The US national stock pile is set to be depleted in 2025.

It's fucking crazy such a simple weapon hasn't been simplified in its supply chain demand for over 100 years. Antimony is literally used to harden the metal casings of the shells. That's fucking it. Seriously. That's fucking it. For 100 years the greatest most capitalisticalist empire on earth couldn't figure out how to more sustainably harden artillery shells without using a rare earth metal.

South Korea is an even deeper oligarchy than the US. All Yoon has to do is secure the majority of that oligarchy's opinion and they will essentially enforce the political line through the chaebols (family owned megacorps) they control. Chaebols have immense power over normal people because they're effectively the only way to be upper-middle/middle class in Korea. Chaebol employment practices are obscene to the point where you can be not hired/fired for being ugly which is why SK has such a high rate of plastic surgery.

There's a real play here. The jury is still out if it's "enough". You can't really "vote away" martial law in SK, in the same way you cannot legislate the President to be ethical in the US. Most of the real politics of capitalist societies don't happen in senate chambers, they happen in backrooms.

I think this is a magnitude and direction argument.

Fashion is changing direction still, however it's cultural magnitude is much lower because "out of date" styles don't actually stop being produced.

The other issue is that for RTE there's not really any significant mainstream evolution of new clothing, people aren't really mainstreaming tech wear, they're mainstreaming tech-wear lite for the finance bro office.

This is a good case for it being a formerly captive animal - it might just perceive humans as nbd. A mountain lion would probably be far more aware of humans in its vicinity than the inverse. But if it was a young one, who knows.

The problem is that this is NE. in NE we have a really high rural population density compared to the rest of the country. Our animals are very much attuned to living with humans. Our wildlife politics in the past years have had issues with this because city people moving to rural NE often have to contend with newer "friendlier" generations of black bears and that makes them go insane for whatever reason despite the fact that black bears are just big racoons.

There was a Mountain Lion that was smashed on the highway in Milford CT 13 years ago. Milford is not rural and stuck between two cities. The mountain lion likely got trapped because there's a way to get to the place that it was through open space and rural towns.

When the state researched they found that "it was from South Dakota", but that's some bullshit because they typically only travel 100 miles form their habitat and what they mean by "from South Dakota" was that it's DNA matches to a high percentage to DNA of a SD Mountain Lion population. It's the same way that Haredi Jews in the US are "from Eastern Europe" if you ran the DNA the same way.

There's just missing data and the NE states don't care to fund ecological research to put the question to bed because it's expensive.

There are mountain lions in New England they're just extremely rare. When state Wildlife agencies say things like "there are no mountain lions in New England" it's because they're quite literally not looking because it's expensive. MA has a page on the accepted documented evidence submitted to state agencies, most people who see one simply don't submit a case, and those that do are often denied because there's not enough evidence for the state to investigate.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/are-there-mountain-lions-in-massachusetts

Given the stripey bit at the tail, you either saw a smol mountain lion or a big bobcat.

It's unlikely to be a lynx because lynxes are typically grey and you could easily tell by the ears.

I'm a tankie but for President Yoon's 2024 declaration of martial law in South Korea, not the invasion of Czechoslovakia.

19% approval rating

Listen he captured the support of the difficult 20%, the easy 80% is going to be easy right? Pareto Principle of Martial Law.

This observation has been made many times over the years,

It's also not true.

The 3 basic components of "workers" of socialist classes are:

• proletarians -- wage laborers capable and open to organizing / socialism
• peasants -- small and independent farmers
• lumpenproletarians -- literally anyone who works for a living but is incapable or closed to organizing and typically explained away as "criminals"/hobos/layabouts/irrideemables etc. because this shit was written in the fucking 19th century by an insecure guy who if not for his friend would be one of them.

Their 3 classical class enemies are:

• bosses -- literally the people who make them work
• landlords -- people who own land that make money off of tenant farming or larger farmers employing smaller farmers
• finance capital -- literally the force that strips the 2 more classical classes into pure fungible labor e.g. gig work

The overarching story of socialism is that:

1. Lenin began with the proletarians, but ignored and vilified the peasants. Stalin carried this crown with Stalinist brutality
2. Mao began with the peasants and brought the proletarians into the fold, which made Stalin mad because Mao embarrassed the USSR in various ways with his success
3. The USSR falls
4. China turns market capitalist modes of development but claims its "market socialism"

The problem with what you're advocating is the fact that it falls into the same trap that Lenin fell into with the peasants. He attempted to force the economic conditions that proved his theory rather than theorize from the economic conditions that existed. He never had an answer for what to do with peasants and how they fit into the equation, he also never made good on his promises to them.

