I think it’s important to listen to both sides. I’m team boki.

Is this an mmo that you can get by playing as if it’s a single player game or does it really depend on the community? Never played before but I like the art style!

@cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml gave an excellent reply so rather than reiterate what they said, I recommend their comment to understand why you can’t just pop off capitalists and expect change.

Really truly, although it might feel counterproductive the best way forward is to sit down and read.

There’s a really good reading guide in the sidebar of this community, and Cowbee has their own here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6218252

I recommend reading through them, because they will cover everything you’re thinking about.

As a quick answer, though:

For those of us living in the USA discussing theory won’t change anything.

Marx himself said “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” and virtually everyone here will agree. However, if you don’t understand the theory then how on Earth can you challenge capitalism? You will be doomed if you do not understand how to apply dialectical materialism to your own country. Marxism isn’t a dogma, that’s why theory is so important.

How should we unite all of the different leftists under one leader so that there can be a united opposition.

You will never get everyone to agree fully, but you can get most people on board by talking about the problems and showing how Marxism can be a solution. If you want to unite people, go spread the word.

Currently we need far more comrades like Luigi to remove the bourgeoisie with violence.

Randomly popping off a capitalist doesn’t actually fix anything you know? They’re just replaced by another capitalist. The system itself needs to be removed. That can only happen when the working class achieves sufficient class consciousness.

I will preface this by saying I am a novice and only started reading theory a few weeks ago and could be way off, but this is my current understanding.

I read Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds, and two quotes stood out to me:

What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party’s full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power.

Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content. It propagates a “New Order” while serving the same old moneyed interests. Its leaders are not guilty of confusion but of deception. That they work hard to mislead the public does not mean they themselves are misled.

As I am British, I have been applying these ideas to the UK. It aligned perfectly with Reform.

'cause the thing is, fascists, more often than not, do actually see and talk about real problems, but then they misplace the blame to further their own interests. See the short snippets from this BBC Question Time where the Green party leader Polanski replies to Zia Yusuf, a higher up of the fascist Reform party: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/10/10/zack-polanski-bbcqt/

The capitalist Tory government spent the last decade and a half gutting public services in the name of private profits, but instead of blaming current problems on that, Reform blame immigrants because they have no interest in fixing the problem, they just want to be the one to profit from it.

TLDR: The same factors that drove you to communism drives fascists too, the difference is communists want solutions but fascists want to profit from the problems.

In the UK we call them gammons, because their puffy red faces resemble gammon (ham).

Interesting how they’re all food related!

I don’t think that’s fair. Were the civil rights sit ins of the 60s liberal slacktivism? The non aggression makes the violent retaliation all the more stark. Sitting down and dressing like a frog aren’t a million miles apart in that regard. They’re both proving they’re not a threat and trying to highlight the violent response they’re receiving. Being dragged out of libraries, being tear gassed through a vent.

At least they’re trying to do something.

Do hotdogs and fish fingers confuse you, or are you perfectly capable of understanding hotdogs aren’t made of dog and fish don’t have fingers?

I absolutely understand where you’re coming from, but one upside to it is it makes it harder for the right to frame these protests as “look at these ruthless, aggressive leftists!” when there’s a dude dressed like a frog frolicking about.

On the other hand it does undermine the seriousness of the protest too so it’s a double edged sword.

LPT: cover the bottom of your bathtub or shower with gravel, so when you shower the combination of soap runoff and physical abrasion cleans your feet.

If you haven’t got gravel, you can also use kidney stones. Ask your local hospital today!

Coconut milk has been called milk since forever and nobody’s surprised a cow wasn’t involved.

This only became an issue when alternatives to meat and dairy got popular because these restrictions on naming has nothing to do with clarity and everything to do with mega farm owners wanting to crush the opposition to their racket. They don’t want to replace “oat milk” with “oat enhanced water” because they care about you, they do it because they hate competition.

I was struggling to see it at first so I tried to make it clearer, if this helps anyone:

Personally I see value in these sorts of policies not because I actually want it, but because it highlights the present hypocrisy and gets people thinking about what it means. Policies like this could indeed get people demanding the law change.

One time I was driving home from the airport with my wife, it was late, maybe 1am.

We are in the middle of nowhere, turning right at a junction. There were no houses, we were surrounded by fields. It was super quiet. Off in the distance, sort of behind us and to the right (so drivers side window) I could hear … Bells. Distant ringing bells, not big booming ones like a church bell but like small hand bells or a wind chime. Didn’t think much of it and kept driving.

Several miles later, about fifteen minutes of driving I’d say, we were coming up to another junction also in the middle of fields. I stopped to look both ways, and to my surprise I heard bells again. This time I switched off the engine so my wife could hear them too, which she did. Nobody else was around and we were far away from where I first heard them. Were we being followed by bells?

My wife was a bit freaked out, so she made me drive off instead of investigating. To this day I have no idea what it was. If the car was making the noise, well it had never made them before or since. We’ve also driven that road a few times again and never heard them.

My mostly-joking theory is fairies were trying to lure us into a trap. I don’t know what else it could’ve been!

What most people call the “Redditor mindset” is sadly alive and well here too. People are especially selfish online, I guess he already got what he needed out of telling you he’d donate - the feeling of being an important person. Following through was irrelevant after that.

Don’t forget the time they sent some signage to a Welsh translator, and they put up a sign with his out of office message thinking it was the translation…

Well the British thing to do would be to steal Palestinian land for ourselves, so I’m good with being un-British on this one thanks

Wow you weren’t kidding it really is just a shitty looking 3d clone of vampire survivors

No and I think I need to step up my game on it. When I first started reading theory I was doing it on my computer, and if something jumped out at me I’d paste it into a big doc I have of quotes, and then write a little something to accompany it.

But reading from a computer screen felt limiting, I couldn’t do it for long, so I’ve since switched to physical books. I don’t record quotes or thoughts because I’m usually reading away from my pc, like the living room sofa, and I don’t like making notes on my phone. I ought to get a physical notebook and keep that on me!

The last week of news has made me so angry. The UK going even more authoritarian on the right to protest, the treatment of the activists Israel illegally detained, the brownshirts of America waging war against civilians.

I wish I could do more but I am also really struggling to find a group in the UK with their shit together.

It has really been infuriating to witness and feel so powerless!