idk about the other stuff but i had problems with buttons like the next page one not working like you are describing. are you on an iphone? for me it was an issue with safari being out of date, and updating my phone fixed the issue. maybe try next.hexbear.net as well.
reminds me of this classic
Listen, I’m all for dunking on shitlibs, but if someone’s literally asking for reading recs on communism, I think we should at least try and give them something. Maybe I’m just being naive or my sealion detector is bad or something, but this to me seems like a good faith request, even if it’s very ignorant.
The only gang in Aurora is the Aurora PD
Yeah I got to that comment tree and blacked out for a bit, knew it was time to close the thread. Just unbelievably vile people
I just finished The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and now I’m reading The Mystery of Marie Rogêt. I don’t know if you can call stories about crime “politically agnostic”, but they’re short and not theory at least. I’ve been getting more in to mystery fiction lately, I’ve always liked mysteries in other mediums but never really branched out towards them in books before.
By the way, does anyone here use BookWyrm?
biden deserves worse. i hope every day like this is torturous and that he lives another 50 years like this
there’s a really good port of dodonpachi daioujou on the iphone app store, idk about android. sorcery is another good one, based on an old steve jackson gamebook
grow a fucking spine
It seems unlikely to me that they’d use covid as the excuse considering how hard they try to pretend that the pandemic is over and that Biden defeated it
Not killing an animal in the first place seems like the most effective way of minimizing egregious pain and suffering within practicality to me
whose only flaw right now is supporting one wrong nation
you can’t seriously believe this is true right
hold him accountable how
I am not in contact with disabled or immunocompromised people
Do you think immunocompromised people walk around with a big sign on their neck that reads “IMMUNOCOMPROMISED” or something? When you go out to the grocery store or to do whatever occasional chore, how do you know that none of the people around you are disabled or immunocompromised?
I stay inside when I’m sick, which is rarely ever.
The majority of COVID cases are asymptomatic.
Traveling across Cuba in 1959, immediately after the overthrow of the U.S.-supported right-wing Batista dictatorship, Mike Faulkner witnessed “a spectacle of almost unrelieved poverty.” The rural population lived in makeshift shacks without minimal sanitation. Malnourished children went barefoot in the dirt and suffered “the familiar plague of parasites common to the Third World.” There were almost no doctors or schools. And through much of the year, families that depended solely on the seasonal sugar harvest lived close to starvation (Monthly Review, 3/96). How does that victimization in prerevolutionary Cuba measure against the much more widely publicized repression that came after the revolution, when Castro’s communists executed a few hundred of the previous regime’s police assassins and torturers, drove assorted upper-class moneybags into exile, and intimidated various other opponents of radical reforms into silence?
Today, Cuba is a different place. For all its mistakes and abuses, the Cuban Revolution brought sanitation, schools, health clinics, jobs, housing, and human services to a level not found throughout most of the Third World and in many parts of the First World. Infant mortality in Cuba has dropped from 60 per 1000 in 1960 to 9.7 per 1000 by 1991, while life expectancy rose from 55 to 75 in that same period. Smallpox, malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, polio, and numerous other diseases have been wiped out by improved living standards and public health programs. Cuba has enjoyed a level of literacy higher than in the United States and a life expectancy that compares well with advanced industrial nations (NACLA Report on the Americas, September/October 1995). Other peoples besides the Cubans have benefited. As Fidel Castro tells it:
The [Cuban] revolution has sent teachers, doctors, and workers to dozens of Third World countries without charging a penny. It shed its own blood fighting colonialism, fighting apartheid, and fascism. . . . At one point we had 25,000 Third World students studying on scholarships. We still have many scholarship students from Africa and other countries. In addition, our country has treated more children [13,000] who were victims of the Chernobyl tragedy than all other countries put together. They don’t talk about that, and that’s why they blockade us-the country with the most teachers per capita of all countries in the world, including developed countries. The country with the most doctors per capita of all countries [one for every 214 inhabitants]. The country with the most art instructors per capita of all countries in the world. The country with the most sports instructors in the world. That gives you an idea of the effort involved. A country where life expectancy is more than 75 years. Why are they blockading Cuba? Because no other country has done more for its people. It’s the hatred of the ideas that Cuba represents. (Monthly Review, 6/95).
Cuba’s sin in the eyes of global capitalists is not its “lack of democracy.” Most Third World capitalist regimes are far more repressive. Cuba’s real sin is that it has tried to develop an alternative to the global capitalist system, an egalitarian socio-economic order that placed corporate property under public ownership, abolished capitalist investors as a class entity, and put people before profits and national independence before IMF servitude.
Excerpt from Blackshirts and Reds, since Parenti and Castro himself put it better than I could.
What actually makes Endeavor easier than Arch? I switched to Arch from Mint a few months ago, and so far I don’t think it’s that difficult.
Prolewiki has an absolute beginner’s list that should be valuable to you. +1 to Blackshirts and Reds, personally I would read this before anything else. The State and Revolution is definitely a must read for all socialists, but I think I agree with the beginner list that it would be better as a followup once you’ve got a working understanding of marxism.