Valbrandur

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They didn't walk tuah to a polling place I think you mean

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You godless commies should have Pokémon Gone to the polls, now everyone will DIE and it is your fault.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ants are cool until you get a colony somewhere inside the walls of your kitchen and the bastards keep raiding any piece of food you leave alone for 10 minutes. I will never going to financially recover from all the ant traps I had to buy before I managed to get rid of them completely.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No. But not everything you do in life has to be praxis, so you do you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I assume this is a US thing? In my country COVID cases have fallen so low that we are no longer keeping track of new cases in our statistics and the government has already declared a return to normalcy (hospitals included) more than a year ago. I'd like to ask for confirmation if this is the case because seeing infighting over this makes me feel like I am coming from another planet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Can someone put me up to date, as a person who hasn't paid attention to Leftypol since 2016?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And then Bethesda turns around to develop another totally non-political Wolfenstein sequel.

As always, 'too close to real-world politics' is just an euphemism for 'outside western liberalism's Overton window'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

many such cases

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

RednBlackSalamandeez nuts

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

A day to mourn for every chunghwa enthusiast

 
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Just sharing something silly that I decided to put together. Try to see how many of them you can recognize. Optional video essay background music to go along the post.

Tier 1: The big three. On top of the iceberg due to the enormous impact that they have had in the world's history and popular culture, being known by even the most politically illiterate. It is very likely you have been told more than once to move here by angry people during political discussions.

Tier 2: Smaller socialist states that stand out more than the rest in their respective regions. Still well known and recognized, but most people have a weaker grasp on them than on the ones listed on the tier above.

Tier 3: More unlikely to pop up in debates about communism, this likelihood increases drastically if the person you are talking with had a grandmother whose castle, servants and favourite pony were taken away by one of these states.

Tier 4: This tier marks a barrier: an average Jane and Joe is most likely not able to recognize these. However, they do not suppose a very deep level of knowledge for a ML, who should already know about their existence and point one or two facts about them at the very least.

Tier 5: Many people are unable to even point on a map where these countries are located, and much less to even know that they were once socialist states. If you know in depth about them, it is very likely that you put a desproportionately large focus on anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism in your theory journey. It is also equally as likely that you haven't seen the sun in years.

Tier 6: The bottom of the iceberg. These states are almost never mentioned even by the people who are well read on the states on the tier above, despite the very unique and interesting challenges that they had to face as socialist projects. Venturing into these shows a willingness to search for knowledge further away than anything that you will ever need in practice.

Tier 7: The dark depths of socialist history. Some are states that lasted for several years flying under the radar of even the most dedicated MLs, but most of these are ephemeral projects, having lasted as much as the elements at the bottom of the periodic table, or what is the same, about two or three times longer than the average anarchist project. If you know about these, you either live in the place where they existed or you most likely learnt about them not in the pursue of anything practical, but searching for knowledge purely for the sake of it.

Tier 8: Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you'd you would you could you'd do you wi you wants you you could do so you you'd do you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?

 

Are you someone who has left their country of birth to move and settle somewhere else, or who is thinking of doing so in the future? What led you to take that decision, or what is making you consider it? What have your experiences been until now, and what do you expect and hope for in the future?

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