Would it be better to say if the religion is organised according to the original teachings? Every group you list seems to be an offshoot of a religion, they’re socialist movements that were started by the followers of a religion.

I don’t go around considering religious people reactionaries, I base it on their actions. But the main currents of institutionalised religions are reactionary. They enjoy the support of the state (even in the “secular” West) and do not want to see socialism prevail.

I’m not trying to make a universal statement either. When I look at the organised religions around me, I see a reactionary force that wants to keep liberals in power and communists out. There are no Diggers or Muslim Socialists around me, not in any public sense or in any way that people know they exist. There are Muslims who are part of socialist movements and parties definitely, but that’s not the same.

Thanks.

Ah ok. I’ve never been on hexbear, do you have a link to the thread?

Religion and belief in a deity/higher power are not the same. Organised religion is a form of control, it is inherently reactionary and therefore anti-communist.

Where is the election megathread? The big spectacle is in two days. It’d be nice to have a central place to discuss, laugh, post memes, etc.

Trump wants to resurrect Hitler and create Nazi Germany with Handmaiden characteristics, while Harris will cure cancer, end world hunger, establish world peace, and make every person in America upper middle class with a two-car garage and a pony. At least that’s what reddit tells me…

I wish people asked me to repeat myself rather than assuming that they heard/understood what I had said.

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From my understanding of the contemporary use of the term, a “Leninist” is someone who believes that the political party is the way for the proletariat to organise itself and exercise its will, the party acts as a vanguard. This is in contrast to some “left communists” who think that the working class can spontaneously organise itself, without the leadership of a vanguard party. But then you have some other left communists, like Bordiga and the ICP who are “Leninists” because they believe the international proletariat should organise itself in a world-encompassing communist party. So Bordiga cannot be considered a “Marxist-Leninist” (socialism in one country, socialism with *-characteristics), but is a “Leninist” (working class should be organised into a communist party).

That seems like a lot of work. I used Scribus to set zines and also print badges.

You need desktop publishing software to format/set the pages.

Scribus is a popular and free desktop publishing software application that can do what you are asking.

Wake up.

For zines the easiest way is to use a sewing machine. You fold the sheet of paper in half and then sew down the fold. I have sewn 10 sheets of paper this way (which gaves you 40 half-pages), but the limit really depends on how sharp the needle and how strong the sewing machine.

If it’s your first distro, just install Linux Mint, Kubuntu, Fedora, Debian… one of the “big ones”.

EndeavourOS

EndeavourOS is based on Arch linux, which is marketed to “power users”. EndeavourOS just has some decisions made for you plus some helpful tools. It is still Arch Linux under the hood and does require you to interact with the command line a lot.

One of the first things that I notice is that I can’t easily modify the /usr/ directory. I tried to install Java there but the OS would not let me because I lack the permission. How do I get the permission?

Linux, unlike Windows, is a multi-user system. That means multiple users can use the machine at the same time. You have your user account, but you also have an “Administrator” account. Did the installer ask you to set a “root password”? That is the password to the Administrator account, on Linux it’s called “root”.

Alternatives: https://kubuntu.org/
https://www.linuxmint.com/
https://pop.system76.com/
https://lubuntu.me/
https://fedoraproject.org/

I strongly suggest you give up on EndeavourOS (for now) and try one of the ones linked above. You also have to know nobody chooses a Linux distro forever. “Distro hopping” is a thing, people try many, sometimes dozens of Linuxes until they find one that suits them.

My first distro was RedHat back in 2004. Then Slackware, then Debian. Since then I’ve tried/used Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Linux From Scratch, Slax, Linux Mint (installed it for family members), Void Linux (what I use now), etc. etc.

Once you get a good feel for linux with one of the more user friendly distros, then you can try the exotic ones.

Books/wikis: https://linuxnewbieguide.org/ulngebook2017/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64

Arch and Gentoo wikis are distro-specific but hold a lot of info that applies to others.

Best place to find help with Linux is IRC.

• server: irc.libera.chat
• channels: #Linux, #Debian, and so on, the help channel is usually just your distros name.

It’s The Telegraph, of course. The Guardian wouldn’t post something like this right now, cause they’re still trying to present themselves as “progressive” and have themselves published articles about the “global south”: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/20/uk-minister-james-cleverly-says-west-must-learn-to-listen-better-to-global-south https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/09/brazil-g20-lula-west-global-south

The Telegraph is the main Tory rag and they have no problems with shitting on non-whites around the world or publishing articles nakedly in favour of European global domination.

Marcus Solarz Hendriks

Sounds like a butthurt Balt.

Marcus Solarz Hendriks is a Senior Research Fellow in National Security at Policy Exchange

And then some.

Russia is so incompetent they couldn’t even defeat just one country in NATO, Poland

How do you know this? What are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?

Remember when that Polish minister knelt at the Bandera monument?

Goodbye any fear Europe had of Russia. They can’t defeat Poland much less all of NATO.

I think you’ll find the war is in Ukraine, not Poland. Easy mistake to make for an American.