Can you be more specific? The USSR had “universal military service” in its constitution and considering who their enemies were I don’t fault them. Isn’t that “forced conscription?” Or, maybe you could argue that these are different times. After all, China doesn’t conscript but their tech is amazing.

I know that this manner of forced conscription is of an entirely different nature than what Ukraine does, or what Nazi Germany did, where people ended up arming children in desperation near the end of their reign.

I have a friend in the US and two in Russia who try to make these exact points, it’s frustrating.

Nice username, it checks out.

The latter may feed into the former. The US, including I believe much of its military power, is fueled by resources it plunders from Africa. I’m hoping with the US’s weakening forces and weakening soft power, people will be more incentivized to follow suit with what’s going on in Africa (and also in South America, there may be a wave incoming there too).

I remember this swell video. We need to make more like this to get into details, even if the videos last 100 times as long.

I’d probably rather go there than heaven anyway.

…I know how to solve the gamer problem. Tell them that they should support Marxism-Leninism and China because that’s the only way they’re going to be able to game at 8k 480fps.

All this crazy stuff from China’s R&D makes me happy to live. It’s not just bismuth, either, they’re doing several different kinds of chip experiments. They recently got a carbon nanotube ternary processor working.

Username checks out. What do you think of calcium batteries?

Alright, so 3.4 million people in the US’s case. That’s over a thousand times as many people as the group who stormed the capitol. Could work, I’d say.

True, and I was thinking that kind of education can help people think critically about the setting the monarch is in and how advanced the productive forces are. After all, I think feudalism was once a progressive force against slave society much like how capitalism was once progressive against feudalism. Once we live under communism for a long time, positive portrayals of early socialism may similarly be seen as regressive to the uneducated.

Wonder if they have sugar-free options.

There was a discussion earlier on Lemmygrad about a potential problem of fiction positively portraying monarchs. I’d like to give my two cents but for now seeing that even a company from the PRC does it with its mascot at least helps me believe it’s not that inherently harmful of a phenomenon.

Oh right, that one. And it may be the most addictive of them all. Released literally in 1984, during Chernenko’s brief term.

My guess, besides the possible bourgeois themes and influences present, would be that video games often demand massive amounts of time and dedication compared to other media and may thus come at the most expense of a social life or connection to reality.

I’m a hard-core gamer myself with over 150 under my belt, have been forever. But I also acknowledge that I’m a product of a dysfunctional, isolated environment, so the pleasure wouldn’t be guilty here.

In a “communist utopia”, we’d probably have the means to require less sleep and to stop aging (with how quickly tech is advancing I wouldn’t be surprised). Thus, you’d have more time to game.

Even the early socialism of the 1936 Soviet constitution limited the working day to 7 hours with plans from Stalin to further shorten it. Everyone being guaranteed a job means less work required from individuals (and higher purchasing power because the price of goods will fall as they become easier and quicker to make). So, your free time may still go up.