Cowbee

Cowbee, 2 months ago

He didn’t contribute that, workers did.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

I’ll stand by the Frontier being a good time for a free mod. Insanely ambitious and some great quests and areas, even if the NCR questline is horribly written and on rails.

There’s a new version being made that guts the NCR questline, polishes it a bunch, adds some more quests, and adds some areas.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Socialism works. Workers can democratically direct production at scale. Communism is the goal, but Socialism isn’t some sacrifice to get through, it’s a marked improvement on Capitalism. Capitalism itself is the sacrifice.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

It’s a nod to Bloody Mess the Trait, which allowed critical-specific overkills to happen even for normal kills.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

It’s cursed, it has all of the wierd Bethesda East Coast lore, tone, atmosphere, writing, and style, but on the West Coast, and does the West Coast factions dirty.

It also canonized some absolute bullshit, but this isn’t a spoiler thread, is it?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

It’s just so goddamn silly how Bethesda just cannot understand Fallout, and it’s doubly cursed to see the terrible goofy grimdark mess of East Coast Fallout with West Coast factions.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Yes, but the trait Bloody Mess literally was in the first games, it was just translated into a Perk for 3 when they got rid of traits. It isn’t a reference to 1 and 2 being gorey, it’s a literal named continuation of the Bloody Mess trait in perk form.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

I just think it’s a bit silly to say that, it’s like saying Stimpaks are a reference to Fallout 1 and 2 having health points, and not a literal carryover from 1 and 2.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Lemmy.ml is still focused on FOSS and Privacy, Lemmygrad.ml is focused on Marxism-Leninism. As such, there are plenty of non-MLs on Lemmy.ml, including Anarchist communities, while this is banned on Lemmygrad.ml.

Very different instances, I wouldn’t call Lemmygrad.ml “mask off” Lemmy.ml.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Lemmy.ml is focused on FOSS and Privacy, and is generally a “generalist” instance with that FOSS and Privacy slant.

Lemmygrad.ml is an explicitly Marxist-Leninist instance for Marxist-Leninists.

They really aren’t comparable instances outside of the dev connection.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

If your theory is correct, then why would they also keep many of their users uninformed? Referring to Lemmy.ml, of course. You claim it’s for legitimacy, but doesn’t that cease to fulfill its purpose? Is the goal to make a generalist instance, but with slightly more MLs, but also divert the MLs to Lemmygrad?

I’m not sure your theory is correct, I think Lemmy.ml is just what it says it is: a generalist, FOSS and Privacy focused instance run by the devs, who are MLs.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Sorry, I really think this is ridiculous. Is Lemmy.world a cover for Liberalism, because it’s run by liberals? Is db0 a cover for Anarchism and Libertarian Socialism, because db0 is a Libertarian Socialist? This is just red-scare style paranoia.

The very existance of Lemmygrad.ml should prove that there is an explicitly Marxist-Leninist space for MLs, and Lemmy.ml is a generalist instance for people who don’t care enough about that but want a server dedicated to FOSS and Privacy.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Such as?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Lemmy.world regularly bans Marxist-Leninists, it is a two-way street there.

Again, I truly don’t see how Lemmygrad taking the marxist-leninists means Lemmy.ml is a cover for Marxism-Leninism, it’s a non-political community focused on FOSS and Privacy.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Anecdotally I have seen Marxist-Leninists calmly arguing in politics communities banned for being “tankies.” I will admit, I do not have any examples on-hand.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

I dont have data on it, sorry to say.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Not doubting you, but what do you mean by “anti-authouritarian?” Presumably you’ve read Engels’ On Authority so you know what they are operating under the pretense of, I can see anti-Marxist takes getting removed or downvoted. It is Lemmygrad after all, not Lemmy EZLN or Lemmy Catalonia.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

To be fair, Communism is illegal in the US.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Yes, it is.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Are you an anti-Engels Marxist? I’m sorry, I think I actually agree with downvoting you, lol. That’s silly.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Who makes that distinction? Plus, the idea of destroying the state, Capitalism, class divides, and money definitely is legally opposed.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

So… why are you surprised that you get downvoted for being an Anarchist in a Marxist-Leninist space?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

So then it seems like an accepting place for people to learn about Marxism-Leninism, but is primarily a space for Marxism-Leninism.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Laws are interpreted and wielded by those in power. The Democrats are already called Communists, what happens if a genuine Socialist party takes some amount of power?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Communism isn’t Communalism. Advocating for Communism and attempting to implement Communism at a national level is illegal, as you’ve shown.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

It’s an intentionally anti-Communist law, it’s pretty simple to see how Communism is legally unfavored.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Ah, fair, didn’t see that it got repealed. My original point was more to state that the legal system works against Communism, America is a thoroughly anti-Communist project both within and without.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Ah, fair, didn’t see that it got repealed. My original point was more to state that the legal system works against Communism, America is a thoroughly anti-Communist project both within and without.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

I understand, however my non-pedantic point is that the US legal system works against Communism. The US is a firmly anti-Communist project both within and without.

