Lmao I literally came here to make this comment

But you have seen it.

Have you located a suitable product-human hybrid of your choice, unit #1406192244?

But without capitalism we would have nobody to put in gulags and that would be boring.

Maybe it was made to appeal to the same mainstream demographic that could otherwise buy into Kurzgesagt proposed solution of “Vote²” and not the diamat-savvy tankies watching it from our bunkers. At least I would be able to share this video to two people whose brains would short circuit to dismissal if it talked about a more heads-off hands-on approach to making it happen.

I was more joking about how social relationships built around game modding surpass capitalism at first yet very often get corrupted and dragged back by private ownership, both that which modders bring with them (a.k.a. drama) and ones tangled with some platform rights (like Bethesda’s paid mods and this CF bullshit).

Though hey, people say modrinth can filter by both game version AND mod loader. Crazy features in open-source competition.

Though I’ve stopped playing MC for now too. I feel like I can’t break away from the very same progression line in modpacks, and in vanilla there’s only so much new stuff I can experience. Sticking to my 6 years old pirated Sims 3 save currently, but I’ll probably do a more Botania+Create+Ars Nouveau focused playthrough some time later.

Sounds like perfect day to learn vanilla

Liberal news reality ofc

While being poor I had a lot of fun from games. It’s called piracy. And once I stopped being poor, I largely stopped pirating. I have no hesitation torrenting The Sims or The Witcher (since CDPR refuses to take my stinky Belarusian money), but I see no problem paying for anything else if it’s sufficiently convenient. And even when I didn’t have time or just wanted quick fun, there was a way to do so. It was known as “cheats”.

“Free to play” incentivizes a certain game design where a game is so terrible you want cheat codes, and then selling those cheat codes to the player. Additionally, it preys the most not on the people who have money to burn but on neurodivergent folks predisposed to addictive behaviors (like I am but thankfully I dodged the worst of it and learned to just never touch the stuff at all). Hell, that’s why the game is not sold — the point is to probe the market for vulnerable people with the free first dose. This is immoral, predatory behavior, and while nobody would argue that a developer needs money, it’s this particular way the developer skills are used to make said money, and from whom, that people rightfully find repulsive.

Pro tip: put a hammer and a sickle onto your flag so it’s easy to tell if it’s upside down :)

Can confirm anecdotally, my mother and my uncle both have several shelves full of books bought during late USSR times.

Damn that gotta be the second hardest blow to the international communism after Khrushchev.

It only takes 10% of workers to initiate a Fair Pay Agreement in an industry.

Don’t like the sound of your pay and work conditions being taken out of your hands?

Then join them for fuck’s sake. Your boss is only hiring you because he gets more in profits than spends in your salary. The more of you are squeezing them capitalist pigs, the more coin you get to take back for yourself. Why tf are you still here?

Aye, thanks for advice and support, comrade.

Business generates work that someone should do

Okay so let’s just kill all businesses and then there won’t be any work left?

I actually work out 4 days alternating muscle groups (today it’s the core + legs) and then rest for a day, so I was wondering if I’m not actually overdoing it. Trying to get a bit more muscle and generally stronger and flexible since I’ve neglected myself in past years almost completely, and even got back to obesity levels during pandemic.

It actually refers to a certain political ideology and party by Alexander Dugin and Eduard Limonov that popped up and existed on fringes of Russian political sphere after the collapse of USSR. The shortest and very shallow tl;dr is it’s a form of fascism where you glorify USSR and take the liberal fakes about Stalin at face value but say that it was good.

BTW I was meaning to ask, do you work out every day? Is it a good idea to?

And my major gripe with CPRF is that has over and over failed to do anything that would notably improve the standing of working class in Russia and it’s totally fine with being a springboard to power for the class enemy while higher officials spreading right-wing-ish idealism raking in millions of rubles yearly to personal account. While I’m not advocating for “throwing the whole party away”, and I would want to point again that many of lower ranking members are actual MLs and at some earnestly try to use the parliamentary system and the deputy rights for the social benefit and not the personal, I don’t see them being a party of proletariat in their current form — which too is subject to change based on material conditions.

Ok, what happened is that I looked for sources describing events as I remember it since I don’t store the links regarding every single news piece, and it happened that this site provided an outline that seemed decent at a glance. I’ve replaced it with the statement on CPRF official site now as they describe the same events making the same point, though I would have to go through dozen of articles to give an equally decent outline which I won’t.

And yeah, I do think US, EU and Russia all have state political repression, and none of them is “democratic and free”. I’m concerned particularly about Russia starting to openly attack labor organizers and fledging communists in past years.

But also, I don’t enjoy communicating with you, and at this point I’m happy to resign to history having to prove one of us wrong.