You’re right, majority of the imbeciles who are cheering on the destruction of Ukraine are doing it based on the continued stream of propaganda they’ve been uncritically consuming for the past three years.

Just like Gemini and ChatGP will actively censor topics about US politics that US oligarchs don’t like. The difference is that you can run DeepSeek on your own machine and ask it anything you want. Also, hilarious how you chuds are still coping that your color revolution failed. Cry harder!

Standard westie practice of coping while China leaves them in the dust technologically. Sad.

Actually, it’s because they figured out how to use mixture of agents approach and reinforcement learning which geniuses at OpenAI didn’t think of. Meanwhile, OpenAI stole data from everyone else, so not really the own you seem to think it is.

And I expect we’ll see secondary effects too, cause people using XHS will be talking to their friends and show them stuff about what life is really like in China. I imagine there’s going to be a lot of positive coming out of all this.

Unfortunately, a lot of people bought into the whole narrative how people in the US are living their best lives. Meanwhile, older people of having lived in USSR, and they know what it was like from personal experience. I do expect this will start changing going forward cause of the rift with the west, and China becoming more prominent in terms of Russian politics. Interestingly, there’s now a lot of tourism from Russia to DPRK happening now too, and most people have positive things to say about it.

Unfortunately, English media coverage is scant, and mostly negative as you’d expect.

I haven’t followed too closely to be honest. As far as I know their position hasn’t changed significantly over the years, and it’s largely the same people in charge.

I’d argue that having Russia as an adversary war essential for maintaining Atlanticist policy. If Russia was integrated with the west then the economic gravity in Europe would shift east, making the US less relevant globally.

I don’t get the impression that they’re controlled opposition, just that their leadership is anemic. This is a fairly reasonable overview of them https://jamestown.org/program/the-russian-communist-party-the-view-from-the-left/

I’m curious about that as well. Good news here is that most people in Russia feel positively about USSR, and communism is largely seen as the more correct system. A fairly recent poll by Levada said that 75% of Russians have expressed increasingly positive opinions about the Soviet Union https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/03/24/75-of-russians-say-soviet-era-was-greatest-time-in-countrys-history-poll-a69735

And another poll (in Russian) shows that most people think the Soviet economic system was more correct https://www.levada.ru/2021/09/10/kakoj-dolzhna-byt-rossiya-v-predstavlenii-rossiyan

I imagine being closer to China geopolitically and economically will only make these views stronger. A lot of people have to be wondering if Russia could be like China today if different decisions were made in the 90s. It’s also worth noting that economic structure in Russia isn’t actually dramatically different from China either. Russia never fully embraced liberal policies and the state remains at the commanding heights of the economy. A 2023 World Bank study gives a pretty good overview of this. In particular, it distinguishes between businesses of the state (BOS), that are at least 10% government owned by some government, and state owned enterprises (SOE), which are majority owned or more, and controlled, by the government. And another study has a chart showing SOE in Russia compared with China.

If KPRF continues to gain traction, it’s plausible they could take power at some point. It’s not a terribly principled party right now, but at least they are genuinely socialist.

For sure, and I’d argue that the ruling class in the west understands Marxism quite well in general. They know they’re fighting a class war.

indeed, I detest having ads blasted in my face in every public space

In the west, Marx is presented as being well meaning but completely irrelevant.

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yeah that’s a good way to put it

I find the specific dynamic is that you can say anything you want as long as it doesn’t translate into material action. That is the line that cannot be crossed.

not only that, but you can have all the freeze peach that you can handle

I’m not an American, and it’s really adorable you think this won’t happen in EU. Where do you think the money for all the military budgets is going to come from exactly.

They’re claiming that DeepSeek used their API for distillation, and to be fair DeepSeek hasn’t denied this. Whether they did or not really doesn’t matter in my opinion. Watching OpenAI complain that a company did to them precisely what they themselves have been doing to everyone else is the hilarious part here. And amusingly, if they tried to go after DeepSeek legally in the US then they’d create precedent for everyone whose content they scraped to go after them.