Filthmontane 19 hours ago • 100%
Vanya did transition to Victor in the show.
Filthmontane 5 days ago • 100%
I mean, yeah. The only way to reform the system is from within the system. Here in lies the ultimate issue with the left: all I ever hear is criticisms and no solutions. We have two options, reform or revolution. Revolution is nearly impossible. So if it's reform, people need to be elected into the system to make the changes. There is no reform without elections. Even if we were to organize something big like a general strike, it would only make the bourgeoisie afraid. Real changes are legislative and that means elections. Unless you've got a better idea, in which case, please share with the class.
Filthmontane 1 week ago • 100%
Getting a third party to win is the first step into breaking the US political duopoly and fixing the broken electoral system. The first changes a third party will make is regulations that allow third party wins in the future. It's about making progress towards the left. Democrats do not represent progress, but an upholding of the same tired political duopoly that gives capitalists power. The green party, regardless of whatever ideals you still hate about them, are very intent on changing the electoral system and ending the duopoly.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
They use that argument because it's valid and holds weight. The only other option besides bringing in a third party with ballot access is violent revolution and that was a lot cooler of an idea before drones existed.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
That's dumb. If you think the greens are just as bad as the Dems, then your brain is broken. PSL has ballot access in 17 states and they're the only other leftists running a candidate. Green party has more ballot access in 37 states and holds a significantly higher chance of meaning anything. But maybe in another 3 or 4 election cycles the PSL will have the ballot access that the greens do now.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
They are the leftist party available.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
You're citing a capitalist finance website to prove your point about socialism. You seem to be confused between social democracy and democratic socialism. I understand because they seem so similar that they must be basically the same thing, right? Nope.
The Nordic model is a form of social democracy. They take many of the benefits that socialism provides and builds them into a capitalist economy. Democratic socialism is an actual form of a worker owned an operated economy.
If you're ever in doubt, ask the question, "who owns the means of production?" If the answer is huge megacorporations and wealthy billionaires, then it's a capitalist economy. If the answer is the working class, it's socialist.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
Well I don't see nearly as much ballot access from the PSL or any other minor party. Maybe we should make a new party that'll lose popularity to the next one in 5 years. No party will ever be leftist enough for leftists in this country and that pretentious mindset will keep us weak forever.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
I didn't say that I did think that. What I do think is that leftists should leverage the biggest third party that's the closest to representing their core values into the party that they want. It has nothing to do with Jill Stein and more to do with uniting under one generalized leftist party instead of constantly fracturing into weaker more specific parties.
Filthmontane 2 weeks ago • 100%
It's that kind of attitude that weakens the left. If every leftist were involved with the greens, we could create a truly revolutionary party.
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 22%
It's not cool that Americans are as dumb as crabs in this analogy. If every leftist just got behind the green party we might stand a chance. But everyone wants their own unique ideology represented.
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 38%
Why can't we just vote for the biggest leftist party with the most ballot access? Ya know, the green party
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 100%
Beneath the surface of every great nation's collapse is US Interference
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 100%
I agree prison labor is just a roundabout way of getting away with slave labor and it shouldn't be done. That being said, China has less slaves than the US and treats them half as badly.
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 100%
The US has destroyed every socialist country in history that didn't have a strong enough military to fight them off
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 50%
None of those are socialist countries. They're all capitalist
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 83%
Russia devolved into capitalism. Funding a military is incredibly expensive and necessary when a communist country wants to exist in a world with the United States. This creates a militant economy that must be centrally governed to coordinate this military might. True democratic socialism is impossible as long as the United States exists as an imperialist force.
Filthmontane 3 weeks ago • 66%
Weird because China is succeeding quite well.
Filthmontane 4 weeks ago • 100%
It only takes one toke to go over the line
Filthmontane 1 month ago • 20%
I'm pretty sure Crimea wouldn't like that deal.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 100%
As the vice president of my local, I agree.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 100%
Marx coined the term, sure. But he didn't come up with much more than that and a very rudimentary theory on how it would work. Lenin put it into practice and actually created it as an economic model. Everything else you're arguing is theoretical semantics. How the thing works is how the thing works.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 50%
It's important to consider the conditions in which state ownership was deemed necessary. Countries with a starving and illiterate working class isn't as capable at a true worker owned economy as one that already has a well fed and educated working class. A true socialist society needs basic infrastructure and fulfillment of the basic needs of its people before it can be properly implemented.
