ALL LIVING THINGS!!

Alternatively, you can accept the lunch date and then punch them when they get there.

Well, first of all, you seem to be the outlier, in my experience.

I have made accounts on all three of those lemmy instances and have been instantly banned from them for trying to have a conversation like we’re having right now.

Hexbear called me a “wrecker” and the others said I was a shitlib. Their patience is non-existent and their paranoia has become their personality. And it’s really off-putting to those of us who would like to actually discuss this stuff like adults.

Yes, we may call you guys “tankies” but surely you must have thicker skin than that, right?

Meh. What are they gonna do? Fire me?

So, in reading Socialism Developed China, I came across this paragraph:

China, as we already established, was not a developed market economy after Mao came to power. In fact, neither was Russia when the Bolsheviks came to power. This was a problem which Lenin had recognized and sought to find a solution to. The solution he proposed was his New Economic Policy. This would be a brief “state-capitalist” transition period in order to develop the economy enough in order for the transition to socialism to be possible.

Given that, why wouldn’t American leftists (if they existed) want to participate in electoral politics that can transition us to socialism? Since we are already a developed market economy, it should be just a matter of re-alignment of the cultural priorities in order to produce that change.

The path to socialism is not just through violent revolution.

Yet American leftists seem to be either nihilistic and cynical, or hell-bent on violent revolution being the only way to socialism.

A violent revolution in America would inevitably fail without buy-in from the public at large.

Buy-in from the public at large will only come through education and indoctrination and by changing minds. But American leftists seem to want to isolate themselves into exclusive online enclaves like Hexbear and Lemmygrad and reddit’s “socialist” subreddits, who ban anyone who wants or needs to learn.

Why are leftists so anti-evangelical (for lack of a better term)? Why don’t leftists want to recruit?

Thanks. I’ll read that one then. I’ve read parts of State and Revolution but never the whole thing in one sitting.

LOL… my work network blocks that site. To be expected, I suppose.

Are there any modern texts that aren’t written by people who lived in completely different circumstances with completely different technology, and who aren’t currently dead?

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I do.

No, I mean “Hamas is coming”…

Yup

Also, LVCRFT is a fantastic group that makes Halloween pop songs.

It’s worth it. Such a great show.

Also there’s an Addams Family channel on Pluto.tv that plays nonstop Addams Family episodes from the 60’s. It was a fantastic silly show. Love watching it with my kids.

Are you not aware that the specific protestors she was responding to were actually flying Hamas flag and spray painting pro-Hamas messages on statues and things. It was bad.

Don’t let Lemmygrad see this article. They’ll ban the European Parliament.

I agree with her there. Hamas is a terrorist organization and they are pieces of shit too. They’re no longer “freedom fighters” as soon as they are killing unarmed women and children.

True. It’s all related to capitalism. But the campaign money is the real thing that keeps politicians (some of whom actually do care about doing the right thing), from doing the right thing.

You’re probably right. But Venetian blinds don’t roll/flip like that.