RollaD20 [comrade/them, any] @ RollaD20 @hexbear.net

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Almost as cool as comrade Semen Hitler

I'm a simple person. All I want is a massive fluffy fire dog to cuddle that will incinerate my enemies.

The small crowd gathering to back him up made me tear up a bit tbh

“Look, I mean, this is a guy who wants to take us back,” Biden said of Trump. “He wants to take us back on Roe v. Wade, he wants to take us back on a whole range of issues that are – 50, 60 years, they’ve been solid American positions.”

Such a laughably simple take it doesn't warrant a response.

100% i'm used to all the shit the other tendencies gets but i have no clue how someone who believes themselves to be on the left could possibly hate Uncle Ho.

La Roche-Posay Lipikar Triple Repair Moisturizer once or twice a day, especially after a showering using a gentle cleanser helps mine a lot, but I have to stay on top of it. Shit sucks.

Progressives should not make the same mistake that Ernst Thälmann made in 1932. The leader of the German Communist Party, Thälmann saw mainstream liberals as his enemies, and so the center and left never joined forces against the Nazis.

Why did he see mainstream liberals as his enemy?

Why did he see liberals as his enemy, motherfucker!?!?

And everyone is free to fight you in court and sue the shit out of you if they find a flaw in your design.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

Wonder how wealth plays into the material reality of going to court.

How many of those lawsuits against eminent domain in the USA were successful btw?

Yeah, that's mostly what I remember from history textbooks at school, plus some stuff I observed from living in a relatively small town in Russia, plus some of my family history and talking with older folks who actually lived in USSR.

Crazy thing about anecdotal evidence is that I can have some too that literally directly discredits yours having known some oldheads of my own. So whose internet anecdote friend wins out lmao.

The number's cool and everything, the question is - how it was obtained. For example, newborn mortality and that of mothers that gave birth might've taken a huuuge toll, and then it obviously decreases when we roll out proper hygiene and vaccination.

Even if it is average and not proper accounting of the actual lifespan, if there are so many child/birthing deaths that your life expectancy is getting dragged that far down... that is sign of a deeply unhealthy society.

Was that done in the tsar Russia? Idk.

Extremely easy information to find... https://www.statista.com/statistics/1041395/life-expectancy-russia-all-time/

Also, even if Alex the Second was a bit of a liberal tsar (conditions were still terrible for most), do you know what happened under his evil-minded tyrant of a son Alexander III? Because politics are not stagnant.

No worries, I'm sure it happened. It's very human. I just love reading about weird burial sites.

basically anyone that ever got eaten by a tiger ends up buried with a tiger skull (because the group they belonged to hunted it down after it became a known threat).

That's metal as fuck, do you know where I can read more about this?

So lenin called the eponymous process outlined in his Imperialism thusly certainly to be evocative of previous imperial projects but he was outlining a contemporary system that only can really exist under capitalist economy. Some empires could be argued that they engaged in a form of "proto-imperialism" within this definition because there are certainly through lines. All that being said, this is a semantic argument that I try to avoid by making clear what type of "imperialism" I'm evoking.

I was just providing lenin's definition of imperialism in the context of the conversation because It seemed that folks were talking past one another. I believe that if you are approaching imperialism from a Leninist (or analogous) perspective it's important to have the specific definition to at least be able to cut off any confusion based on specific terminology from the get go. I also didn't listen to the podcast in context of the post for what it's worth, and I'm not really coming down too hard on any side here. I was just hoping to provide some context lol

That being said, since there is the more colloquial use of the term that most people understand as 'empire-building' which includes conquest, settling, etc., I just tend to lay out specifically If I'm talking about imperialism as understood within a capitalist framework versus imperial projects. Lenin's writings on finance/capitalist imperialism is certainly supposed to be evocative of empire building so in casual context I don't think that it matters all too much to use the term more loosely unless you are getting into the weeds regarding social imperialism or whatever else. I think it's unfortunate that lenin didn't name it neoimperialism or some other more clever portmanteau/neologism.

Imperialism: The Highest Stage Of Capitalism. Lenin 'briefly' defines imperialism as:

You are probably thinking about the foundations of leninism by stalin, specifically the chapter on the national question.

I find that with bougie surbanites its like a flip of a coin if they do or don't take off shoes. I've mostly seen it in Asian households tbh.

you get kind of used to it, but yeah I don't wear shoes in my house and never have lmao