SSJMarx

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!

We've got this notion
that we'd quite like to sail the ocean
so we're buildin a big boat
to leave here for gooooood

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

in no particular order

D&D Heroes! It wasn't the deepest game but it was 4 player coop on the XBox and I played the crap out of it with my friends.

Baldur's Gate 3 because it's my favorite version of that type of game so far and I've been playin' em since the Gold Box days.

Bard's Tale baby. Maybe not strictly a D&D game but we all know that it's a D&D game. I never bought this but I rented it about a zillion times in order to beat it back when that was a thing, lmao.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

which had previously been cooperative with the KPD after the establishment of the Weimar Republic.

Famously the SPD didn't work together with fascists to create the kill squads that murdered Rosa Luxemburg.

To reiterate what I said the last time centrists acted revisionist about this shit, nobody in history has been more vindicated than Ernst motherfucking Thalmann. Social Democrats are objectively the moderate wing of fascism and they enthusiastically participated in suppressing everyone to the left of them until there was nobody left and the Nazis decided it was their turn.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I would be a responsible gun owner

-Every single gun owner (self included ofc)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've visited the museums in China, truly among the most inspiring places on this earth. The world's largest and most powerful country is also its most free.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not really.

The fundamental critique of capitalism is that not even the capitalists are really in charge. Marx lays out quite thoroughly in Capital that the profit motive is what's actually in charge, and the capitalists are just along for the ride, and that any attempt by the capitalists to flex their power in a way that the market cannot abide will result in them losing their privileged status and being replaced by a different capitalist who will better serve the needs of the profit motive.

By contrast, socialist systems are run by people. That makes them flexible and able to serve the needs of society in a way that capitalist societies simply aren't. And yes, people are capable of mistakes, failure, and betrayal; but so too are they capable of insight, success, and solidarity. The best of existing socialist societies past and present is when they buck the demands of the market and provide for their people in ways that capitalist societies don't, and the worst of socialist societies is invariably the things that they are required to do in order to maintain their existence on a predominantly capitalist world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The worst things that happen are when students lock the door to a building, or when fascist counter protestors (often in police uniforms) show up and escalate shit.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Americans live in one of the police states of all time. Capitalism can only produce this result, there is no alternative, because the ruling class knows just as well as the socialists do that the contradictions will only keep getting worse and the protests will only keep getting bigger but of course instead of wanting to change the equation to produce a different result like the socialists do the capitalists want to cling to power by any means necessary.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you HAD to choose between Communism and Fascism

Oh no, please don't force me to make this choice, it's impossible.

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