100% agreed
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What you call dooming I see as mourning, people are giving their lives out there. In the case where they aren't, everything in their life is going to change. Maybe some of us are more in touch with what is happening than others. Like holy fuck, you think Afghanistan falling wasn't fucking terrible for everybody living there?
proper perspective of the communist position
"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love."
I think China has been made toothless by the powerful liberal faction within its government.
I love your posts and I think you one of the posters I most ideologically agree with, so let me try to clarify my position a bit. My initial post was a rant entirely fueled by the increasingly dire state of the world, a world that doesn't have a US counterweight. No country is currently attempting to bring about any form of revolution except maybe our Burkino Faso/Mali/Niger alliance. In the past, admittedly one that we lost, the movement was carried by a strong international sense of love and anger. When barbarity like what we are seeing came about, some countries (Cuba in Angola) actively gave lives fighting wars they had no part in. There WAS an era of real revolutionary retribution, it feels like it died along with the USSR. Seeing how passive current countries are in comparison to their history has me viewing them in a not-so-positive light.
Yeah, it's an emotional rant and analysis, I know that.
Two things. First, could we not see the US do the same thing they did with SK? They can fund and essentially Marshall Plan certain countries who would be hurt by the impact. Second, this is the US, it's allies are very specifically military bases. Each one of those countries would be flooded with troops as soon as they wanted to.
I said vice-versa, specifically because my whole point is that China would let a close ally be wiped with their passivity. Doesn't matter who attacks who, just saying the way Mao helped the DPRK during the Civil War would not happen again.
So I've always believed I was a dialectical materialist but I DO believe in biblical evils. I didn't realize that my belief in God suddenly disavowed me as a materialist.
We would have more likely seen the genocide escalate into a proxy war, something that would have more than likely saved lives. Let's remove troops from the equations, how about some fucking navy support hm? Anything to help even the odds for Hamas. Russia is controlled by Putin, someone who so badly wants to be part of the western club, and they STILL do more than China.
I'm religious so I do believe in biblical evils, I might view capital that way and that might be (I don't really care) "anti-dialectical". There are plenty of Marxists, usually Maoists, who opposed Dengism for the same reasons. If me calling Deng a capitalist roader is more digestible then there you go.
China being dengist is the issue, I understand the whole "we need to build our productive forces" but honestly, I've come to view capital as almost a biblical evil. It is a corrupting force.
Anyway, yeah they don't care about Baathism, but my concern was more with the allowance of the Palestinian genocide. The USSR would've put troops on the ground.
China is currently being surrounded by US allies, like I agree, but the US won't let that happen without going into a hot conflict.
It's not about letting the US "win". It's witnessing a genocide and doing nothing to help. I don't care about aid or diplomacy, I'm talking about lives. We are measuring these conditions with the death of a people. These revisionist states can very easily just...submit. The west has consistently shown that they will hollow out the core of all existing socialist projects because we all work within their framework.
I'm not American so yeah I agree. I don't expect white people as a whole to do anything for decades at least. At least to the scale that is needed.
This is going to be real armchair leftist but I've been thinking about this for a while. Everything we've been seeing these past few years has really led me to believe that we've entered a period where all of the big let's say anti-west if not anti-imperialists will wither away due to passivity. Russia, China, Iran, they will passively watch their allies blink out one by one, I'm pretty sure if the DPRK ever does invade SK or vice-versa, we will see China do the same thing Iran is doing now. The US will push every red line, the entity has gotten so bold, the 
of the world know this. I think we've reached a point where the Jakarta method has been perfected, the US will butcher anyone and they know that others will not retaliate.
It won't happen but I think the only way out of this horrible mess is for the left to let go of compassion in a sense. Iran should have glassed Israel, and targeted hospitals and schools. Israel could win such a conflict yes but the fucking nazis would have left in droves, they don't have the spine to live through even an inch of the hardship that our brothers and sisters in Palestine have been through. In a grander sense, and yeah yeah this is 
but who gives af, there needs to be mass retaliation. Like Algeria did against the French, or a reverse of what we're seeing happening in Syria. If this is the Cold War 2.0, we are seeing a USSR that watched Vietnam fall without care. This a one-sided conflict, our "socialist" bloc is comprised of China, Vietnam (lol, they WILL side with the US), DPRK, and Cuba, idk nothing about Laos. There is no plan.
