SevenSkalls

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for answering. That's a great reply and I'm going to save this comment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

How do you get past the initial brainworms even bringing up the word communism? Like someone else said above, I feel like I can't even bring up an alternative path or get them to pick up a book without them yelling about China and Tiannamen Square, or Stalin and his killing a bajillion millon people, or how "communism has never worked". It's so annoying to have to go back to these basic, first-grade points every time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The US military says it has launched strikes on the Iranian-backed Houthi group in Yemen, hitting 15 targets.

Every time. Maybe we should start putting the word "US-backed" in front of "Israel" in every news article about them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wow what a beautiful passage. And thanks, I'll take a look at that book.

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What's some books with an interesting vision of the future? I don't just mean more advanced technology, I mean the way it's organized.

I find often people can't envision past the society we have now. There's that quote, "It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", and it seems more and more true, but sci-fi authors seem best equipped to actually imagine beyond that.

I've heard some sci-fi authors mentioned in this category before, like Heinlen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.

I haven't read any of them lol. Would have no idea where to start within them that fits this category, or what other choices there are that people would suggest.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That seems to be what they're figuring out. The right wing candidate didn't even submit their voting tallies to the Supreme Court or participate in any of the investigations while everyone else did (including other anti-Maduro candidates). What are they supposed to use to determine popular will? Screenshot of papers printed in Machado's basement?

I wouldn't be surprised if some shenanigans happened until they publish their results by polling location, but until then all we have to go on is uncooperative opposition and US-based think tanks (the country that's tried to coup Venezuela basically every other year since Chavez).