#gingerche

[laundryandtaxes]

gingerche replied to your post:@gingerche I have a wire coat hanger, but...

There’s some stuff on forums about tapping the side of the receiver a few times to fix it, or using a coat hanger to align the cams

The hanger is a great idea, but I just tried it to no avail. So what's happened is my BCG is lodged back into my buffer tube/the end of the lower receiver. And the bolt carrier is up high enough that I can't actually see/reach my cam pin to rotate it :( And I've tried knocking the side of it, I tried banging the barrel down onto the ground, I tried banging the butt stuck like the military sometimes does for similar stuff, and nothing moving. I think it's stuck in pretty tight. I might have to take it to a gunsmith and be ripped off for what I know will only take ten minutes tops.

[prof-grace-aspen]

500,000 children died as a result of the US bombing water treatment facilities in Iraq, and the human toll was compounded by decade-long sanctions. The rate of birth defects among children born in Fallujah is 14 times that of children born in Hiroshima, as a result of the US military's use of depleted uranium munitions...

Yes, these things happened.

However, those events do not mean every veteran is a coward and a murderer. I can count the number of times I was a coward and a murderer on my last deployment on one hand. It takes zero fingers. Because it never happened. 

I was polite to you the first time. This time, you’re blocked. Have a nice day. 

[prof-grace-aspen]

imperialist baby killer

Hello! I can guess you are a person who has never served their country! As such, you have literally no place to have an opinion about veterans! kthnxbai! 

<33333 Much looove!!

[cathkaesque]

zuggystardust said: oh dear

anfie24 said: wtf

When I say "really existing socialism" I mean the style of 'socialism' practised by the USSR and its satellites after the 60s and the propaganda these regimes used to justify themselves.

gingerche said: Non-existing socialism is much better

No no I'm all for socialism to actually exist but post Kosygin reforms the USSR et al most definitely were not. Firms had to make profits, were no longer organised by planning and were by and large run by the nomenklatura and not society as a whole, foreign companies like coca-cola were setting up factories there, the USSR was spoiling the development of nations such as Cuba by forcing them to produce sugar for the Soviets rather than crops for the people - how was the USSR not a state-capitalist, social imperialist nation that was using the name of socialism as a cover for its actions? It infuriates me to see leninists like fyml uncritically praising leaders like Ceausescu who put revisionist policies into place - we must distance ourselves from these leaders for these leaders do not represent the ideals (I think) we are fighting for.

[cathkaesque]

brown-eggs replied to your post "This lecturer has repeatedly said Marx was an ardent pro-imperialist..."

a) even claims that Marx was euro-centric are usually p baseless, b) yeah all that writing about the horrors of primitive accumulation that Marx did were *so* pro-imperialist, c) Marx wasn’t writing in the age of imperialism as we know it

Well, I suppose it could be said because most of his writings were based on the study of European societies and history he's being Eurocentric, but as you say, it's quite a push. Exactly, didn't the main imperialist push for Africa start in 1880 or around then? Imperial Capitalism was kinda post Marx. Wait, I thought Marx was generally quite positive about primitive accumulation? I thought the Iroquois Federation was an inspiration for him.

gingerche replied to your post "This lecturer has repeatedly said Marx was an ardent pro-imperialist..."

Marx was very critical of imperialism, and in an April 1870 letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogh (look it up, it’s a good read) he cites Irish national oppression as one of the major reasons for the English working class’ impotence.

I think I'm going to ask my lecturer about this, because while in my recent seminar pretty much everyone was pro-Marx (some how all the lefties ended up in the same class, it's great), people were reluctant to fully endorse his views because of this "he was pro-imperial" line. It's almost insulating people from Marxist analysis. A quick flick through of that letter clearly show the view that Marx was pro-Imperialist is intellectually dishonest.

[minipops1917-blog]

gingerche replied to your post: *loads up UK Trotskyist Vanguard Party Simulator* ...

Is this an actual thing? I tried googling it.

sadly not, would be hilarious if it was though