trying for council republic by 1875

as soon as they stopped being marginalized, my trade unions formed the first fascist party. there's already a social democratic party led by the rural folk (that used to include the petite bourgeoisie) and a communist party led by the armed forces.

its especially weird considering the ideologies my the trade unions IG are proletarian, egalitarian, populist, anti-slavery, and socialist. how do they go fascist w that set of ideologies?!

oh well, they have half the clout of the communist party, and a quarter of the clout of the socdem party

there are a few elements to this dish other than the lack of meat and dairy that stray from the traditional bolognese: i use garlic and red wine, while bolognese usually has no garlic and white wine. i like garlic too much so that was intentional, but i only had red wine when cooking and its not too drastic of a deviation.

i found this plant based ground sausage at the grocery store for $2.70 for 14 oz!! excited by this price (and on a pasta kick lately) i was inspired to make a bolognese. i would have used plant based ground beef too, but it was like triple the price. i used to make bolognese all the time since lasagna is one of my favorite dishes and its a great pasta sauce. but this is the first time ive made it since going vegan in january of this year. it turned out great!

the plant based sausage i used was 96% lean!! so i had to add my own fat. i used coconut oil in this dish instead of olive oil bc it acts more like animal fat. i cooked 28 oz of vegan sausage in 5 oz coconut oil to bring the “meat” to ~17.5% fat.

ingredients:

• 28 oz (784 g) 96% lean plant based ground sausage
• 9 oz (252 g) coconut oil (5 for the “meat”, 4 for the veggies)
• 225 g onion, finely diced
• 125 g celery, finely diced
• 150 g carrot, finely diced
• 1 bulb garlic, very finely diced
• 250 g wine
• 170 g tomato paste
• 450 g low sodium vegetable broth
• 350 g oat milk
• spices: salt, pepper, thyme, basil, sage, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, cumin, paprika

1 .in a stock pot, heat 5 oz coconut oil on medium heat and add the vegan ground sausage. mash the sausage as it cooks to break it up. when it starts to brown, but before it gets crispy, transfer the sausage to a bowl.

2.heat 4 oz coconut oil on medium heat and add carrots a minute before the onions and celery. add garlic a few minutes after that. then add healthy amounts of thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, and basil. cook until onions get translucent and soft.

3.add wine and deglaze the pot. then add the sausage and tomato paste, and mix while the wine reduces.

4.add the oat milk and a quarter to a third of the total vegetable broth. bring the heat to low

5.allow to simmer for 4 hours, adding the remainder of the broth throughout. if you run out of broth and the bolognese is drying up before 4 hours, add water

6.once the bolognese has simmered at least 4 hours and is sufficiently concentrated, add salt, pepper, cumin, and paprika to taste

i feel like i could have done a lot better if i didnt get lazy during the last 20 years and just let the automated private construction build whatever it wanted-- big mistake, it caused my GDP to plateau for the rest of the game.

other than that my game went very well, population was 200 million! literacy was lower than i wanted bc i constantly procrastinated university building. my population was overwhelmingly loyal and my taxes were at the lowest setting with zero consumption taxes and i still had 2.5M budget surplus. 1B in gold reserves and 2B in the investment pool. i couldnt find enough shit to spend money on lol

as you can see, i went heavy expansionist, leaving Mexico w like 4 states, taking most of central america, half of Colombia, and most of the Congo. call me a colonizer, but my standard of living is #1 in the world, and check out how drastic the SoL difference is between my African states and the rest of Africa

even the lower strata is "prosperous"!

the laws are cool too except i was in the process of enacting collectivized agriculture when the game ended. i ended slavery super early, like 1850 or smth

lol at the intelligentsia who are still clinging onto liberalism in a socialist state

doesnt matter since trade unions have 50% of the political clout. im pretty mad at the trade unions tho bc they wont join the Communist Party

