Imo: Reactionaries always admire the barbarism that the rulers were capable of in feudal times and the trope of "everything will get better with the right leader in place" appeals to the idealism of liberals.

Coincidentally I did have an IRL conversation with an older comrade about this topic (I've been a vegan for 5 1/2 years now) and she told me to read a passage from Engels that he wrote about vegetarians (the part played by labour in the transition from ape to man) in dialectics of nature.

Thinking that I couldn't be the first to be a vegan communist to read this, I found this great blog: https://medium.com/@lilligroeneveld/challenging-friedrich-engels-about-veganism-2c17f303a269

Great read, basically sums up all the same thoughts I had and then some!

I feel the exact same way, but never had sex myself. Our world really revolves around and plays up the importance of this. Maybe because we are so alienated by capitalism? This warrants some looking into.

Not at all, they will gleefully talk about how they hope for a second "Nuremberg trials" for Russia and talk endlessly about how this shows how much of "Stalin's legacy" remains in Putin

Nothing I can do there

Critical support and solidarity to Satan in his holy struggle against the yankeez

I think something along the lines of; Capitalism is unable to ever "win". No matter how many communists you kill, how many of them you force to live under capitalism, or how many of them you force to "disavow" communism, you can't kill the idea. The struggle never ends, dialectics tells us this very clearly: Capitalism is unable to solve it's inherent contradictions, even if all knowledge of communism were to disappear, someone would inevitably bring it up again.

Or he would aggressively point at this picture with the quote over and over again.

If you decide to go through with it, know that we're with you every step of the way if you want our help comrade!

Similar energy as: no women on conservative dating apps

I feel this. After 6 years of work I'm about to decide what I'll be studying. Saw the videos and heard the horror stories. Did all the sharing on social media (and still do) but it feels like it achieves nothing.

Spoke to a palestinian refugee 2 weeks ago who studied robotics. 5 years younger than me too. All his plans for his future are gone. And here I am planning for my potential future just like he did.

Only thing keeping me up is revolutionary optimism, which I basically recite like a mantra, like an idiom from a culture I don't understand.

• Israel tried to ally itself with the Nazis
• literally everything Theodor Herzl has said, done and written
• The ICJ ruling
• IDF commanders citing and paraphrasing SS-Waffen commanders
• watch the documentary (think it's called "Birth of a Nation"), shows them laughing about the atrocities they commited
• biggest open-air concentration camp

While writing this I realized you could probably just watch Hakims youtube videos about Palestine and Israel to get the major points

Currently grappling with this question myself, germany has 2-3 small ML parties, but there is one that is revisionist and doesn't support AES, but they have a bigger reach, higher budget and more (and more diverse) members

Since apathy and alienation are at an all-time high around here, I really don't know what to do

Frodo Baggins from Lotr, Hajime Hinata from Danganronpa 2

edit: Cloud Strife from the Remake comes to mind, though he doesn't rank as high as the former 2