He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member 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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41·2 days ago“Spokesperson of organization whose sole purpose is saying ‘China Bad’ says ‘China Bad’.”
These so-called “journalists” could save themselves some time if they just wrote one article and reposted it every time someone who only has a job because of anti-Chinese government carveouts said something silly in front of a committee somewhere.
The colors here made it look like a greentext at first
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Green was the only one I was fully confident in
I recognized Toto, Wham, and Devo but had never heard of the band “Asia” so I was sort of picking random words to complete the quartet. Never heard of that particular planet mnemonic and “Skirt” and “Flank” had me going down a red herring thinking yellow was about meat (“Mother” is sometimes used for pieces of meat used to incubate good bacteria in a dry ager)
Why is she a baddie
14·9 days agoTrue, it’s scary when technology designed by a People’s government to maintain public order is instead used by bourgeoise imperialists to maintain systems of oppression.
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Never heard of “Flip” being used in that context, maybe “Flippant”
Reminder that Globe and Mail is just the Canadian flavor of the Telegraph or the Hill. Right-wing slop that is one step better than the tabloids
5·12 days agoMe
17·12 days agoThis is what Indie trrpg designers actually believe
The primary reason for the Labor Aristocracy’s existence is not access to advanced goods and services, but being “bought into” the system through limited property ownership and personal participation in Empire or, on the other hand, manufactured precarity.
Some examples of these:
Suburban home ownership
Car ownership
Loans for the above
401k’s instead of pensions
Having a job in weapons manufacturing, defense and security technology, being a cop or a soldier, having family who are cops or soldiers.
Having a job in the oil and polymer industries (refinery, plastics, pharmaceuticals), or any industry upstream or downstream from oil (car manufacturing, steelworking; road construction, transportation, medicine).
The American ruling class has designed an economy where nearly all economic activity is in service to the empire, which, again, has workers “Bought into” the system. You are unlikely to oppose war and empire if your job depends on the petrodollar, you’re making weapons of some sort (guns, vehicles, uniforms, technology) to benefit the military, your retirement portfolio depends on the strength of the American economy, your home and car will be repossessed if you quit your job, and most of your neighbors are in the same boat.
And it’s no surprise that the few industries that are not inherently reactionary (such as, to some extent, agriculture) are the ones that end up being underpayed and exploitative, and are worked primarily by America’s internal subjects: immigrants, Blacks, children, drug users, and the mentally ill.
If there is hope, it is in that Capitalism always has a need for higher profits and greater exploitation, and over time Empire will turn itself inwards and exploit those who were previously accomplices.
17·12 days agoAnd when it comes to actual material productive industries, I always say we have two: killing people and burning oil.
Automobiles? Burning oil
Aviation? Mostly military planes, so both
Polymers and petrochemicals? Burning oil
Weapons manufacturing? Killing people
Construction? Ultimately, since the roads and bridges are all car-focused, burning oil.
Steel? Seems good at first, but it’s ultimately going to be turned into a car (burning oil) or a weapon (killing people).
The cherry on top is that, because of climate change, all of the “burning oil” bits are also secretly killing people.
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Guessed wrong on Green because I thought it was “Wide ___”. Wide angle, wide stance, wide position. I only got “Take” by process of elimination.
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I think it’s meant in the way of “Shed light”
1·14 days agoRemoved by mod
One of these things is not like the others
2·21 days agoI always leave all my doors open. I have a cat and she likes to walk around. Also if I leave the blinds open on the front windows there’s technically a direct line of sight from the front walkway to my bathroom toilet through like two open doors so if someone really wanted to they could watch me poop
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Would have done a little better, didn’t know Sherlock Holmes played the violin!
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Should have got Purple - never would have got Blue.
Loved the red herring this game!