Calfpupa [she/her]

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they were even less voluntary than they are now

People that don't have jobs today lose their housing and starve to death. You think there's a level below that?

And no, what caused that was mechanization of farming.

Now, thanks to capitalism, we're dealing with heatwaves beyond predictions and snowstorms that out freeze historic data, so I wouldn't say that capitalism isn't impacting the weather. Also, before it, people had the ability to take breaks from work, which doesn't really exist today.

Oh, well that wasn't said. If you could be with your friends, got to see the sun, the roads were easy and third spaces managed, you wouldn't notice how miserable the outside is for you. Also you could just move somewhere warmer instead of thinking about offing yourself for 1/3 of a year.

on 2009-01-06 · c/smbc · 4 pts · 4d

I hate seeing all this early stuff because the later part is usually solid but this is era all shit.

on rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 1 pts · 5d

Because there's a lot of anti-USSR propaganda in the US and I can't confirm a negative? FWIW it is mildly doctored to remove smallpox scaring, but not by the KGB because they didn't exist yet.

on rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 6 pts · 5d

Source? If you don't provide any I'm going to assume it's propaganda/cope.

I mean they're the same group that released these images of Lenin, were they also doctored?

Being a member is different than being endorsed by a chapter, which is different than being endorsed by national. You don't have to be a democratic socialist to be in DSA, you could be an anarchist, ML, or even an NPIC liberal and still be in DSA. In her case, she joined in the past few months and has never been to a meeting from what I heard through the grape vine.

In the interview, she plainly states she is not a socialist and disavows most of the National DSA platform.