Nono, we believe that nobody should be having sex with minors as an adult. Very, very, different from your framing.

16 & 16? Fine 18 & 30? Weird, I’m gonna judge you, but totally legal. 14 & 24? Fucking disgusting, a crime, and you should never see the light of day for the rest of your life.

The most outspoken critics of large age gaps and people wanting to fuck teenage kids, that I’ve met, have been BDSM kinksters. Quite literally the opposite of puritanical white knights. It makes sense too, because power imbalance, consent, boundaries, are all heavily discussed in those groups.

Officer, this one right here.

I wonder why 35-44 has so many unsure responses

Have you considered that All Cats Are Beautiful?

Common .world user L

Love some Red Phoenix

Yaroslavsky’s “Religion in the USSR” is a very interesting work to me (he was the leader/founder of the Militant Atheist League), also check out the Little Lenin Library compilation titled “Lenin On Religion”. Both are short if people are interested in reading them.

I mean, was it a case of being cultish or was it a case of not having the time to be a fully active party member?

There is a difference, and there is no shame in not having that level of commitment. You can always participate in the various mass/front orgs.

If you are an American, join the insert party that I’m a member of

PSL gets a lot of love on lemmy, that’s fine, lot of PSL members here evidently. You can just as easily join any of the other parties that will reflect your personal line better or worse. All the big rallys and protests I see are run by a wide combination of parties and groups (although I’ll admit PSL and FRSO are usually the largest by attendance).

Always remember you’re joining to do work, it’s not just a cool club you join so you can go to a protest once a year and say “look at me I’m a communist now” (you can do that outside the party too!). You can join PLP, you can join the Avakianites, you can join one of the 100s of trot orgs, any of em, just don’t join a party you know nothing about and be disappointed when you disagree on something. Study the party program. See what kinda positions the party has held in recent history. Be ready to dedicate substantial regular amounts of time to this group. Different parties will have you spending your time differently, but they all will appreciate a member keeping themselves busy.

I actually disagree with most MLs on the war, but you’re deliberately not listening to what is trying to be explained to you.

You aren’t being told “Russia isn’t gonna stop and that’s a good thing” you’re being told “Russia isn’t gonna stop because it doesn’t make any sense for them to as they’ve almost gotten what they wanted.”

Lemmy “MLs” will correctly criticize libs for lesser evil voting then turn around and tell you to support lesser evil imperialism.

Edit: I just realized how perfectly crafted this ragebait is. This is my actual opinion though, just thought it was funny.

Where do you live where they aren’t?

I go to gas stations, fast food places, everywhere has napkins and sauce packets.

So is the UN basically like a big parliament that doesn’t do anything? I’ve never seen one of these votes actually like, do something.

Is it medicine if Im not prescribed it and enjoy taking it?

I think I’m about ready to switch to something QT based. Whether that is LXQT, KDE, or Trinity is still to be determined.

I’m a long time xfce user and my battle with CSD has ended with me losing. Too much stuff just breaks. I’ve more or less been forced to use adwaita as my theme for everything.

Hell, I’m already running plenty of QT software already.

I had a hexbear account, but was afraid of missing out on comments like these so made an ml account instead.

Doesn’t include Gen Z because we can’t get hired, therefore, do not have a paycheck to live on. :')

I got you fam.

“There is nothing to be done” - Vladimir Liberal

NOoOooOO you can’t call out the failings of our dSSa Democrats! Voting and organizing around them is the only thing American leftists are allowed to doOoOOO. 😤