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cracking open a maid to find a bunch of smaller maids running around inside. the implications have greatly upset me and i refuse to let my blood be drawn now

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just remembered the bad ending in heavy rain where, if you failed to save his stupid gay son, the dad would be standing by the old grave of his first son and the fresh grave of his second son, and the pixie cut brunette would be like "aw well life goes on, let's just have a new baby boy :) i'll wait in the car" and he's like ok and shoots himself in the head. masterpiece

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drinking apple juice whilst eating apple sauce while reading apple wikipedia article. fully immersed in the apple lore

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Edit for that meme that came to me in dream

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maid you look

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The implications here that Iran is a mysteriously bad place where vaguely bad things happen to white people just randomly lmao

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one day i will be good enough at touhou to reach her

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A sign that your post has journy'd too far from its home

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Guys how it feels to be free i just feel I’m trapped I can’t go anywhere i want I can’t travel all i wanna to be free to know how it feels to be freedom

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(sorry in advance for the more personal ask, you're the most intelligent person i know of when it comes to these things)

genuinely, how are we supposed to find the strength to go on? it feels like capitalism has won. only a few decades ago my country was openly and proudly socialist, and now we're nothing but an american military base with an economy. everything's been privatised, the unions are broken, the people are starving, and we keep voting for more of this! people are gleefully begging for yet more exploitation! sometimes it feels there's not a drop of class consciousness to be found in the entire country, and that it's pointless to even hope for change. how can i stay sane?

The class struggle is not a team sport which either side can win or lose. It is a historical and economic process, one that's inevitable. As long as capitalism exists, there will be a social majority of workers it must exploit, alienation will still happen, and a portion of these workers will be aware of this fact. The class struggle is also a long process, one that, most of the time, is imperceptible to the individual in physical and time scale. Only sometimes, it accelerates to dizzying speeds and the conditions necessary for taking power are met. We can talk about victories and defeats, but we can't lose sight of the fact that those "only" are points in time, momentaneous advances or retreats in the process that is the class struggle, but they never mean the paralization of this process.

We can only really talk about the bourgeoisie taking power and creating the first properly capitalist states in the late 18th century and early 19th, but the bourgeoisie had lead or taken part in attempts at or glimpes of revolution as far back as the early 16th century. The bourgeoisie never really had an unifying theory of the class struggle, most were never really fully conscious of it. But they still eventually took power, once the development of the national economies advanced so far that it forced the replacement of the feudal mode of production, the bourgeois revolutions became inevitable. Marx and Engels only ever saw one real attempt at the proletariat taking power, in the Paris Commune of 1871, but it only ever lasted a few months. They both were long dead when the first actually (relatively) long-lasting instance of the proletariat in power broke the oppressor classes' veneer of invincibility.

When Marxists talk of inevitability it is not in a conspiratorial manner, or an expression of satisfied optimism, we never mean that "one day the capitalists will get what's coming to them", in a vague way. We mean that, only if communists continue to work towards the revolutionary organization of our class, is a complete overthrow of capitalism inevitable. We should all do an exercise is historical perspective when it comes to analyzing progress, take the Marx and Engels example from the previous paragraph, they never got to see an effective application of their theories. Class consciousness will fluctuate continuously, it always has. The bolshevik party in 1913 had nothing to do with the party that lead the October Revolution, and 8 years after the defeat of the 1905 revolution, I bet many felt like their work was hopeless. My point is that, while the borders of the Communist Party may shrink, grow, or even disappear, and while we might be savagely oppressed, no system of oppression has ever lasted forever.

When it comes to revolutions, there are objective and subjective conditions. The objective we can never control; it's the stability of capitalism, the characteristics of its suprastructure, if there is a crisis or not. The subjective is what's under our control; our own work as communists, the state of the revolutionary party, the degree of influence of communists at the core of the working class. These two sets of conditions interact with one another, with the objective conditions influencing the possibility of development of the subjective conditions much more than the reverse. What makes you hopeless is in part the objective conditions. Capitalism is quite stable right now (though not as much as it ever seems), and, for now, we can't do much about it, because the subjective conditions, the other part of your homelessness, are also very delayed. But these we do have control over, at first very little, but as they improve, the control we have over them also increases. Essentially, friend, all we can do is prepare our class, do our best to gain more workers to our cause, bit by bit, so that once capitalism shows one of its cracks, we can be ready to pry those cracks open and bust the whole system. The Russian soldiers in WW1 were already discontent when the bolsheviks began to agitate up to the trenches, Mao's guerrillas grew to an army taking advantage of the deep fragmentation China suffered throughout the first half of the century, etc.

Once again, class struggle is not a straight line that we move in two directions. It is a complex space. The overthrow of the USSR was a very profound blow to revolutionary organizations all around the world, of course, but the state of communism in general in 1995 was still in a much better position than it was merely 90 years prior. Every defeat also sharpens the tactics and strategies we use. Eastern Europe (where I assume you're from) did use to be socialist, and those worker's states were overthrown. But you are still in a better position than a communist in the interwar period, facing borderline fascistic dictatorship and a future of Nazi-Fascist occupation. They did not have any precedent or much practical experience to learn from, but you do. Every day that we delay work, even in the most hopeless of contexts, is a day more that our grandchildren will have to bear in capitalism, and a day more they're deprived of true freedom and self-government

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ok BIZARRE ask but I was on a site alleging to document some of Isaac Newton's alchemical history and it offhandedly mentioned alchemical imagery of couples copulating inside flasks. Now, I am writing a thing which would be PERFECTLY symbolized by sex in an alchemical flask, so I was wondering if you knew anything about this (I couldn't find any source or anything backing it up)

Yeah Newton was more an alchemist than he was a scientist. The symbology you're describing is called a rebus.

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I'm gonna be honest, a good portion of tumblr users seem incapable of actually reading posts they dislike, and instead just choose whichever sequence of words they can interpret most extremely - often just completely mixing the subjects and objects of different sentences together for maximum effect. I'm speaking of my fellow communists here, too. This attitude really isn't helpful, and fits more in the echoic rhetorical style of an SJWs OWNED video than anything else. You're not disproving someone's argument, you're coming up with an excuse, for yourself, of why you don't have to disprove it. At the very least, recognise that that's what you're doing, or you're liable to end up plastering over real ideological issues you hold.

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not going to add even more comments to that post for the sake of stirring shit, but: what if, finally. mercifully. people stop making "punk jackets" so laden with 150 enamel pins they're resigned to sit on a hanger forever because they're so scared of losing their dekubaku pride flag pin if they ever actually wear it to a show

AHFGHSFFDF look. Punk has been the decades-long whipping boy of fashion over actions, I don't think we can save it. What I would LOVE to see is the excommunication of the defense that "punk" accoutrements NEED to come cheap and smelling like flame retardant because true equality is when you have easy access to the "queer uniform" on Wish