This wasn’t a problem for me back when I had long hair but recently I was growing a wicked long mustache that was half way down my chin. The peanut butter getting all up in it every morning after my toast was getting annoying so I chopped it off.

You can go into your history and delete things you watched to try to fix it. I started trying to tweek my algo and then just turned the history off all together.

We should remember that there wasn’t even a socialist party in Russia till 1898. That’s 19 years before the revolution and that party had a major split in 1903 that created the Bolshevik party. Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky were just the shit posters of their time. There were lots of other voices and ideas floating around. I’m sure many people condemned them for not being grounded in the real world the same way some of todays leftists get called “terminally online.”

Say Trump declared an end to term limits and imprisoned opposition in few states. Then invaded Canada and Mexico while setting up concentration camps. Russia and China back the Mexicans (lets face it canada would probably buckle in weeks) Americans start getting conscripted. War starts getting protracted, Trump fires generals for incompetence or because they are too competent and he is getting paranoid of them. The replacement generals see the insanity and decide they need to act to end the meaningless war and trump. So you get a coup maybe the socialists take over maybe you get a junta. Junta is followed by elections at some point, maybe that cycle repeats a few times and maybe when its over its socialist.

This could all happen in the space 20 years. I wont say “its likely” but it isn’t without precedent.

“Citing anonymous sources (They made it up) from the country’s Interior Ministry – the department which oversees law enforcement – Latvia-based independent Russian-language news outlet Meduza…”

“In 2014, Galina Timchenko was fired from her job as chief editor at Lenta.ru by oligarch Alexander Mamut, a supporter of Vladimir Putin, after she had interviewed Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. She launched the new webpage Meduza on 25 October” -Wikipedia

So a banderite sympathiser is making unbacked accusations about Russia? That’s not news.

Ukraine will be on the table… being carved up.

I feel like this is the key to neo-liberalism/crypto-fascism today. Without this move class consciousness would be way more advanced in western nations.

No one is unfairly demonizing capitalism.

Again you aren’t saying anything that disagrees with any of my comments.

I don’t understand what the purpose of your comments is. You express hostility against me while agreeing with me. Its confusing.

Fine go try to get liberals that they should become communists by telling them that feudalism was better than capitalism.

What? you are agreeing with me but also calling me a capitalist boot licker? How does that work?

I’m not trying to say anything new. I am trying to explain why what the other user was saying is wrong.

The problem I am having with your messaging is that it is steeped in idealism and not in historical materialism. “people have been propagandized to conflate things like invention with capitalism, as if they are one and the same” The overlap of capitalism and the rise in living standards etc. are historically intertwined and you cant undo that.

Trying to separate capitalism and the progress made under it is not possible in a materialist lenses. Dealing in hypotheticals is idealism and not effective agitprop. You don’t counter capitalist propaganda by comparing it with feudalism. If you want to counter the myth that communism stops innovation you can do that with one word “sputnik.”

Capitalism was a step forward, in the right direction even. But we didn’t move on from it yet. We need to move forward and asking whether we are worse off now than before capitalism is not how to encourage people to move forward that encourages them to go back.

Frankly I’m confused that someone calling themselves a communist hasn’t read the manifesto.

“The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.”

I never said demonising capitalism was bad (I said “do it all you like”). I am saying that romanticising feudalism is worse.

In comparison to feudalism capitalism has been a positive change.

Demonize capitalism all you like but feudalism was way worse for innovation.

Monarchs and lords have nothing to gain by changing things because they have no local threats to their power. The only time they want to innovate is when their position is threatened from the outside.

Capitalists are constantly looking for an edge to use because they are always in competition. They are never secure in their position because there is always a threat right there.

Pretty sure Marx touches on this in Capital. Mental my bibliography isn’t very good.

you too my palindromic comrade.

Mostly just no. Feudalism was a highly variable system from one lord to the next but just like under capitalism the most exploitive policies were the most common because the ruling class nearly always chooses short term profits over long term.

Peasant paid variable amounts taxes to their lord and got next to nothing in return. When times were hardest for the peasants the lords made things worse by demanding more taxes to make up the short fall. The church took an additional 10% of everything peasants produced and was the source of the little amount of social services.

Roads, sewage removal, and basic infrastructure like that was usually built and maintained by the peasants out of their own pocket/free time but could easily be claimed by a lord who could then charge people to use the infrastructure in order to raise extra taxes.

Peasants were bound to the land/lord. If a disaster struck and the land became unlivable a lord might sell his peasants to another lord but likely only the most useful and the rest would just die.

Peasants often got conscripted into wars with no training often having to supply their own weapons.

Even the BBC did a short documentary about how the Midan movement was a boost for the rise of neo-nazis in Ukraine.

There were problems in the implementation of the cultural revolution. A major cause of the problems was the bottom up methods of justice but this was also a major part of its success. The goal was to preempt counter revolution by rooting out liberalism and in this regard it was a great success.

On the down side some people were wrongly accused and there were many cases of mob justice. Some people used it to settle scores. Some legitimate crimes against the revolution were punished far more harshly than deserved. Some times mobs lashed out in ignorance at things they didn’t understand.

They broke 10 eggs to make a 3 egg omelet.

The people who escaped to tell stories however… There were many people who thought because they were well educated they deserved money and power. They were well educated because their parents had the wealth to get them educated before the revolution. Those people had the money on hand to flee. Those are the people who told the world about what happened. Those people claimed they were persecuted because of their education not because they had a bourgeoise mentality of class superiority.

Not everyone is cut out to be a hermit. You could get a budgie. They are really easy to care for and super cheap to buy and keep. You can bond with them as well as any other pet. They will come up with the funniest things to say. They’ll greet you with a happy “good morning” every day. They are like a little person. Just make sure to get a boy because the girls don’t really talk much and they are a bit more bitey.

and now I’m gonna go cry a little for my lost little friend.

Unlimited genocide on the microbial settler colonist!

I’m glad you are finding paths forward even if none of them are perfect. I’m gonna just hope that this was a one off occurrence and that you can taper off the thinners and just monitor your clotting proteins.