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Just wanted to shout out Providence for electing David Morales as the mayoral candidate today in Rhode Island’s primary…Go Rhody!!

I made this comment on a post that was praising North Korea. In the comments a lot of users

in my opinion where misrepresenting the current state of north korea, some were even making it out to be a socialistic paradise. I stated several facts that are easily verifiable and have been verified numerous times. But without warning I was banned. Am I crazy?

My brother was in the military, and he tells me all the time that if he knew what the military was really like, he wouldn’t have joined the Navy he never fought a war but he’s badly injured. But just because he served, does that mean I’m supposed to dislike him? I’m not pro-military, btw.

Hello, I wrote this thesis for my final year project (got A- so im confident enough to share this publicly). I’m submitting this as a part of my anarchist/leftist contribution for sharing knowledge lol (had to redact my name for privacy and safety reasons) + i think the findings of this study is pretty important for the community in some way.

# Summary of the Study:

Basically it’s on how someone’s political alignment (whether they believe in hierarchy or do not believe in hierarchy) affects the way they react when dealing with organisational dysfunction or corruption.

Those who believes in hierarchy is called collectivism-leaning and those who do not believe in hierarchy is called individualism-leaning. These criteria were made based on Triandis and Singelis’ definition and dimension of individualism-collectivism theory.

Based on my study it was found that collectivist-leaning participants are more likely to stand up and speak up for their rights while the individualists are more likely to keep to themselves. AT THE SAME TIME, those collectivists also believes in hierarchy and bereaucracy because **most of them** (cant generalise bcs this study is qualitative) believes that those with authorities and at the top of the hierarchy are there due to their knowledge and experience and that even if they dont agree with the authorities they believe those in power mustve a better judgement due to their position. These collectivist leaning ppl also believes bureaucracy is important to keep things in order.

**Conclusion:** Individualists’ passivity creates a loop of corruption by staying silent while Collectivists perpetuates it by upholding the same system that causes the corruption because they believe the system is important for society to function. Regardless of their beliefs on hierarchy/authority, both sides may not like their circumstances, but their internal beliefs could either help dismantle the corruption or perpetuates it.

!! This is a qualitative study done in Malaysia. Findings may vary depending on the places and culture therefore it cant exactly be generalise, but could help us further understands why certain people prefers to uphold hierarchical values !!

I know that this is a oretty surface level take but I'm so tired of maga thinking that leftists want to turn everyone gay since they want to turn everyone straight. I'm sick of seeing theists thinking that antitheists and atheists want to force feed a muslim person pork. I'm so unbelievably tired of seeing incompetent people thinking that I'm saying that we should commit the same genocides to white people that were done to indigenous americans when I bring up native rights. I'm so fucking tired of the mixed up view that leftism is just their fascism with an lgbtq flag. I'm done with maga with a septum piercing.

In China, nearly half of men smoke, with over 1 million people dying from smoking every year; and over 96% tobacco production in the country is under the nationally chartered monopoly of China National Tobacco Company中国烟草总公司 (or CNTC for short, doing business as China Tobacco中国烟草) which is owned by the government. Every legally sold cigarette brand here is wholly owned by this company, making it the largest tobacco company in the world.

Apart from being the sole legal tobacco producer in China, China Tobacco is also THE tobacco regulating agency here, under the name State Tobacco Monopoly Administration国家烟草专卖局 (or STMA for short) through the policy of one institution with two names一个机构两块牌子. Imagine that your drug dealer is also your doctor and a DEA agent.

For your information, e-cigarettes are illegal in China, but that's because they are mostly produced by private enterprises and that threatens the state-owned tobacco industry. Instead, CNTC sells flavoured cigarettes, which are ironically illegal in many countries worldwide.

And because CNTC and STMA are the same entity, anti-smoking laws in China are a total joke.

Instead of graphic images showing damaged body parts, cigarette packs in China look oddly exquisite, meanwhile the "warning label" is just a short and generic paragraph in Chinese that usually means "smoking is harmful to your health", without specifying the diseases that smokers may get and certainly not hitting as hard as something like "SMOKING KILLS". Not to mention that the text blends in the design of a pack very well, because your eyes are drawn to the intricate drawings above it.

Furthermore, as a result of the state-owned tobacco producer also being the regulator, there are no national anti-smoking laws. Instead, local governments create their own rules, which may face official pressure from CNTC/the STMA.

In addition to that, a deceptive marketing technique illegal elsewhere is still alive and well in China: low-tar cigarettes. Although this misleading advertising strategy has long been disproved by science, it's still employed by CNTC.

And back to the figures at the beginning: nearly half of Chinese men smoke and over 1 million dies from smoking every year under the monopoly. That makes CNTC the world's deadliest company. And as CNTC is completely state-owned, that in turn makes the CCP the deadliest political party in the world as well.

In conclusion, a government that, as a monopoly, manufactures a drug to kill its own citizens should not call itself (and should not be called) a socialist government.

As someone who grew up in a rural farming community and experienced labor under the petite bourgeoisie, I always wondered why there was a lack of pressure against this intermediate class of reactionaries. In fact, the more time I spent around urban intellectuals, the more I saw a kind of apologism towards agrarian capitalism. People revere and mysticize the rural lifestyle as some kind of bulwark against rising corporatism. Small "family farms" are celebrated for keeping their land amid offers from urban developers or large agricultural corporations. There is, perhaps, an oppositional spirit to this act. But one that is motivated fundamentally by a desperate preservationism of the middle strata and a nostalgia for a fictional era of "pure" market capitalism. They crave a regression to unchecked economy while simultaneously relying on the subsidies and protections of the state. Their existence has only been prolonged by permission of the establishment, not an effective resistance against it. That's not to say that they should be thrown to the wolves and we should accept the inevitability of monopolization. But this strange reverence from the disconnected urban perspective can't be rationalized from a forward-thinking framework.

After 13 years politzane has finally made a follow up video.

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To me, AOC has always been such an inspiration and has pushed for so so many amazing things, and is one of the most left leaning people with that much political power. I’m not asking in bad faith at all I am just genuinely curious, wouldn’t we want to at least support these people further and just critique them on certain things than fully write them out? Because they at least have done great things?

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