He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member of PSL NEO and UFCW local 880. ASAB (All Scolds Are Bastards). Plague rat settler. I administrate a DnD 3.5e West Marches server for Socialists called the Axe and Sickle. https://discord.gg/R5dPsZU

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  • Most cities have a bus service, but they only rarely connect to smaller towns (“smaller” being relative here, like 30,000 people).

    To put it in perspective, I live in a suburban apartment outside of a medium-sized city in Ohio. There is a single busline that goes through my neighborhood (which thankfully has a stop right outside my complex). A bus comes by once an hour between 7 AM and 7 PM.

    This can get you to work if you’re lucky enough to work a 9-5 next to a bus stop. My work has a bus stop, but I work a 4-12, so no luck.

    My favorite bar is in the next town over, a college town about 15 minutes down the road. If I wanted to get there by public transit, I would need to wait for the hourly bus outside of my apartment, get off at a grocery store, wait about a half an hour for a connecting bus from the college town’s bus service, and that’s not even counting the drive time.

    And if I don’t leave the bar by 6 PM, of course, I’m stranded without an Uber or something, because even on weekends (not that I have weekends off work) the busses only run till 7 PM.

    And there’s other towns nearby that I literally cannot take public transport to. I had to work an event in a smaller city (but still probably within the top 20 in the state for population) about half an hour drive away. There is no bus service that connects me to them. The only options are driving or Uber.






  • I agree, but -

    The thing about Age of Consent laws is that a case will never stand up in court unless the victim testifies. Even if a 50-y/o man is sleeping with a 14 y/o girl, it’s practically impossible to prove criminality unless the victim testifies in court against him (and even then, there’s a good chance that the judge will throw out the case anyways).

    I think men that are paranoid about the legality of age gaps in relationships are either (1). Worried because they are taking advantage of young girls and think they would testify in court against then given the chance, or (2). Are more worried about what their social circles would think of them than a court of law.












  • The origin of “Maoism” as it’s used today goes back to China after Mao’s death, where there was a power struggle between those who stuck closer to Mao’s teachings (Peasant Democracy and political education/activism) and the more Technocratic, economically liberal elements.

    In reality, the result was that moderates took power and did their best to appease both sides; but to the Maoists, they believe that after Mao’s death China fell to Liberal revisionism and the Gang of Four, the leaders of the Maoist movement, were exiled.

    Maoism was popularized outside of China by Peru’s Shining Path, led by Chairman Gonzalo.