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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]

@ Alaskaball @hexbear.net

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2w ago

US | Epstein files suggest Trump laundered money for Russian oligarch
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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago
Clear and undeniable proof that epstein and Trump are Russian assets.

2w ago

Becoming Chinese

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Obviously you've never drank steel reserve

2w ago

Motion to ban belly_beanis

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Cows 1-9 are hiding in the back

2w ago

Just got Hearts of Iron IV, I know we have more than a few players here, any good tips/tricks/guides to make it less daunting for a beginner?

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

I've always just dived in head-first and learned the hard way. Usually the easiest way to learn is chosing one of the non-aligned minor power countries and playing around while letting the major powers do the brunt of the work. Hell even starting off as America is usually good practice because it's darn near uninvadable and you have plenty of years to play around with building up, setting up divisions, sending volunteers or arms, etc. And nominally just being able to take it easy while learning.

And of course being willing to take losing games to their conclusion so you can get to experience the crunch of desperately trying to stave off defeat.

Of course things probably changed quite a bit since I played, but the key fundamentals I remember is try to time building your industry in peacetime while gearing up for war, i.e estimating you have roughly 3-4 years of peace meaning building civ factories for a year or two then building military factories in the remaining time while regearing you current mil factories to building the basic infantry gear to get your divisions fully supplied while training new divisions with the surplus, and only really spending time building stuff like tanks or planes exclusively if you have the surplus factories to do so.

2w ago

Trotsky DESTROYS an ENEMY of the REVOLUTION with FACTS and LOGIC

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

I'll reiterate, I'm not sure what exactly is taking place in the shot, but it's funny to imagine it was the photo of the vote occuring.

2w ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

What a bunch of libs, when IP gets threatened they throw out the fantasy elements of their storytelling to baldface state its bad to make knock-off items even though you can literally go to the store and buy knock-off shit like Walmart doctor thunder instead of IP copyrighted doctor pepper?

Where's all the aircraft cannons?

2w ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Yup I can almost imagine the kind of slop the rok ones are saying, probably that it's made with sawdust and bugs and in the process of its creation the evil north executed a whole elementary school because some kid mentioned the fake existence of South Korean ramyun, who's creation was from the result of the great God Kim il sung plucking a hair from his head and bringing into existence fried noodles.

2w ago

Trotsky DESTROYS an ENEMY of the REVOLUTION with FACTS and LOGIC

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

It's a shot from the 15th congress where Trotsky and a lot of the left opposition were voted our. Usually when you see communists in congresses holding up their membership cards its either a form of attendance taking or a form of voting. Could be either, but my money is that it's simply an attendance roll call

2w ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

I figure it'd be easier to snag one if you knew the Chinese characters for them and poked around one of their major market sites for it but I know about as much Chinese as I know Czech.

2w ago

Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 9th to February 15th, 2026 - The Return of the Special Period - COTW: Cuba

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

If you figure out where go buy some I'll absolutely order some to try

2w ago

You draw a horse (body, back legs, front legs) and you watch it run with the herd.

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Is this that anime horse game I keep hearing about?

2w ago

Are people really just now realizing Japan is functionally a one-party state?

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Ah fuck I forgot about the sports teams that one cracks me up the most every time it's brought up!

2w ago

Are people really just now realizing Japan is functionally a one-party state?

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

I think thar can be expounded more to do with the material development into modernization of both nations with regards to the fact that Japan's pursuit of rapid modernization was built off the back of the capitalist and monarchists crushing reactionary landlords in the boshin war and being able to industrialize more or less completely unhindered by their old feudal aristocracy. This rapid industrialization lead was paired hand in hand with the rapid proletarianization of the masses in addition to rapid increases to the general standard of living with international capital flooding their market with surplus commodities. This would further be supplemented by the imperial Japanese' own colonial acquisition across east Asia, including Korea, where any additional colonial industrialization was conducted for enrichment of the Japanese capitalist class with the usual table scraps for the Japanese masses to complete the circuit of colonial exploitation.

