Oh OK violating GPL not as in failing to respect intellectual property, but as failing to publish the shit you do, got it

Violating GPL as in copyright laws? How is that not based?

OK, I’ll definitely try, thanks a lot!!

Ben garrison cum edits <3 the only thing I was missing from Hexbear

Epic username

Also, the hot towel idea sounds good, I have super thick facial hair and I guess making it softer could help the overall process. Also, “let’s steam the towel” sounds sexy af

Oh my fucking god, that’s the most cursed advice I never expected. I’m NOT putting an epilator EVER near ANY body part of mine, I tried once and I swear it’s gotta be more painful than getting tased

That does make sense, conditioner also lubricates a lot (from my experience with long hair) thanks comrade!

That’s exactly the type of resource I was looking for, except possibly for the “manly man” format I’m guessing by the name “gentleman’s gazette”. Thank you very much, I’ll def give it a watch

Wow, how does that work? Softens the hair?

My routine so far has been forgoing razor shaving in favour of electric. Maybe I really should wet my beard for prolonged time before shaving, as the saying says. “Cuando las barbas de tu vecino veas cortar, pon las tuyas a remojar”

I’m white as fuck, but I do have a very thick beard

My sensitive face is screaming from the thought of using a razor to shave… I tried even straight razor, but notjing gets the job done without a week of suffering afterwards… What am I doing wrong comrades :(

rising labor costs

cost of goods go up

I smile when I encounter the Labour Theory of Value

They’re only really “massive floods” when there’s, you know, stuff you care about into the flooded areas. Eastern Spain is known for having this phenomenon called “gota fría”, in which at random, you’ll get in a day or two rainfall equivalent to that of an entire year otherwise. Mapping of the terrain and the “floodable areas” is already finished since more than half a century ago, and yet they won’t stop building fucking towns in such floodable áreas (source: am Spanish).

Spain’s relief is FAR from that of floodplains, if they just avoided building in such areas, floods would stop being a problem. But capital corrupts the entire institutions that are supposed to prevent that, and nothing changes even when floods (admittedly not this big) are basically a yearly thing.

All of those are interesting hypotheticals, and whether they would have brought more plurality within socialism than danger against the institutions and the socialist project, is up for anyone to guess.

What I can tell you is one thing: these hard decisions weren’t made by “power hungry individuals”, or by “authoritarianism”. They were the consequence of the historical and material realities of the time, and carried out by a party composed of people wanting the best for the future of socialism in the RSFSR/Soviet Union. The reality is that the early USSR survived insurmountable odds: decomposed economy after pulling out from WW1 (which happened after a war with Japan), Russian civil war, the massive problems within dekulakization and agricultural collectivisation, and the looming threat and eventually invasion of Nazi Germany that murdered more than 20 million people in the Soviet Union. The fact alone that it was capable of doing so, tells me enough about the necessity of the decisions taken.

That does not mean that everything is perfect. Of course the Great Purge went way beyond too far, of course socialists don’t ideally want to oppress working class revolutionaries like in the Kronstadt rebellion, but what should we attribute those to then? Mustache man bad? Lenin bad? Marxism-Leninism bad? Or to extremely difficult time periods which create extreme necessities?

Moreover: why, if all of this is supposedly embedded in the nature of the Soviet Union or Marxism-Leninism, such things stopped happening after the 1960s for the most part? There was no great purge, there was no rebellion like Kronstadt or Hungary with their subsequent repressions

Please excuse me, which socialist country has a better record of being on the right side of history than the Soviet Union?!

if you can’t see their fuckups

I’ll try and make you a list of the bigger ones IMO later or tomorrow. Again, I don’t expect many people to know more about such issues than Marxist-Leninists, who are famously obsessed with the USSR.

How does that not reek of excel tables smh

the imperialism of the USSR?

Incorrect term. Call it hegemonism if you want, or geopolitical interventionism, but not imperialism. The USSR did not engage in economic imperialism in any stretch of the word, not within itself, not with neighbouring countries, not with third parties. It was a source of raw materials for the Eastern Bloc which it traded within COMECON on exchange for industrial goods at approximately international market prices* (i.e. applying unequal exchange to itself in favour of COMECON countries), it supplied aid in the form of industrial development to poor third countries on exchange for local goods, many times those produced by the newly formed industries (instead of supplying aid in the form of loans for raw material extraction and expecting a return in hard currency with interest rates)… It’s really impossible by any stretch of the word “imperialism” to apply it to the USSR.

*after the mid-50s

They were fucking socialists

So was the USSR in 1986 applying Perestroika and Glasnost, and look where that led them. Many more socialists died as a consequence of the dismantling of the Eastern Bloc than as a consequence of USSR actions.

I dont have a problem with dead CIA puppet libs, this was socialists who wanted autonomy

Yes, that’s the US State Department version. Seeing how almost literally all countries that have taken these liberalisation policies have ended in Capitalism as a consequence (except possibly China depending on who you ask, and Cuba possibly might be on the way to that), I find it hard to believe that it would have brought the result of happier socialism for everyone.

Feel free to answer if you really mean that you want me to make a list of USSR L’s, but I think it’s not a stretch to say that Marxist-Leninists usually know as much of the repressions and bad stuffs in the USSR as any other flavour of socialists

What’s the incident where the term ‘tankie’ was born? Remember that one?

Yes, we remember the incidents in which the USSR prevented Hungary and Czechoslovakia from becoming what eastern Europe has become now (after passing through a crisis that killed millions)

I can’t imagine how after the liberalisation of eastern Europe in the 90s, anarchists will look at it and say “yeah, thank god the USSR didn’t roll in the tanks this time”.