Attempting to bring about Communism is impossible legally because it cannot be voted in, unless you believe it’s possible to simply ask a billionaire to not be.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

At least at face-value, sure. Communism itself is a threat to America.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

What is a leftist, if not someone advocating collective owmership of Capital? Leftist isn’t a syononym for “good,” of course, but I fail to see how Marxist-Leninists aren’t leftists.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

The USSR was a Worker State, owned and run by the workers. Soviet Democracy was the base model of decision making, along the formation of Democratic Centralism.

There were numerous struggles and issues with the USSR, of course. There was corruption, especially among the Politburo. The focus on heavy industry over light industry, though favorable during WWII, resulted in fewer luxury commodities, which resulted in liberalization and collapse.

Fundamentally, it is entirely silly to say that the USSR wasn’t leftist. It absolutely was, even if it was highly flawed and imperfect. In fact, it’s useful to analyze what went right (free eduaction, high home ownership, generous social safety net) and what went wrong (corruption, lack of luxury commodities, etc.) so as to come up with a better system.

That is, unless you think Marxism isn’t leftist, and think only Anarchism counts as leftist, in which case I really don’t know what to tell you.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

That’s certainly a statement, backed up by nothing but posturing and not an ounce of analysis.

If you can meaningfully explain how Lenin and the Bolsheviks were not Marxists, I’d be very surprised, but I am willing to hear your case. What do you believe would have been the Marxist structure? The same as the USSR, just without the corruption? Is it just vibes and aesthetics?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

The justification for replacing the factory committees with the union system is because the factory committees were focusing competitively on local issues, rather than cooperatively at a national level. I don’t believe this makes it less leftist. This improved productivity in a time when the factories were more chaotic.

How would you propose the Bolsheviks could have handled the situation in a more thoroughly Communist manner, given what they had to work with at the time?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

What made you upset about the Lumpenproletariat? Either way, Marx describes a bit about what a Socialist state might look like in Critique of the Gotha Programme, but is careful not to actually decide anything or give a template.

I understand that you are saying the Bolsheviks were reactionaries. The Bolsheviks claimed the Anarchists were counter-revolutionaries. What evidence do you have that the Bolsheviks were against implementing Socialism and eventually Communism?

Reactionary is specifically used for enemies of the revolution, not the ones carrying it out.

I am not defending the killing of the Anarchists, but questioning the language of “reactionary” as used by you.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

I am not defending it, I am asking what you would have done. I gave their justification for going with a different Socialist system, and you haven’t explained what you would have done, which is all I am asking for.

Cowbee, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

In what manner at all? Fascism is fucking horrible. I am recommending about Marx and Engels as examples of Leftists. Unless, of course, you think Communism is fascist, in which case I really don’t know what to tell you.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Why would any government oppose people’s thoughts of freedom and self-improvement, when that’s specifically the goal of Communism to encourage, as opposed to Capitalism?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

That’s hilariously wrong, lmao. The majority of people in nearly every post-soviet state wants Communism back, and this number is

You don’t have to like Communism or the USSR, but please don’t make things up now, lmao. It’s cringe red-scare fanfiction.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

How is freedom and self-improvement “opposition to Communism?” Do you have the slightest idea what you’re talking about?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

How?

Cowbee, 2 months ago

The same thing happened with Fallout: New Vegas when chuds realized Joshua Sawyer is a Socialist

Cowbee, 2 months ago

No, Joshua Sawyer, the Project Lead. He wrote characters like Arcade Gannon, told Gonzales to add dialectics to the Legion, etc.

He has shown up on Communist podcasts and is vocally a Socialist on Twitter.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

We aren’t talking about bare minimums, we are talking about 6 hours of work in the most productive time in history.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

May she rot in hell.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Appealing to the widest audience possible for the largest gross profits, rather than appealing to specific audiences with a smaller budget, is part of the issue with modern gaming.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Reality more has a leftist bias, but certainly favors liberals over fascists.

Cowbee, 2 months ago

Lemmy.world is just Reddit 2, basically.