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The people of China are materially quite comfortable and their lives are improving every decade. They do not have a reason to revolt. Their circumstances are not so terrible that revolution is necessary to improve them. Most people in China are genuinely quite happy with their state. You couldn’t have picked a worse example.

I don’t know or care about Russia enough to speak on it. I personally wouldn’t judge their domestic situation based on what western sources say about it. News agencies necessarily lie and distort the reality of the geopolitcal enemies of their respective nations. It is sufficient to say that revolution has not been attempted in Russia because the circumstances for workers aren’t dire enough. Revolutions don’t happen because governments are “undemocratic” they happen because people are starving and dying with no hope for change. This is a general statement you can use for most countries.*

If you genuinely believe that conditions within these countries are sufficient for revolution it is because you have a deeply uncritical reading of your news outlets. Choosing these countries specifically expresses the inherent atlanticist bias within your worldview.

* In some places violent repression of worker’s organization is sufficient to prevent revolt for a time despite the deprevation of the working class.

I engaged with 0 out of 4 steps in this proposed cycle. Whatever narrative you have built in your head does not describe me or this situation.

Don’t see how that’s relevant

It is a gloss over step tbh but yes people die. Revolutions are not a tea party. It doesn’t have to be a lot though. The Bolsheviks barely had to kill anyone to achieve state power. Granted they threatened the provisional government with shelling but after the first few shells they capitulated. Most of the seizure of power comes before officially “taking” the state by controlling or subverting its institutions. You first deprive the state of its power before you point the guns at its officials.

They won’t relent unless you at least point the guns at them to be clear. The provisional government in Russia famously held on to an utterly hopeless situation for “historical posterity”. They wanted to at least look like they held out to the last.

Proletarian revolutions don’t have to be, and often aren’t, the chaotic violence in the streets that people imagine. Through a strong vanguard party the violence of revolution can be directed and restrained.

This isn’t to say people aren’t going to die. Unfortunately the dying usually comes in the counter-revolution/civil-war that follows. These are messy things and I personally don’t think anyone “wants” revolution. Revolution is something people do because their current circumstances have become utterly intolerable and all other avenues have been tried. The vanguard party does exist to creat revolution it exists to steer it away from the common ruin of all contending classes. Violence is nevertheless, an inevitable outcome.

Edit: right, as for trying them for their crimes. Yeah some of the war-criminals deserve to die. They are responsible for mass murder.

Step 1: organize a vanguard party of committed revolutionaries (many sub-steps)

Step 2: agitate within institutions that control key infrastructure and the military

Step 3: use the vanguard party to build a dual power political apparatus

Step 4: await a significant enough economic crisis that you can take advantage of low military morale (or open disloyalty) and public disgust/disillusionment with the actions of all ruling parties to show (through action not rhetoric!) the working class that your party is the only party willing and capable of meeting their needs.

Step 5: depose the current ruling class of their power and try them for their numerous crimes.

Step 6: congrats, working people have control of the state

Haha yeah they don’t need state funding we just need to monetize every aspect of their existence. Sell! Sell! Sell! Think of the advetising potential! Education could be for profit really. Think of the investment opportunities! Education just needs shareholders!

That’s hilarious, I couldn’t have been more obviously wrong

My fault, I genuinely thought wine was an imitation. Honestly I don’t use it much

It IS an emulation. Wine only allows us to run windows applications not windows itself

Wrong

Move to China

I mean you could just not get high while in those countries. This is the route most taken.

Ohhhhhh, i thought that was a wookie lmao. Didn’t look very closely

Watched all of rebels as a kid and genuinely have no idea what this is about

The Sudbury Devil. Honestly a fantastic indie film but so weirdly sexual at times that I would seriously hesitate to recommend it to anyone I knew. I watched it with a friend not knowing it would be like that and while we both enjoyed it certain moments were uncomfortable to watch with company

They’re the same picture. Why do you see the state and private corporations as entirely seperate entities? Who do you think is buying all that data if they can’t act on it? If it were not useful to them? Flock and Palantir are just a privatization of formerly state run enterprises. They still work together.

As for the vandalism, the purpose of the state is to protect private property. All flock has to do is hand the information of vandals to the state and the state will punish them for destruction of private property.

El Pueblo Unido was common around that time

Sure but that’s a threat and a weak cover. The logistics of covering Russian airspace with so many drones that a civilian aircraft would just happen into one is ridiculous. This is an incredibly common tactic.

Very normal behavior that definitely isn’t a warcrime or anything. We aren’t targetting civilian aircraft they just might be hit haha