[Okay more like 拉丁美奸 but you get the point]

Gusanos are mainly just emigres who leave because they lose their property/slaves or hopes of gaining property. These "Venezualans" aren't just that. They support the murder of their countrymen. They are collaborators of genocidal imperialists, and Venezualan in name only. Gusanos are thieves and slanderers, 汉奸 are nothing less than prions

No comment from me

The PRC infamously censors a fair amount of stuff, and I don't mind that. I have my disagreements and criticisms, but I'd much rather give up some libertine behaviors in media than have all the shit that happens when you dont censor things.

But like...what are the actual policies?Besides "don't advocate for the overthrow of the government."

For instance, I recently picked up "Sultans Game," which is a very good game. But it's also very sexual. It has artistic nudity and makes constant references to sex, homosexual relationships, and rape. It's not super explicit, but it's still a lot more than i would've expected when told "this game was made in China." [Although i am playing outside of China, so maybe the version in China is censored]. But games like Genshin Impact and certain animes are censored for lewd content fairly regularly, to my knowledge.

There's also books. For instance "I love my mom" is banned [despite appeals] while other books with sexual content aren't banned [to my knowledge. Also i haven't read that aforementioned book, so if it's just an exception for extreme nature, let me know]. Or how one of Hong Ying's works literally references the Tianenmen Square "massacre?" I'm unsure if it's published in China, but I would have assumed that she'd be blacklisted for that.

The last question i have is, what's the point of banning something if you're allowed to have it anyway? For example, hearts of iron 4 is banned in China. But also it's not? Tbh the language barrier makes figuring out this stuff hard, whether something is banned or not or if that thing is just going through a Different service or what.

Look, I actually have to spend my time around Americans. I dislike them probably more than a lot of people who say stuff like in [https://www.reddit.com/r/TankieTheDeprogram/s/eHww4UALHm](this thread). But it's not out of lack of trying.

But that's besides the point. No other country's people gets treated this way. And no, I'm not going to say I'm more oppressed than people in the global south or whatever. In fact a lot of psychological problems result from the fact that I'm privileged to be in the global north.

But Americans are so often...dismissed. That's the only term i can come up with. But everyone talks about it in such idealist matter. They always talk individuals or idealism or whatever. The closest to material analysis is "the proletariat's material conditions are closer aligned to the imperialist Bourgeoisie." But that doesn't just apply to Americans.

But, look. Why doesn't any other people get treated this way? Genuinely. I don't think Stalin sat down and said "well Germany lost a major world war and went through multiple economic crises and still hasn't had a socialist revolution. So obviously it's a lost cause, kill all of them." Japan and South Korea are never treated this way, despite being very arguably in similar boats. And if we want to talk about material conditions, what about Indonesia or Iran or Cambodia or so many other nations? They haven't had socialist revolutions yet despite their material conditions, so does that mean these people are useless treatlerites too?

I'm sorry. I know, again, we're in the imperial core, we're privileged. I don't know what part of my mentally ill brain it is, but it's just that the logic completely fails for me and that gives me anxiety, because reasons. Not just that, but the actual oppression of the communist and self determination movements here are also just ignored.

To preface, this is a personal thing. I'm not going to deny the material benefits of digital programs and such. It's definitely a boon for most of humanity, and especially once the socialist transition occurs it will be another tool to improve the loves of all people.

But I really, really do prefer physical tactile things. Its like, it's amazing how China has everything through wechat nowadays, but I would be the [figurative] grouchy old man still paying for my stuff via cash/check. Hell, I would do that where I live if it wasn't for so many things [i.e, book stores] being online or just being more inconvenient to carry cash on the off chance i can use it, compared to just using card.

I also prefer cds to digital media. Obviously I appreciate being able to download songs and such off the internet, but I would rather burn something on a cd and throw it in my cd player rather than play it directly from my phone or something. Same with movies and video games.

Books too. For some reason i have such a hard time with ebooks, but physical books are just lovely for me. Especially when you can thrift them and you can feel the age on every page. Like my collection of Han Suyin's books. There's age and annotations and yeah some parts are falling apart but hearing it bristle as I turn every page is music to my ears.

Like I said, I don't want to force this on everyone else, i just wish the world didn't move on from the analog and tactile so fast [from my perspective at least, as someone who didn't live through the 70s-90s, which obviously made use of a lot of cassettes, ads, etc.]