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“im so magnanimous for having scab nurses pay my mortgage. i swear im losing money on this, im totally not getting my property paid for by someone else”

this asshole thinks “traveling nurses” is a good cause when they mostly exist so hospitals don’t have to pay local nurses as much

made this for dinner last night. my gf found the recipe online but i modified it bc it was written by mayos who only seasoned with salt, pepper, and celery seed. i also substituted diced celery with diced carrots since i like carrots, but my gf told me she would prefer celery so ill prob do half and half next time. i also didn’t add green onions bc i didn’t wanna go to the store, i will prob add them next time

ingredients (this makes a good amount, prob 6 sandwiches worth):

• 4.5 cup dry chickpeas (45 oz if using canned chickpeas)
• 2 large carrots
• 6 cloves garlic
• 6-8 tbsp vegan mayo or cashew cream (less if using canned chickpeas)
• 4 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp celery seed
• 1 tbsp thyme
• salt
• pepper
• cumin
• turmeric
• paprika

1. soak dry chickpeas in lightly salted water for 12-24 hours
2. you can get the skins off chickpeas after soaking them by rubbing them together w ur hands and decanting the water (skins will stay at the top of the water longer than the chickpeas). there are other methods of deskinning chickpeas, find something that works for you
3. put chickpeas in pot of salted water, bring to rolling boil then bring heat down to a simmer and cook covered for 2 hours or until the chickpeas are soft. as soon as the water comes to a boil, you will notice foam. this is aquafaba, formed when loose starch mixes w the boiling water. you can just scoop the foam and discard it (or keep it as an egg substitute). once you scoop out all the foam from the first few minutes of boiling, it shouldnt form any more and you won’t have to worry abt boiling over.
4. drain chickpeas and mash them. i just used my hands to squish them
5. dice carrots into small chunks (under 1 cm) and finely dice garlic. add to chickpeas
6. add vegan mayo/cashew cream, lemon juice, celery seed, and thyme. mix well
7. salt and season to taste

i spread this between slices of toasted bread with onion and tomato slices. makes a great sandwich and is good by itself too!

principled stances on the Russian and Chinese ruling classes

by “Chinese ruling class” you mean capital owners and not the CPC right?

youre talking abt the billionaires right?

link bc im not a

on Thursday, Ukrainian forces "liberated" Robotyne, a village that had a population <500. according to Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, it took 10 brigades to take this village. thats anywhere from 20,000 to 35,000 soldiers needed to advance a small area of the front half a kilometer. to make matters worse for Ukraine, b points out that the positions taken by Ukrainian soldiers in Robotyne are troublesome. Ukrainian forces are about 300 feet lower than Russian forces. a considerable high ground makes Russian artillery more effective than Ukrainian artillery. it also makes any attempt by Ukraine to charge the line considerably more dangerous.

previously, b estimated that, due to the artillery superiority of Russia, Ukrainian casualties outweigh that of Russia by 10:1. this is made even worse by the substandard military medicine practiced by the Ukrainian forces. sometimes it takes 10 hours to transport Ukrainian soldiers from the front to a hospital. thousands of Ukrainian soldiers who were wounded are dying due to incompetence. their supplies are also of poor quality bc of corruption-- Volodymyr Prudnikov, the head of Ukraine’s Medical Forces Command’s procurement department payed his daughter-in-law's company 1.5 million british pounds for tactical medical kits; these kits, however, were much cheaper than promised and tourniquets from these kits have failed to hold pressure and have resulted in deaths.

while it takes several hours for Ukrainian medical evacuation, it takes Russian forces 10 minutes to apply first aid, and only an hour to reach field medical units.

this is truly a tragic conflict. it seems that the demons who rule NATO will prolong this war. on the bright side, NATO weapon stockpiles are being depleted and western manufacturing cant even begin to keep up with Russian manufacturing. Russia manufactures 2.5 million artillery shells a year, while the US produces 93,000. if the Pentagon meets its goal, the US will still only be producing 1 million shells per year by 2025

ive seen ppl mention this 2024 BRICS expansion here, but i had no idea it was coming so soon! Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are joining January 1!!

this dude is pretty interesting. he makes a weird non sequitur abt drug use early on in the vid that comes off as unsympathetic but i can look past a bit of