Pseudoplatanus22

Just a reminder that de-Nazification didn't really happen in West Germany

Are ships okay?

Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

Seems as though he's saying basically what most Hexbears are saying: that Ukraine is unstable, and without Western support it will fall. All Russia needs to do is hold out until the West gets bored or pivots to Taiwan, which is easier said than done, admittedly, but is possible.

We'll defend Stalin, but not specifically for his record on Gay rights. It's what we call Critical Support. Likewise with our support of Russia, although it's important to understand why we have come to this consensus. This post gives a broad overview of our views on the Russo-Ukrainian war, but to truly understand our worldview would take years of immersion not only in our space, but other leftist spaces, and would require some reading. I'd recommend State and Revolution and Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Lenin to start with, as I'm that way inclined, though others would point you in different directions. Ultimately however, it all comes back to Marx's Capital.

What are you talking about? It's the most explicitly pro-trans space I've ever seen. If your idea of autonomy is restricted to voting, that's your problem. We believe in actual democracy, as in the voice of the people. Can you point me to a democratic system you aspire to which doesn't ultimately exist to look after the interests of capital? That's the problem we have with what you call democracy. The Nazis were promoted into power by establishment politicians to do exactly the same thing: protect the interests of capital by eradicating communists and trade unionists. The mass murder of Jews, Roma, LGBT people, and many other groups, was neither here nor there to the industrialists who backed the Nazis.

We will always react negatively to being called Nazis, because it's so far from the truth as to be utterly laughable, if it weren't so offensive to the members of our community who would have been oppressed by the Nazis, and who often are oppressed by modern bourgeois liberal democracies.

I assume they were talking about this interaction:

The US fled Afghanistan and the Taliban won. Mind you, while I don’t like the Taliban, it’s better for them to be in charge than the colonial occupier the US had been trying to act as for 20 fucking years. If there is to be hope for Afghanistan in the dilemma between the Taliban and US, we must agree that the local force that actually has some stake in the country doing well is the better option.

Hardly a defence of the Taliban's ideology or methods. As for the stuff about DPRK, well... libs gonna lib.

Ugh. When I was back on Reddit comments like those would always be downvoted to hell.

MuseScore's closed source Musehub (after being acquired by Ultimatw Guitar)

Really? Well that sucks.

Apparently it's a parody of the short film Стеклянная гармоника, or The Glass Harmonica. It's very modernist, kind of like an animated Guernica in places, and with a score equal parts avant-garde like George Crumb's Black Angels or Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, and some parts more akin to a Romantic era symphony.

The video I linked to also insists that it was a secret criticism of the lack of spirituality in the USSR which seems like absolute bullshit to me as it was hardly subtle about the spiritual aspects, and if it had been intended as a criticism, it would almost certainly have been banned (not to mention the fact that there is a kind of spiritual aspect to communism which is divorced from religion, and that's what I believe the film is getting at). Here is a better quality version without English tranlsations of the text at the beginning.

At this rate it's starting to seem like this is going to turn into another vegan situation, where there are still carnists on the site but discussion between the two groups is de facto banned because it devolves into arguing every time

The kind of person that knows how to suck the fun out of any outing