It seems to me that people think lots of empires that killed millions of people are 'cool'. E.g. Mongols, Napoleonic, Byzantine. They only react negatively to things that occured from 20th century onwards.

Why does Modi have the highest approval rating of any world leader? It baffles the mind. Do you think that this figure is fabricated or does he really control some kind of charismatic ideological apparatus?

But the Tao are communists. Are they portrayed as the 'good guys' or is there a cynicism to how they are portrayed?

Do you have any advice for comrades who work in tech/engineering/other highly paid professions for ways to organise your coworkers?

Ive heard mediocre things about Badempanada, not that I care enough to watch his content, but this tweet of his is pretty cringe.

Good point. They are expecting to buy an investment property in their lifetime and hence to become petite bourgeois. I guess their interests align with the somewhat progressive section of the petite bourgeois, and the California Ideology basically epitomises that.

I don't think tech workers are petite bourgeois, they are just labor aristocracy. They don't own any means of production, most of them just work for some company. They make good wages but that can be taken away in a heartbeat, as we are seeing now with the tech layoffs. Their interests align with the proletariat because they need 1) stable employment, 2) low cost of living. A lot of them do have the uber-cringey California Ideology tho.