The revolution does need to be protected.

I agree. You can protect it by educating each new generation of people, among other things. Both the Soviet Union and DDR had snitches reporting people to the state, and in both the communist party failed to protect the revolution. Do you want to argue they failed because people didn’t snitch enough? That’d be interesting to see.

The most serious error is seeking exclusively military solutions to end hostilities.

That ship has sailed. NATO and the liberal media have convinced anyone that surrendering or negotiations mean genocide of the Ukrainian people, Russia attacking Europe and China invading Taiwan. There is a good portion of Europeans and Americans who think global thermonuclear war is preferable to Ukraine negotiating.

Russia has no choice but to grind down Ukraine slowly, like they have been doing, until Ukraine runs out of Western monetary support, weapons, and/or soldiers.

I am not incorrect. Your whole premise rests on an assumption that you can tell if a State is “good”, benevolent and will last forever. What happens if the current communist party degrades and is replaced by another communist party or by a different faction within it? Uh oh, now you are someone who was a snitch for the previous government, perhaps even snitching on their comrades (they don’t know who you’ve snitched on). Now you’re labeled an informant and a suspicious character by the new communist party in power. That’s from a personal/pragmatic standpoint.

Now for the “collective” standpoint: Snitching is bad in all countries, socialist or not. If you live in a building with people and you inform on them, guess what? You’ll be excluded from all social life. You’ll just have to contact the police when you need a few extra chairs for a party you’re having, cause the neighbours aren’t gonna give it to you.

The aim of individualist liberalism is for us to have social contracts with the state and not with each other. I’d much rather people come to me directly if I’m doing something wrong (maybe I don’t know it’s wrong) than to have the police come knocking on my door. I’m sure that’s the same for most people. And what is the girl’s (in OP) “crime”? She expressed an opinion. She didn’t form an anti-Chinese group, she didn’t pass State secrets to the CIA, she didn’t have secret meetings at her home where they performed Falun Gong rituals…

Here’s some examples of snitching from the West:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/13/lockdowns-uk-true-character-nation-snitches-useless-leaders
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-covid-australians-snitching-neighbors.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pleasure-peril-snitching-pandemic-1.5544367
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-lockdown-snitches-thrive-in-europe-reports-watchmen-spying-neighbors/

People don’t snitch for noble causes like “protecting the revolution” or “guarding the State”, people snitch out of envy, or because it makes them feel in control or better than others. Call me a liberal all you want, but I don’t want to live in a country full of snitches.

I want you to know I’m not downvoting this comment of yours.

I don’t downvote comments, only upvote or not.

If you are a good Marxist you will snitch.

“Snitching, the highest stage of Marxism.” by darkcalling

Your anger and passion, while commendable, is misdirected. We’re not your enemies.

Well your take upsets me. It is wrong, dangerous and like all liberalism should be called out.

I made a general post against snitching, you then went on and made a bunch of assumptions:

Why then do you hate China? Why do you hate an in-power communist party?

That’s a leap, isn’t it. I hate snitching therefore I hate China and its communist party. lol what?

Global revolution. What a flippant, ridiculous response.

That’s what you said!

Do you think a revolution will succeed or endure in the face of external attempts at overthrow, pressure, etc without snitching?

You didn’t specify which revolution, so I assumed you’re talking about a global revolution.

Then you go on to make more assumptions:

You want magic not Marxism, you want tolerance for counter-revolution, for the people who commit genocides, who subjugate the working class, who commit a thousand horrible, mind-tearing horrors upon humanity under their system.

I want all that because I think snitching is bad?

You don’t want a discussion, and you’re not answering sincerely. You saw an opportunity to virtue signal and rant about all sorts of things that have nothing to do with me or what I said.

“We just need a better sense of how this is working and who benefits,” Carter told TRNN. “Any business would expect this kind of transparency; why can’t it be afforded to the people who are footing the bill?”

What a non-answer lmao. 1) say you’ll look into it, 2) rhetorical question about fairness. Brilliant.

Multiple attempts by TRNN to contact the developers of Harbor East to get the developer’s perspective on both the performance of the tax incentives and problems with transparency went unanswered. In fact, simply finding a person to speak for the development was challenging.

We also reached out to the mayor’s office and the city’s finance department multiple times. We asked both to either confirm our calculations or offer an alternative number—both have yet to respond.

They told them to fuck off. Mayor’s office didn’t even respond.

These questions demand answers as the city teeters on the precipice of an existential makeover, with the shadow of Harbor East looming over what happens next.

The questions demand answers! lol the joke is that they are both immaterial and a question isn’t a subject that can demand something, demanding requires a subject, like a human or a cat.

This is why it is important for communist parties and organisations to have online news/newspapers, because they can agitate with such facts and then tell people a way to organise against that injustice.

A load of bs. I mean the whole “study”.