This isn't meant to be doomerism, I just don't know how these countries can just...watch. China is especially, hot take I guess, but I have no faith in their current strategy.
I've been working on CID for quite some time. This is my first real project and I'm about 50-60% through it right now, mostly having done the lore/classes side of things. CID is inspired by the movie, the Craft, the 1980s counterculture scene of East Germany and WOD (gameplay wise). I've been using Affinity to design the project so far, with 48 pages done and looking at around 70-80 in the finished project. I'm trying to gauge everybody's interest in what I've got so far mechanically.
CID, like WOD, is an RPG with a strong narrative focus. Now let's talk about character creation, we start by choosing between 5 Upbringings, which is essentially how you became a witch. Each comes with a unique passive and functions as 'origin' stories, so each character should have a starting goal related to said Upbringing. We then have a choice of 8 classes, called Cliques. I'm really happy with them so far. They all come with a special ability that affects play and changes how others react to your character. They are inspired by this document that was posted here from the GDR, I saw it and thought that it looked like a character select screen and that's what led to me starting this project in the first place lol.
Gameplay-wise, I'm still working out the dice mechanics (least engaging thing for me to work on).
We have 11 Magic Branches, each Upbringing is locked to 4 specific branches (unless you're playing a Goth). At character creation, you choose two branches to start and can unlock two more via level-up later on. You choose a Major (lvl 2) and Minor (lvl 1) Branch, the only difference being the starting level. Max level being 5. Every level unlocks a passive/ability and a group of Words of Power. We also have two other groups of Words, Binding and Free-form words. Binding words are acquired once per level up (but we chose two in char creation) and through various other means, such as ancient tomes and spirits/entities. Free-form words are rewards given to players upon completion of a major goal, task, trial, campaign, or ordeal, it's a word chosen by the player and then approved by our FT.
Hope that sounds clear, now, how does actual magic work in CID? There are two types of spell casting, ritual casting and quick-casting (need a better word for it). Ritual casting guarantees intent but sacrifices time and convenience, quick-casting is what most players will be using during play. I'll only be going over quick-casting rn, these spells are cast by using three Words of Power to construct a sentence.
When performing a spell, intent is what matters most and is what you are rolling to achieve. So the more vague one's spell is, the harder it is to achieve one's desired result, it's best to get creative with whatever Words of Power you currently know. Let's start with an example. I've just created my character, let's say I chose False Witch as my upbringing, and Tramp as my clique. From False Witch, I can choose between, Empathy, Astral, Hexing, and Ars Goetia. I've chosen Empathy and Hexing, with Hexing as my major and Empathy as my minor.
Now I can chose between 4 words in Hexing and two in Empathy. I've chosen from Hexing, Woe, Omen, Secret, Invite. From Empathy, Share and Despair. My two binding words are Bring and May. To finish, let's say my free-form word is Shrink. So with that being all my current words, let's cast a quick spell.
'Secret May Share', my target is someone who I've just caught following me around town, he seems entirely unaware of anything magical and most definitely following me on the orders of someone else. I failed a persuasion roll against him and he's clammed up on me, so I cast the spell, relay the intent of the spell to my FT. The spell has a very defined purpose and so my FT gives me advantage and one easy roll later, I very easily carry out said goal.
'Omen Invites Despair', my target is a rival from an opposing coven, she's recently come after one of my sisters in a attack against our coven. In retaliation, I cast the spell, relaying my intent to my FT. The intent being to be darken her future, that the next time something goes wrong for her, it goes wrong. The spell has an intent that is kinda open ended and is open to lots of interpretation so my FT gives me no advantage or disadvantage. My roll is a success and I successfully hex my rival.
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Hey so I have a question as someone who was morbidly obese last year, around 260 pounds, and I'm now currently at 190. I'm still overweight and I don't view being "thin" as some optimal goal or anything especially nowadays, in where body standards are more open.
Anyway, my question is more about acceptance, I'm lucky enough to never deal with anything explictily fatphobic, though I think we have a different definition of what fatphobic is. Is a CW on discussions of how to lose weight, dieting, calorie deficits really necessary? By all means, none of us should be forced into one body type but I think we already see a growing acceptance of said body types. In the sense that, since we won't likely see the systemic change needed to address all the corn syrup in our food, isn't it on us as a community to support each other to be healthier? Not for an ideal aesthetic but for us to avoid the negative effects of obesity.