Imagine being such an incel even the slop-bots say enough.

That seems unavoidable at this point.

The Astro-Hungarian Empire.

These are the voyages of the starship SS Kaiser Franz Joseph, its 5 year mission: To conquer strange new worlds, to conquer new life and new civilization, to boldly conquer where no man has conquered before.

China has begun construction on its first “super plant” for reusable rockets that can be recovered at sea in the eastern city of Hangzhou.

The 5.2 billion yuan ($740 million) project, led by Beijing-based space launch company Space Epoch, got underway on January 7. According to Hangzhou Daily, it will produce medium-to-large liquid-fueled rockets capable of reuse, high payloads, low cost and sea recovery. The facility, when ready, will manufacture up to 25 of these rockets a year.

You can’t overstate how big of a deal that is. With 320 rockets having been launched in 2025 25 rockets is 8% of the world’s rockets. Producing that many low cost, high payloads, reusable launchers, on top of all the non-reusable launchers China has, will do a lot to the ammount of stuff China can get into space.

And that’s one year of production. After a few years this super plant running, depending on how many time one of its rockets can be launched before being retired, China chould end up with the ability to send an industrial amount of materials and peoples in space. An from there, building massive space stations and interplanetary spacecrafts becomes genuenely acheavable. Especially with a permanent moon base, which they have in the works too.

“A reusable rocket is like a taxi, satellites are the passengers, and a constellation of satellites is a busload of tourists,” Wei Yi, founder and chairman of Space Epoch, told local newspaper Hangzhou Daily.

The cost of space launch vehicles for mainstream rockets in China is approximately 80,000 to 100,000 yuan per kilogram, Wei Yi explains. With Space Epoch’s “stainless steel + liquid oxygen and methane” solution, the cost is expected to be slashed to 20,000 yuan per kilogram, he adds.

An industrial amount of launchers with ~3000$/Kg lauch cost. A big deal, as I said.

Commercial space travel ready for lift-off

This marks a key step toward large-scale manufacturing and production capabilities in commercial reusable launch vehicles, highlighting the growing role of private aerospace firms in the global space sector.

The project reflects the efforts of Chinese private firms to scale up launch capacity and industrialize operations, in line with global trends in reusable rocket technology. In addition to Space Epoch’s “Yuanxingzhe‑1” test rocket completing its first sea recovery flight in May, multiple other Chinese commercial space companies have conducted reusable rocket experiments since late 2025.

Chinese space actors, including LandSpace’s Zhuque‑3, the state-backed Long March 12A, and other private firms such as Space Pioneer and Galactic Energy, have conducted tests covering vertical takeoff and landing (VTVL), near‑orbit recovery, and key propulsion demonstrations.

Although not all efforts were fully successful, they demonstrate that China’s commercial space sector is advancing on multiple fronts, transitioning from isolated technical demonstrations to systematic, engineering-driven development, according to 21st Century Business Herald.

I knew from this guy that China wanted to mass-produce rockets, but I didn’t expect them to be so quick about it.

Incredible thing happening in Chinese space program.

Does the color revolution have any chance of succeeding?

Please let this happen

That’s what overconfidence does to you.

Seriously, I still don’t get why the heck the media were so overly confident that the US had taken over Venezuela despite the fact they don’t occupy so much as a square meter of Venezuelan territory, what’s up with that?

But will the rate of profit falling, which is a tendency and not a law, actually end empire if no one takes action?

The laws of thermodynamic are “tendencies and not really laws” either, yet as any physicist worth their salt will tell you it is a certainty that entropy will increase over time. Don’t mistake the difference between law and tendency with uncertainty, a tendency can be as certain as a law of physics if the phenomenon it describe has the right statistical properties.

Also, yes, that can and will end capitalism and any empire that still practices it by the times it reaches the critical point. Capitalism necessitate profit, if profits can’t be made, capitalism stops working, it’s that simple. As for people taking action, well, they will have no choice but to take action eventually because if capitalism breaks before they have a replacement ready, it will end badly for everyone involved. And by that I mean, if there is no mode of production handling production and distribution of food, water, and all that, peoples will start starving to death very quickly.

What actions will people take in the core?

It’s difficult to predict. We can say for pretty much certain that the core will keep getting increasingly economically and politically unstable until it cannot sustain itself anymore, but how the local population will react the this decline is hard to tell at best.

Will the global south actually do the magical thing you suggest? I don’t understand what we gain by painting this telelogical end unless we are so hopeless, weak, and vulnerable that we need a heaven/salvation myth forged from a religion of economics to cope with the reality that we have no real grip on history.

First, I suggest that you read theory, genuinely. If you think the Marxist prediction that revolution is unavoidable is some Cristian rapture-like prophesy of salvation coming for the believers, you don’t understand Marxist theory.

It’s not magical or theological, it’s logical. I’m not gonna go through all the theory that explain this conclusion here, again, go read about all that yourself, but here’s a bit of a TL,DR.

One of the benefits Imperial nations get out of imperialism is that some of the contradictions of capitalism get effectively offloaded to imperialized countries, they get cheaper and more exploitable labor that at home to make the things they sell back home for example. This exploitation of the imperialized nation by the imperial nation makes quality of life in the imperialized nation worse as exploitation keeps intensifying.

