You could start with communist content on YouTube. That tends to be more easily digestible and eases you into reading theory later on.

I can recommend channels like Second Thought, Yugopnik, Hakim, revolutionaryth0t and Ian Neves/História Pública (you'll need to use subtitles for this one if you don't speak portuguese).

Oh it's the PCO person again. Just stop with this, it's embarrassing. You can't just claim PCO is the only marxist party in Brasil, specially when PCO is so fucked up.

Here's some examples:

PCO's own newspaper saying that doing an act during carnival against a colonizer and bandeirante is identitarian and against "our culture, heritage and heroes".

Here's PCO being both ableist and lgbtphobic on Twitter by calling you the r-word for using neutral pronouns. (It's full of right-wingers agreeing with the post in the comments)

PCO siding with Elon Musk for "unlimited freedom of speech" and against the ban of Twitter in Brasil.

PCO defending YouTuber Monark's "freedom of speech" for saying that Brasil should have a Nazi party.

And here's another one where they say they are against banning fascist parties.

Left-wing and marxist my ass. What a joke.

The movement has been brewing for a while, it's just that it is finally getting traction, to the point there is now a PEC for a reduction to 4 x 3 instead of the 6x1 workweek we have right now.

And since this is a very popular change, the right can't simply say they are against it, so they are forced to say they agree with in in principle and instead they try to raise doubt about the way it is phrased, saying it's unconstitutional, etc.

You really love your "them tankies" huh. Maybe you should start engaging with reality instead of this bullshit anticommunism you always do.

You should do it. I had to stop using it after the ban here in Brasil and it has been a blessing. Been using BlueSky ever since and I'm yet to see a single Nazi or Nazi content. I had to manually block like 5 people only.

Defend your point, dont try to censor me lol

Literally no one is "censoring" you, get a grip. I'm telling you to stop pushing this bullshit, that's all.

Im not inside your head, point out what you think

Already did on my last comment.

Before it was cool = before usa capitalism decided it was profitable

How so?

You're literally tossing everything as "identity politics" and comes claiming "free speech absolutism" and that other parties are aligned with imperialism and needs me to point out how that is reactionary? Really? Your condescending way of referring to LGBT people, Black and Indigenous people, Feminists and everyone else you might deem fit into the "identity movement" list, is not enough?

All you're doing here is tossing all the work and struggle of oppressed people into a nice box that you don't like just to diminish it, all while not backing any single claim you made.

And the free speech part, like come on, you literally admitted the party stance was to side with the homophobe because "muh freeze peach", are you for real?

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Yeah, I have stopped really caring for competitive games for 3 or 4 years, if not more, now. Playing with friends can be a blast tho, and that's what I do when it's a competitive game. Usually it's league of legends for me, but I play very little of it now, which is to be expected when you play the same game for a decade lol.

Gaming in general for the past years have been tough for me because despite genuinely loving it, my mental health have steadily declined to the point I have trouble even starting anything, let alone continuing to play something I have started, but right now I'm playing Breath of the Wild and Baldur's Gate 3, both for the first time and let me tell you, I'm having a blast and don't feel like stopping anytime soon. Single-player games are fucking great.

Now, I don't think the issue with competitive games is the fact that someone will get the short end of the stick and not have fun. If that was the case, fighting games would be dead by now. You can absolutely have fun while losing. The issue I have always seen, in league at least, is that you're alone, there's no collective sentiment when playing, no team mentality, most people are hostile and everyone is trying to win in a selfish way and because of that you get frustrated, which eventually turns to anger, and all of that most likely ties to the hyper-individualization of the self under capitalism. Every now and then you find a team that clicks, where everyone communicates and play for each other, instead of in spite of each other, and when it happens it's fucking great, even when you end up losing.

Depends heavily on how you define it, but I see perfection as kind of unatainable. A game might come really, really close, but I haven't find the one that I think is perfect yet.

There are games I love to death like NieR: Automata, Isaac, Dark Souls 3 and Skyrim, but there's always something that could be better, as much as I love these games, be it technical-wise, gameplay-wise, or whatever else.

Also, even if I really think a game is perfect, that would be only for me, other people are gonna have a differing opinions and might disagree with that, so it ends up being a very personal thing.

That being said, there's 2 games I'm playing right now that are impressing me so fucking hard.

I'm finally playing Breath Of the Wild, and fuck, why have I waited so long? I must be only 15 - 20 hours in, but holy shit is it so good so far, I can't believe it.

The other one is Baldur's Gate 3, I have only 6 or so hours so far, but this game is so charismatic, like, how??? I didn't get the love for the characters I have seen all over the internet, but literally 5 minutes talking to them and I kind of get it now.

I really hope these 2 come close to how good I always see people talking about.

Didn't have an argument because I had to remain shut the whole dinner. But let me tell you if I had remained there 1 more fucking minute I would probably be hated by now.

They didn't touch on the Palestinian genocide or anything of that sort, but the antivax narrative, which is new comming from them, and the stuff they said about the 2 poorest neighbourhoods in our city is disgusting. Not only that, but there's also their praise of rich people, which is just, uuuhgh.

New Year's eve is gonna be worse, I can tell already.

Peaceful to who? It's not peaceful for countries at war, neither for black people and other ethnic minorities in the US or here in Brazil since the police is racist and will kill for absolutely nothing. This can't be ignored.

Carrying the collective knowledge of humanity on our pockets is impressive and yet we are pushed sensationalized lies and disinformation for profits sake at every corner. Even when its not for profit, the status quo is so strong that other views and perspectives are easily dismissed. The whole internet is so heavily monetised you can't use it properly without an adblock.

I think this is a better perspective, since it screams that we need change, radical change, the current system cannot solve any of this.

Neither doomerism, nor this positive way of viewing the world are gonna change it for the better, only fighting for it will.

A “capitalist,” according to socialists, esp. Marxists, is someone who engages in anticompetitive behavior, insider trading, protection racketeering, bribery, and all manner of dubious and criminal behavior.

No, a capitalist is someone that owns the means of production and doesn't have to work to live. People like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. And since capitalism is an infinite for profit driven economy, the capitalists will do anything to increase their profit and their power, hence why they engage in the things you listed, the system literally demands it.

Someone who just believes that people should be able to trade freely, associate freely, and keep the vast majority of what they have earned or traded for fairly are routinely called capitalists by socialists and communists to shame them for being successful.

No, we call them liberals or neoliberals, because that's what they are, "capitalist" have an actual definition, like I explained above, just like what you are describing is a lib. Besides, everyone can trade freely in a socialist society, what they can't is own the means of production and exploit peoples labor for their own profit.

Also, we don't shame people for being "successful". There is no moral judgment, we simply understand how the system work and want to dismantle it, so exploitation from human being to human being ceases being a thing.

If the worker makes everything, everything belongs to the worker and not the 1% at the top that does nothing.