You're taking the definition linked at face value and not doing further investigation into what it means and its material repercussions.

In a capitalistic society capital and the right to private property is above all, including the individual, it is by all means sacred and must be respected. This means that despite having more empty homes than homeless people, these people can't be located into these empty homes because the property is above them, they don't matter.

The supposed "rights of the individual" is just the individualization of the self in detriment of the collective. Despite us being social animals that depend on each other, said rights and constant capitalistic propaganda sells us the idea that we are single individuals that are responsible for everything around us. Phrases like "If you get get fired its your own fault and you should pull yourself by your own bootstraps", "if you get sick that's your own fault", "if you become homeless that's your own fault", etc. It's never the system in place that prioritizes profit and private property above you. It also doesn't matter that someone is racist because that's their individual right of free speech, despite that hurting society as a whole, it's the individual above the collective.

"Liberty" for who? If your choice is to pay rent or be homeless, that's not a choice. If you have to worry about keeping a roof above your head, not getting fired, if you can pay your bills, if you can afford food, then you're not free. The only ones that are free are the bourgeoisie, as they hold all the power in a capitalistic society.

I can’t accept this label. They are conservatives/fascists. Not liberal.

The Republicans maintain capitalism, just like Democrats do. They are both liberals because liberalism is the status quo of capitalism. Of course there is neoliberalism too, but as the name implies, it is a "new" type of liberalism. They are by all metrics liberals. Further right than the Democrats, sure, but liberals none the less. They fit into defending the things I explained above, just like the Democrats also do.

If you arent distinguishing between ideology, party and individual then I don’t think you fully understand capitalism.

I'm literally talking to you from a marxist instance. I don't claim to know everything about capitalism, but I do think I have a better grasp than most liberals on this.

Furthermore, what do you mean with distinguishing ideology from party and individual? Ideology is present in both these things. Capitalistic liberal ideology as the status quo, maintains itself by being ever present in the collective mind of the people as the only viable solution. You can't separate these things because they are deeply interlinked, both the individual and the party are not separated from ideology.

The genocide in Palestine is wrong because they cannot have a right as individuals, they do not have liberty, they have not had an election allowed to be held since 2008, they have no political equality, they have no right to private property and settlers can kick them out, they are not equal to Jews under the law.

No, a genocide doesn't stop being wrong when the genocided population have rights. Also you completely ignore Palestine as a country, which grants the Palestinians rights, even tho Israel doesn't since it is a settler colonial genocide entity.

Any true liberal would support Palestine from your own source.

Anyone with a shred of empathy supports Palestine. The question of a liberal supporting Palestine or not on ideological grounds is settled in if the liberal believes in the legitimacy of Israel or not, and anyone that does believe that, doesn't support Palestinians in any way whatsoever.

Israel is not a legitimate state, it was a settler colonial project from its very inception. That's why we have 75+ years of a genocide happening that the world brushes off and does nothing about.

Revolution is the only solution. Even if USians managed to elect a really good reformist, the dominant class will not take lightly to that. We take the path of revolution not because we want it, but because it's the path the bourgeoisie forces us to take, they will simply not allow you to meddle too much with their system without consequences, and will fight to keep it in place, just like the monarchies of the past fought these same bourgeoisie that violently took the power away from them to establish themselves as the new status quo.

Also, the US is a constant threat to leftists abroad, just need to look at Chile on 09/11/1971, when democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende was killed in a US-backed military coup that installed neoliberal dictator Pinochet into power, which is further proof of the problems of electoralism, but on an international scale.

You genuinely should read marxist theory. Comrade Cowbee have a great starting guide.

Skimming through this post, people actually believe in IQ?

IQ is not a good measurement of intelligence. It is at best one single measurement of pattern recognition, and it is not set in stone either, as you can get better or worse at it.

There's multiple types of intelligence it doesn't measure and honestly, I don't believe anyone should take it serious.

I'm glad to help o7. Your work here is indispensable and greatly appreciated, comrade!

You DO have to read theory. Just because it is old doesn't mean it's wrong or outdated.

Also I'm not opposed to watching YouTube videos, but it shouldn't be your only source for it, and recommending Vaush is a huge problem, don't do that.

If anyone wants some actual good recommendations:

In english: Second Thought, Hakim, Yugopnik, Luna Oi, revolutionary_thot, azurescapegoat. There's also Hasan, but he does commentary and not theory teaching or analisys or anything like that.

In portuguese: Ian Neves/História Pública, Laura Sabino, Jones Manoel, Tempero Drag/Rita von Hunty, João Carvalho.

There's of course others, I'm just going by the ones I remember right now.

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).

Some context for anyone wondering: this was absolutely preventable. The governor of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Eduardo Leite, knew this happens at this time of the year but not only did he not do anything, the investment in preventing this was basically null. A flood also happened last year and he did nothing too.

One of the rivers rose up to 30 meters this time.

After the flood this time around he resorted to Twitter to beg president Lula for help, which is absolutely weird and pathetic to do. Not only that, but now he is asking for donations to the state to help people. This could have been prevented or at the very least mitigated if there was proper funding.

Hopefully there is a lot of groups there helping like MTST and people from all over the country are donating to different groups to help those in need right now.

My heart goes out to everyone suffering because of the flooding right now, the number of desperate people I'm seeing on Twitter sharing pictures of people missing after the flood is absolutely devastating.

Fuck Eduardo Leite and fuck capitalism.

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?

Yeah, get out with this shit. Stop trying to push PCO here.

Lots of accusations here and your use of "identitarian movements" and "freedom of speech" with the example you used speaks volumes already. Also what's with the "defending gay people way before it was cooler", and "before it was infiltrated by CIA agenda points? This all just smells extremely reactionary.

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.

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.