Explanation: In 1956, socialist revolutionaries performed an uprising across Hungary, demanding workers’ control of production and a return to genuine democratic elections. The Soviet Union, unwilling to let go of a vassal state, and certainly not a dangerous one trying to show that actual democracy and socialism were compatible, invaded, rolling tanks into the major cities of Hungary and suppressing and executing dissidents as they saw fit.

From this ugly incident we get the word ‘tankie’, coined by Western Communists who were previously largely content, even during the Stalinist years, to accept the argument that much of the bad press was capitalist propaganda. Apparently, seeing an independent socialist state created by workers’ agitation crushed by Soviet tanks was enough to finally shake that saintly sheen off the Soviet project.

tbf, 100 unarmed men vs. a gorilla is probably about the same difficulty level as 20 men armed with literal sticks vs. a mammoth

Not strictly speaking - market economies, even under predominantly capitalist systems, still include a large number of workers’ coops and sole-proprietor firms. Markets predate capitalism, and markets will likely post-date it too.

Capitalism is in reference to systems of limited-liability stock corporations which allow extremely fluid (and divided) ownership of capital by an investor class.

1. Coffee as a luxury is uh, pretty fucking far. Do you know how cheap store-brand coffee is? The only way you’re dropping below that for the price of drinking is literal tap water - which, even in places where it’s safe, often has a distinct taste (source: grew up in a town where the tap water tasted of iron - city said it was fine, but it instilled a reluctance to drink from the tap).

2. Lacking goods and services regarded as ordinary is a form of suffering - running water in a home is not a necessity either, but most would regard being without it as a form of suffering. Running water is a luxury - and one which we can easily provide.

3. Disabled folk are often receiving benefits on the basis of being disabled, ie that they cannot reasonably and consistently earn more than that in their lifetime. If your view is that disabled folk should lack luxuries entirely because they dared to be born disabled, that’s fucked up.

At the same time that doesn’t give carte blanche for any word to mean anything. I could start using the word ‘conservative’ to mean ‘socialist’, but it would be ridiculous for me to attempt to force others to maintain that same usage, or even force them to acknowledge the usage’s validity. The fluidity of language is not an argument for absolutist individualist interpretations of language, which is nothing less than an argument for the ultimate incoherence of language. Language changes with mass usage, not automatically with individual usage.

Language is a form of communication first, and ornamentation second, not vice-versa.

We’ll drive that woolly mammoth right off the cliff!

Explanation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Punic_War#Aftermath

A symbolic peace treaty was signed by Ugo Vetere and Chedli Klibi, the mayors of Rome and modern Carthage, respectively, on 5 February 1985; 2,131 years after the war ended.

Automatic upvote for She-Ra.

Dude. You might want to wake up and realize that it’s literally the communist and socialist that the ones that fight against Imperialism everywhere.

Uh, considering we’re discussing MLs here, they fought against capitalist imperialism and imposed their own state capitalist imperialist holdings.

Exist in what sense?

In the sense of existing in the real world.

If the former, why do you not take issue with singular they?

Why on earth would I take issue with a grammatical usage case that predates Shakespeare?

Would you argue there are no people who genuinely use “dragon” as their pronoun?

Why would calling themselves something and asking others to call them something inherently make them something a human being literally cannot be on account of it being a fantasy creature?

Thank you! It does genuinely brighten my day to hear these comments

Hope you’re doing alright!

Mostly I am. It’s just a underlying current in my thoughts that’s hard to shake. It doesn’t rule my life or anything, it just… comes by intermittently.

Thank you!

Thank you. Unironically it’s one of the main reasons I post - I like to give people a little entertainment (the other reason being that I want the Fediverse to survive and thrive, and it needs activity for that).

I’m always happy to see you upvote and comment, by the way! Stay safe!

Well, I’d certainly ask for 40k a month, but I’ve yet to receive it XD

It’s literally in the comments.

1. I was specifically and repeatedly accused of not using Drag’s pronouns, including in the comment I responded to, since that’s an easier sell to most people to slander someone on.

2. Women exist. Dragons do not.

It’s honestly something I still struggle with. Issues of capitalism aside, I, from an objective standpoint, consume far more resources and services than I produce due to my disabilities. It often feels like I deserve less than I have, and I don’t have a lot.

It’s one of those confusing points in-between feeling blessed and feeling like a burden.

I feel the need to point out that disdain for the disabled long predates capitalism.

A friend of mine went to Vietnam for a few weeks on vacation (lucky bastard), said it was a gorgeous country, very welcoming.