SSJMarx

I’m not aware of any modern communist who would uphold Ceaușescu. That’s like being pro-Pol Pot.

Who controls Zhong Shanshan? The Communist Party, which is the highly popular and effective representative of the workers. If he breaks the rules he gets punished harshly, if he tried to flee the country his Capital would be seized. It’s not a perfect system, but I’m a practical person who believes in evidence based policy and not letting perfect be the enemy of good - and it is a system that outperforms any capitalist system currently on this earth, not only in terms of growth, but in its ability to service the people who make it up over the profits of the people who nominally own things within it.

Instead of arguing with me over every single little point, I suggest you read The East is (Still) Red: China as a Socialist State for a more comprehensive overview that cites multiple western and eastern academic sources.

I’m going to be at my actual job for the rest of the day, so I won’t be able to argue with you further.

The online critical fanbase is not the mainstream fanbase. Plus, the games are made by Game Freak, and Pokemon is owned by the Pokemon Company, so ripping “Nintendo” would be misguided.

The duality of Nintendo.

You know how fascists will always shrink the acceptable group? This is the lib version of that (tautology I know).

Industrial capitalism. It made the tobacco stronger and more addictive than it was originally, and packaged it in a form that was more toxic than previous ways of imbibing had been.

Turns out when you don’t color correct your photos to 90% grey it looks pretty nice.

sir or ma’am

if only their website had a way to know which pronoun to use

I actually miswrote before, my understanding is that industrial tobacco production has generally favored milder plants (which are more addictive in practice because you smoke them more frequently), smaller portions (cigarettes over cigars), and speed of use (cigarettes over pipes). This compared to “traditional” tobacco use which was ritualized, social, and less frequent makes their health impact much worse.