raven [he/him]
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Trans rights are gamer rights!
Essentially, more-or-less, broadly speaking, predominantly, etc. (for debatelords, that they may peper and solt it as they plese)
I heard a suggestion once that we use an aspen leaf as an American socialist symbol. If you don’t know, a grove of aspen trees is connected at the roots. One giant organism sharing resources. As such they’re the first to rebound after a fire.
I have a pi radio hidden inside the drop ceiling in the bathroom in my college dorm. It has enough range to cover the building and broadcasts revleft episodes on a loop on 100.1 FM
It’s been there a week and hasn’t been discovered yet, but even if it were I would just hide another somewhere.
What does it mean when people say “not 100% enthusiastic about democracy” and the like? I’ve heard Zizek say similar things, and I really don’t understand what they’re getting at. When I think of democracy I think of direct democracy with 100% participation as an idealistic example, and I wouldn’t even call the american electoral system democratic. I assume this is how most others on here think about it.
So are my assumptions wrong? Wouldn’t being against real democracy be antithetical to communism, the purpose of which is to give power to the working people?
It would be much harder to mislead people, to run massive disinformation campaigns against good things, if the means of production were in the hands of the proletariat. That is one of the biggest ways that capitalism undermines democracy.
Additionally, putting tons of resources into education is a staple of communist governments, making the entire population much better suited to make decisions for themselves. Just look at the amount of support M4A had right before the ad campaigns against it. It was almost a supermajority of support even among americans.
I would personally be more in favor of a liquid democracy system, I was just using direct democracy as an example of what I think of when I think about the “pure” form of “democracy”.
Twitter is hardly representative, and I think people are much less likely to vote ironically when it has actual weight.
If I’m wrong, and embarrassing myself here then I say this; I’m still a baby leftist who has a lot of deprogramming to do. I’m open to book recommendations.
False, I don’t see any harry potter.