Poly Bug

My dad sold the family house for $920,000. Split none of it with me. Said I need to "learn to build my own wealth." He built his by buying a house in 1986 for $71,000. I can't build the same wealth. The house he's talking about doesn't exist at that price anymore.

🇨🇳 Esto es auténtico kung fu tradicional chino. Se trata de una espectacular demostración de Wuju (ópera de Wuju), una forma tradicional de teatro chino que combina artes marciales, acrobacias extremas y actuación con una precisión y flexibilidad sobrehumana. Lo que parece imposible es el resultado de años de entrenamiento riguroso, disciplina y una tradición cultural que se remonta siglos atrás. La fuerza, el equilibrio y el control corporal que se muestran aquí son reales y representan la excelencia de las artes marciales y el arte escénico chino. ¿Qué opinas de este nivel de maestría física y artística? ¿Crees que este tipo de tradiciones merecen más reconocimiento internacional?

Someone said this world has become a torture chamber for smart people, and I couldn't agree more.

@DanieZhanghaha 没人会觉得里面有钱🤣

@MagicLlama66 No taxpayer grants. We earn our funding. But thanks for proving my point. You don’t actually have an argument against paying people more, so you attack imaginary people with purple hair instead.

I'm the founder and director of a nonprofit in Texas. If I can pay my employees $30/hour so can Amazon, Walmart, Starbucks, etc. When a billionaire opens his mouth and says he's unable to pay more is a lie. The truth is he doesn't want to pay more.

China is moving AI into households, businesses, consumer electronics, public services, and daily life. That tells you the real difference. China wants AI to become infrastructure. America is turning AI into a luxury subscription. In China, ordinary users can already access powerful AI tools with extremely low barriers. Many consumer-facing AI apps are free, open to the public, and built for mass use. In the U.S., if you do not subscribe, you are quickly pushed into limits, paywalls, degraded access, or broken continuity. One country is asking: How do we make AI part of everyday life? The other is asking: How much can we charge before users give up? This is why China’s AI path matters. AI should not become another gated service for the rich, another Silicon Valley rent machine, another tool priced like private medicine and elite education. AI should be like electricity, roads, mobile payment, public transport, and broadband: widely available, cheap to use, deeply integrated, and useful to ordinary people. The future of AI will not be decided only by who builds the biggest model. It will be decided by who makes intelligence affordable, reachable, and socially embedded. China is treating AI as public capability. America is treating AI as premium access. That difference will shape the next decade.

Why do employers act like we work for anything other than to get paid? 😂

Marx identified the oppositional interests between classes and the struggle to control the state and organize production for whoever holds power. Today that dynamic is playing out with brutal clarity. The Western ownership class has won the class struggle so completely that most people don’t even know the battle happened, let alone who won or what it means for them. The West is run by a transnational capitalist class. These globalist elites treat whole countries as mere tools — instruments to pursue their own worldwide interests. They wrap themselves in national flags and talk about serving the people, but really they’re using the nations they control to serve themselves. A massive propaganda war flows straight out of this reality. The ruling class pretends it’s all about national security and defending democracy, when in fact it’s about super-profits and monopoly power. This double game only works because of a constant stream of lies that obscure the underlying truth. That’s why Marxism and class analysis aren’t dusty relics. They’re the only tools that actually make sense of what’s happening right now. While these Western elites chase hegemony at the direct expense of working people everywhere, China represents something completely different: peace through mutual prosperity, win-win trade, lifting up the Global South, and putting technology to work for human need instead of private greed. The contrast couldn’t be sharper. The West’s answer has been to contain, isolate, and try to break China. They’re doing it even if it damages the global economy, spikes energy prices, and hurts ordinary people — including workers in the West. We’re already paying for it. Decoupling means no more cheap Chinese batteries, EVs, or solar panels for regular families. Supply chains get weaponized, inflation eats wages, and innovation gets slowed down just so the elites can protect their dominance. Politically it’s locked in. The oligarchs have their hooks in both parties and across governments, so the containment agenda grinds forward no matter who wins elections. They’ve consolidated control over most media — mainstream and a lot of the alternative stuff too — which lets them censor inconvenient truths and flood the zone with lies to manufacture consent. Pretty soon they’ll try to cut us off from open Chinese AI like Qwen and DeepSeek, tools that could actually empower regular people instead of just Big Tech monopolies. The elites would rather make their own populations poorer and less competitive than risk losing ground to a rival system. The enemy isn’t China. The enemy is this transnational globalist oligarchy that steers the West and uses countries as disposable tools in their power game. Every sanction, every tariff, every tech blacklist, every scary headline — it all comes from the same class interests dressed up as patriotism. Socialism with American characteristics — putting the state, credit, technology, and key industries back in the service of the working majority instead of footloose global capital — is the only realistic way to make America great again. Not slogans or more wars or culture war distractions. Real sovereignty and real power for the many. Everything else is just managed decline with better marketing.

El capitalismo es el sistema mundial, pero si los países son pobres es por el socialismo. JAJAJAJAAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAAJ

I used to think China was hysterical and going too far when purging people over superstition but after seeing what conspiracy theorists have done to Western politics; I now consider China to be tame and think they need to go harder.

Capitalism is a disease

@jpz0883 @RockChartrand Deflection? From someone who starts their first reply with labels and ad hominem, that's rich. I find it so difficult to continue this with a dimwit such as you. Do raise a bit more IQ points please.

@polybugger @RockChartrand Translation of your deflection: I can't provide an example of exploitation.

Every society has two broad groups: Those trying to build, produce, save, invest, and trade. And those trying to live off the efforts of the first group. The capitalist class is the working class. The socialist class is the work avoidance class.

@jpz0883 @RockChartrand and here you are keeping the slave owner tradition alive. Your ancestors must be very proud of you. Yay!

@polybugger @RockChartrand Most people alive today had ancestors who owned slaves. What's your point?

@jpz0883 @RockChartrand Jeeez, why should I answer you? You haven't rebutted my post at all, but resorted to labels and ad hominem replies. Please go read a dictionary first.

@polybugger @RockChartrand One example.

@jpz0883 @RockChartrand Huh? So being exploited equals entitlement. Maybe go read a proper dictionary. You must have had slave owners as forefathers eh? So proud of your lineage.

@polybugger @RockChartrand Envy, entitlement, victimhood, much?

having our first trillionaire before everyone has access to clean water is a failure of the human species

@DeeLeeCircus @RockChartrand @ProudSocialist Haha, so a government doing good and normal things is still bad? Okay sure.

@polybugger @RockChartrand @ProudSocialist No, it doesn't need to be corrupt to do bad things and cause massive problems. The government can be just as destructive and cause major problems all on its own without any corruption.

New video breaking down why the U.S. is a dictatorship of capital where both parties serve capital not people. The system was designed to exploit us, not save or serve us. That is why if we want change we have to save ourselves by building power in our workplaces and communities.