Every place a commune to be unleashed!
Padding the comment-to-post ratios since before choppo chæt was a thing.
Marginally. If you want to go from seeing it as “foreign text” to “it makes this sound”.
If you get a kick out of being able to identify a word here and there, or to read a map, or maybe even a label, it might be worth it.
If you’re curious enough to learn it, it won’t stop there. For Arabic, a little bit of good instruction will allow you to parse a little bit of the syntax of a phrase or sentence, the tense or other inflections, and some prepositions.
people from other parts of the world would not notice the difference between these two or more nationalities
just cracker-to-cracker communication
This is my one siterule that I’m oddly critical of, and have been since it was made (I will still follow the spirit of it, which I am in support of)
Yes, those are also things that are maybe easily discernable and visually evoke carnism in their pure form, but as an ingredient in something else are beyond perception.
I could post something that doesn’t have any noticeable animal product ingredients, not name the ingredients, and omit that there is egg yolk in the sauce. Or I could make a batch of beanis, containing no animal products, and say that there is a yogurt in it, pretty post with a CW on top.
Looking at something that secretly contains an animal product is not the same thing as eating something that secretly contains an animal product. It’s one thing to say “we shouldn’t glorify eating animal products, or force vegans to look at them, by making them visible”. It’s another to claim that something invisible has the same effect. At a certain point we will have to ask whether a fig bar needs a CW.
i live in america, purpose is a luxury i cant afford
Stomped-Cob City 
7 years ago I toured a 2-story strawbale construction with solar and wind and geothermal, that used to be a doctor’s office. I was already on a natural building kick but this cemented* it as lifelong.
*lime plaster
I almost said “earthships” at first so I was wondering if I missed taking it out. They were my gateway drug.
Honestly the biggest problem with earthships is the context they exist in: each one is a single-family house out in the country with a quarter-mile-long driveway for the car(s) that they all inevitably have. You could never have a population density of more than 30 people per hectare like that. It took me extensive searching just to find one multiple-storey earthship.
But you could use recycled materials and (partial) earth berms and passive solar design and greenhouse vestibules to make something cheap for the masses.
Isn’t the purpose of the rule to avoid people having to look at parts of corpses?
All of the bolshevik cliques were going to murder each other, no matter who won.
have you gentlemen ever seen a revolution?
Remind me to never join a party with you in it. Or, alternatively, to immediately take steps to ensure my own security if I do.
Idk, if I modeled myself after someone (or some clique) who turned all their friends into enemies, I’d be very wary of where my own path was pointing. I haven’t spent years digging into the One Truth lying behind thousands of pages of minutiae, my understanding of how people work comes from direct experiences of them and applying a statistical perspective to it. I spent enough time familiarizing myself with prominent agents of the Russian Revolution to realize that barely any of their deaths were of natural causes, and an unusual number of them were in a spike 20 years after taking power.
I’m not “attached to the Bolsheviks” at all. I’m pointing out that the worst enemy of a Bolshevik was another Bolshevik. In no other socialist revolution do you see a party’s leadership fragmenting and one fragment killing off all the others more than a decade after the political situation has stabilized. Even if you include the precursor of revolutionary France, the purges happened only early on and amidst wars.
This is the inevitable result of Lenin’s revolutionary coalition falling apart after he died.
Would you want to model a party where without its Great Man, it instantly turned into an internal power struggle? Because that looks to me like at best a failure to democratize power, and at worst a replication of the dynamics of monarchy.
That is, if the Holy Grail were an urban commune composed of either cob houses or townhouses or both, on land put in collective ownership, in close association with a workers’ cooperative that funnels money into expanding the commune.
(cw: honey)
wat 
It’s plausible that Russia preferred Trump to his Democratic rivals, and did a little bit of trolling to fuck with America. But only to the tune of 0.1% of their military budget, not the 20% of GDP it would take to get anywhere near what BlueMAGA keeps accusing.
The majority of the Bolsheviks who conducted the revolution deserved to be purged?
Now there’s a take.
Not the same way he purged Lysenko’s rivals, or the majority of high-ranking Bolsheviks since the revolution.
Say what you like about Khruschev, “my vas pokhoronim” goes so hard.
Also, Lysenkoism cast a huge shadow on Stalinism, to the point that without it, all the anti-communist critiques would merely sound like whiny sore losers, instead of having a tangible historical point to make.
No word on this from the “Western workers = labor aristocrats” crowd.
Case in point to what everyone else is saying.
I carpooled at a previous job with two people.
One of them was from a stable established family that owned a nice house swimming pool, land, vehicles, and equipment, and he could have inherited the successful family business with government contracts on the order of a million dollars if he wanted to, in addition to the extensive stock portfolio he’d been set up with. The other was raised by a single mom in a trailer as 1 of 6 children, and never had so much as a career path.
Both of these guys adamantly claimed that they were middle class- the first because he was making about the median income for the area, the second because he and his ex had once had a combined income of over $100,000.
The Marxist thing to do is to tip based on the labor-time, rather than the menu price of the food.
Has he heard of libcom.org?
Who cares.
It’s a weapon that Ukraine has, they’re at war, it’s not a nuke, it ethically doesn’t matter whether they made it themselves or received it as a gift*, of course they’re going to shoot it at a target in the country that destroyed their infrastructure and turned part of their countryside into a no-man’s-land and is occupying places they lived just 3 years ago.
If you wanna get mad at American weapons being used overseas in illegal wars, there are plenty being dropped on defenseless people, out of Israeli aircraft, every single day.