∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, null/void, des/pair, none/use name]
AuDHD cat. If you don’t know which pronoun to use, go for it/its.
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61·13 days agoI once again beg libs to actually learn about ww2.
Yes it does. Germany went to war.
3·18 days agoWhat if the government
“The government”. Am I thinking of Anna L. Strong on the disconnect between people and “government” in western countries.
Ah, my point is that you seem to think yourself distant from the government. You don’t take part in making decisions, some entity (“government”) does.
Edit, yes I am, This Soviet World, “ON INTERPRETING A WORLD”
I note a remark about American unemployment: “If it gets any worse, they’ll have to do something.” Who is this ultimate, uncontrollable “they”? The term betrays the class society of which the speakers are unconscious; they are waiting for some boss to act. To hear a debate: “Is America going fascist?” and think how much less passively Soviet folk would word it. “Shall we go fascist? No. Then exactly how shall we prevent it?” Soviet folk say “we” of one-sixth of the earth’s surface. Uzbek cotton-pickers, toiling under the sun of Central Asia, say: “We are conquering the Arctic; we rescued the Chelyuskinites.” Ukrainian farmers who never went up in an airplane talk of “our stratosphere records” and “the loss of our Maxim Gorky airplane” as they take up collections to build ten new ones. But even Mrs. Roosevelt asks me: “Are Russian peasants getting more reconciled to accepting direction?” I feel the hopelessness of language as I answer: “No, they are learning better to organize and direct themselves.”
Comlib mentioned!!!
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22·24 days agoHello cat or cp or pv… Or anything else that works with files
When it looks like this
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You can still tell.
And? Bying 1 152mm artillery shell at 4000$ doesn’t automatically mean it is better than the 1000$ one, it just means you got overcharged.
As all the others have said, its about convenience, being able to check just one place for news is nice.
As for feeds. If you feel like your day is too nice, too happy, try https://reliefweb.int/ it itself is an aggregate of news from many humanitarian organizations, which means the stuff that comes in can be a bit grim and miserable.
You are already living in a class war. You are below the poverty line because of it.
42·2 months agoI think Lumelore is starting of at anti-communism, and working her way from there. It leads to some weird stuff like this.
It says that anyone could propose a candidate, and that the person elected in that specific election wasn’t part of the [Communist] Party, making it somewhat likely they weren’t a communist.
But a better question, is why is it important that they can vote for non-communists? What else should they vote for? Fascists? Liberals that wish to destroy the Soviet system and institute capitalism, thereby making the lives of the vast majority of people worse? Chapter XVII goes over this to some extent, but I of course do recommend reading the entire book.
No mention of being able to vote for non-communists
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Anybody present had the right to propose a candidate, the one who was elected was not personally a member of the Party
The people of the soviet union, at least as far as Pat Sloan experienced in ~1937, had the most limited choice: any person
I have, while working in the Soviet Union, participated in an election. I, too, had a right to vote, as I was a working member of the community, and nationality and citizenship is no bar to electoral rights. The procedure was extremely simple. A general meeting of all the workers in our organization was called by the trade union committee, candidates were discussed, and a vote was taken by show of hands. Anybody present had the right to propose a candidate, and the one who was elected was not personally a member of the Party. In considering the claims of the candidates their past activities were discussed, they themselves had to answer questions as to their qualifications, anybody could express an opinion, for or against them, and the basis of all the discussion was: What justification had the candidates to represent their comrades on the local Soviet?
As far as the elections in the villages were concerned, these took place at open village meetings, all peasants of voting age, other than those who employed labour, having the right to vote and to stand for election. As in the towns, any organization or individual could put forward candidates, anyone could ask the candidate questions, and anybody could support or oppose the candidature. It is usual for the Communist Party to put forward a candidate, trade unions and other organizations can also do so, and there is nothing to prevent the Party’s candidate from not being elected, if he has not sufficient prestige among the voters.
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The name actually came from British communists that supported the USSR sending tanks into Hungary in '56.
Horrendous take. Fuck off.
Equal condemnation for unequal sin minimizes the greater and exaggerates the lesser. That ceases to be an answer and becomes a cover for genocidal fascists against a national liberation movement.
Both of these countries are settler-colonies, what the Nazis called lebensraum, the US called manifest destiny.