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Any Germans want to weigh in on this? I believe the AfD is, like, super far right and it has 18%? That seems like a lot of support…

Once a week my friends and I play dungeons and dragons, using DnD Beyond for our character sheets and dice, and Roll20 for our world (maps, player characters, NPCs, etc.). I’m playing a dog folk girl based heavily on the blonde dog in my profile pic with the same name, look, and sassy attitude too. She’s fourteen, and in our campaign dog folk and humans age at the same rate. She’s a full blown communist and I’m not shy about voicing her ideals, while I don’t say the word “communist” during role play, it is explicitly stated in her character sheet. Using the term “Marxist-Leninist” would be inaccurate considering Marx and Lenin don’t exist in the world of our campaign, unless my DM pulls something. Hell, my character’s last name is Luxemburg.

I’m writing this post because I’m looking for some advice on how to play a revolutionary leader? For context, my character is the daughter of two revolutionaries, Clara Luxemburg and Sacha (no last name). Both parents lived outside a dog folk town where they acted as Robin Hood-esque figures. At one point enough was enough and they began plans for an uprising against the nobles of their town. To make a long story short the revolution failed and Sacha and Clara were executed to send a message to the other revolutionaries. My character fled, to be on her own after witnessing their deaths, and ten years later she finds herself in a city building a revolution with the homeless population against the noble families, the church, and the royals. This plan was interrupted when our party was arrested and I broke an anarchist out of prison (yes, shame on me, but in my defence I didn’t know he was an anarchist). But after a bunch of shit and an Ace Attorney court scene, my girl is back on track to leading the revolution once more and going back to her dog town to prevent a genocide. The genocide is because I accidentally sparked a race war between the humans and the dog folk.

Now I’m nervous and unsure on how to go about this. While I am well aware that this is a fantasy game and I could just do whatever I wanted in terms of leading the revolution (the rest of my party weren’t involved in this part of the game, but now they might be) but I wanted to do it accurately to how our real world revolutionaries have done it. Is there any reading material on how Lenin, or Castro and Che Guevara, or Sankara (etc.) went about planning, building, and carrying out their revolutions? This sounds silly as hell but playing this character actually helps make concepts stick better in my head, it also feels nice to act out scenarios I know I never could in real life.

Anyway I know this was rambly, goofy if you will, but I hope you were at least somewhat entertained reading a little bit about my little commie dog. If you need more background information or are just curious about the campaign itself please don’t hesitate to ask. I truly love interacting with you all and look forward to seeing the numbers next to that bell in the corner.

Note: Sorry for any spelling and/or grammatical mistakes, the keyboard I’m using is very small and weird. It’s for an iPad.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/592247

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/592246

Horrible date to announce this. Also very stoked I won’t have to pay interest but school should be free.

I really love Margaret Ely Webb’s illustrations so I thought maybe embellishing my “diary” posts with them would add a little something.

Anyway, last post I mentioned studying for my midterm which was yesterday. I know @redtea was curious about it so I figured it would be nice to share what the content was.

So before the midterm we were given review and practise questions to get a gist of what the exam would look like. I’ll say that the real exam was in the exact same format, down to identical essay prompts.

So the first half was all short answer, we had to answer 10 out of the 13 given, so dealer’s choice. there were no multiple choice as my professor believes it to be juvenile; high school level. The questions themselves were fairly simple, along the lines of defining certain terms, understanding who said what, differences between Canadian and American systems, and a geography question.

The second half is the more interesting bit in my opinion: the essay portion. We were given 4 prompts and had to choose one to write about. I won’t mention the prompts I didn’t choose (unless you’re curious) because I think the one I chose is the most polarizing.

The one I chose asked me to write Marxism and Conservatism based on: conception of society and the economy, and application to current politics. This was ballsy of me considering the other essay questions would have been way easier to write without either outing myself or at least finishing the exam early. But I just couldn’t help myself.

I literally started off with the quote “A spectre is haunting Europe… the spectre of Communism” then proceeded to write about the differences between Marxism and Conservatism, which was simple enough. I mentioned the foundation and superstructure, how labeling certain art work as “degenerate” pushes conservatism (we’ve all even the weirdos with the statue profile pics), and just how conservative and capitalist ideology dominates most of global politics. When I wrote about Marxism in our current climate I did get a little enthusiastic about how certain states have survived capitalist violence despite all odds, how the ghost of the USSR still permeates, and that there is a bit of a new red scare going on (I did bring up the Chinese weather balloon). Would I have liked to be a bit more detailed and what not? Yes, of course, but this was a midterm and I wasn’t allowed to pull up sources to cite verbatim although I did make sure my information was factual. Vietnam, Thomas Sankara, the Korean War, stuff like that.

In terms of content I believe my essay deserves full marks, I answered the prompt and that’s that. But I am fearful that I may have “fucked” myself. I mean, my professor is on the record stated that the USSR was a colossal failure and just hasn’t been friendly to Marxist thought at all. And while I know that he’s supposed to be impartial and mark me based on what I’ve learned, but the second I handed in my exam and stepped out of the classroom a wave of dread washed over me. I’m worried that, even if I don’t get docked marks, I’ll be reprimanded or put on some watchlist or something.

Did I put a target on myself? Yes, 100% and it probably didn’t help that I ended off my essay with “A spectre is haunting the world… the spectre of Communism” because I love a good call-back with a twist.

This is fucking horrifying, but are we surprised? Here is a twitter thread that goes over the refugee issues, as in Ukrainian refugees being fast tracked into other countries while non-white refugees have to fight tooth and nail just to get some space in a camp.

So I’m housesitting/dogsitting and the first channel on the TV when I turned it on is a channel that streams old anime, I guess. I never bothered to change it since I always just airplay videos from my phone, but today I left it playing normally for background noise. The current anime playing is City Hunter and I noticed the main character is a HUGE pervert. In the beginning of an episode he literally steals and revels in a pile of girls bras and underwear.

I’ve grown up seeing these types of characters in every anime I’ve watched but I guess I’m a little put off by the fact that it goes farther back than my era. Pervert characters have always bothered me, even when I was younger and less aware, and I know they’re supposed to be comedic relief but I have a hard time finding the comedy in sexual harassment. Some even go as far as sexual assault. They are so common and also happen to be part of the main cast which, for me, makes it so much worse. One Piece is a show I had to stop watching because of Sanji, I had other issues too but he was a big contributor.

Does anyone know why these characters are so prevalent?

The restaurant’s Facebook response:

They also have a gift shop where you can buy the Nazi flag and one with Bandera’s face on it!

So many NAFO fucks are flossing the replies, plus Ukraine flags in general.

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The lady means well but is very misinformed. Poor Dimitri gets some of the most shit replies ever (not Sheila, she’s a little confused but she’s got the spirit lol):

“Let me talk to your manager” energy:

Are you trying to gaslight Dimitri?:

Babe, do tell why they’re against this resolution, out loud, quickly:

Wonder if he’ll be the “free speech” absolutist he claims to be when people are mass posting that pic with him and Ghislaine Maxwell and trending the hashtag “stand with ISIS”

Your teachers weren’t gaslighting you, stop using that word when you mean lying.

Wikipedia may have sited sources but those sources can, and have been, incorrect many times. Misleading information is still prevalent on the site. So even if you steal the sources Wikipedia uses in their articles you better dig deeper because that shit is nefarious. Wikipedia is not immune to western propaganda. They pick and choose what info to put out there from the sources knowing most, like OP, won’t read deeper into anything they site. You’ll just take their word for it.