Given his awful diet, I’m half expecting him to keel over within the next 4 years
SpookyGenderCommunist [they/them, she/her]
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The Great Male Renunciation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Liberals learn that there are other ethical schools of thought than the must unhinged applications of Utilitarianism change
Status: impossible
Love me some Milt Jackson! The soft tones of that vibraphone are great for background music while studying
Imma need Todd in The Shadows to do a Trainwreckords follow-up on Katy Perry lmao
Mayo, or vinegar
Ketchup fucking sucks
The Studio Ghibli movie, Castle in the Sky fits that bill pretty well. Especially on the “old adventure vibe” front. It’s definitely got cozy and funny moments throughout, but all the guns and explosions might be a bit much.
But if you need stuff that’s pure cozy, Non Non Biyori is good, as is Yuru Camp. Not big on the fantasy or adventure part, unless you consider walking to the candy store, or going camping, to be adventures.
For something cozy and fantasy based: Hakumei to Mikochi is good too! It’s about a couple of lesbians who live in a tree, in a charming fantasy setting. It’s got big cottage core vibes.
Can you elaborate on what you mean?
Everyone should read Building The Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela by George Ciccariello-Maher before saying anything about Venezuela, I stg
I saved up and bought a reasonably beefy Mini PC, and turned it into an emulation console with Batocera. PS3 emulation runs like an absolute dream. But who needs backwards compatibility, when we can resell you the same game from 15 years ago, again, at full price???
The Settler-Colonialism
no freedom of movement
Source?
- constant shortage of any goods
Think about why this might be, Friend. Really think hard about it. What large geopolitical things were happening at the time?
- being a dictatorship
Yes, of the proletariat
- (contrary to your first point) a housing shortage
Again, source? Also, wondering what you think happened before East Germany existed that might have contributed to this. Surely this changed over time
- a culture so dictated by work that people had little to no free time
Because people working 3 jobs under capitalism have so much free time? What does this even mean?
- political pressure
Again, what does this mean? All Political cultures and institutions exert pressures on their population… That’s how politics works.
- control over the media
I’ll agree that the siege mentality of much of former socialism led to a lack of press freedom, which was ultimately detrimental, but again… Why might this have been?
- the fucking stasi
Quick, name the West German secret police!
Let’s assume for a minute that everything you’ve said is entirely true. If we’re to be thoughtful about this. East Germany was a historically poorer, agrarian, region of Germany, much less industrialized, artificially lopped off from the west (not by the USSR, btw, who wanted a unified, nonaligned Germany, like the allies had done with Austria), it was heavily sanctioned, had been bombed to shit, much like the rest of Europe, but was made to pay the USSR reparations, that it wasn’t as capable of paying, as a unified Germany would have been. The USSR even dismantled entire east German factories and shipped them back to rebuild their own industrial base.
How do you expect any country to not come out of that with considerable problems?
And the GDR did have considerable problems. I think you and I would disagree on what those problems were, but in the broad strokes, that much we can agree on.
But I would contend that, even with that in mind, East Germany ended up being a much more positive socialist experiment in many respects then say, Romania, which suffered a much more severe centralization of power, and cult of personality issues, then East Germany did.
In fact, looking at the makeup of the East German Parliament and its mass organizations, there was a much greater degree of representation of various social cleavages then in some other Eastern Bloc states.
While you could say argue that this was only ‘on paper’, that really depends on what period of East German history you’re looking at, as the electoral system was altered a handful of times.
Regardless though, this was an expression of the fact that East Germany had a more open Political culture due to its institutions being establisehed as part of an intended nonaligned, unified, German state. And due to the fact that it had received the socializing effects of industrial capitalism that gave it things like an incredibly progressive Queer movement, that other Eastern Bloc states, which were formerly feudal backwaters, hadn’t developed.
Tl;Dr - this shit is a lot more complicated than listing off bullet points for “why East Germany was Evil”, That I was taught in the 7th grade.
It’s gotten some high praise
It’s “just” a video of two trucks, given what the headline claimed.
When I first read the headline, I figured the image would be a kinda jank AI generated picture of Biden bound and gagged. Like… The headline makes it seem like that’s the focus of Trumps post.
But it isn’t. The focus of the image are the trucks adorned with Trump memorabilia. That’s the thing he cares about in this case. The presence of the Chud Tailgate Murder Fantasy is incidental.
And for that matter, what do you mean “normalizing”? This shit is already normal. That’s the problem.
Right, this shit has already been normalized. We ought to be concerned with how to deal with it.
First of all, LOL
Second of all, LMAO
Third, It’s super fucked up that the US names its military helicopters after indigenous people’s it genocided, and we don’t talk about that enough.
Yeah, it’s pretty clear that Nex either preferred different pronouns in different contexts, and/or was in the middle of trying to figure themselves out. And that’s really the tragedy here, that we’ll never know for sure.
I love this poster, because it features:
Things that happen under capitalism all the fucking time