Patented Dort_Owl unhinged rant that goes way off track incoming

This stayed fairly on track. I want a refund.

Those aren’t strays, those are point-blanks

The Mandela Effect except everyone forgot about the century-long Trotskilluminati War

Anything would work. We have several examples of large emojis split horizontally into pairs or sets:

Source?

Hell yeah I love spring weather

Recently finished setting up and plugging my finances into hledger (FOSS accounting program). I feel loads better because I have been winging it with my money for years now, without a clear picture of what/how I’m doing or whether everything adds up in my pay statements. Now, I know for sure where things stand, that it all checks out, and that I will catch any fishy business going forward.

This was sparked partly by the tax filing season. I couldn’t stand another year being unsure what tf I was doing and feeling not confident about my answers.

He is in the shrinking into corncob phase

Elon had a hair transplant done for his pattern baldness in the 00s. Just know that he shaved off all his natural hair and what you’re seeing is pubes and ass hair. Or something idk I’m not a doctor.

It’s fine really

Not disagreeing about cost, but healthcare for 350M people is a larger effort than a moon base imo. Lotta logistics and manual labor.

I’m reacting to this comment from the post: https://lemmy.world/post/44479707/22761198

@Grail@multiverse.soulism.net: They’re not communists, they’re Stalinists. Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society. They want the people’s authoritarian regime to step on their necks with the people’s boot. Communism has been successfully practiced for 60,000 years, but every tankie state either collapses or goes capitalist.

Do you see how such “common parlance” aids reactionary thought in this comment? It is not a rare example. This “definition” is a vulgarization found nowhere in Marx. Neither does it follow Marx’s dialectical method of analysis. Why do you say it is a valid definition?

Third option is that many roles are technical and not physical. They need bodies in computer chairs mostly, whether it’s to pilot a drone or just do some logistics.

It’s summed up in that well-known line from the German Ideology:

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.

If someone is curious about communism, the most important thing to teach them is historical materialism; namely that (1) the form of society changes according to material conditions, (2) it is possible to intentionally change those conditions. Communism is the conscious application of historical materialism by the oppressed.

It is bad pedagogy to start from abolition of class, state, and money. It leads to revisionism because those are not unique to communism. It’s not any kind of abolition, but a specific development that results in their abolition. Most forms of anarchism, maybe even anarcho-capitalism would fit those vague criteria.

The whole “bullying works” ethos was a wrong conclusion from an accidentally correct attitude from the Chapo podcast: that you should not compromise on principle. Compromise is a practical concern that should never apply to the theoretical. Western leftists emerge out of a hostile environment saturated with counterrevolutionary propaganda. Most of them have to unlearn a ton of stuff and start to see the backwardness in their neighbors. In that environment it’s very important to stay principled and not to give up the correct line.

One thing about bullies is they insist upon their stance. We just need to find more effective ways to do this that don’t alienate a ton of people.

For some reason I didn’t expect the word “dies” at the end of that sentence. Thought it was gonna be “indicted/charged/calls Trump unprecedented”

Chuck Norris and Mike Huckabee

Any time someone says “communism is a classless, moneyless, stateless society” I assume they don’t know what they are talking about. It is wrong; not factually, but in logical sequence. It is a dogma indicative of mechanical and undialectical thinking.

Communism does indeed aspire to be classless, moneyless, and stateless. But not as a starting point, and not in any arbitrary way. Communism is not a manifestation of those abstractions. It is the other way around: communism, being a concrete form of society, through its real historical development would necessarily possess those general features.

It’s a bit like saying, dogmatically: an elephant is defined as an animal weighing several tons.

Yes, that is a fact about elephants. It does not explain how an animal comes to be an elephant or why it weighs that much. It also does not help us distinguish an elephant from any other equivalent mass, say, a car.

The hard work is not in identifying general features about communist society, but in understanding the conditions of its development.