I just recently learned that Methyl anthranilate, the artificial grape flavoring, also repels birds and is used heavily by the agro industry nowadays. I imagine because of all the other products they also use they don’t need the birds around anymore.

You can also use old cd-roms tied to a long-ish string btw, the sparkling makes birds stay away.

he locked up a lot of people during the cultural revolution sometimes for quite arbitrary reasons

He was not the one who signed arrest orders or ran trials though, a lot of different people were involved in that. You can’t blame Mao as an individual for stuff that other people did. You can’t run an entire state with just one person.

the backyard steel and culling of the sparrows

Nobody in the 60s knew about the importance of sparrows in agriculture. Not even in the West. I think it’s easy to say “oh well duh of course don’t kill the sparrows” but who here among us is an actual farmer? Who here knew that sparrows ate more bugs than grain before it was told to them? I can barely grow a plant, I have no room to judge others when it comes to growing food.

I just didn’t find it to be very relevant to me

I’m an adult in Europe and I find Mao’s writing to be both relevant and applicable. But there is Mao the general and Mao the chairman. By the end of his life he was definitely saying some stuff that I don’t think even he believed in. But theory is an all encompassing body, and that is true in all fields. One couldn’t read one physics paper about gravity and then say “now I know how to launch a rocket to the moon”. I opened up my copy of the red book randomly and here’s one:

“Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through, so as to form correct ideas and leadership – such is the basic method of leadership”

It makes perfect sense to me, but that’s also because I have the associated baggage to understand what he means there and how that fits in not only to more of Mao’s writings but also in regards to other figures, the ‘best practices’ if you will of organizing.

I also found it really interesting that deepseek would refuse to answer any questions on Mao

The deepseek devs want it to be mainly used for math, coding, and other STEM applications for lack of a better word. There’s nothing wrong with that, in fact personally I think people should stop using LLMs as oracles so much and focus them on tasks instead. Deepseek produces great results (and all for free with no rate limits) if you give it some code to start with, because it needs proper framing of the project to avoid trying to overdo it. I usually start with chatGPT, have it do the first working version of the code, and then switch it to deepseek to finish it, and it works almost perfect on the first try.

Lmao I’m gonna keep this reply up though after your ban because it deserves to become a copypasta. Stop playing the victim and own up to the harmful shit you said.

This has been debunked too, and you won’t get to try a third time.

I don’t see the contradiction; you’re the guest here. Or to put it in reddit terms: you want us to prove a negative so get off your high horse 🤓

Proof?

I have to remark that your instance is literally called reddit but with another article qualifier

Where are the bombs in Xinjiang? Where is the famine? Where are the gofundmes for people BEGGING to be released from this hell? Where are the livestreams? The updated Google maps showing the destruction?

All of this is happening on the daily in Gaza. Not so in China.

Shows that this is nothing new and not even that long ago either

I don’t remember if it was him, I don’t remember if it was that event, and I don’t even remember if it was irrevocably proven or just theorized,

but the CIA got him.

Being born at the tail end of the Gorbachev years doesn’t make you an expert on socialism. Someone had to tell you eventually.

First of all why ‘grandma’? My own siblings were born before the end of the USSR. It wasn’t that long ago.

Secondly you’re not gonna school communists on communism, I can tell you that much. The order to dissolve was illegal and protested against both in government and civil society. It required Yeltsin to proclaim the Russian federation, which he had no authority to do. The US spent millions around the world trying to bankrupt the USSR in conflicts and in their own society (eg the CIA art festival they wanted the USSR to hold in the 60s).

Thirdly the reason you’re working more than your parents were in the 80s and healthcare is so bad CEOs are getting merked is because there is no USSR. With it western governments were scared of the revolution coming to them and allowed us treats to placate us. I call them treats but I could certainly go for guaranteed raises and free healthcare.

Fourth Russia is kicking NATO in Ukraine so I’m not sure you’re doing much better all things considered.

fuck over workers like rightists do*

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Why is it a nice response to the content there?

Why do you not have the reading comprehension of a fucking carrot?

Which fundamental Marxist concepts have I been opposed to?

so how’s the reading going

common yogthos W

So you’re saying you wouldn’t have come to the conclusion Trump is a fascist if someone didn’t tell you that he was? Like you wouldn’t have found out about it yourself?