I love all the new from soft games too, but man I hope someday SOMEONE nails that DS1 vibe and feel

Either Arce is a bastard or Morales is totally cooked

I'm really digging all the switch games I'm emulating, and I'm playing bomb rush cyberfunk right now which is awesome

I know almost nothing about him but I don't want asmongold to exist

Trotsky himself COULD be sophisticated, and I think he wrote somewhere that had he been in power instead of Stalin those 5 year plans wouldn't have been that much less painful, but the political movement he left behind produced some of the more simplistic narratives about socialism ever, on par with "muh human nature" shit

That's not a very large voting block

Hypernormalizaton is all these libs making the switch only now when it has been clear for ages he wasn't fit

YES!

The more I learn, and get invested, about Cuba the worse I feel, because it genuinely feels like that is the AES state most committed to international socialism but it's also going through a very hard time right now. Let's hope multipolarity results in some unembargoable (new word I invented) trade block that Cuba can join.

I'm sure the cubans are very concerned that you find it cringe that they'd lean on the russians against the global hegemon

As someone who's read some of these Oxvord Very Short Introduction books, this is fucking hilarious, they're not fucking manuals

I got a question for everyone here, in your country/region/state is the 4 day work week being talked about very often in the media or by center-left political figures?

I ask because for whatever reason this shit has really taken off here in Portugal to the point where they got my old former maoist uncle telling me "you're only going to be working 4 days soon!".

And I mean yeah I'm all for it, except that the way it's being pushed is not with "fuck the bosses we deserve to work less" and an associated mass movement (the communist friendly labour union approves it but they don't have the power alone to do it), it's with very technocratic arguments about productivity increases, sometimes mentioning the human worth of free time and recurring to the handful of limited experiments which are always successful, basically in the logic of "no class war here this is actually good for everyone!", which I don't know if that's true, feels like employers would 100% get fucked with this (unless they get to cut wages or increase work hours).

I already mentioned some of the reasons I'm skeptical this will ever actually be implemented anywhere, but another big one is that here in Portugal it's implicit in this idea of the 4 day work week that it has to be the center-left (often much closer to the center than the left) "socialist" party which has been in power for 9 years (and might get booted in next sunday's elections), and this is crazy because there's no way they would actually do this it doesn't matter how many studies are comissioned saying it's great policy that would favour anyone, like, WE WILL WORK LESS, idk how this can be discussed technocratically yes I'm sure some professions (mine included but probably not my way of working specifically) will 100% probably have increased productivity, but will everyone? To the point where the right and employers actually accept this? I can't see it.

So is the 4 day work week being discussed and debated positively in your country or is it still a fringe left idea?

Edit: Thank you all for the responses!