So I started playing Silksong [no opinions on it yet beyond "I suck" and "its good" since I'm only a few hours in], but the problem I end up having is that i...its not that I get stressed, it's more i just tense up a lot trying to focus. In any case, its good to have something relaxing. Sometimes this is a book but I also picked up a game called "Shadows of the Forbidden Gods" which is a small indie title that's currently like $3 on steam.

I haven't played too much so far, but it's just so cute and neat that i wanted to share.

Premise: Basically, you play an occult eldritch god [a la Cuthulu], and you act through your disciples to spread your shadow [aka influence] over the world. There are about 10 different gods to choose from, and they all have really different mechanics, which is really cool.

Overall I'd say it has a 2020's design philosophy while having a 1990s astetic. Also the art is Gorgeous. The only major things that I dislike so far are that sometimes you'll get random events that are just...well, so random. While simultaneously you'll get the same random events a couple times in a row. Additionally, setting my pace is a bit confusing. You get 500 turns to win on any size map [although you can disable this] and world panic (a soft timer basically indicating how much the world knows its ending) increases every time a seal breaks [basically, giving your god more powers to work with. Personally i would've made it so your disciples had to perform actions or rituals to break seals. But obviously that probably would have balance issues, especially for some of them]. Beyond these things, it's pretty good.

Big big thing I want to shout out: THE UI IS GOOD. Sorry, whenever I play games that either we're or look like they were made a few decades ago, the ui always has a chance of being really bad. Luckily, for the most part, the ui is actually pretty good and intuitive.

Anyway, just wanted to reccomend it. It's not completely unknown [unlike say, Emporer of the Fading Suns], but still pretty niche.

Speaking of pretty, here's some of the art i was talking about:

Steam link:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1741640/Shadows_of_Forbidden_Gods/

Recently, there was a leak of the footage of the non-public trial of General Xu Qinxian, who was charged and convicted of insubordination and sentanced to a stripping of his military ranks and 5 years in prison.

It has gone semi viral, with the full 6 hour trial reaching 1 million views on youtube.

I have begun watching it myself [currently at 1 hour] and taking notes as I see important, and read a couple articles on the matter.

A few things I've noticed off the bat

1. The issue Xu has seems to both be a use of force issue, but also an issue of whom the orders originate from.

Xu in fact states that he was fine with deploying the army to the outskirts of Beijing to encourage a "political solution" to the matter.

Xu has also stated multiple times that he wished for the NPC to meet and deliberate on the action and use of the army. He, at least to me, implies that if the NPC ordered him to, then he would have complied. He seems to have a major problem with the army taking orders from the party.

2.Xu also seems concerned less with the morality of the situation, but with the potential for him to lose face should the operation have gone badly. I don't think this is entirely unfounded, and at a certain point I think it's fair that the orders be given in writing [although obviously I don't know standard procedure in the PLA]. At one points he states "If this could be pulled off, one could be seen as a hero. If it goes poorly, then one could be seen as historical sinners." Or something to that effect.

Xu does have conscious objections, but those seem to be less of a concern. For instance, he states that he believed that the the police and garrison forces could deal with the situation on their own. He also questioned the equipment being brought into the city [LMGs, HMGs, AA guns, etc.]

I'll hold off on a full judgement on issues until I've watched it fully, however. If anyone else has any input feel free to add anything to what I've said here.

I'm unsure how long they've been floating around in Chinese*, but Political Logic, National Sovereignty, and Wang Huning's Collected Works were all published this year and are currently available on Amazon [just Amazon for some reason].

I'm unsure if these are official, given that they're simply listed as "independently published" rather than being from the Foreign Languages Press [also, they seem to be in a similar format to America Against America, which was published in 2022 but was in a bit of a shoddy condition, being in a weird font and not having page numbers]. But in any case they seem interesting enough [although I would expect the translation to not be as good as if it were done professionally, also hopefully they aren't just fabrications]

[Also unfortunately Amazon is the only place I can find them currently. I'll see if i can buy them and maybe upload them to the internet archive]

*I did do a search of Political Logic/ 政治逻辑 and did find something in Chinese describing Wang as just a professor, it's possible these have been around for a very long while in China. But that's going off of rough shod Google translate for now.