Bnova [he/him]

Nope. But I view increasing the votes for PSL to be worth my minimal effort.

Claudia de la Cruz. She isn’t complicit in genocide, which is a plus.

They’re either not voting, voting for Claudia de la Cruz, or writing in Biden/Hillary/Obama.

Why does who they vote for matter?

What would a serious conversation look like to you?

I am all for getting in the K-hole.

Can I just lay claim to random pieces of land in Africa? I mean all people came from there at one point right?

I work in ecology. The amount of times that weather or nature has plans counter to my own has been too great to count. Just gotta go with the flow and deal with the cards you have in a given moment. It doesn’t mean you can’t be upset about something, but at some point you realize that it’s not useful.

Link this whenever people tell you posting doesn’t matter.

As far as I’ve ever been aware, socialism is the use of tax dollars to provide goods or services

I’ve seen others comment but I’ll add my own two cents. You don’t know what socialism is, and that’s not a criticism of you, it’s just a fact.

What you’re describing is social democracy wherein governments allow a capitalist relationship to the means of production to exist while providing social programs and investing. Socialism and Capitalism are about the worker’s relationship to the means of production. Under capitalism Capitalists take money generated by worker’s surplus labor as profits and use these profits to create a government that will protect their power to continue stealing from their workers. Under socialism profits are not held privately but publicly, by worker’s or socialist governments that exist to redistribute the ill gotten wealth of the Capitalists.

It’s not about how many programs a government does or the taxes it collects, it’s about the workers relations to the means of production. The problem with social democracy, which Lenin pointed out over a hundred years ago in State and Revolution, is that by letting Capitalists exist they will not allow workers to take away their wealth and power democratically, they will use fascism to secure their wealth. Another problem is that these programs cannot exist for long because Capitalists are parasites and will do everything they can to privatize them and milk as much profit out of them as possible, for examples of this look at nearly every government program that exists in Europe and point to me one that works better now than it did 30 years ago before Capitalists had time to take cuts out of it, it’s a really big problem typically with healthcare programs in these countries.

Is this a bit? Or are you really doing the “Socialism is when the government does things, and the more things it does the more socialist it is.” Bit.

You’re not very smart.

That’s a new one. I’ve had people say tire but not earwax.

I haven’t brewed in forever. There used to be a brew shop I would go to that was an hour from me. They closed and now the closest place is 4 hours from me so I’ll probably have to order grains online.

Wrong. IPAs are delicious and you’re not allowed to leave the dinner table until you finish yours.

I got into an argument with a guy on Reddit because he kept insisting that Taiwan was a sovereign nation and I kept telling him that Taiwan does not view Taiwan as a sovereign nation. At one point he asked me if we sold weapons to China and when I said definitionally yes he lost his shit.

Exactly why I’ve been phone banking for Hilary since 2016. We will overcome. ✊

You should check out Vincent Bevins’ book The Jakarta Method. He covers the genocide of leftists in Indonesia but throughout it talks to people who’ve been victims of the Jakarta Method, people who were ostensibly where you are, they were communists who were against the use of force. And do you know what happened to them and their friends? They had to flee for their lives while their friends got murdered because as it turns out Capitalists will absolutely use authority to squash and kill anything that even remotely threatens their power. They’ve since changed their mind.

Still blows my mind that they recognize the Filipino government and ignore the NPA. They’re Maoists for Christ’s sake.

They’re not communist

Wait, I’m ootl what happened?

Thank you, I will vote at least a dozen times in at least a dozen counties just for you. Be the change you want to see in the world.