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Ask me anything! I've seen others make AMAs, and since I've wanted to make one for a long time, I finally can since I'm just following a trend now! You know, like normal people do?

Ask me anything you've always wanted to know about me, and I'll give you an ironic (or maybe sincere? It's too hard to tell at this point) answer.

I don't know anything about him...

So I was surprised to find it screening in a big name movie theatre near me in Canada. Didn't really know much about it, was just surprised to find a Chinese language movie in a non-Chinese theatre in Canada and was pretty curious so I went in and watched it. (I wanted to watch a movie anyway, decided to watch that instead of what I originally had in mind.)

I really liked it, highly recommended. I'm by no means a movie expert, but here's my review of it.

It tells three intertwining stories all relating to organized cybercrime. A programmer who accepts a fake job offer and gets kidnapped to work for an internet fraud operation; a down on her luck model who accepts a job at an online casino, run by the same cybercrime ring, and is similarly held captive and forced to continue well after she wants out; and a victim of said online casino and other rigged illegal gambling operations who bankrupts himself and his family. It's based on real cases and major busts that have happened in Southeast Asia, and the director interviewed over 10,000 people affected by organized cybercrime, and modeled the story closely to their real experiences. His goal was to use this movie to educate people about how cybercrime rings work, how they manage to evade authorities, how and why they employ human trafficking (which is not something one immediately thinks of when considering internet scams and illegal casinos), and how and why people fall victim to them.

Overall, I think it was an extremely powerful film and one that is sorely needed in this day and age where cybercrime and cyber fraud is rampant and tons of people fall victim to it every day. From a literary perspective, I really liked the three intertwining stories that all converge at the end, it's something that has been tried a lot in various types of media and is pretty hard to do well, but when it is done well it's a really cool experience. All of the protagonists were easy to sympathize with and had realistic motivations and actions (which makes sense considering this is based on true stories). The brainwashing of the victims and how their wills are broken by their captors is also very powerful and something that has been documented to happen in real life. In terms of cinematography and dialogue, I personally liked it being a Chinese person who is fluent in Mandarin, but there are some cultural and general "trends in film making" differences between Chinese and Western cinema, similar to Bollywood and Western movies, so I suspect it might feel kind of weird to people who are only used to Western movies, particularly English-language ones, something to keep in mind while watching but I don't think it takes away from the film itself at all.

The English subs also left something to be desired IMO. Since I understand both Mandarin and English I did a bit of comparing, and it seems to be similar to how Japanese anime is dubbed, where it is more of a formal translation of what is being said, and is missing most of of the emotion, expressions, and cultural context, IMO an English dub would have been better for the local market (I'm gonna get murdered by the subbed anime crowd for saying that), though I personally would have still preferred the original Mandarin version since it's my first language.

All in all I highly recommend it. Though, CW for violence, human trafficking, suicide, and implied sexual abuse if you do decide to watch it.

Personally I think if China and other AES states agree with this, we should join in as well. Right now I read these articles with healthy scepticism and I am curious on your views. These are the ones that I found interesting. Russia may present an alternate take this December, an interesting time to be alive.

https://techstartups.com/2023/08/31/over-1600-international-scientists-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration-dismissed-the-existence-of-a-climate-crisis/

Edit: I shouldn't have started with such a hollow article. The dismissal of increased natural disasters like hurricanes, floods, and droughts due to warming is not something I support. Here's something better that shows that the current model fails to explain the strong cooling trend in the Southern Ocean and East Pacific.

https://thebulletin.org/2022/12/whats-wrong-with-these-climate-models/

Take, for example, ocean warming. Despite criticisms from climate change skeptics, global climate models have accurately predicted rising average sea surface temperatures, which are extremely important to predicting the intensity of climate change. But observations in recent decades show that changes in sea surface temperatures vary greatly by region. That geographic variation suggests that end of century global warming may be less severe than most climate models suggest. These observations do not invalidate climate modeling, but they do highlight the importance of regular comparisons between climate models and the real-world observations they aspire to reflect.

She adds that observed trends show a strong cooling trend in the Eastern Pacific and Southern Ocean, which goes against what the models predicted.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article219438.html

^ Explains that the Russian Academy of Sciences has a different account on climate change that will be presented this year. The IPCC has a monopoly on climate science, the IPCC was founded by Thatcher as a reaction to striking coal workers and is a political organization.

https://www.voltairenet.org/article163379.html Ecology of war

https://www.voltairenet.org/article164791.html Market ecology

https://www.voltairenet.org/article164792.html Financial ecology

im so proud of you for this one, at least I know you're not in deep enough that you repeat the "LG and Hexbear are all chinese bots!?!?" cliche.