Likewise you have the same problem now except worse, while Russia had many peasants they weren't the majority, the US or <your favorite country here> because of finance capital has a majority of lumpenproletarians who are effectively beat down. Attempting to run the Lenin playbook on these people is just literally slowly killing them over time while still extracting value from them. Given that these people make up the actual masses, unless you actually understand lumpenproles and activate them into proletarians you'll never have a "revolution" or a political movement. Even worse if you somehow eke one out counter revolutionary forces will eat you alive because lumpenproles are quite open to the reactionary self serving trickery that counter revolutionary forces would employ to get them on your side. It's why Trump never goes below 38%.

The bad news is that this is purely greenfield theoretical space that isn't really explored in theory or practice by most historical socialist theorists, and given that there are no new serious socialist theorists to be found it's a bit dire.

Sorry I'm being flip but it's funny to effectively advocate to literally do the same bullshit Lenin did to the peasants to the lumpenprole gig workers by destroying and remaking their industry at cost to them.

It's like reading history to repeat the same mistakes.

Personally, I’d rather go the Lenin route and fully restructure the financial sector to be more suited for conventional working class ranks; from peasants and proletariat, as a tool towards state-allocated credit and funding

Damn that's crazy you got a time machine to 1910 Russia?

Who exactly the oppressed class under the Public Finance mode of production (if it can even be considered a distinct mode of production) would be is the important question. I think as we transition deeper into a “Gig Economy” world, the answer is the Lumpenproletariat.

Hooray someone gets it. However if you take this statement to it's logical conclusion using Marxist theory and combine it with the typical political leanings of lumpenproles you get a ban from this instance!

I think hexbear like every leftist space ever hasn't actually worked out how it does social reproduction outside of posting memes. The difficulty of social reproduction in these types of spaces is always rife with problems because the expectation of a collapsed cultural context means that people have to be onerously careful in how they word things so people misrepresent what they say (e.g. when having a deep discussion people have different definitions of fascism and different understandings of "what is to be done" and depending on how you phrase it that breaks the hugbox rules) or they otherwise they break bad word rules some of which are lulzy and often get lulzier by the day (e.g. the TW gossip is a sexist word post).

I've seen mods overreact entirely on this site based on literally a meme said to the wrong person. Likewise mods/admins very often get to get away with their bad behavior and enforce completely different rules on users (e.g. its ban evasion when you do it, but it's "privacy" when they do it).

In practice what you're asking for is typically unrealistic of these kinds of spaces because very often the lowest common denominator isn't effort posting because it's risky, but memes and trying on hats. This place reminds me a lot of Shit Reddit Says back in it's heyday, but it doesn't have anything to really gawk at.

Meanwhile the admins like to pretend they want people to start effort posting more but don't have any understanding or experience in managing a community of anything but shitposters.

As Mao said

With regard to comrades who have erred, some people say we must observe them and see if they are going to correct their mistakes. I would say just observing them will not do, we must help them correct their mistakes. That is to say, first we must observe and second we must give help. Everybody needs help; those who have not done wrong need it and those who have need it still more. Probably no one is free from mistakes, only some make more and some less, and once they do they need help. It is passive just to observe; conditions must be created to help those who have erred to mend their ways. A clear distinction must be drawn between right and wrong, for inner-Party controversies over principle are a reflection inside the Party of the class struggle in society, and no equivocation is to be tolerated. It is normal, in accordance with the merits of the case, to mete out appropriate and well grounded criticism to comrades who have erred, and even to conduct necessary struggle against them; this is to help them correct mistakes. To deny them help and, what is worse, to gloat over their mistakes, is sectarianism.

The problem with judging accelerationism in this way is that most people in the West are going to have to accept worse conditions or what they see as worse conditions. That's just a realistic understanding of what it is going to take to rebuild a fairer, stronger and more robust economic system.

Most people in the West are not going to agree to that because they are used to imperial exception.

Xi underlined the need to focus on studying, promoting and implementing the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and promote innovation in deepening theoretical research and interpretation of the Thought in a systematic way to make the Party's innovative theories more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Yeah, uhh..... Thought has literal contradictions in it, and until they rectify those with something besides hand waving all this means is "make more propaganda".

The only real way to do that is going to be through a new National Congress where they can agree on what a new direction in Thought actually means for the economy.

