Valbrandur

“A man’s ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit [of selflessness], he is already noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people.”

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  • Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. I think China is a socialist country, and Vietnam is a socialist nation as well. And they insist that they have introduced all the necessary reforms in order to motivate national development and to continue seeking the objectives of socialism.

    • Fidel Castro

    If someone is interested in what the Cubans’ opinion is on certain questions, he should ask the [North] Koreans. And if someone asks what [North] Korea’s standpoint may be in certain cases, he can safely ask the Cubans about that. Our views are completely identical in everything.

    • Raul Castro

    I believe Stalin made big mistakes but also showed great wisdom.

    • Fidel Castro (again)



  • ValbrandurOPtoPeople's CourtEstablishing a minimum age to join Lemmygrad
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    29 days ago

    4chan and the Vaush subreddit are cesspits with no age requirement

    I don’t know about the voosh subreddit but 4chan has a +18 age requirement and outing yourself as a minor will get you banned. This post’s inspiration was partly on realizing that this site doesn’t have a measure that a place as godforsaken as 4chan does get right.

    I would argue that the elimination of third spaces, and the inability to go anywhere unless you have a car is the entire reason behind why GenZ focused on the internet so much, there’s quite literally little else to do.

    This is almost if not exclusively an American problem. It could serve as an excuse for the US, but my org is constantly promoting healthy forms of leisure for the youth because we have plenty of activities to do around yet we still have kids on their PCs who don’t leave their rooms unless necessary. There has to be more than that to it.



  • The problem is not if a 14yo can or not behave, I bet most can. The problem is what they risk being exposed to here, which between the frequent trolls who come here simply because we are MLs and the fact that most of us are adults (or close to being one) and behave as such with each other, this may not be the best place for them to be around.




  • Because I definitely haven’t seen any of the last one, any ultras who tried would get clowned on fast. Can’t recall having seen much of the first and I think we had one episode around the psychiatry thing a while but I think that was resolved reasonably eventually.

    Themes of anti-psychiatry have resurfaced once or twice after Amicese’s ban. I have had some maoist revive a dead thread of mine to tell me about how the Shining Path was cool actually and never boiled any babies. The first one doesn’t exist afaik, which is a source of shame for us as a left wing space with meme communities. Overall this post contains some things written humorously so don’t take it all literally, but the main point still stands.

    That said there is zero way to enforce this. Kids lie about their age online all the time.

    Of course. I do not expect it to put a stop on all people who are too young to be here from being here, but nonetheless it would help at getting rid of some if not most.

    As to admins determining, unless someone is really acting like a pre-teen I don’t see any way for admins to know whether someone’s just being immature

    This measure is mostly aimed at those “unless” people.

    Admins already have power to act to remove those from lemmygrad who are disruptive

    I do not think we should let kids who are 14 be around here regardless of if they are or not disruptive, which would be a hole in your proposal.