This is drawn in contrast to Korea's own history of being a feudal monarchy that was more or less completely hamstrung by its system of governance that worked hand-in-hand with the entrenched Yangban who thrived on the decentralized system of governance they organically grew through generations in addition to the entrenched system of slavery and diplomatic isolation from the then present European powers that delayed the centralization of power and push to modernization until king Gojong and the reformist cabinet could push it into reality with the reforms that they begun in 1897, a good 30 years later than Japan's own reform and modernization. The decades long cruel repressions waged by the Yangbans on the masses in conjunction to the slow yet steady influx of knowledge and education from beyond koreas borders disseminating western capitalist and socialist ideas into the minds of oppressed koreans seeking radical alternatives to their status quo. In a constant fight against the entrenched aristocracy and the peasant rebellions against them in addition to the intrigue of the aristocrats to undermine the state to further empower themselves, in addition to facing enormous pressure from external powers on all sides, the Korean state had barely 20 tumultuous years for capitalist construction and state modernization to occur before the Japanese Empire conquered them and allowed the more matured Japanese, and foreign, capital to flood in and build their own exploitative construction.

I think those intergenerational differences played pivotal roles - the other major event I think was the Korean War - in shaping the contemporary national character of both nations and why the class consciousness' of both countries are so different.

2w ago

Are people really just now realizing Japan is functionally a one-party state?

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Makes a good springboard for talking about how monopolized the economy is by talking about how "the phone company Samsung? Yeah they make cars. Baby clothes too. Yeah and windmills. Also giant boats. They also run gold courses, resorts, hotels, have advertising and marketing companies, they also make steel and run powerplants. And the offer life and health insurance. If it wasn't for the other chaebols dominating other markets in their own monopolies, you bet your bottom dollar Samsung would be also selling chips, beer, and burgers." And bouncing from that to the u.s own megacorps and how everything is an illusion of choice dominated by a corporate oligopoly.

2w ago

Are people really just now realizing Japan is functionally a one-party state?

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

I mean it doesn't help that the CPJ had been crushed in the Korean War in the 50s and had it'd entire leadership taken over by social-democratic intelligentsia in the 60s. Also probably doesn't help that nearly all of japans manufacturing industry was also off-shored to cheaper labor markets and had switched to a consumer market with the majority of the workforce being employed in soul-draining service jobs and the only employers are the zaibatsus or the artificially proped up petty bourgeois small business owners. Funny enough that's extremely similar to the situation in South Korea as well. Also the u.s but that's spread more widely so it doesn't seem as apparent.

Huh I could play that one Animaniacs song with Yako listing country names and the comparison probably still holds

2w ago

Are people really just now realizing Japan is functionally a one-party state?

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

The Republic of Korea may be an example of a capitalist dictatorship controlled by 3 companies in a trench-coat

I've made quite a few people chuckle with that comparison, I only swap 'companies' with 'chaebols' because it rolls better in the phrase I feel, and gives me an excuse to launch an impromptu lecture to anyone who doesn't know what that means.

2w ago

New book to add to the pile: "I Was a Soviet Guerilla" by Leo Heiman

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

It's a big thing in most militaries.

2w ago

New book to add to the pile: "I Was a Soviet Guerilla" by Leo Heiman

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

Uh... stock up barrel down then

2w ago

New book to add to the pile: "I Was a Soviet Guerilla" by Leo Heiman

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

When he was a Soviet partisan early in his life he was good. When he was an anti-soviet zionist later in his life he was bad.

This is dialectics in motion

2w ago

Unpopular opinion as a Persona fan: this is true

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Alaskaball [comrade/them, any] @hexbear.net 2w ago

It's more of a common observation one can make across rural regions in mixed economies around the world with regard to capitalist expansion into new markets erasing local peculiarities and subsume the formerly closed economic circuit into the wider world market and slowly erasing regional differences in favor of more profitable global cultural or economic trends.