MnemonicBump

Good. Now have HBO Max put a LOOOONG disclaimer before each movie plays

Oh I've never heard of that! My dad grew up in West Germany, and he would always have Braunschweiger and brown mustard on rye, which I sometimes liked sometimes didn't, but I'll have to get my meat eating roommate to try this Mettbrötchen and report back. Seems like a classic working class lunch

This is only tangentially related, but in Wisconsin they have a local delicacy called a "Cannibal Sandwich" that consists of raw ground beef and onions, and this just looks like the vegetarian version of the Cannibal Sandwich to me.

Source: Lives in Minnesota, is vegetarian, is eternally curious

That's because the DFL took advantage of a VERY brief Trifecta in the state government to pass legal weed, and now they've had to spend years waring through Republican jiggery pokery in order to even get an official management body to oversee licenses and regulation.

Yes it does :)

No, they're not. They're all a lot more rural. I don't think many people consider Northfield because it's out of the way and off the freeway (and surrounded by nothing), which is one of the reasons I think it is the way it is hahaha

Northfield is progressive. All around are farms. But it's not all that far from the cities, either.

The cities are cool, and like any major metropolitan area, every neighborhood has its own vibe. Duluth is a REALLY cool city, and totally worth a look. But I ended up in this small, off the freeway, city called Northfield. It's really nice. There are plenty of jobs, lots of services, the rent is okay, and there are two liberal arts colleges here, which means that this tends to be a really progressive area

I moved to Minnesota from San Diego 5 years ago and it feels like a better decision every single day

The Black Panther Party were cool, but the PSL is a bad example, imo. They've had... issues. Really icky issues that kind of mar the whole organization. I did meet some cool former PSLers back in my DSA-LSC days, though.

I think it's personally a stretch to call Xin Jinping a Marxist, even if that's how he identifies. It kind of seems like China's just doing a capitalism, but with more steps. I don't know enough about Vietnam and Cuba, but it's my understanding that Vietnam has been slowly moving in the same state capitalist direction that China did

All of the examples I listed should meet your definition of success, right?

You said:

The nature of society has not fundamentally changed in a century, so there's no reason to think that methods of organization need to drastically change as well.

I said:

You don’t actually believe that basically nothing has changed since before the industrial revolution, do you? That seems intentionally obtuse.

How is that a straw man? It's literally what you said.

I mean, it's both. Hungary was the upper cut and Czech was the right hook. But regardless, if you don't have a blind allegiance to just any state calling itself socialist, then you probably aren't a Tankie, right?