Still it hurts, can't you stroke our egos more like normal liberals do by pretending we're important enough for China to pay attention to us like that

I've read my fair share of theory but it has been a while since I list reas a piece. I think the last actual theory I read was The Jakarta Method somewhere in may. Since I've been giving some more important tasks by the party now, I figured I might start reading the theory list again.

I wondered if the grad had any tips for reading theory. Do you write things down? Take notes? Save important paragraphs? Etc.

Hello! I am a comrade born and there by stuck in the rural south of America. As a marxist, I am very isolated since I live in a very conservative part of the country. I happened upon this community yesterday, spent some time looking around, and joined today. I had no idea marxist social forums like this even existed, so I am just very excited to see a collection of fellow comrades online that isn't stuck and struggling with the censorship of facebook or other mainstream social sites. So this is just my hello, and a bit of where I come from (don't want to get too specific due to the history of organization like COINTELPRO) and just to say, I'm really glad to see a community like this exists! I had really thought under our current stage of capitalism something like this would be weeded out of existence. LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!

Hey, it’s me. That one muslim dude in the comments section (You might have seen me, or maybe you haven’t idk)

Decided to do a QnA. Why you ask? For fun lol.

I just want to say I love our lemmygrad comrades. You've been fighting the federation wars longer than us, and I respect your

Have a good night lemmygrad. Let us all meet on the other side.

https://youtu.be/9LbziknNpCE?si=4c5WN7irQYHUbsn4

Oh yeah he also has a new jam riffing on rich men north of Richmond

https://youtu.be/qGNFR7pgxDY?si=ccFvZJ-paaYQYCMF

I have been attempting to update my rss feeds with new sites. So far, I have: Liberation News, Bulatlat, Monthly Review, Kawsachun News, Latino Rebels, Unicorn Riot, Tricontinental, Workers World, Hood Communist, Democracy Now, Peoples Dispatch, WAFA, CGTN and Granma.

WAFA, and Granma do not seem to have functional RSS feeds and I could not setup CGTN's feed properly.

Hossenfelder just posted a video titled "Capitalism is good. Let me explain.", and it's about what you'd expect.

Some societal advancement happened under a capitalist system? Well then capitalism must get the credit. She also conflates "capitalism" and "markets" pretty often.

Hossenfelder contends that markets need to be regulated to not be abused by those in power or fuck up the environment, but insists that despite these regulations this is still a free market, and therefore free markets/capitalism are good, we just need to "set it up properly".

She only makes passing remarks about Greta Thunberg and Marx as opponents of capitalism whom you should pay no attention to, and does essentially what economists in the 1800s did: Philosophize about what non-existent "completely rational" consumers and corporations might do, and not look at any actual data.

The like/dislike ratio and the comments tearing into her do give me some hope though.

Thanks for being their for me commrades. I have often troubles and you are often there for me. I just want say thank you for being their. I made so much progress during the last year and next year will be even better

I hope I don't have to delete this post tomorrow. Admins please don't fuck me up if this bad.

Apparently I got perma banned from asking a question about anti capitalist business. Cowards I say.

Hello i have been posting a lot of art lately and i want people to make something of my art, for my art to have a purpouse and therefore i am now open to poster requests you can publish for your local communist/socialist organization or whatever youd like.....just give me a vague idea and a slogan and i will try my best. It is free but dont expect me to take all of the requests in case of it bring too many

I'm looking to expand my content into alt-tech websites that aren't dominated by 4Klanners.

Lemmygrad is a good example of this. I'm considering RevLeft but sadly it was shut down after 2018.

Or start overlaying theory with dashcam footage.

Does anyone know any good games where you kill fascist CIA and US army scum? Ideally as a Marxist-Leninist freedom fighter or as a soldier of a socialist country. Otherwise, games where you fight US puppets like Israel as say a Palestinian freedom fighter are also more than welcome.

Anybody have any recommendations? Currently learning French and looking for resources to aid in my learning. Also interested in French (or Québécois) tv shows/movies.

Most of us probably grew up playing video games, some of them we forgot or our gaming system ain’t what it used to be. What games bring you back to the good ol’ days when you didn’t know what politics were and couldn’t be bothered to watch the news bc the new ep of Spongebob is on? For me I have to say the Simpsons Game (PS2), the Billy & Mandy Fighting Game (PS2) DK Country (SNES) and NBA 2k14 (PS3, please whatever Deity is out there bring me back to 2013 so I can cheat in 2k again and make my MyPlayer basically just Michael Jordan 😭) and probably Infamous for PS3, I probably played the first game like 18 times fr. What are your faves?