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- Comment on Stay Mad 7 hours ago:
If by “not falling in line” you mean “actively sabotaging the working class for selfish reasons” then I suppose you have a point, but I would argue that in class war those organizations which do not support the working class are fair targets.
the will of the proletariat during the 1917 and 1918 elections
By the time the Bolsheviks were disregarding the results of elections, the People’s Soviets were the state power in the former Russian Empire, and they were a hundred times more democratic than the Duma ever was.
amassing personal power and wealth
I’m sorry comrade but the Soviets simply never did this. The benefits enjoyed by even top Party officials paled in comparison to the lavish lifestyles of the former Russian Empire’s aristocracy or those of the ruling class of any of their contemporary capitalist rivals - even fucking Stalin lived in a shared apartment!
Objectively speaking the Soviet Union was one of the most democratic and equal societies on this Earth during the time of its existence, and you can very clearly see in the data how their system equalized wealth (not “perfectly”, just “better than everyone else has ever done it”), and how the destruction of their system undid all of their progress.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 14 hours ago:
You could put the Sega CD or 32X into this meme and it would still work, the Dreamcast was just the last in a series of flops.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 14 hours ago:
The fact that nobody has done “screen in a controller” since Nintendo toyed around with a handful of Gamecube-GBA games is a crime. It was a cool ass idea that got displaced by internet lobbies before it got off the ground.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 14 hours ago:
If the Dreamcast hadn’t had the misfortune of coming out during the objectively best console generation, it would have done fine - but also, if the Sega Saturn hadn’t been such a huge flop, then maybe the Dreamcast’s failure wouldn’t have driven Sega out of the console market. Sega struck gold with the Genesis and they just couldn’t replicate it.
- Comment on Stay Mad 19 hours ago:
To push the Dems left you can either a) reward them for moving left or b) punish them for moving right. Continuing to vote for them year after year as they continually move to the right accomplishes neither of these things.
- Comment on Stay Mad 19 hours ago:
If every single incentive structure rewards the Democrats for shifting to the right, please tell me how on earth they are under any pressure at all to shift back to the left. The answer is that they’re not, and the people who believe that they’re engaging in the system and pushing it in the right direction are simply fooling themselves as they take part in the system’s unstoppable rightward movement.
- Comment on Stay Mad 19 hours ago:
We have class war waged against us by the bourgeoisie, and thousands of people are casualties of that war every single day. Expecting to turn the tide against them without getting our hands dirty in turn is useless idealism.
- Comment on Stay Mad 19 hours ago:
So you wouldn’t accept any system that’s not a direct democracy? Where every single person is involved in every single vote? It’s a coherent position I suppose, but IMO totally impractical and idealistic.
- Comment on Stay Mad 19 hours ago:
As I said in another comment, this mode of thought is completely defeatist. If you rule out the possibility of a violent uprising and look at how to change our system from within the system itself, the ONLY way to push the country left is for a dedicated bloc of people to refuse to vote for centrist Democrats for multiple elections in a row until the party center aligns with that bloc. That’s the reason why every one of the last few elections has been “the most important election in history” and all the other crap.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
but I don’t believe authoritarianism is the best way to go about it.
Humor me for a moment, which of the following do you consider authoritarian?
- asking your boss for better wages
- using the power of a union to force your boss to give your coworkers better wages
- using the power of the state to force all bosses to pay all workers better wages
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
Our election is going to work like Russia’s does
We already have sham elections, ours just pretends to have two democratic parties instead of one.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
Tankies are hypocrites who didn’t understand their self-proclaimed ideologies.
Tankies are very frequently the only people in the room who’ve done the reading. If you believe that so called “authoritarianism” is antithetical to leftism, then I recommend you read the following pamphlet by Engels.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
we can’t fix our current situation in one election.
We can never fix the current situation in one election. Fixing the American system, within the parameters set forth by that system, requires a dedicated voting bloc that lasts multiple elections refusing to vote for the Dems until they shift far enough left. As long as you are focused on the next election, your proscription for fixing American politics is just as unrealistic as a random Twitter tankie declaring a general strike.
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
I have never even heard of “no iron clothes” until now, and I haven’t ironed any of my clothes except when I absolutely had to do it because I was in the Marines.
- Comment on Ironing 5 days ago:
Hey now, some of us like to iron patches onto our jackets of things we like!
- Comment on Planetary travel guide 6 days ago:
I’m thinking Saturn is up there at S tier. Those rings are hot.
D tier is Mars. Just stupid ass-rocks.
- Comment on We cater any event! 6 days ago:
holds up spork
- Comment on Old-timey doctors 1 week ago:
go back in time
give people real medical advice
“wash your hands after working with cadavers”
get drummed out of the profession
die in an asylum
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
I can’t think of a better endorsement, tbh.