This place is definitely focused on solidarity and camaraderie and not pseudo-acedemic brow-beating and trolling. It was worth a shot to see what this place was all about. Whatever. Later Lemmygrad.

I guess assassinating comrades isn’t a bad thing for you. Interesting.

Stalin killed Andreu Nin and demanded gold payment for Soviet military support in Spain. He helped launch a counter-offensive against Anarchists and Marxists, leading to a victory for Franco.

Mao lied a lot. Like – a lot. He wanted reports doctored during the Great Leap Forward almost always. Trade Unions were not permitted, and presided over the Sino-Soviet split.

Solidarity means solidarity. Mao was more interested in Nationalism.

Until humanity is taken care of – space is an unnecessary travel destination. Space research doesn’t require inhabiting planets. Not yet. Let’s get fusion figured out and end scarcity. Then we can talk about playing on cloud platforms over Venus or playing with hydrocarbons on Titan.

Excellent idea – but currently it is more expensive to ship reusable materials than it is to bury it, burn it, or send it to a poor country in the global south where it ends up in a river then makes its way to the great garbage patch in the Pacific. We people de-prioritize some really important stuff. You’re right – but the focus has to shift economically away from endless money printing and ever-increasing profits. We need economics that focus around human need first. Reward companies for putting people first, rather than capital. Until that happens, or I don’t know – luxury communism under fusion energy happens first – (you know, where scarcity basically disappears at scale because we can suddenly apply energy to big projects like global water access via desalinization and vertical farms in low-food-density areas like the desert, etc.) – we probably will continue to be under the thumb of this shitty system. Nobody wants to fight the powerful. Not really.

Living in Seattle I often found myself missing work to just ride around on LINK and the bus system all over the place. I completely understand.

Probably Peru or Chile, Northern Chile. Not quite the Atacama Desert, but just south, along the forgotten Pacific coastline. Peaceful, secluded, not terribly pricy, and the people are all quite kind and community centered.

I think donors (and the CIA) are secretly funneling the money to the DSAs right now, because something something populism and AOC in 2028, which will be even more painful than the DNC.

I love America. It’s a place. Having said that – fuck the stars and stripes. :)

Okay, so it appears as though you’re not really trying to understand though by calling people illiterate, and I think we’re done here. Any question asked in a friendly forum is fully relevant and I don’t see how you’re a comrade pissing on someone trying to learn. Deeply ironic that you have all this academia jammed into your brain to teach you how to be decent, and you can’t even have a common discussion with a leftist on a leftist thread. Then you wonder why we can’t have solidarity. Sad. On a “comradeship” freechat no less. lol. Just…wow. Have the day you deserve man.

Been unemployed a year – so hearing this for ANY job is awesome. Congrats comrade.

I’m a communist on a decentralized social media app discussing leftist stuff with leftists. Why would the question be in bad faith? Seriously. Sometimes comrades – ya’ll can make the most simple discussions, really, a pain.

Isn’t Argentina like the Nazi HQ of South America?

High School is designed to make us obedient workers under American Capital. The fact that you struggled only says the most virtuous things about you and your inability to be programmed.

Dialectical materialism tells us to evaluate social systems by whether or not the internal contradictions are causing it to grow or decay. I think that’s beautiful.

I was laid off in October as part of a restructuring. I knew it was coming months in advance – so when the big day came, I had all of my assets and IP that I had ever built over the last 3 years, already saved on a cloud server. I also purged anything that was unfinished, backed up, or otherwise legally mine to remove because it was not a current project or asset. When I was given my push out the door, I informed them I had already cleaned up any messes left behind, to ensure a smooth, clean space to transition for the new designer responsible for all learning content within the org. They didn’t say anything for about 2 minutes. Then the call ended. It was the single most satisfying departure I’ve ever felt, and to this day I talk shit on social media directly to them, and they can’t do anything about it. I also got a little severance for not quitting first, so added bonus for patience I guess.