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  • It doesn’t, sorta? Jong-un has an older brother who is not in politics. Jong-un was selected because he formulated a state-building ideology around how his grandfather and father operated the state and their wins and misses, anyone could have done that but he was the one who did the work and became leader of the party. As I understand Jong-un was also the leader for the nuclear program as an officer in the military and this has basically earned him immense respect in the DPRK.

    Jong-un is the leader of the worker’s party and the leader of the military, he’s actually serving two functions that could be occupied by different people, both are appointed positions though iirc leader of the military (president) has to also be elected on in a confidence vote with the masses.

    Jong-un is not the leader of the legislative body, that role is selected by the legislative body (which is elected locally like a congress). The current VP of state (2nd in line) is also the appointed chair of the legislature. The legislature is the highest organ of state, though the president is the highest ranking individual.

    This is not dissimilar to how other ML states have been run. It’s often that the next leader is the most advanced Communist (whether that’s theoretically or organizationally though you need both). Deng was educated and shaped into the successor of Mao by Mao himself. Lenin had also trained Stalin among others. Xi similarly was such an advanced theoretician and organizer that he also earned his way to the top. It’s not surprising that Il-sung and Jong-il had both trained their children to be advanced communists, though it’s clear that not all of their kids wanted and worked to become leaders. So I’d say it’s mostly coincidence, the “fixed” aspects are being the child of the leader you are being raised by the most advanced Communist in the nation, that’s certainly an educational advantage, still Jong-un’s older brother is apparently just a random musician (according to an exiled statesman).


  • They all exist btw, very few communities have been killed to extinction, many groups are mergers of survivors.

    There are still Taino in Cuba and Haiti.

    “Latin Culture” isn’t really a real thing either, those are settler cultures and most of the stocking of whiteness in those countries are recent (circa 1900) immigrants from central Europe, same as the US/CA and “Anglo culture”.

    Latin and Anglo culture are going to be mostly dismantled where they are not useful (as current common languages).

    The Indigenous populations in South America in particular are very large, the settler populations have been, up until very recently with cow farming, concentrated heavily in metro centers. Many times they are outnumbered.

    Land Back first and foremost, the settler cities will have to accommodate into a society built around Indigenous sovereignty. (Accomodate is used here similarly to biology. Intrinsic traits vs Accomodative traits, i.e. if a dog has a small snout, the teeth and jaw stay small to accommodate the size of the snout)







  • OP is not going to torture themselves by staying friends with a person they had feelings for lmao. You can actually, readjust your perception of people. You’re showing the same thinking that men and women can’t be friends despite both of those being entirely cultural institutions.

    You thinking normal advice about how to build friendships and setting boundaries is a “lib salad” is telling for how you view relationships and other people. You called me a lib while professing Conservative Liberalism.

    It’s great that you provided the type of advice OP is avoiding from their male friends


  • You say “time is running out”, now I don’t know your situation with your body, but if you’re simply thinking of “checkpoints” that others around your age have achieved or pressure from family/culture then you’re probably letting patriarchal conjecture infect your perspective of relationships.

    It seems like you have a good friendship with this person. Keep being dependable and expect the same from them, and respect their boundaries. It sounds like this person would have a lot better advice wrt to dating women than your other friends, cherish that. You admire this person, admiration is a friendly emotion too and you can funnel that energy into building the friendship without intimacy/sexual undertones.

    You’ll be alright. Remember that you don’t gotta impress folks all the time 😂, if you can try to not stress yourself with how you’re being perceived in the moment, it can go a long way to ease social anxiety!




  • CLN member, biased perspective:

    S brought PFs behavior towards them (S) to the IACI internal, the behavior didn’t stop as PF made another post rehashing an old argument with S about nuclear power1. S again confronted the org about this and demanded an apology from PF on behalf of the partner orgs/communities who saw PFs problematic nuclear take and reached out to S about it. S felt the org was more interested in keeping this a “personal issue” between S and PF rather than poor behavior towards comrades and insensitive public messaging to “get back” at someone and left IACI. S called out certain IACI members in the CLN internal, then in public, for not providing a safe space in the IACI, and not holding members accountable for pro-colonial takes in a formally anti-Colonial educational org, and actually said they’d “wreck anyone who’s pro-colonial” as in literally fight individuals, not in the organizational sense. Certain IACI members ran with that as intent to destroy the org alongside claims of “hacking” individuals’ Instagram accounts, the evidence, from my personal and biased position, extremely flimsy.

    The “dispute” goes beyond that but at that point it’s not relevant beyond personal insults. There was no breaking of centralism, IACI is less than 10 people and horizontal. By the time S had gone public they had left the org.

    1: Which is a sensitive subject as CLN has a land base in Lakota territory and that land is contaminated by uranium runoff that a dictator assinated 200 people so he could sell the mining rights to a multi-national firm, his GOON squad worked with the feds to destroy the AIM. We also have partners in the Diné, Hawaiian, and Black Australian communities affected by Colonialism that fuels nuclear power.