The main problem that the CPC is having here is that not very many people in China believe they are in a Marxist country despite the standard of living being raised incredibly high, and they are not wrong to think that. In order for Marxism to actually develop in the populace Xi has to actually rectify contradictions in Thought and in the economy. Nobody in China believes in the "we're doing market socialism" lie anymore. The real problem here is that Xi Jinping Thought is like 7 years old, and if there's a revision this quick, it's a massive admission of failure in the CPC's view.

Because libs don't know geography and are high on copium. Every time you see "Kursk" they mean "Sudzha" a town of ~6000 including the neighboring villages.

Kursk was always a Western Propaganda play to keep Ukraine in the headlines so that Western support doesn't fall off a cliff. If there's one thing Zelenskyy knows is that Americans don't like a loser. That's why they don't publish the actual statistics of the war dead.

AMAB enby here.

Aesthetically I have always wanted to be androgynous. The main problem with that for me is that I'm Jewish and I'm not willing to go through the effort of managing all my body hair (and tbh weight) to get the look. So just by default I'm fairly masc presenting except I have long hair so I get called "ma'am" sometimes if someone doesn't clock the beard first.

Like you I have no idea what "being a man" is. I have constantly heard that and it hasn't made any emotional connection inside me. Ironically according to my masc friends based on my hobbies and way of living I'm one of the most masc presenting people they know. I work on my house, chop/heat with wood, build things with my hands, etc. Most of my masc friends come to me for advice on fixing their homes, computers, etc. People always ask me for tools. My FIL (who I am never actively coming out to) in law thinks we have one of those man-to-man connections. My hands are usually rough, and I have a hard time "taking care of myself" in the stereotypical way that's culturally expected from GSMs. At the same time, I started watching RuPaul's Drag Race with season 1 before my wife (white cis woman AKA the target audience) even knew what it was. My artistic, cultural, and aesthetic hobbies and consumption trend very much into the avante garde art gay/femme world. I love sad girl books like My Year of Rest and Relaxation. I have no issues with cross dressing, wearing gendered colors, etc. I share clothes with my wife as we are roughly the same size and shoe size. I also have no concept of what "being a woman" is. To me genders are just constellations of signs and signifiers. They're shapes humans make in the night sky of our activities. I can see those shapes, but I can't feel them. I don't feel bad about it, you shouldn't either. Charli XCX has synesthesia so she feels sound as color. That fact that I can't doesn't mean I can't enjoy music, and doesn't mean I'm "missing" something.

Like you I am also autistic, and let me tell you that it doesn't matter one bit. There are plenty of autistic men that identify as men (I work in the software space so I see a ton of them). However many autistic people are also gender diverse more than NTs, but just because you have autism doesn't mean you're cursed with non-binary or agender.

To use a common trans metaphor, sometimes I am in the Eva, sometimes I'm not in the Eva, and the Eva doesn't have to be me if I don't want it to. I don't have to "be the same person" to everyone. I think that's often something that's been hard for me as an autistic person to understand because I am one of the autistic people where things need to have a uniform flattened context. My relationship with my FIL is never going to be the same as my relationship with my masc best friend, because my FIL cannot properly contextualize who I actually am, and that's fine. He doesn't need to. He can barely contextualize himself let alone his immediate family.

so it feels like coming out to myself hasn’t really changed much of anything, and that’s giving me imposter syndrome type intrusive thoughts when I think about telling other people I’m non-binary.

I often struggle with this as well. Enby's are like #2 on the list of most annoying types of GSMs right behind bisexuals. However my feelings about it are that I do not care. In fact I would rather not have people know because I'm okay with being treated on average as a man than risk being treated differently for being nonbinary. I usually take any and all pronouns but I typically prefer they/them but I'm not really picky about it.

I think a lot of specifically gay culture has lead to this idea that every GSM has to be celebrated, brave, proud, out, and in front of people's face. I think culturally that it's a bit of an overreaction and the attempt to carry stonewall culture into the world where gay is a leading cultural current instead of an underground counter current is actually harmful to GSMs who comprise smaller slices of the population than homosexuals. It leads us to think that we have to perform in a certain way but it leads to this imposter syndrome because for normal people our "type" is relatively unknown and doesn't have a grand historical narrative of oppression.

My advice is that you should simply ignore all the broader cultural mores and exist how you want to. You don't have to develop a complex and boutique gender identity like agender/gender neutral/gender apathy. You don't have to tell everyone you're nonbinary. You don't have to have strangers call you they/them if you don't want to. You don't owe people your gender. It can be something that is only well known among your friends and you are still valid for choosing to live that way. You are valid and you can just exist.