GarbageShoot

but we should still vote for Democrats on the state or local levels

To be fair, there might be cases in local elections where it really would be for the best to vote for Dems, as well as (possibly) for like State Senate or whatever. For gubernatorial, congressional, etc. elections though, absolutely not.

If you'd like help with anything that can be offered from an Anglophone perspective (obviously you're going to have better access than me to the robust and interesting material from Indian communists*), I or a ton of other people on my instance or lemmygrad would love to help, and we've got people from all over (I'm pretty sure including India, we just don't get many "As an Indian" posts) who can offer their perspectives too.

*This isn't just lip-service. Aside from what can be tied to movements like the Naxals or the people of Kerala, I think Utsa Patnaik has some very compelling writing.

It is hilarious how the villages are remarkably similar (and I say that to the South's credit, in some respects), but one gets called "Propaganda Village" and the other -- if it is mentioned at all -- is merely called by its name. It's that meme about "Our noble government, their nefarious regime" in such a literal and direct portrayal that you couldn't write it in a parody without it being seen as too hamfisted.

98% of everything that Americans especially but the people of white countries in general have heard about North Korea is false, and the general ethos of being some kind of psychotic tin-pot dictatorship with no grip on reality is purely an American invention (with the help of the sellouts and agents in the South). There is plenty to criticize the DPRK for -- even including stereotypical lines about the less-social elements of its Confucian heritage coloring state ideology all the way back to Kim Il-Sung -- but the image that most "westerners" have in their heads is fundamentally a fabrication, despite how confident they are in it.

"How, subsequent to receiving this answer, can I subvert my death or cause this font of knowledge to actually be useful?"

Ironically, I can't tell if you're fucking with me

and if I'm not with you I must be against you.

Neutrality is support of the status quo, there are no parties that neither support nor oppose it.

That much is probably true, but it's kind of wild how hexbear claims not to be ableist and then takes such a massively condescending tone to someone seemingly for their writing being so colored by their neurodivergence. You aren't, to be clear, but it's most of the thread every time.

Idk, a huge amount of the website is an inch away from saying they just openly despise ASD (etc.) people who don't conform to a very . . . particular idea of what that means.

I expect most users who recognize my username at this point will tell me to go fuck myself for saying that, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

People were really underestimating how quickly China could make chip progress, too

This article has ~4 inventions from last year:

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/4/nwad058/7070744

Stop being a racist piece of shit

The smallest ones are apparently about 1.6 inches wide, so someone could definitely fit it in a couple of orifices if they wanted to for some reason, without trauma from stretching (but probably from cuts and rubbing). With the openings, you could get some string and make a type of bead.

I'm sorry this is really gross and I'm not even into that sort of thing, I was just think of it purely as a creative exercise and then I looked at what I wrote.

Instances range in size from 4 to 11 centimetres (1.6 to 4.3 in).

They're pretty small, turns out.