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PSL is super tiny compared to the DSA, yes. Now, it’s not easy to tell the exact size difference since think since PSL doesnt really accept you if you’re not willing to devote a huge portion of your life to it while all it takes to be in dsa is either pay like 10 bucks a month or write a fee waiver application*, so you cant even really go based off of DSA having 100k paper members, but based off of my experience DSA still has way more organizers than PSL.

and it’s not “DSA having a higher chance of success of instilling class consciousness”, it’s that DSA runs candidates pretty much exclusively through the democratic party ticket and thus can actually win elections and thus can actually win credibility among workers by excercisng power, and that spending time on local third party politicians is both 1) a waste of time and 2) actively harming his own credibility, because the average person will think you’re kind of a crank for even talking to a 3rd party person let alone acting like they can win

*this fee waiver is something you can 1000% bs your way through, my local dsa chapter when i was organizing flat out told us to lie and get the waiver even if we could affort because they really didnt like national and didnt want us giving them money directly lmao

Yo fuck them i’ll fight them

aw thank you

a nasally voice doesnt really affect singing as much, at least in choir singing which is always what I used to do. i kind of miss singing in a choir but no chance in hell im joining any church choir and that’s pretty much all that’s available to me where i live

fair enough

All the weird CGI stuff they do, it’s interesting to see how much effort and detail they put into certain things and then the things they skimp on (or do very weirdly, like the water in the port looking like some PS4 cutscene)

honestly i dont know if there’s been a single CGI thing in the show ive disliked, although maybe im just biased because of some of the absolutely horrific cgi ive seen in japanese shows making it pale in comparison

The English voice acting is fucking nuts btw like i hate some of the anachronistic dialogue choices they make but aside from that it’s really high quality

i wouldnt know, im a sub elitist and make my friends watch everything subbed with me lol

Release That Witch

never heard of it, any good in your eyes or?

lmao ive been watching this with a couple of my friends and i looked up the natopedia article on the show and saw that roadmap and was similarly flabbergasted… HOWEVER

literally just random slop

PUT SOME FUCKING RESPECT ON LORD OF MYSTERIES NAME

In 2019, 10 web novels including Great Power, Heavy Industry and Nightfall were collected in the Shanghai Library. A total of 144 works including Lord of Mysteries and Battle Through the Heavens have been collected in the National Library of China

https://archive.li/y6rTY

(also this show is batshit insane, we’re like 8 episodes in and like every other minute or so something happens that has us going . absolutely gorgeous animation though, some of the best ive ever seen )

me: just chilling, having a good time, watching video while i eat my dinner super late

video creator: haha this guy’s a fucking loser, his voice is so nasally!*

me: GUHHHH

*paraphrased ofc

it’s technically temporary, and trump can push it to congress to make his cabinet give him his toys back

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department [sic][note 2][7] or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

so, his cabinet would only ever do this if trump were trying to like nuke china or russia (or some other similarly catastrophic thing) because that’s the only thing that could get the repubs in congress to agree to remove him from office

i think if he ever actually tried his cabinet would use the 25th amendment on him

it was kinda weird, spy shot up when the post first dropped, then it started falling again for like 10-20 min before shooting back up like last 20-30 min of the day and nearly ended green presumably still based off of the same post

i think they want to dissuade people from it because they are craven cowards who already live in fear of icky nasty poor people in general, one of them getting uppitty and shooting them is like top 3 fears for them probably, below only the stock market* going down and china, but i dont think they actually think revolution was meaningfully moved forward like this

that begs the question… would it not be easier to “get your rocks off” if you couldnt understand this (probably) extremely poorly acted porn vid?

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yeah, i dont think the reserves would ever be completely tapped outside of a genuinely existentialist threat to the state, so never happening outside of a civil war magically springing up out of no where

i dont think he gets posted that much, but honestly he’s kinda getting to the point where calling him “just a streamer” is way understating his impact, the media is obsessed with him for months now and he’s actively trying to get involved with politics to a significant level. Like, the dems in control of the party genuinely see him as a threat, i really dont think we should be downplaying him as a little smoll bean streamer anymore

i think hasan is… mostly ok. i appreciate that he doesn’t left punch very much outside of responding to criticism’s from his left, and even then he never stoops to truly stupid stuff like calling people “red fash tankies”. I generally like there is a “left-leaning” commentator near the top of twitch. For someone with such an anti-imperialist worldview he is too eager to accept US narratives about western enemies at times, i think maybe out of trying to triangulate a position that wont scare too much of his lib audience away. I think most of his bad takes about electoralism and what not come from a place of despair/doomerism ironically. He doesn’t see a pathway to revolution and thus has resigned himself to milquetoast dem entryism and reform. I think he is probably being somewhat serious in this tweet that if he actually thought he saw a vanguard party with a clear path to victory he would throw his weight behind them. It is a big failing as a self proclaimed communist to give into that despair though.

all this to say, title is funny but i think it’s not fair to compare him to contrapoints. Hasan’s views really haven’t changed that much even since he first started streaming, and if anything he is more “left” than before, he never used to defend china to the extent he does now, even if he tends to do unnecessary hedges with it still.

you have no clue about the real actions of anyone online, i fucking hate when people spout this take off. i actually post way less now that im not organizing, i dont even call myself a communist anymore due to my utter lack of action but this shit of accusing people who are posting criticisms you disagree with as larpers has got to stop

i hesitate to say it was manufactured, the reddit account getting exposed from years ago makes him seem more genuine to me. I suppose you could say it’s part of some grander plan from an intelligence agency but I try to steer away from that level of conspiratorial thinking.

i just think he probably has a lot of cognitive dissonance that he refuses to confront, he has always been a very weird/dumb guy, dude got himself kicked out of a gw bush rally for sneaking in an antiwar sign and shouting during it as an ~18 yo but then he joins the military a year or 2 later? i really dont understand how that can happen but then again the machinations of the mind of my fellow amerikkkans are nearly an enigma to me anyways

fwiw I think the only way for him to truly show he’s changed would to be to publicly denounce the US military in a way that would seriously damage his chances of winning the election, because i can squint and see the argument that he’s “hiding his power level” but i dont think you get to do that after serving as an imperial death squad goon

did you not read that story about how long it took the US to withdraw kazakhstan’s uranium in secret, and that was with the full consent of their government? i really dont see the need to doom about this

from my understanding they will never actually fully withdraw these reserves because withdrawing them too low will permanently damage the reserves or something like this. even if they do (whether because im misinformed or they’re that stupid, doesnt matter which really) it would be more like 3/4 of a year

i recommend not DMing dnd tbh, i think either going with a much more rules light system or a much more balanced crunchy system like pathfinder 2e will make dming for you easier, although i would not dm pathfinder 2e if you dont want to put in the time to read through the rulebook closely. need to consider what your players would like too of course, if they’re the kinds of people who complain about simple arithmetic i wouldnt play any crunchy system unless you are playing online on something like foundryvtt