Everything hinges on this. But which choice is harm reduction?

Good luck. My camera is busted

The Kievan Rus didn’t include most of what is today Russian land or what are today Russian peoples.

There’s a reason Lenin called it “a prison house of nations.”

people sharing the same language, geography, culture, and economic system.

If this was true of the Russian empire, this is true of the continental US. The US has more homogenized language and culture than the Russian empire did.

I disagree that this would justify maintaining the existence of the US.

Do they just separate into their own party, so the Hawaiian branch of the CPUSA becomes the CPH?

Not your main point, but I’ve met comrades from the Democratic Socialist of O’ahu, who are affiliated with DSA.

You organize at the national level because that is the political entity you’re combating even if you wish to overcome it. This has been the case in communist movements in any large country historically

Fed? Trots do splits naturally, nature is healing

Why would the Epstein shit cause class consciousness? Things like him are gonna lead people to resort to conspiracies rather than material analysis for causes.

Clearly elves

It’s shocking to me there aren’t more Luigis.

Cool. The largest org in the US that is pro-Cuban revolution is the Democratic Socialists of America

Is he marking a normative claim or a descriptive one?

This seems an accurate interpretation of reality

In evil North Korea, they make foreign heads of state where glasses whenever Kim Jong Un wears glasses. He feels anxious if he’s the only one :(

it’s not how social security works at all.

Carl is describing how liberals have talked about social security within our lifetimes; he isn’t describing how it works.

Donald Trump is still alive but in jail? Then he can still escape his Elba…

Let’s fully expropriate it and own 100%

He was the president of Iraq and he frequently wore hats

I think US people are genuinely lost.

Iirc, there have been scientific polls that show younger generations of Americans support “democracy” in the abstract less than older ones. Overall, less people in the US have confidence that the US is a democracy than in the past

Take a drive in one of the cars that isn’t supposed to be there

Just spit ballin’: The TVs don’t have “yellow” cuz we don’t have the cones. TVs are built by humans for the use of other humans. Why would we design them to produce light that we don’t have the cones for?

If we all only saw black and white, we wouldn’t have developed TVs with color. If we were all blind, we wouldn’t have developed TVs at all

Edit: I think this has interesting speculative fiction implications regarding technological development, especially in scifi

I’m in the US in the Mid-Atlantic in a small metro. I’ve generally had good luck living with strangers. Granted, I’ve only ever had roommates who were 24+ in age and if I ever get weird vibes when touring a place, I turn it down.

Right now, I’m living with a couple other guys who I never met before and don’t have much in common with but we’re all chill, reasonably clean, and respect the common areas. That stuff is much more important than anything else with roommates. Shared interests and enjoying time together are important for friendship, and shared purpose is important for comrades. However, roommates are not necessarily friends or comrades; it is important to recognize this.

Craigslist and apartments.com are where I’ve had the most luck with finding apartments or rooms to rent in a house. Without credit or much money, you can probably still find a house renting a room or someone looking to split an apartment. Just email a few listings saying you’re employed and asking for a tour.

There are roommate specific websites, but they don’t seem well utilized in my area. Maybe they are in bigger cities.

Also: Never ever pay money to anyone just to see a place. You should only pay money after touring a place. There’s a lot of scammers, especially on Facebook.

1. If they learn to read traditional Chinese, they’ll be able to read simplified Chinese and vice versa.
2. This is literally Orwellian. He’s proposing controlling language to control thought so his kids don’t go wrong ideologically.