Measuring mental wellbeing is a tricky business. But the US non-profit, Sapien Labs, has had a go with its Mental State of the World report

Our Founding Story Sapien Labs was born out of a weekend experiment with shocking results. In 2014 our founder Dr. Tara Thiagarajan, a PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford, was running a microfinance company called Madura that was working across 25,000 villages and small towns in India. Madura had built a research group that was working to understand drivers of economic outcome in impoverished communities. A large field team gathered data on ecosystem and individual level variables to identify those that predicted the economic success of both individuals and entire villages. Over a thousand different variables were sampled across tens of thousands of people, including cognitive metrics. In this process they encountered many unexpected and curious cognitive dimensions and outcomes. The obvious question was – what was going on in their brains?

It’s another free market ranking with some “cognitive metrics” by someone “running a microfinance company called Madura that was working across 25,000 villages and small towns in India.” Countries with more microloan banks are happier, I bet.

That’s a whole lot of assumptions, ad hominems and straight up insults. Reporting a student will not bring about a global revolution, get a grip. I’m not even going to bother responding to your rage-filled post.

How many people are those island nations supporting through desalination?

“Globally, more than 300 million people now get their water from desalination plants, from the U.S. Southwest to China.” https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-desalination-plants-are-on-the-rise

Do you really think that is anywhere near the same as creating enough water for ten of millions, hundreds of millions, or billions of people???

Yes.

Further, island nations ration water to an extreme degree,

No, they don’t. I used to live on an island that got all its water from desalination plants and there was no rationing.

and they also don’t need to support agriculture to massive scales like mainland farms in Russia, China, or the US do.

But US and China aren’t going to “run out of water”. Not every place with water sources is suitable for large-scale agriculture either.

I said it was extremely expensive and nigh impossible to scale to a degree that the world could use it. The vast majority of countries could not afford the resources required for that, or sustain it for long at all.

It’s very possible. Of course the majority of countries can afford it. It’s not space travel. I suggest you do some research into the topic, and if you are going to make grand claims like “vast majority of countries can’t afford it” you better have some facts and figures to back it up.

Those well and rivers are running dry. Have you looked at any research related to this?

Have you looked into research or sensationalist media articles? If water evaporates that means it is in the stratosphere and will come back down as rain. If a river “dries up” that means that water went somewhere else, probably deep underground.

lol no, don’t be a snitch. Nobody likes a snitch.

saltwater that is extremely difficult to desalinate and requires immense amounts of electricity, technology, and manpower to do on a scale to create fresh potable water. Not really. Ships have their own desalination equipment. You’re confusing “extremely difficult” with “unprofitable”.

There are many island countries without fresh water sources that get their water from desalination.

ground water has been drained Where is it going to go?

You need freshwater to grow staple crops such as wheat, corn, rice, potatoes, and other grain. They developed rice that grows in salty water: https://asianews.network/seeds-of-hope-spring-from-seawater-rice/

There are GMO versions of the other foods you listed that can grow on less water (if need be). Lack of irrigation has to do more with lack of political will, corruption, capitalism. “We’re running out of water” is a cop out. There’s plenty of water, it just needs to be treated. You drink treated water, we all do.

2/3s of this planet is water. Countries capable of waging war on a global/international scale (not just civil war) have their water secured. “Water wars” is a red herring, we’re much more likely to go to war over food, since most Western countries aren’t self-sufficient when it comes to food but most of it.

Putin has weaponised aerodynamics! Someone stop that man!

And they say 25% of US congress members use cocaine daily. To be honest, that’s probably true for every Western government.

the restaurant was nearby my area

Is there a reason you didn’t go to it but chose to use grubhub? A walk to the restaurant to pick up food can be nice and help clear the head.

How is it that you can feel horrible when you’re hungry (physically and emotionally) and then feel content and all is right with the world after having eaten?

Because the contents of our stomach, the amount and variety of bacteria, pH level, quality of food, affect our mood. Often this gets us into a vicious cycle: eat junk food > feel like shit > eat more junk food, and so on. Junk food isn’t only nutritiously poor, it is also full of preservatives and bacteria can’t go grow on it, which means bacteria can’t really grow in our stomach either. The food you ordered from the Vietnamese restaurant was probably a home-made recipe using regular supermarket ingredients, that’s why it feels good for you to eat it.

And what did you all eat today (so far)?

I just made myself egg fried rice.

Nothing good!

They’re easing into it. Ukraine will still declare victory at the end, saying they prevented Russia from conquering all of Ukraine and genociding all Ukrainians. Meanwhile everyone will memoryhole Zelenskyy saying that Ukraine’s victory condition is taking back Crimea.

Some hotheads even called for the west to declare regime change in Russia as our official goal.

Get those hotheads out of here!

You think online moderation makes bigots scared? Come on… They hide it cause they don’t want to be banned from platforms. This also makes them able to “infiltrate” spaces if they so wish.