I think you were so ready to dunk on anarchists, that you missed the point entirely.

No, Kropotkin is not saying the North Pole has an industry. He was saying the elves work voluntarily, the shops are not after profit, and bringing joy to people is reward enough.

No, Kropotkin does not say we should base our production on a fairy tale. His point is that production should happen to satisfy needs and wants of people, with people deciding what those are, rather than a central, omniscient administrator (like the classic, capitalist Santa Claus). He points to the fact that Santa was created by people, and every people have their own, slightly different version. This speaks to the universality of the concept of giving without wanting anything in return.

No. All available pixels have been sent to Ukraine. We have to make do.

Where's the first letter/number?

Looks like people were writing all over the flag, The letter after SS isn't in line with the SS, could be a mistake.

But those numbers are meaningless. Occam's razor and all that.

What does 114 mean? It's clearly a stylised SS.

This is postmodernism. His army is full of Nazi imagery and symbols, not to mention the thousands of Nazis in the ranks plus the tens of thousands of their comrades who tolerate them plus the millions who celebrate them. There isn't a week where we don't see half a dozen new images and videos of Nazis in the Ukrainian army proudly displaying their affiliation.

The lib response is literally the response the bots from Westworld give: "That doesn't look like anything to me." They have convinced themselves that pointing to reality can be Russian propaganda. They choose to ignore reality in favour of a narrative convenient to them. I don't understand it.

I used to be a DPRK "hater".

Then I actually read about DPRK's history as well as its actual, present-day geopolitical standing. It was an eye-opener. It is amazing what they have achieved after what has been and is being done to them. Their perseverance is inspiring.

That's not to say it doesn't have its internal problems and there are plenty of areas where the state could do better. But no country is perfect. And the DPRK is definitely an overall better place than some exploited countries in Africa where after a series of coups and civil wars between war lords (some funded by the US) they ended up with some parody of liberalism and a country friendly to US interests, recipient of IMF loans, victim of "restructuring", etc.

Libs laugh at how the DPRK is distrustful of the West. "They don't even watch hypersexualised violent films that teach you how to fetishise the capitalist lifestyle." They've fucking fought off the tentacles of American "culture" that has poisoned nearly every human mind connected to the internet. Kudos to them.

But the best part about DPRK existing is how it makes people make absolute fools of themselves by believing and repeating the most ridiculous propaganda imaginable. Like the defectors who are trained and told what to say. People eat those lies up.

Some lie on their own, like Yeonmi Park. She figured out that the more ridiculous her claims the more popular she gets. Listen to this shit. There's people who believe what she's saying. It's absolutely insane.

"It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible."

J. Stalin

Why does the other guy say "Let's destroy the Greeks"? Is it some r/2balkan4you inside joke?

I confused it with another one, Science & Society. The name isn't even close. It was hope clouding my memory.

Scans of Monthly Review are tough to find.

If you were a fledgling communist movement in the past, you could count on the USSR for support. For example, USSR sent Cuba agricultural machinery and fertiliser, allowing them to farm efficiently and feed their people. If you are a communist movement, you cannot count on China for help. China night help, or they might not, it's not as certain as in times of USSR.

Probably. China also sold weapons to the Philippine government to repress Maoists. China is not the USSR.

Same. Fun comic. I think the author has made a few new panels in the last couple of years.

Or do you prefer awesome because it's easier to configure than having to bother with recompiling etc.?

Exactly, all I have to do is restart the wm leaving all my applications running.

awesomewm, it just works.

A lot of those would happen after clandestinely monitoring your internet traffic. Spyware yes, but if they have spyware on your computer then they might as well monitor what you do on the computer side. I feel if one is going to use a VPN, Mullvad provides the most privacy features. If the police is spending all this time and resources to check your internet traffic, that means you fucked up somewhere else and they have you for something already. In that case, the VPN wasn't the problem.

For example, you can say "police can come into your house anyway, why not leave the door open?" If the door is open, they can just walk in. But if it's locked, they need a warrant. And again, if they have a warrant, that means you fucked up somewhere else.

Could be a GPT bot.

if needed police will just find your mullvad key one way or another

How could they do this?