Drewfro66 @ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml

He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member of PSL N

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Lmao amazing

I main Lemmygrad and you've been defederated from us since the beginning, so I don't think I would notice nor care. Good riddance lib safe space.

Fake news, thinking about baseball would make Sisko misfire instantly

I also almost exclusively listen to political podcasts. Citations Needed, TrueAnon, and Chapo Traphouse are my main rotation.

This is a lot more reasonable than the article made it sound

I am an Authoritarian. "Authoritarianism" as a pejorative is a liberal buzzword, and I am not a Liberal. Any Marxist who has actually read a book will say the same.

What system do you believe in, oh politically enlightened Redditor? Or are you just a South Park Libertarian who believes that caring about things and having opinions is cringe?

Yes

Gommunism is when no food, iPhone vuvuzela

Stalin and Mao were glorious and the tankies are correct.

I believe that Hamas should eliminate Israel through whatever means necessary. But I do not "support" Hamas, at least not uncritically.

Abandoned his girlfriend for the pool

You rock, Ohmiya

It was disputed before the oil was found, but the ownership wasn't pushed much because the land was not particularly valuable.

In colonial times, first, both were owned by Spain. Then the Dutch colonized Guyana, but a definite border was never set between Guyana and Venezuela. Then the British conquered Guyana from the Dutch. The border dispute was inherited by Venezuela and Guyana.

It's not as simple as "Guyana has oil, Venezuela wants oil, Venezuela is invading Guyana for their oil." Instead, oil has been found mostly offshore of land Venezuela has always claimed as its own. On top of this, the oil is mostly being extracted by countries that officially consider Venezuela an enemy state, and those countries are deploying their military forces much closer to Venezuela's undisputed territory than their own (though this is, of course, nothing new to the United States, who don't even hesitate to conduct patrols in the South China Sea, let alone the South Caribbean).

It's impossible to say for sure, but if Guyana wasn't solidly aligning itself with the United States and its corporations, it's unlikely that tensions would be as high as they are.

I played 5e for a good 5 or 6 years, it's good for what it is: a basic, "beginner's" DnD edition for chill, simple games. It breaks down when players try to do any kind of optimization or "character-building". Nowadays when I run 5e, I ban multiclassing, custom backgrounds, feats, and exotic races. If you want that kind of game, I'll bring out the 3.5e books. If we're playing 5e, we're playing to 5e's strengths as a system.

For the last 3 years I've run games on a DnD 3.5e West Marches server (link in bio).

At least in 3.5e, adamantine is not only explicitly a metal but also a ferrous metal (rust monsters can destroy it, they can be made into magnets, etc.)

The other comments here do not mention the most important part: the fiscal recession cycles caused by publicly traded, unregulated markets. In other words, the predictable 8-year pattern of booms and busts - the creation of a speculative bubble of growth followed by that bubble popping - that defines modern Capitalist economies.

No recession or depression in recent memory has truly been caused by a mismatch of supply and demand. Instead, they are caused by our complex financial investment apparatus; they have nothing to do with the "producing and buying things" side of Capitalism and everything to do with the "Moving money around" side of it. A thing - real estate, tech startups, comic books, whatever - begins to grow in value not because it is actually worth more but because people are speculating on its future value.

This is why Uber keeps growing in valuation despite never making a profit: the people buying Uber stock are not betting on Uber making a profit, but that other people will buy Uber stock in the future, further increasing the price of the shares. This is a bubble that will eventually burst, when they run out of potential investors to keep propping up the share price - but you maximize return on investment if you jump ship at the very last moment.

The '08 housing crisis is a great example. It followed an almost identical speculative bubble, except with mortgage-backed securities.

While these things will happen to some extent in Socialist countries with market economies, there are two reasons why they hit Capitalist countries extremely hard.

The first is that modern Capitalism has made every person into their own little Capitalist. Retirement funds are tied to the stock market, rent and housing prices aren't fixed. Ephemeral financial-sector bullshit affects ordinary people when it has no reason to.

The second is that strong regulation can prevent the worst effects on ordinary people. Socialist governments can fix prices and forgive debts in order to minimize the effects of a fiscal downturn.

I thought it was the dentist scene from Little Shop of Horrors, but I think that one has another actor that looks kind of similar

I think you might have just missed the joke.

The exterminator was using cheese as bait for the mice, but Heathcliff ate the cheese instead.

It's important to at least go to the polls and do something, even if you won't vote for most Democrats.

Even a Maoist knows that ballot initiatives and referendums exist independent of candidates and parties. I'm a Communist, and while I will not vote for Joe Biden, I do plan on voting for some local Democrats (not that I'm implying you should). It is better to show up and submit a blank ballot than to do nothing at all.

You people would vote for Mussolini if Hitler was running against him

Well, the Italian half of Belgium, anyways