Lenin's concept of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was intended to be a temporary system intended on rapid development and growth of the economy. It was more important to try and stop starvation and establish railroads than build worker co-ops. The mistake was when the leaders that came after decided to never cede power back to the working class.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 100%
This made me realize two things about Harry Potter. 1: why do the wizards not simply use magic AND guns? 2: oculus repairo is a stupid fucking spell. You're telling me there's a specific spell just for repairing glasses? That's just bad writing.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 100%
So, obviously research this yourself and don't listen to some dumbass on the Internet. As I understand it, there's a difference between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber is good for your cholesterol and blood sugar. Insoluble fiber is good for digestion. It's very likely that any fiber gummies are gonna be soluble fiber. I take the metamucil capsules for insoluble and fiber gummies for soluble.
This has been my nerd rant.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 50%
That's pretty general though. I'm trying to pinpoint the issue as the show not properly nesting plot threads.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 66%
It's not about who killed the night king, it's about when he died. If the opening scene of the show is about the white walkers coming and killing everyone, that should be the final scene of the show. Imagine return of the Jedi beginning with killing off Darth Vader, the main villain that the protagonists have been fighting against the entire time, and then the rest of the movie is Luke trying to defeat Jabba. Or if frodo got the ring to Mt Doom and then they still had to defeat saruman
They should have lost the battle in winterfell, retreated to kings landing, then had a final battle against the night King and cersei all in one major battle. It truly doesn't matter who kills the night King, just that he is the last antagonist to die since he was the first one to be introduced. It's about closing plot threads in the order that you open them.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 100%
I used to love that dude, too. I also used to go on Reddit though. Thankfully, I've outgrown both.
Filthmontane 2 months ago • 57%
Infighting should definitely be avoided. So they should agree on a different candidate as a unified party
Filthmontane 4 months ago • 100%
Or we could just build up the working class with unions and worker co-ops
Filthmontane 4 months ago • 84%
I'm so glad you posted this. I've been looking for some of the photos of soldiers getting attacked for a long time. I commend your efforts in trying to educate people even though they won't listen.
Filthmontane 4 months ago • 100%
Yeah, that'll never happen.
Filthmontane 4 months ago • 100%
Until rich people decided to own all the land and now there's no freedom.
Filthmontane 4 months ago • 100%
Play Ram Ranch
Filthmontane 5 months ago • 66%
It was many factions. I'm just saying all of them were trying to have third revolutions while the people starved to death. At some point, revolutions end with a unifying government that isn't trying to murder each other. Lenin was not the villain you're painting him to be.
Filthmontane 5 months ago • 80%
That's not true at all. The Mensheviks wanted to cooperate with the bourgeoisie and were therefore a bad representation of socialism. Lenin formed the Bolsheviks because the Mensheviks were being stupid. The country was also fractured after the revolution and many groups of counter-revolutionary groups were trying to overthrow the barely formed government. Meanwhile famines were ravaging the country. Understanding the historical context of Russia in 1917 and the economic struggles the people were dealing with is very important to understanding why things happened the way they did. Looking at the aftermath of a revolution where everyone is vying for power and killing each other doesn't automatically make the winner of that power grab the bad guys.
Filthmontane 5 months ago • 75%
Weird, I was under the impression that the purges happened after Lenin died. Can ghosts lead a purge?
Filthmontane 5 months ago • 61%
I wonder who caused that regime to come to power. Could it have been... The US? 😱
Filthmontane 5 months ago • 100%
At some point it's really up to the consumers to stop buying shit games
Filthmontane 5 months ago • 50%
You would say that.
I work with the UAW and I'm reaching out to anyone in the St. Pete or greater Tampa Bay area about organizing your workplace. If you're unhappy with your wages, hours, or working conditions; please reach out. I would love to help organize your workplace. I've lived in Pinellas county my entire life and working class people are being priced out of their homes here. With the rising cost of living, we need to band together to demand better wages and force our employers to pay us what we're worth. Lets bring the labor movement down to St. Pete and stop job hopping from one sweat shop to another. I don't care what industry you work in, I just want to help you organize. United we bargain, divided we beg.