AlbigensianGhoul

Yeah, there's this general trend where "Western" media and their offshore subsidiaries only care about people if they're famous, white or both. This was my main criticism of the coverage of the war in Ukraine when it started because from the start it was very disproportionate compared to other conflicts in peripheral nations. I guess it's hard for newscorps and liberals to talk about those in-depth because they'd need to acknowledge "that poor and non-white people are humans deserving of dignity", which is a controversial statement among their peers. Not to mention their favourite parties and corporations having a stake in killing and displacing those poor/non-white people.

Is it hypocritical for me to be a Marxist-Leninist when my parents are landlords?

Definitely not.

First off, you have no choice on what your parents do, that's outside of your control. But even after that, divesting yourself of your class voluntarily is what liberals love advocating for, but has very little actual impact. If you look at many prominent socialists throughout time, you'll see that they had the time, resources and privilege to advance the cause in large part because of a good material condition. Neither Marx, Engels nor Lenin would have had so much time to dedicate to developing socialism if they were labourers or lumpenproletarians. All that is asked is that when the time comes, you'll fight so that landlords cease to exist as a class, rather than resist change for some attachment to your privilege.

My recommendation is instead for you to look into ways of making your "landlord-ism" the least exploitative you can. In the grand scheme of things, a single apartment of 4 is not gonna change society and still leaves you far away from the higher capitalist class, no matter what they tell you. And on the other hand, using that privilege to further the cause, educate yourself and fight the good fight can do a lot of good. You'll probably have to figure out how to balance these ideas on your own, but beating yourself over it without a plan won't do you any good.

Due to the worst winter in Newfoundland in 40 years, this mission is likely to be the first and only manned mission to the Titanic in 2023

I think he was onto something there.

Meanwhile the USA still maintains Guantanamo as their base after infinity promises of closing it down. The camp itself is already old enough to vote.

My comment was meant to be about how the USA has this obsession with equating the elusive "Middle Class" with both the richest and the poorest, and that transcends time and space. So the French merchant (who is your sanctioned POV) who lives well is at the same time thinking about the poorest of poor peasants they're fleecing and out-pricing, but also the most heavily impacted by Capetian taxes. And that somehow this "nobility that pays no taxes" isn't basically the number 1 client of merchants. I guess it made more sense in the context of the schoolbook in my head.

But you are correct that most merchants in Capetian France were ordinary merchants only in Europe and did not personally own slaves. However, the rise of the pre-industrial mercantile class was in large part fuelled by the slave trade, in particular the Triangular Trade scheme, and producing, selling and reselling cash-crops and their produces, like sugar (also used for alcohol), tobacco, cotton. Those things had very little use to the rural peasants, who composed the vast majority of the population of continental France at the time. In fact, I have not narrowed down the origin of the claim yet, but I have seen it thrown around that all those slave-grown goods flooding in actually caused significant issues for the lower level of the French economy, as peasants and urban labourers had to compete with all these cheap and bloody products. Meanwhile a small number of merchants and bankers got rich off of selling useless luxury crap and reckless financial speculation.

I can sum it all up with "I don't understand price parity" with a dash of "now I am a manager"

I really like Danny Schmidt and Satellite High but the Nightvale Weather Report has some 240 very high quality songs each from a small group or individual musicians. Might be worth a look on shuffle and you'll likely find a couple small artists you really enjoy. Jerusalem and "Bill and Annie" have completely different vibes to illustrate how diverse the playlist is.

Not Asian nor in Asia, but from what I've heard from Japanese colleagues about Japan, it is really harsh on foreigners and a lot of the migrants who stay is composed of dedicated reactionaries and fascists. If you're looking for a place you aren't shunned for foreigner-ness, you might want to expand your search to outside the imperial core/"Global North". Of course, no country has "solved racism" and I wouldn't make any broad statements here, but it could be useful to consider "poor" countries too. Some are more liveable than you might think and depending on your profession you might even have an easier time finding work in some.

Edit: But I forgot to add, any such decision such be made with a lot of care and thought!

As a severely lactose intolerant person, going vegan for a while and pretending to still be later saved me a lot of unpleasant milk experiences. Wholeheartedly recommend trying it out.

I didn't finish the last season as I got bored with all the psychodelic sci-fi stuff and how tumblr kids seemed more interested in supernatural theorising than eating the rich, and it seemed to affect the show. But the first season or two is mostly about nullifying digital assets of a hegemonic multinational that looks suspiciously like what Amazon became, and ending all civilian bank debts to them through (actually somewhat realistic) hack magic. Kinda like turning Stuxnet back at the USA. It has lots of anarcho-liberal takes but at least they're trying something I guess. Actors and cinematography are really competent for something commercially made in the USA too.

But after they succeed at it turns out it's actually impossible to end capitalism, because some trans Chinese person is the actual the big bad capitalist in charge of the world and they do some Hack Wars or something. They introduce a Good FBI Agent™, which helps fight the Bad FBI Agents. Also this Chinese group (called literally "Dark Army") is presented as if they were responsible for the Trump election, which is just rich. Amazon buying it explains a lot actually.

turns out working half your waking day every day is really bad for your looks. Maybe we should change that? For a hotter elderly population, of course!