This will inevitably make the peoples of the imperialized nation revolt because that’s what happen when the standards of leavings of an entire population get unacceptably low at the hand of a greedy ruling class, just look at any popular revolt of a people against their ruler throughout history for examples of this.

These revolts will necessarily be working class revolts, because the capitalist class is already the ruling class under capitalism, and there is no third class beside these two. Therefore, if these revolts succeed in overthrowing the capitalist rulers, they will put a working class government in its place because why would they overthrow capitalists to replace them by capitalists?

Thus, socialist revolution will happen. Not “by magic” but because it is the logical conclusion given the way capitalism and imperialism function at their core.

It is not naïve. We are very arguably living capitalism’s last few decades right now. If you look at graphs of the rates of profits over time, it’s pretty clear that it will tend toward 0 sometime between 2040 and 2060. And as you might know if you have at least a surface level understanding of the labor theory of value and the tendency for the rates of profit to fall, it is not something capitalists can do anything about for it is caused the very way capitalism function at its most fundamental level.

Much like slave society reached its peak during the Roman empire’s “glory days” before declining until its collapse, so has capitalism reached its peak during capitalism’s best decades last century and has been on the decline since.

All the basic infrastructure that has been utterly crumbling in the same capitalist nations that used to build Empire state buildings and Eiffel towers, all the de-industrialization sweeping through the same countries that caused and lived through the first industrial revolution and invented the assembly line, all the hipped up stage conferences where obscenely rich peoples promise incredible new technology that ends up never seeing the light of day that passes for innovation these days. All of that are signs of decline, signs that capitalism as a mode of production has run its course and has nowhere left to go, signs that the rates of profits are getting so close to the critical point that the very AI driven automation the ruling class are currently drooling at the thought of is all but guarantied to become the sword that slay the beast.

The capitalist ruling class is trying to find a way out of this doom, wildly throwing anything they have at the wall hoping something anything will stick. But there is no way out, there is nothing that can stick. nothing they do can save them, no damage they cause will ever be enough. At best, and with a lot of luck, they may be able to delay the inevitable for a bit, but not for long enough. They are the ant trying in vain to climb back out of the antlion’s hole, oblivion waiting jaws wide open for them at the bottom.

The beast is dying, that is the undeniable truth. The poison of the profit motive in its veins is crippling it. Already the imperial core is increasingly incapable of producing the weapons and machines of war that have been keeping it alive and dominant through force. And the weapons they can produce are all affected by various level of ‘enshitification’ caused by that very profit motive.

As imperialism exports the worst of capitalism’s contradictions out of the imperial core to the global south, it will make socialist revolution in the global south more and more likely as time passes while the imperial core will only get weaker and weaker, and when the 21st century’s first socialist revolution finally happen at long last, it is unlikely the US, let alone the rest of the imperial core, will be in a position to do anything substantial about it. And once revolution has swiped through enough of the exploited nations? It will be the end. The definitive, irreversible end of capitalism as the dominant mode of production on Earth. With nowhere left to export the contradictions of their economic system, no more influx of cheap stolen resources, and no new markets to expend in, whatever remains of the capitalist world will shrivel, rot and burn. The remaining capitalists will be witness to the destruction of everything they striven for, they will see their wealth burn, their influence crumble and their assets be taken from them or destroyed. And a justly deserved end will soon be theirs at last.

Ok, makes sense

It would indeed.

What do you mean Venezuela’s new president? I haven’t heard of an election happening in Venezuela and the US, despite their weirdly overconfident (even by their standard) claims that they have Venezuela in their grip, aren’t remotely in a position to pick a puppet president to rule the country.

Is this actually a thing or is that yet an other of the " We already won"-pilled articles that keep being published since Maduro’s kidnapping for some obscure reason I don’t get?

Either they don’t dare go through with that (and other) threat(s) and Europe get severely diplomatically and politically weakened.

Or

Europe surprise us by having a spine for once and both the US and EU get severely diplomatically and politically weakened.

Either way the imperial core gets weaker and less cohesive.

Unfortunately, it seems every browser that isn’t firefox or chrome is based on either firefox or chrome. Fortunately, since firefox is opensource it can be forked.

I use Zen browser. It’s a fork of firefox with better features.

I recommend Freetube.

Trump talks shit a lot of the time but it would be an immense public embarrassment for his administration if he falsely claimed that he had kidnapped Maduro so I’m very much inclined to believe this on the face of it, without any evidence to support or dispute the claim.

I thought of that after I posted this comment, and yea, that would be a big lie to tell even for him.

The question, though, is how badly will this affect Venezuelan resistance? Hopefully that doesn’t cripples the socialists for one, I’m concerned about how this might help comprador reactionary and traitor forces. Also, how well can they defend themselves, on one hand having aircrafts over the capital isn’t a supremely good look for the country’s air defense capability, on the other hand Caracas is basically right on the coast so aircrafts coming from the sea would probably (I assume) reach it very shortly after detection making it easier to get shots in before a response can be scrambled. How far in the territory can American aircrafts go before they’re in serious trouble?

Question to anyone who know military stuff:

Is the time between the start of the attack and this tweet enough for spec-ops (or whoever they could have sent) to go in, capture the freaking president of the country, and escape? Or is the timeline as suspiciously tight as I suspect it is?