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Well, are you?

Sometimes news stories will confuse instructors and range officers. Instructors are supposed to teach you something, ros are supposed to be the people who pay attention to what’s going on and make sure everything’s safe/legal.

No one needs to worry about this because it’s a grift and wont work.

Lot of responses talking about Leon Trotsky himself (none that I saw which focus on his time before the Bolshevik band breaks up, someone should write that one!), lots talking about collaboration with anti communist groups by Trotskyist organizations and their development path due to being the only game in town over here in the west at least. Not much talking about their mass media focused strategy.

A part of the Bolshevik revolution that never gets enough attention imo is the newspapers. All kinds of political movements all over the world had presses, but what made communist newspapers interesting during the revolution was that they represented a powerful political tool that would ultimately become, and arguably already was, mass media. One of the leading edges of the movement to overturn social order was what would become, and arguably already was, a force for social control in the imperial core’s development into consumptive economy.

So it’s easy to understand why mass media plays such a big role in Trotskyist actions and strategy in the 20th century.

The failure of it comes from still fighting on that terrain when it’s already lost. Bolshevik newspapers did fantastically well to disseminate their ideas to people because people were willing to read them with an open mind. The states media organs were underdeveloped and the consumers were partaking in a form that, while it had been in existence for hundreds of years, didn’t have the perfect delivery of ideas mastered yet. There were rough edges to be expected in mass media and the state couldn’t credibly just call something stupid and have everyone believe it.

Once the state was credible though, once the craft of media was so perfected that every poison pill slipped right down our gullets, once the blip of American postwar production passed and everything faded to consumption, it was over. We could have the gulf of Tonkin, contras, nayirah, anthrax, wmd, viagra soldiers and beheaded babies. There’s no socialist newspaper that could stand against that machine.

I forgot what I was talking about.

People here want to defederate from grad or they want to defederate from here?

Note to self: sample the isolated drum tracks on significant other.

Guybrush and Elaine convert to lds

It’s a uart interface you can use with your phone as the terminal

everyone has been invited by the user dronerights to have conversations with the user dronerights on the ee DroneRights comm.

have a nice monday!

E: I do not recommend or endorse this option, but when u have the opportunity to write that combination of words u gotta take it.

Fixed, ty!

Well, are they?

Dronerights is replying to this thread on its ee account but none of you can see it because of them being banned.

E: pronouns!

Thank you, that means a lot.

The problem with firefly is that even if it is lame now it never had a chance to be enduring because it chose a mishmash of western tropes rather than picking one western type and sticking to it.

I welcome theory recommendations on this subject.

After reading your post ten times over it’s hard to come to any understanding of it except “i view npd as ND because the state uses it to justify longer sentencing for minorities.” and “lack of empathy and lack of regard are the same or close enough”, both of which I see as pretty wrong.

The former point is weird and I don’t feel like digging into an understanding of the priors it’s coming from if there is some kind of underpinning you can just link to that’ll clear it up.

The latter really stands out because a child without empathy for ants might smash their nest or smash them, but when told that it’s wrong to hurt or kill the ants a child without regard will continue to do so. They’re not the same thing and autistic people without empathy aren’t acting without regard. Those are two very different kinds of thinking.

I’m sorry you felt the need to delete them.

It sucks to lose comments! If you can tolerate leaving weird comments up in the future, it’s good to. The site stores comments and posts in the same database but on different sides. There can be a lot of comments versus posts because comments weigh less, but we have so many posts on hexbear that it’s getting unsustainable and if we lose too many more, the posts will be heavy enough to tip the server over and the site will go down.

dont delete your comment. it's okay to think stuff that's wrong or misguided.

do consider this: it's the 1970s in america, a woman walks by a construction site and is subjected to catcalls and misogynistic language. why is this bad?

same time, same place, a man coding gay walks by and is subjected to homophobia and slurs. why is this bad?

now fast forward to now, a person makes a username asking to see nude fat nonbinary people. why is this bad?

After multiple huge angry navel gazing derails.

Holy shit is that dronerights?

E: it is fucking dronerights. Hell yeah lil buddy, get em!