Or you make Dwarf Fortress

Ah, the PEOPLE’S bootlicker!

The push to lower the age for correction officers came after guards walked off the job in February while striking to protest poor working conditions.

Fuck’s sake.

Too fucking late to realize that, twat.

Have you ever seen backstroke of the West pug??

No, but now I want to

I interpreted it more as “I try to be optimistic and open, the world disappoints me, I lose hope, I realize that I have to keep going anyway; repeat ad infinitem”

95 was peak icon

Best case scenario at this point is that both China and the US are successful in neutering each other’s foreign power.

A man can dream, right?

The average American thinks the USA is the greatest nation on the planet and that Americans are the most fortunate people on the planet.

Recognizing that being impoverished in a prosperous and developed country is better than being impoverished in an economically struggling country is not propaganda. America is not the best place to be poor, but it isn’t the worst, and the self-pitying idea that being poor in the US is as bad as or worse than being poor in any country is some utterly ignorant shite.

A poor person in a socialist country still has all their needs met.

Do you really know nothing about living standards in Cuba?

You’re living in a fantasy.

How ironic.

“We can’t trade with one capitalist country, therefore our economy has collapsed” is not a stunning refutation of capitalism.

I’m more inclined to believe that Cuba’s well-documented internal economic problems are to blame rather than regarding it as necessary for a socialist state to be supported by capitalists in order to exist at a decent standard of living.

They’re not mutually exclusive.

but have you tried being poor in America?

… have you?

Jesus Christ.

I live well-under the poverty line. It’s bad. I also know it’s nowhere near as bad as an average existence in Cuba.

Read up. Read personal accounts. Check economic statistics.

Just by living in the US, we are immensely fucking privileged.

First was in the 20s. Second was the 50s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxI5qQAUWVc

“Racism is recognizing when the PRC does something bad”?

Unsurprising, unfortunately. This remains a deeply racist country.

Wouldn’t that be ridiculous

This is one of them classic, body-horror angels

Yeah, Hexbear was correct to remove this one.

Well they’re many things, but laws and procedures that will be useful in the sense you described need to be ones the regime either wants to stay in place or doesn’t care enough to notice. The bill in the article is neither.

That’s not how government procedures in totalitarian states work.

The masses are already (to an extent) riled; what they need now is leadership so their energy can be spent on productive acts of resistance rather than a weekend protest every two weeks.

That you think the issue is a lack of leadership is… not realistic.

And there the question becomes: Who cares? Their office is now meaningless

Not even close. “The legislative branch won’t save us from fascism” and “The legislative branch retains influence to hinder fascism” are not mutually exclusive positions.

No legislation for LGBT rights is gonna pass either way, so the timing for pushing it is a moot point.

Then why the fuck did you bring up the timing of pushing it?

Can I have that while defending the people currently being kidnapped and sent to God knows where (or to God directly)?

You can. But there might be symbolic legislative action being put forward while you do it, horror of horrors.

The basis for the basis should be defending the people being persecuted now, not drawing a line in the sand that the administration is going to sprint over. Challenge what the fascists are doing now rather than hppe you’ll be able to challenge them later. I hope I don’t need to quote the poem.

No, the basis for the basis is getting fucking organized. You may notice that there are people standing up and speaking, quite prominently. The issue is not that no one is speaking for the people who are being fucking disappeared by the secret police; the issue is that there is currently no serious power base or appetite for serious action in the general population with which to fucking stop them, in large part because left-purists decided to sign over all levers of government to the fascist regime without any fucking ground game to challenge it when it rolled into possession of one of the most powerful states in the fucking world.