The fediseer can help here both with the trusted instances and with finding servers based on tags

And a 100% reason to remember the name

They probably were in this particular instance too. They would just do it in private whenever the feds come knocking.

ye Monkey Island was easy to photocopy :D

I remember in my local PC shop, they had a whole binder of copy-protection mechanisms they would photocopy from when they sold you a pirated game :D

Is he still a born-again Christian with questionable takes? If so, I doubt his boomer-opinions it will be much of a renaissance.

A direct ancestor to the glorious Monkey Island Dial-a-pirate!

Not gonna lie, that was a hilarious pwn @[email protected]

What? You should learn to read and comprehend better

Reducing the USSR to a “failure” because it collapsed is ahistorical idealism and the height of liberal nonsense

'Tis what MLs perpetually do for every Anarchist revolution.

Collapse doesn’t retroactively erase what was built. “Anarchists” like you who dismiss seventy years of concrete progress because the state eventually fractured aren’t radical they’re reactionary. It achieved the same great improvements for living standards all other such capitalist revolutions did throughout history. Material gains for millions don’t vanish because the system that produced them later unraveled.

I’m not erasing anything. I consider the USSR revolution a great success for capitalism, as it turned an agrarian society into an industrialized capitalist nation. It’s the only thing all such ML revolutions every achieved and the only thing they can achieve. It’s an abject failure at achieving communism though.

Clear proof that USA govt are heroes based on OP’s logic

Honest examination of material reality does on occasion change opinion

honest examination == low effort sarcasm? Deeply unserious…

No it’s not really confused. I think you’re just repeating yourself.

Marxist socialism does not at all behave as capitalism does

It behaves very much like Capitalism. Wage slavery for the working class. Luxury for the bourgeoisie (I.e. Chinese Billionnaires) and the state which enables them. When the Bourgeoisie doesn’t nominally exist, it’s because the state administrators simply act as the bourgeoisie by extracting the wealth and acting like parasites, like every manager in any capitalist company ever who claims they deserve their hundreds of multiples of the wealth of the working class because they are managing.

At its best a “State Socialism” acts like any other Capitalist Social Democracy. At its worst, it’s practically indistinguishable from nominally “benevolent” feudalism (i.e. red fascism)

Before we continue; do you know anything about Greece, or even which dictator I’m talking about?

Capitalism unchecked would indeed devolve into neo-feudalism if working class reaction didn’t prevent that.

I’m not confusing anything

For anarchists, the idea that socialism can be achieved via state ownership is simply ridiculous. For reasons which will become abundantly clear, anarchists argue that any such “socialist” system would simply be a form of “state capitalism.” Such a regime would not fundamentally change the position of the working class, whose members would simply be wage slaves to the state bureaucracy rather than to the capitalist class. Marxism would, as Kropotkin predicted, be “the worship of the State, of authority and of State Socialism, which is in reality nothing but State capitalism.”

• [quoted by Ruth Kinna, “Kropotkin’s theory of Mutual Aid in Historical Context”, pp. 259-283, International Review of Social History, No. 40, p. 262]

/disengage

Just a tiny, insignificant problematic aspect like widespread support for fascism

“widespread”

Moreover, present day Russia is a creation by the West itself. It was your governments that wanted the USSR to collapse, your goverments that elevated individuals like Putin post-collapse. Now you get a brutal, capitalist, Anti-LGBT hellpit, that the people of the West somehow pretend just materialized out of nothing, and wasn’t a result of their own negligence, their own unwillingness to prevent mass suffering in Eastern Europe and Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Sounds to me USSR revolution wasn’t that “successful” afer all

Pithy sarcasm in the face of nuance doesn’t change opinions

No state capitalism is a very accurate description when the state plays the role of the bourgeoisie and wage work is the primary mode of production

I think you’re engaging in sophistry while knowing perfectly well you were going against the spirit of the rules.

I don’t have patience for this. Goodbye

Bandera was also a national liberation actor. One person who understands nuance could usually understand that national liberation actors tend to be lionized and their misdeeds trivialized. It happens constantly. Campists don’t have a problem with mass murderers like Bandera, or Assad, or, Putin, they only have a problem when they’re not in their camp.

And for a national liberation actor, Bandera is receiving comparatively little praise, especially from the current government.

This line of reasoning is therefore purposefully simplistic to paint a narrative, while of course ignoring the rampart fascism in the Russian aggressor who would of course impose a much worse form of fascism over Ukraine

This chain of argument perfectly proves my point