You’re talking about CIA-orchestrated coups and without popular support. Almost all color revolutions tend to be grass roots movement, albeit have soft power influence from outside.

Yes, but the UI in og forums are not great. Better UI and accessibility is the number one appeal of Reddit.

The good old survivorship bias.

Do you mean propagandise the Russian population? The West is already doing it by way of Radio Free Europe, NED and other NGOs. It is not a discussion that comes up often, but on occasions Russian trolls will bring up about color revolutions in Russian sphere of influence that advocate for democratic reforms, which is catalysed by the West through said media and institutions. Hence, for the Russian jingoists and Kremlin, their own propaganda against the West is justified. But if you ask the trolls what is objectively bad with promoting democracy? You will get crickets. That is certainly better than propping up illiberal and regressive groups.

Yup. Sounds like a Ponzi scheme.

Oh I’m not trying to defend or exalt China. I’m saying that we should be like China when it comes to dealing with billionaires. Or even better, be like Vietnam, when the court ordered a billionaire who defrauded thousands to pay in time or be executed.

Hasn’t the leader of The Proud Boys dildoed himself on live TV to “own the libs?”

UBI when?

I could still access .world though.

Quiet quitting is such a bizarre phrase for me as Irish. As long as we do our jobs right, we can do whatever we want. At the end of the day, a job is meant to put food on the table, not be your life. Even some of the worst companies I have worked have a laidback attitude compared to workplaces abroad.

At least China is right about not bailing out their companies when their own property bubble collapsed.

I do. You are talking about how communism is so great, that I am vindicating you how Westerners were desperately risking their lives to get to communist countries.

I mean, sure, those who clawed their way out of the Berlin Wall, vault poled over electric fences in the DMZ, defected with a top secret Soviet plane as insurance to be allowed to stay in the West, and swam the Caribbean to desperately leave communist countries surely love communism.

BrainInAWesternerBox larping as BrainInAnEasternerBox.

“I like to say I love communism without under duress.”

“I love communism not because I am a card-carrying party member.”

“The fact that more people fled from communist countries than coming in means those people are crazy.”

The Troubles was so long ago for me that the character quirk went over my head.

We should end these and start class war. Class divide is the root cause of it all.

The metrics probably doesn’t include those who were in gulags and died of famines.

The rise in communist party membership you speak of maybe increased by 100%, when two new members joined an already two member communist party.

Wake me up when communist slogans are getting viral on Tiktok and Instagram, and if communists are getting elected in huge numbers on national level across the world.

People love getting high on nostalgia when things aren’t looking up well in the present moment. Even many of those who were under fascism are nostalgic of it. That’s the point of nostalgia: only remembering the good parts of the past while pretending the bad never happened.