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This what happens when free staters become the government
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This is the most reductive view of punishment I've possibly ever seen.
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I don't count anything by grams except cannabis
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But when you say it to describe the Danes is it not an explicitly ironic subversive use of racist language used against the oppressor?
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Yea Diane Keatoes character is pretty annoying, she then goes to beg for the USA to help and is basically a Karen. But also Reed was like, 'hey im American! Freedom!' Funny old movie
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I have multiple. Text from a communist song, hammer and sickle, symbol of a communist state
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Kinda sounds like the film Reds, which is very clearly a leftist movie but still contains some very pro-western and anti-Stalin takes. Still comes down on the side of Marxism.
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It calls on 'western democracies' to 'catch up' with China. Why? Just vibe. Just let the world be cool and let someone else make cool shit? It's all good man.
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Lol report is from ASPI. Nuff said.
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I like it. Islamic communism is something I'm interested in, esp during the Iranian revolution. Even if I didn't 'learn' anything from it, I'm happy for it to be in the space
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Linux isn't really a thing itself, it describes a lot of different operating systems, each with their own features. Then beyond that there is window managers. It's very different from corporate OSes.
Ubuntu is one distro that's very popular and easy to install. But it's also not so popular with enthusiasts. I personally first installed Ubuntu at 12 so maybe its a good place to start and with time you can learn about the other ones.
Otherwise people like Pop OS.
Warning tho: Linux is addictive. I have 3 computers each with Linux. My favourite is Debian with i3. Be careful before you spend too much money on computers!
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I'll survive tho 👍
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I didn't like that
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True or false: the British prime minister was voted on by the 'people' of the UK?
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Recently seen:
The Thing
Repo Man
The Long Goodbye
The Player
Mulholland Drive
Bob Roberts
The Player was just fucking incredible. Would recommend it to anyone. It's like if Curb Your Enthusiasm was a dark comedy thriller. So good.
Anticipate for this year: nothing.
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I've got a spicy hot take: I think sex work freaks out Marxists because there is a fear that even in a post capitalist society, sex workers can still operate as petty bourgeosie capitalists, sneaking around and getting money, undermining the idea of an anticapitalist society. I think it just causes a deep fear of women's ability to 'exploit' the system of solidarity, because in reality most of these people are women, and even if not women most of the people consuming are men. It kinda begs the question, "how much regulation and force can and should be used in society to stop sex work or any other petty bourgeosie business endeavor. If its a streetside vendor - easy, shut it down. But shutting down sex work is much harder, much like drugs. It's a really hard one which leads to question like the limits of police powers in a communist society, and it makes us confront 'greed' and especially 'women want money' prejudices head on. This isn't an answer to the question of 'what are the alternatives' but just a musing about how it's so hard.
TBH I appreciate you OP asking about alternatives. What about sex bars much like milk bars? Just a thought. Or sex only for people who have game? I hope this isn't too controversial, just musing about why I think this question is really TOUGH
What a lovely gift. There's about 12.of them with info on the back He got them from East Berlin before the wall fell. I love the idea of East German kids getting these and ranking their favourite communists based on how cool and solidarisch they were. The wall may have fallen, but Thälmann never did 🙏🚩
Feels like all of it. The calls to resign seem like blatant propaganda when we had covid lock down protests in the UK and Germany and they ended up being marches of Neonazis and transphobes and other fringe right wing nut jobs. When Chinese people do it (also the scale is completely unknown) they are justified against an authoritarian regime. The hypocrisy... When the BBC report on the social media discourse as well, it feels like they are reporting on CIA backed misinformation campaigns. How much of the online discourse stirring up Xi sentiment is actually misinfo being reported to the west as a broad public sentiment. I reckon its a lot. If you read this shit with a critical eye towards British and western economic and military interests it feels plain to see. But for the average idiot lib they read this and think, 'wow omg China is so authoritarian, the poor people there have no freedom and they cry out for support'. But what do you expect...
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Progg klassiker Translated lyrics: I am one of those who slave at king Cheops' pyramid, it is we who work down by the foot. We toil and we sweat, not to lose time, and it is a pity for those who don't fill the quota. Once you've come here, you'll never be free again, if you end up here, you end up in the pit. But about the king they say he is the son of the sun. Behind fifteen double bolts, behind fifteen double locks the opulent hold court in the halls of power. Here nothing is threatening, here nothing is bothering. Here the thoughts and the rooms are equally cool. And if someone has to die or some are to get a beating there are others who can carry out the decisions. Here the cries of angst and the wails are never heard. But when the night gets long you usually sing a song, that those, who control us, can here in the wind. About a people that once lived, who wanted to build a tower, that would reach all the way to heaven. But they higher they came the bigger the differences became, between those who lived up there, and the others. And eventually the tower became so tall, that those up there and those below, no longer could understand each other. And that's when the tower collapsed. So it seems like that there is ever time period and among all types of people, are those that want to build pyramids, where they themselves sit at the top and hold the power in their hands, whilst those below them suffer. But if those who're up there in the sky no longer want to understand and despises those who give them food, then the pyramids will become their graves.
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For those who don't know Sweden has had a legacy of communist rock, a lot out of Gothenburg in the 70s. The genre is called "Progg". Because Sweden didn't go trot like the brits a lot of the music is Stalinist or Maoist and also just really good music. I have a playlist with a lot of good Swedish rock from back then as well as some communist folk music as well. I will try and release it out to folks. It's good stuff, worth looking up the lyrics. This first song is actually pretty much pre-Progg, it was by a band who rejected ABBA and disco and mocked them aestitic Ally while playing some sick rocking tunes about the inhumanity of capitalism and the need for a communist revolution and worker solidarity. Enjoy!
I won't listen to the British media for shit. I won't listen to the people who occupied Hong Kong on Taiwan. I won't listen to the fraudulent breakaway referendum people about fraudulent referendums elsewhere. British "people" are so fucking held captive by the propaganda of their imperialist bourgeosie media and they love it. I have a British friend who is generally lefty. Lives in Corbyns constituency and loves him, labour voter his entire life, thinks he's a socialist. On the sebjust of Hong Kong tho he actually said, 'when we return territories we held, we have an obligation to make sure the people there will be safe.' I actually lost my fucking mind at this. I said, 'your country made a deal 100 years ago to give back Hong Kong and its time' To that he said, 'we don't need to respect 100 year old contracts when people will face authoritarianism'. This is British logic. The normalisation of imperialism is so absolutely fucked. Decided from then on that when Taiwan gets returned to China and the British freak out, I will not be quiet that the Hong Kong occupying and opium dealing imperialist country's take on this matter is the wrong one if you care about the people of taiwan
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