Lmao I literally came here to make this comment

Have you located a suitable product-human hybrid of your choice, unit #1406192244?

Maybe it was made to appeal to the same mainstream demographic that could otherwise buy into Kurzgesagt proposed solution of “Vote²” and not the diamat-savvy tankies watching it from our bunkers. At least I would be able to share this video to two people whose brains would short circuit to dismissal if it talked about a more heads-off hands-on approach to making it happen.

While being poor I had a lot of fun from games. It’s called piracy. And once I stopped being poor, I largely stopped pirating. I have no hesitation torrenting The Sims or The Witcher (since CDPR refuses to take my stinky Belarusian money), but I see no problem paying for anything else if it’s sufficiently convenient. And even when I didn’t have time or just wanted quick fun, there was a way to do so. It was known as “cheats”.

“Free to play” incentivizes a certain game design where a game is so terrible you want cheat codes, and then selling those cheat codes to the player. Additionally, it preys the most not on the people who have money to burn but on neurodivergent folks predisposed to addictive behaviors (like I am but thankfully I dodged the worst of it and learned to just never touch the stuff at all). Hell, that’s why the game is not sold — the point is to probe the market for vulnerable people with the free first dose. This is immoral, predatory behavior, and while nobody would argue that a developer needs money, it’s this particular way the developer skills are used to make said money, and from whom, that people rightfully find repulsive.

Pro tip: put a hammer and a sickle onto your flag so it’s easy to tell if it’s upside down :)

Damn that gotta be the second hardest blow to the international communism after Khrushchev.

It only takes 10% of workers to initiate a Fair Pay Agreement in an industry.

Don’t like the sound of your pay and work conditions being taken out of your hands?

Then join them for fuck’s sake. Your boss is only hiring you because he gets more in profits than spends in your salary. The more of you are squeezing them capitalist pigs, the more coin you get to take back for yourself. Why tf are you still here?

BTW I was meaning to ask, do you work out every day? Is it a good idea to?

I have no doubt that Putin would have been able to win the last election without resorting to fraud, but I welcome you to think as to why bother then.

Russia lacks a serious left-wing organization and class consciousness is way lower than it has been in 1917, so I would expect social upheaval under current circumstances to result in nothing good, though in the upcoming years the repeat of February-October isn’t completely out of the question, especially if western sanctions actually hit harder, or the Russia fucks up in Ukraine somehow. I do think the chances are slim but hey, Lenin thought he wouldn’t see a revolution in his lifetime.

As for non-revolutionary means, remember that Russia is still a dictatorship of bourgeoisie who still have some serious capital they plundered from Soviet workers, and all parliamentary parties including CPRF are controlled opposition, and the elections seems to become more fraudulent year on year (though now they have uncontrollable electric voting system, so I think they’ve reached an apex of fraud potential). Most historical communist parties coming to power through elections have come to be in a very different circumstances with weakened local bourgeoisie in a multi-polar world shortly after WW2 when prestige of USSR and Red Army was very high.

Looks more like former socialist countries often have a mix of shitlib and reactionary BS in political mainstream. Ukraine or Poland are obvious example, but there’s a very significant public presence of anti-Soviet thought in Belarus and Russia too, including even in school curriculum.

Well I was an ancap in my 16, sooo…

A common point of liberal propaganda in ex-USSR countries is that the Soviet Union economy was so defunct we are still unable to recover, and also the fucks from KGBNKVD have been killing the enterprising entrepreneurs who would make us the greatest country in Eurasia, leaving only apathetic sovki with slave mentality.

Folks, come on, a 17 years old from an upper-middle-class family that was able to emigrate to US and who has received education there can totally be expected to have reasonable criticisms regarding both theory and practice of socialism.

Actualy Kurzgesagt replied in the comments and they only opted to address the point about the funding lmao.

LPR and DPR have started from a genuine popular uprising as a reaction to Euromaidan coup. The wave of social explosion have pushed people with, well, more or less lack of consistent political ideology, to the leadership positions, and in first years most of the popular leaders have been assassinated (some expressed anti-oligarch views, even though there has never been a proper socialist movement), leaving only the likes of Igor Strelkov (who is a known fan of White movement and has long and deep history with Russia) in control. Additionally there’s, like, fishy election manipulation wrt. organized communist movements. Like, DPR’s communist party (ignoring the question of how communist they are) was banned from elections in 2018 by a backdated state decision of its dissolution in 2016 that nobody in the party knew about.

Like, the only way in which you can consider them any sort of “leftist” is that some forces use Soviet flags as cumsocks for bourgeoisie interests.

Isn’t that literally “socialize the losses, privatize the gains”?

As a Belarusian, I wish we were anywhere near that level of based.

Donetsk and Lugansk also had a number of prominent pro-people/anti-oligarch leaders assassinated during the time the conflict there was entering the frozen status. And there’s also really a fishy story about how communist party of DPR was blocked from participating in elections to “people’s council”, and then the few members of communist party who joined the “Donetsk Republic” coalition to run for office as such got the boot for “loss of confidence” which amounted to them not always voting like the whole coalition. That’s of course is even without considering how “communist” they actually have been.

Low-yield tactical freedom?

And viruses and climate