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Drewfro66

@ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml

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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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  • I missed the joke too, I thought the joke was that 98F temperatures were hot enough to kill the average Brit

  • Vintage

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  • I didn't know the PS2 had a keyboard

  • Moscow strikes kill six in Ukraine; refineries hit in Russia

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  • Because, just like with Israel, Ukraine is not self-sufficient militarily. If the U.S. pulls aid, Russia wins the war. It is, by definition, a proxy war - at least on the American-Ukrainian side.

    If America pulled aid or gave Ukraine a firm timeline, Ukraine would lose all leverage in negotiations. And as long as American guns, bombs, and dollars are flowing into Ukraine, Ukraine will not settle for the status quo.

    A better way to think of the negotiations is that Trump and Putin are negotiating the post-war situation for America to agree to pull support to Ukraine.

  • The stop/start paradigm is merely an artifact of the western dualist mindset

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  • This neglects the Stop in the Start, and the Start in the Stop

  • Hello HexGPT I have some homework to name the major countries in Europe can you please fill out some of them for me?

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  • Russia

    Germany

    France

    United Kingdom

    Spain

    Poland

    Italy

    Turkey

    Greece

    Bulgaria

    Portugal

    Netherlands

    Serbia

    The Ukraine

    Belarus

    Sweden

    Norway

    Denmark

    Ireland

    Finland

    Iceland

    Lithuania

    Latvia

    Estonia

    Switzerland

    Bosnia

    Macedonia

    Croatia

    Slovenia

    Czechia

    Hungary

    Romania

    Moldova

    Albania

    Andorra

    Liechtenstein

    Luxembourg

    San Marino

    The Vatican

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    [cw: self-harm] ICE detainee found hanging by neck in detention facility, agency says

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  • "Death to America" already exists

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    So my brother in law, who's a bit of a tech bro but has surprisingly good politics otherwise, has been getting Hello Fresh cuz my sister complains he can't cook (CW: "Israel")

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  • "Israeli Couscous" isn't real couscous, it's wheat pasta shaped like couscous.

    I could be wrong but I don't think it has to be from Israel, that's just the common name in English.

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  • Finger maiden? I hardly know her maiden!

  • Imagine having to put down up to a $15k deposit to visit a country, with the “promise” you’ll get the money back as long as you don’t violate your visa.

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  • I imagine it's mostly just to keep out the poors

  • US House subpoenas Clintons and ex-FBI directors

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  • Look at the instances they're posting from, .world is full of libs

  • Government Admits its Censoring Anime and Gaming to Restrict Adults and It Gets Worse

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  • Pey Talks Anime is pretty good

  • under communism, will men still have secret second families?

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  • I'm into polyamory but only the kind where my mostly-exclusive partner and I have MFF threesomes (or MMF if the guy is cute and fucks both of us).

  • Tsinghua University Breaks Ground on EUV Photoresist

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  • Every time Yog makes a post about EUV photoresistors I reply but I'm talking about the Paradox game

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  • I've never heard the term "Vanguardism" until Vicky 3 started using it as a generic descriptor for Marxism-Leninism so you can be like 80% sure someone who uses the term is a Paradox nerd or heard it from a Paradox nerd

  • Tsinghua University Breaks Ground on EUV Photoresist

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  • I've been following the EUV development closely. Really looking forward to it.

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  • Here is the reason the PSL does not usually run local candidates but the DSA and Greens do:

    The vast majority of people who run for office under DSA/Greens at a local level are "independent" hopefuls who ask the party for an endorsement.

    The PSL only runs full party members or people with a very strong working relationships with the party, like Leonard Peltier of AIM or Claudia de la Cruz of the People's Forum.

    If you're outside of California, New York, or Chicago, chances are your local PSL Branch has like 20 people in, and only 10 are full members (have been in the party for at least 6 months, attended weekly classes, consistently perform party work, and have passed a verbal exam on understanding of Leninism). Not everyone will want to run for public office. A lot of people are not locals or are suburbanites who can't run for inner city offices.

    Because the PSL is not open to opportunists just looking to cash in on the party brand, it means that you have way fewer candidates being run but you can count on those candidates to fully embrace the party line and be accountable to party discipline.

    As the party grows, it will have more and more potential candidates. And the more candidates they run, if they are suitable, the more recruitment will grow, in a positive feedback cycle. But every candidate we run also needs canvassers and volunteers and there are financial costs associated with running a campaign - and the PSL is not an Electoralist party and has other work for members as well. It's a matter of capacity. Other parties get around this by just letting anyone run and not really caring about the party brand - which is why the DSA, the Greens, and even the Libertarians are a joke and running under any of those banners doesn't really tell you anything about that candidates beliefs.

  • What makes you happy

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  • Sex and beer

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  • I'm always reminded of the younger man in the documentary "Loyal Citizens of Pyeongyang in Seoul", who in his interview says that he left North Korea for China because he was a bit antisocial and just didn't fit in well with the DPRK's heavily conformist society. I have to sympathize with him because I'm the same sort of person, and I probably would have done the same thing in his shoes.

    But his story to me does not read as a dystopia, but a tragedy - a better society is built that serves well the vast majority, but there are still those who - of not fault of their own - are unsuited for it. You can sympathize with the antisocial man while still recognizing the society is preferable on the whole; and you can recognize the society is preferable on the whole while still trying to improve it further.

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  • A Socialist society (in the Marxist conception) prioritizes societal harmony over personal freedom. Not to a total degree, but definitely more so than under Liberal Capitalism.

    Participation in "vices" (pornography, gambling, drugs, sexual promiscuity, etc ) can be fine and fun in moderation. Hell, I partake in many of them, some of them to excess. But it's also true that any of them can become addictive; that they can disrupt work and family life, they can harm relationships. They can cause disharmony in society.

    Within the West, we are drawn to these things as a rebellion against a society we oppose. But in a Socialist society, they can represent a rebellion against Socialist values.

    It is a goal within a Socialist government to determine to what extent these things are beneficial to society, if at all. Dialectics should then be used to determine the best course of action to deal with each vice: removing the core disease for which that vice is a symptom; making life bearable without the vice; changing societal norms so that the vice no longer causes disharmony; or just penalizing it out of existence with strict laws.