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Hobbies are whatever you do because you wanna, not because you haveta. To think that hobbies need to somehow be “productive” I usually attribute to a capitalist/liberal/Protestant mindset. This reminds me of R. H. Tawney’s Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism, though I haven’t read it so I can’t say for sure that it’s relevant.
Holy shit that list is huge.
I have no idea what you’re talking about w/r/t Burgerland antisocialists or fascists.
I wonder how many were misled. Maybe 20% fled the country; presumably many more would have if they had the means. Some are being pulled from streets and pushed to the front lines. Some are fascists who needed no misleadership. How many does that leave, the ones who were/are duped?
this entire site is filled with ultras, third-worldists, and campists
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robbing the US taxpayers for years
This bit I disagree with because 1) The US taxpayer doesn’t really fund anything, and 2) Ukraine isn’t getting hand-outs but lend-leases.
I’ve answered this before. Copypastaing myself.
Honest question from a non-communist, based on your reply here. Does one need to support Putin to be a Marxist?
In a word, no. In a few more words, support for Russia (not Putin, as historical materialists don’t subscribe to great man theory) is only a partial, temporary, tactical one, in the context of imperialist liberation. Russia is still a capitalist state, though, so it’s a two stage strategy: first liberate colonized bourgeois states from colonizer states, and second revolution within those liberated bourgeois states.
Russia is an interesting case: it has already liberated itself from the post-Soviet “shock therapy” neocolonizers. This occurred during Putin’s administration, which is why he is especially hated by the US. So now the support for Russia is in the context of keeping the colonizers from recolonizing it, and supporting Russia to the extent that it helps other states liberate themselves. But Russia isn’t trying to “liberate” Ukraine, at least not all of Ukraine. It’s trying to resolve the genocidal attacks on the people of the Donbas, and it’s trying to resolve the imperialist military expansion at its border.
Also, Ukraine really does have a fascism problem and has for a long time, and the coup government has materially supported it.
He’s got no flag right now. Taking the weekend off break from imperialism, I guess.
The Ukrainian flag isn’t on his Xitter profile anymore 🤔
I don’t disagree, but I also wouldn’t make assumptions on what people might choose to use.
Worse still, the electricity might get shut off, which will kill the sensors and powered ventilation and electric cooking & heating. I don’t have a quick & easy answer to that.
I think this is critical. People are going to cook and heat in there, and may use fossil fuels rather than electricity. I’d be more concerned about having a CO sensor than CO2.
Never Forget: https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_postit_notes_left_in_apartment/
Everyone understands Castilian, and I doubt comrades would give you a hard time as long as you seem to be trying a little. If you know Castilian—and especially if you also know some French—it doesn’t take long to pick up the gist of a lot of what’s said, and reading is easier still. Bona sort, camarada.
I wish I had advice as far as parties, but my time there was long ago and closer to turístic than residencial.
One only remains apolitical so long as their lives aren’t severely affected by the system.
Often true, but not always. I was raised and remained apolitical for a long time. My curiosity and intellectual honesty was my eventual undoing. The system has never let me down, but I still want to bite the hand that’s reliably fed me.
You know what this place needs? More “ironic” groyper memes.
Show me a roguer nation than the US.
FPtP isn’t the half of it. The US was formed of a bourgeois revolution to overthrow a still semi-feudal monarchy, and we’ve been a bourgeois-run state ever since, just as the bourgeois land-owning, slave-owning Founding Fathers intended. Our government was never meant to represent the working class; it almost never has and seldomer will, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (who aren’t disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote…
Because of the way the Electoral College works, this can only be true if you’re voting in a swing state, otherwise your vote is completely irrelevant, instead of almost completely irrelevant.
I’m not one to make moralist arguments on how to vote. I’m not going to say that a vote for Harris is a vote for genocide. Voting in bourgeois elections in general, and for bourgeois parties in particular, have limited but real tactical utility*, one of which is short-term harm reduction. If you live in a swing state and want to tactically vote for Harris as harm reduction, I think there’s an argument for that. But it’s important to appreciate the severe limitations of bourgeois electoralism.
*Marxists have written at length about their limited tactical uses since before the October Revolution over a century ago.
I remember that PhDufus. I think I dunked on him.
Hyperloop didn’t pass the sniff test from the first time I even heard of it. It was about as viable as the Solar FREAKIN’ Roadways! meme.
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