the US for unfair trade practices and winning, the WTO “international rules based” trading order has been dying for years at America’s hands, now trump just nailed the coffin shut.

“it’s not about the economy, it’s about sending a white nationalist message”

we didn’t use them, only got a look at an organizer’s phone, but I assume the cadence would be clunky and the content soulless