Eliminate self, become the internet.
It's the 28th and I can't afford rent! I work a 40 hour a week job! I'm thinking of selling my plasma! Woohoo!
That's why we fight. Height reduction surgery will be free (and compulsory) under socialism, after all.
I'm jk. I have a friend who's almost 6'10". At that height, it feels like the world was made for short people alone.
It's ok. You're a height traitor in my book.
It was almost clever using "control" so many times in your statement, but it made your commend kind of hard to read. I have no idea what you're saying.
How is it that there is no question of, in your assessment of authoritarianism, how the controllers wound up in control? What class they represent? The median net wealth of every congressperson? How many of the controlled get fucking murdered by the controllers daily?
Scientific socialism is winning. Whatever you're supporting is half-baked at best, especially if you're still using words like authoritarian seriously.
That, or...
The title reads like a very polite own.
Otherwise, depends on your circumstances. Do your nationally syndicated news media propagate right-wing or left-wing ideology writ large? Do your nation's school systems instill senses of nationalism and xenophobia into its youth? Does your country's leadership more fervently and regularly repress one side or the other?
It is easier to be a fascist in a fascist state. It is easier to be a liberal in a liberal one, and a socialist in a socialist one. Half the battle has already been won at that point. There is comfort to belief in the system one lives under, a comfort that has the potential to breed ignorance or intellectual laziness.
My own experience shows that most people are more -- I hate to use the word, naturally inclined towards sympathizing with a left-wing perspective when the correct words are used.
Explain "real socialism" to me, please.
5'7" gang gang
strangers genuinely think I'm 16 - 19 years old. Due to a combo of factors, but... haha. These early-onset crows' feet and receding hairline tell a different story.
Why does there "need to be" war at all?
Instead of the Russian government, I believe this question should have been pondered harder by the Ukrainian state starting in 2014. They've been given about a hundred different outs in the past 8 years alone.
One party to this conflict has been murdering civilians en masse after repeated generous peace offers. It is not Russia.
MANLETS RISE UP
SHORT MEN HAVE SPEARHEADED THE VANGUARD OF THE WORKING CLASS FOR TIME IMMEMORIAL
REVOLUTIONARY MANLETS
FRIEDRICH ENGELS: 5'6"
COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY LANKLETS
POL POT: 5'9"
ADOLF HITLER: 5'9"
LEON TROTSKY: 5'9"
ALL COUNTER-HISTORIES OF TALL REVOLUTIONARIES AND/OR SHORT COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES WILL BE READILY DISMISSED AS FLUKES AND/OR REVISIONIST CAPITALIST-HEIGHTIST PROPAGANDA.
TELL ME THIS, APOLOGISTS: HOW CAN A LEADER CLAIM TO REPRESENT THE MASSES WHEN HE HAS TO LOOK DOWN ON THEM MERELY TO SPEAK TO THEM?
I rest my case.
On S4 E16, time 17:48, but I had to pause the episode to talk about this. Beware spoilers throughout.
Are you KIDDING ME? Part of a small lingering complaint I've had in my head is that they have been somewhat understandably shy about using many opaquely radical terms: communism, socialism, revolution, etc. But now we're going ham into pro-union storytelling with no shame and no relent.
How can this show keep getting exponentially based-er? They can't keep getting away with it!
Freely gift me your focus,
all usurers and thieves.
We've all some paltry grievance
with how you waste the air you breathe.
There exist spider-silken threads -
inseverably interwoven,
sewn against rock.
Amalgamates,
bonded by an unflinching,
merciless spirit of Liberty -
freezing, hungry palisades erected.
Our enviable blood engenders
the mortar, weaponized,
as we violently manifest
a more verdant future that
would never bear this lifeless grey.
Rubble deconstructed of unceasing Sins,
we dance in the form of dolomite bones,
jubilant vibrations echo, deafening -
brace yourself and suffocate
against the terrible weight of
a million bloodless stones.
I was not aware that scifi could be this good.
Only on S1 E17 ("only" as if I didn't start watching this like 3 days ago) and I'm told it only gets better. It has not disappointed me yet even with its wildest shit.
how I feel abt some of the characters
Sisko is the chad Old Guard Stalinist who makes questionable decisions at times and is a hardass boss but his intent and his impact are always in service to the people, all people.
Kira is my forever unrequited love (as she is fictional). Kira is absolutely amazing, the revolutionary who actually seized power and is now dealing with the ugly consequences of having said power. She's the forever-revolutionary and at least so far a goddamn aspirational one and a Bajoran global hero.
Julian needs to keep his libido in check. Thirsty as fuck and has some xenorientalism to work through. Incredible doctor and is devoted the cause when it makes necessary demands.
O'Brien is an absolute Stakhanovite and I love him for it. Wish I was raised by him instead of my dad.
Odo is so badass. So far he only has a fleeting understanding of his species, but at least from the perspective of some, Odo is a living relic. People tell ancient myths about changelings! He is perhaps the last of his kind (idk, s1 e17) and I think he stands as a wonderful representative of his people. The People's Constable through and through.
I hope Quark has a mindbreak and becomes a communist or he's murdered on-screen. I understand the series goes into more detail about the reasons why the Ferengi are like that... but to be completely honest, in the Star Trek universe at least, I would almost definitely be quite racist against Ferengi. Sisko didn't want Jake to hang out with Nog and I sympathized. I like that he came to his senses later that xenoracism is uncool, but Nog so far has only gotten worse and worse in his profit-before-people shit. Hope it changes.
Dax is interesting. I like the Trill lore. I'm not sure if the Curzon Dax stuff has more context in earlier iterations or not, but it hasn't hampered my enjoyment of Dax's character. Old man.
Blows my mind that this came out in 1993. It feels like communist art. Diplomacy first, always. Profiteering is disgusting and condemnable and humans should have no desire to do it, to the extent that it would be literally alien to us to fuck over others just for economic gain. The Bajoran politics are fascinating and, like I said, I love Kira and stan whatever carbombings she had to do to win independence.
Also, the Cardassians are fucking horrifying and look like animated and decaying Greco/Roman statues. I get major Rome and Amerika vibes from them, though the Ferengi are also quite Amerikan.
Can't believe I've put off Star Trek for this long. Also can't believe there was ever a freakin' debate between whether Star Trek or Star Wars is better, I'm feeling a radical difference in tone. In DS9 at least, there's rarely been le good guys and le bad guys the way there is in Star Wars especially post-Disney. I feel Star Wars also plays up the heroic fantasy to the 14th level, which is ok, but not necessarily interesting aside from visually, at least to me.
Anyway, I love this show and would like to see what people wanna say about it.
May I eat meaning eat I may
possess the will to possess a will deep within my gut well
devour before devoured
Leave my mans alone, he's obviously Argentinean