I just watched Pluto in the last few months, one of the best Anime I’ve ever seen.

I used to love Brand New

A lot of the “communist canon” is made up of 50 - 70 page long pamphlets. Basically long enough to read in one or two sitting, and then discuss with other workers since reading circles were really popular during the early communist movement.

Glad you found it! Makes me wanna carry some copies around with me to put into little libraries!

A few pamphlets I’d recommend would be Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, which is about Historical Materialism, Wage Labor and Capital which is a brief primer on Marxist economics, and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon which is about the ascention of Louis Napoleon in France and incidentally contains about half of Marx’s most famous quotes. It also describes conditions where the liberal democracy that was won decades earlier started backsliding into authoritarianism and semi-feudal social relations, and echoes many of our current conditions.

Awesome, why did you decide to read it?

That charlie kirk big boy mask is amazing

Charmless really tightens up perfect parry windows! Haven’t tried it with demon bell, might be just the little push I’ll need to get through the immortal journey

One of the central themes of Sekiro is, “nothing else matters except claiming victory” and still some soulsborne players are like “you’re not a real player unless” insert whatever garbage challenge that is only achievable by cheesing every boss

By the time I learned there was DoH cheese I was doing like NG+5 charmless run

This is the most star trek fan debate of all time

You either die a legend or live long enough to release a Christmas album

FtM

I found it easier to start with something considered medium difficulty, because “easy” languages abstract away a lot of problems of programming. So when certain problems arise, its hard to understand what is happening behind the scenes.

If you want to build something, python is great. If you wanna learn programming, it might be confusing.

You’re right, you didn’t say exactly those words, and my argument “by your logic” is cheap and pedantic.

Thanks for the lively discussion, I learned something useful

If I’m supporting Platner, by advocating voting against Collins, by your own logic, you are supporting Collins. I know you aren’t supporting her in your heart, but I’m not supporting Platner in mine. I want her out, I wanna change the situation.

By refusing to even entertain the idea of a vote for Platner, then the material effect of not voting for Platner, of opposing a vote for him, is to allow the incumbent Susan Collins to remain in her seat.

Social conditions are deeply contradictory. If you tell people not to vote and people listen, Collins wins. If you tell people not to vote for Platner and people listen, Collins wins. There is no room for objective morality in Materialism. We have to accept imperfect action and imperfect consequences.

Its the same as democrats who condemn people who refused to vote for Kamala as Trump supporters. We either come to an understanding that there is more going on than this or that objectively moral outcome, or I am supporting a Nazi and you are supporting a far right status quo republican incumbent.

I can accept that you probably would say “don’t vote” on a moral basis, I can see how this election is divisive, perhaps by design, but I’m not arguing with you, you are arguing with me. I can say “hey maybe people should vote for Platner and get Collins out,” but your response is that I’m advocating for people to vote for a Nazi. Meanwhile, you haven’t even tried to convince me that he actually is one, or lay out a scenario where a vote for him is actually worse than a vote for Collins.

You aren’t trying to be objective, and I think about politics objectively, up to a certain degree. So if my appeal to vote against Collins means I’m supporting voting for Platner, which is what you are asserting, then your non vote, or vote against Platner means you are supporting voting for Collins. I believe there are different ways to look at this, but everything that you say supports exactly this campist framing.

When there are two opposing sides, support for one is against the other. So maybe instead of saying “vote for Platner” I should say “vote against Collins”.

I’m not pro-Platner, I’m anti Collins.

Do whatever you want, the stakes could not be lower. I’m tired of this campist framing, I dont care about Platner and I dont live in Maine. I was trying to point out that there might be a tactical move in there thats worth considering, but whatever.

I’m not telling you to vote for a Nazi, I’m just trying to have a normal discussion about politics, and tactics.

All I asked for is a sane, tactical reason not to vote for him, just a normal reaction. If Platner is a Nazi then the race is between two far right maniacs, so what’s the difference between them? What’s wrong with having an opinion that prefers one over the other of they are both equally bad?

That’s USAmerican gusto, “getting back on the horse $97M fighter jet”

To be fair if you put me in one, I would also crash as many as possible

Its ironic how hard you’re defending Susan Collins’s senate seat

I’m not a progressive party though, I’m just some moron online. I dont consider checking a box a actual work that progressives should do. I would not advocate an endorsement or knocking doors or doing propaganda.

Maybe you think voting is the be all end all. I do not. Maybe you think individual votes are the same as party support. I do not. The senate is a fundamentally undemocratic institution and its probably a waste of time to run as a socialist for Senate.

But voting is just checking a box, and we let the undemocratic political machine do what it does, nothing more.

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I’m not advocating for progressive groups supporting him at all!

I’m saying that maybe people in Maine should check a box for him.

If he is a Nazi that could also work out for progressives as a propaganda point (you are certainly wearing the tread out on it) and help sell the idea of party discipline for the masses, another win for socialist politics, and another loss for Democratic party, since socialists tend to like the idea of party discipline

Fetterman hurts the Democratic party in the eyes of progressives. That is good for socialists who want to split the dems and create a legitimate alternative to the Democratic party.

There are numerous examples of a left challenger overturning shitty Democrats. AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Marie Newman, Abdelnasser Rashid, and Chris Rabb are all examples of progressives taking a win off of moderate Democratic incumbents. While many of these examples are far from perfect, they prove a trend of replacing shitty moderates with progressives.

Its also not a foregone conclusion that he will vote in lockstep with republicans 100% of the time, and if he does then a more progressive candidate could primary him. The only instance where you might be correct would be if he becomes a literal Fetterman, and even though I tend to agree that is a very strong possibility, you can’t prove that and there is little real indication that is the case. Its far more likely he is an idiot than it is he is a Nazi. He would have covered the tattoo if he was a Nazi trying to infiltrate progressive politics. Its far more likely he is going to be a moderate than a ringer for the extreme right. But I wouldn’t rule it out.

You dont have to agree with me! But stop lying about what I’m arguing.

Edited a rude first comment that I wrote out of frustration