There were not two states in Korea at the time, a “North Korea” and a “South Korea”. There is one nation - Korea - and it’s Southern half was occupied by a foreign force. Literally - South Korea was not liberated from Japan at the end of WWII, Japan transferred it’s occupation to the United States.

Also Elden Ring

I love the gallon jug wine. I lived on that stuff from 2019 to 2023.

Hmm I wonder who those “Other Pro-Palestine Candidates” could be, it couldn’t be that they’re avoiding even mentioning the name of one candidate in particular

Settlers are legitimate targets

Coal

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This is reminding me of Parenti - to put his conclusions in my own words, Fascism is when the revolutionary rhetoric developed by the Left-Wing (whether that is Socialists or Communists or Left-Liberals) is used to advance the goals of the ruling classes instead.

what if he fell off

I think some people are being a bit unfair - they’re good people with (95%) good politics, just with poor organization and tactics. Even their national contact was enthusiastic about cooperation with the PSL and even participation in the campaign. And best of all, at least the people local to me are open and willing to learn more effective methods of organizing. It takes time and confidence to build organizing skills.

They’re cringe, not evil or fundamentally flawed. Be nice, be tolerant, and be willing to help and teach. They are not doomed - they just need direction.

They aren’t. Those are the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. These guys are the Revolutionary Communists of America. Two completely different, unrelated orgs.

I’m in the PSL and I recently started meeting regularly with a couple guys from the local RCA. Their organization is not perfect but they have been friendly and enthusiastic about cooperation and I look forward to working with them. Here’s some of what I’ve learned either from them or the PSL:

They’re a continuation of a Trot party, Marxist International (that changed its name at least partially due to a sex pest scandal), but they claim to be “non-sectarian Marxist-Leninists” and not Trots. The local guys seem unaware of the history of their party, they joined two months ago along with the name change and believe that the party is new and was founded two months ago.

I’ve re-written this paragraph several times because I don’t want to come off as too harsh, because they really are good folks who are doing their best, but: their organization suffers from a lack of, well, organization, and a focus on what I believe to be ineffective tactics (“agitation”, selling newspapers on street corners, etc.). They are also admitted class-reductionists, and the local branch at least is seven or eight white guys and one of their girlfriends. They’ve read a lot of books but knew very little about the political struggles going on in their own city.

The only time I would suggest joining the RCA is if you’ve already tried to join your local PSL branch and haven’t heard back.

With that much stone they should install drainage grates in every room so you can just spray the place down instead of mopping/dusting/sweeping

They do. I think some people in this thread are swinging too far the other way - yes, some cultures normalize eating cats and dogs. It is what it is, I’m not a vegan and I don’t believe there’s anything intrinsically wrong with it. A Burmese family in a trailer park near where I live got the cops called on them by the local Crazy Cat Karen for catching and eating strays a few years back.

The problem is not one of “barbaric” foreigners needing to be kept out; it’s a failure to educate new immigrants on American customs beyond their ability to parrot jingoistic slogans, remember the names of presidents and holidays, and denounce Communism.

Wow that sucks

AI art is going to do the same thing to fantasy art that digital art did: completely destroy the immersive feeling for the benefit of rich assholes who want to pump out slop quicker and cheaper

Amber Volcel Police Whataboutism

.worlder rare good take alert

Don’t worry, you’re still serving an important role in the economy!

As part of the “reserve army of labor”, by your very existence you drive down the wages of other workers in your field, based on the threat that they could be replaced with you.

Can’t wait for gullible idiots to put millions of dollars into a pump-and-dump scheme to make some of the richest, slimiest people in the world even richer and slimier

Yes we all watched the same OSP video last week

Like others have said, Lemmy runs off of ActivityPub, an open-source protocol similar to Email. Some other applications, such as Mastodon, Kbin, and PixelFed, also use ActivityPub, which is why you can occasionally see posts from those apps if a Lemmy-user shares them.

“Easier Moderation” and “Protecting data” are good, sure, but the main benefit of Open-Source, Federated Social Media is the decentralization and taking power over media away from corporations.

Imagine if Email was closed-source, like Reddit. In order to send or receive email you had to make an account on “Email.com”, the email corporation could read your private messages to “moderate”, they could ban your account if you send emails they disagree with.

And you might say, “But I use Gmail, and Google can do all those things!”, and that’s true! And the same is true for Lemmy.world or, yes, even Hexbear.net. What makes Email (and ActivityPub, which Lemmy uses) different is that you can rent a domain name from Mali, set up a computer in your basement, and host your own server. And you can send emails from “[email protected]” just as easily as you can [email protected].

And just like I can send an email from my own private email server to someone with a Gmail account, you can send a private message with a Hexbear account to Lemmy.world (or, even, Mastodon social or Threads.net, assuming neither party explicitly blocks traffic).