Great tool to radicalize people, though as marxists we shouldn’t define ourselves by our direct contribution to the almighty GDP.
Some jobs don’t produce a form of wealth or labour you can extract, all while still contributing to a prosperous society.
Pulp fiction and fantasy? Yeah.
And I was just commenting an absurd example of a character description, that might make people hot and bothered for their characters, to bring some levity
My toilet adventures take nowhere long enough to go down that Reddit rabbit hole.
Oooh-la-la, a potbelly, so sexy ~
I don’t care for a person’s biological appearance, but care a lot about how they dress and their idiosyncrasies.
Some of it, at least when it’s about the protagonist, is that it’s easier for readers to imagine themselves in their shoes. Which is why, even with drawn fiction, the protagonist has a generic/formulaic appearance.
What communities do you even frequent…? May I suggest that you don’t?
As a Dutch guy in China, my height is brought up a lot, and I know Westerners who moved to Asia because they fetishize the feeling of being taller. I just make jokes that I’m taller in the morning than the evening, or joke that I used to be taller when I was still wearing high heels (for the times that I was able to stand up right and not with my ass on the ground).
Your title might as well say: What’s up with terminally online people and hyper-focusing on minute issues to distract themselves from their bad personalities or lousy socio-economic backgrounds?
Sure, but will they stay there? If they do, I hope he can life his remaining life with his family in relative peace.
So, anyone want to place bets on where they’re going? Russia? China? Back home?
inZOI is probably the only real competition left that is worth rooting for. But then again, it’s Korean and likely always online, so imagine to be charged hand over fist.
You guys are giving Bernie way too much credit, because just like other Western Socdems he is bad on foreign affairs/policy.
Great. Another factoid I can throw at people
Such news is only leaked because it creates public sentiment for more public spending towards war. All of you are revelling in the “Haha, those krauts guns don’t work” and miss the bigger picture as to why this is reported in a major publication.
People in governance and the party come from the ordinary people. The country however isn’t directly run by the people, due to the responsibilities and capacity the identity as a party member or someone in governance entails you there is a separation. There is a reason for the distinction, because as a party member you have to exclude yourself and the other people in the party from the ordinary people. Because you’re working for the prosperity of the ordinary people, and that doesn’t include party members. If it did it’d become an excuse for corruption.
Saying the people are in charge leaves out a lot of nuance.
They do talk about class struggle, it’s part of the high school curriculum for the course “思想政治”, ideology and politics course. Also, you can look at the three represents, which tackles the class question.
There is a point where class struggle has to take the back seat in a socialist controlled country for you to properly levy your productive forces and create cohesion. Constantly fighting the forces within when bourgeois forces don’t hold political power is self-defeating.
Just wealth transfers to the rich, nothing to see here.
Couldn’t tell you. Got banned during the first months of COVID from a dozen of them.
I’ve learned you can quote Chinese post-Mao socialist theory as long as you don’t accredit the source.
Going on Discord to ask recommendations past beginner reading lists and memes is probably just a waste of time. Sadly there are few orgs who are better.
I’m giving you a like not because I like what you say but because I appreciate your reply.
It’s not necessarily the main reason, but it’s a reason. Tons of stories, I’d even argue that it’s most, don’t even venture into someone’s sexuality, race and neurotypicality. Readers generally don’t care, as long as it isn’t shoehorned in just for the sake of ticking boxes because you want to have a vibrant cast.
All these characteristics bring their own baggage with them, and thus conflict. If you’re focusing on a story about a parent choosing to move on from losing their partner and having to remarry to make ends meet, sacrifice their own desire for love for the well-being and future prospects of their children, just as an example for conflict. Then giving the character autism, or an ethnicity that’s being discriminated against in that society, or any other characteristics; then it might take away from, diminish or even undermine the story you want to tell.
In longer stories you can have different character arcs that allow for more nuanced characters and sub-plots. Weaving all of that together in a cohesive whole is a skill not many writers possess. Heck, if you’ve ever frequented fiction aggregate websites you’d know that the top user created lists are collections of stories that lack any and all romance.