Not as much of an issue certainly but no historical society outside of perhaps hunter gatherer groups were particularly accepting of LGBT. At best they were considered a bit weird but not worthy of direct oppression. At worst they were directly oppressed. Pretty much every society upon reaching feudal relations directly oppressed LGBT people. Europe was worse because ownship was largely petit bourgeois production and an owner needs to pass on their property for society’s sake. Everyone from nobility to a blacksmith needed a legitimate heir or issues happen. Imagine the town’s only blacksmith is gay and then they die. Suddenly the necessary functions of a blacksmith are gone, this is a terrible situation. Especially because in that era trades were largely very secretive so you can’t easily train a new one, you need to find a journeymen traveling across the country to get a new smith.

Basically, the higher the concentration of ownership of property is (the more people disconnected from the Means of Production) the lower the pressure is on the average person to pass on property as less people own it. This creates more relaxeed LGBT view as any given individual doesn’t really need to pass on property. They only have personal possessions but nothing socially necessary to pass.

African societies often had more collective and central ownership so LGBT people were generally treated better however it was still viewed as negative and outside the norm.

I’m not seeing anything about laws that could cause the imprisonment of LGBT people. Where are you getting this? Like, I wouldn’t be shocked if same sex marriage isn’t legal or if laws for trans people changing their birth certificates aren’t on the books yet but I see nothing that encourages the active imprisonment or disenfranchisement of LGBT people outside of having a somewhat more conservative culture would cause as a matter of expectation. Although I will admit I didn’t look particularly hard at such issues as they have bigger things on their plate at the moment but still. If you have a source on that I’d appreciate it.

The realist in me says nothing particularly special will happen, shit will just continue to get worse then by the time people do start waking up climate change destroys everything anyway. Like, its nice to think people will magically wake up but the truth is that living in the old way is still possible and will continue to be possible for a while. Revolution only happens when such a lifestyle is no longer tenable. A new war will always be on the horizon to break up capital when needed, a new crisis that will make people put off plans is always just around the corner. Revolution comes when it forces upon those who have no interest being involved in politics because they no longer have a choice to ignore things. I don’t mean this as a call to surrender or anything, keep up the good fight, keep trying to improve things and organize and educate, but its gonna take some amazing luck to actually turn this around in time to actually save our planet and we communists aren’t known for our fantastic luck.

Not surprising. People in the military tend to be quite far right and since the US does nothing to slow the spread of fascism and abuses their troops you get a perfect breeding ground for fascism. Especially since anything left is “too political” and “hurts moral” the only arguments for change in the military come from the right. I know people in the military and they very much border on fascism if not are outright fascists that just haven’t told me yet because I shoot down their right wing shit in the few instances they drop it.

Better than nothing. Like any org, local chapter is the most important thing. There are green party chapters with MLs in charge and there are PSL chapters with sex pests in charge. Try and see what they do in your community. If they do work you agree with, great, if they are inactive or you don’t like the work they do, find something better. Can’t hurt to check it out though. Maybe great, maybe terrible, but you’ll never know if you don’t show up and see for yourself.

It won’t. What it will do is allow successful revolutions to have a large trade partner to help develop their country. But China isn’t in the business of spreading revolution or defending allies like the USSR was. If Cuba got invaded by the US tomorrow I highly doubt China would do much more than try and coordinate with the UN to stop it or something. Perhaps they may secretly fund Cuba or whatever but again, I doubt anything directly. Not hating on China or anything. Its perfectly reasonable to look out for yourself first as a country. Even if it seems a bit, nationalist (because it is), its a reasonable approach.

Most of those are quite business as usual for capitalism though. Calling it fascist while good for drawing a parallel isn’t entirely true. Its peak capitalist settler colonialism which is pretty close but not entirely fascist. Communist parties are still legal, people still have some civil protections (not many, but far more than you’d have in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy). The US is basically diet fascist. Not quite fully there, but doing as much as it can to get close to it.

Like I said, if the left actually got its shit together then the US would happily fully implement fascism but really that is the only reason it hasn’t fully done so.

Lol most of the US is physically and mentally unfit for service thanks to our garbage system. Out of those who are capable few have any motivation to fight for this country. The amount of people who are going to defect or get sent to jail for draft dodging is gonna be huge. Honestly it would probably take more military members to enforce a draft then actually useful soldiers they’d get out of it.

About as fascist as any other capitalist nation. Which is to say if there was any threat to the Russian bourgeois by their working class it would be. Probably the only reason the US isn’t full fascist yet is because leftism is so dead in this country that the capitalist class doesn’t need to worry about such things.

I hate Bernie so much. Such a scumbag. Advocated for the destruction of Yugoslavia and his constant grift of pretending to give a shit about the poor tricks a lot of people. More than that I’m sick of those who suck off this guy like he’s some hero of the proletariat when he’s nothing more than an opportunistic con artist. I’m so sick of the lesser evilism nonsense people try and use to justify this crap. Voting for lesser evil is all the left has done for fucking ever now and all its gotten us is a neoliberal hellscape. The democrats will never need to give the left anything because the left is spineless and gives its power away freely. If you’re a guaranteed voting bloc your demands will never be even considered because they aren’t real demands, they are simply polite requests. Policy is instead dictated by those who will jump ship if a better opportunity presents itself because they are the ones who may swing the other way.

Thanks for answering for me. Haven’t been on Lemmy in a bit.

I mean, days of the year is fine as is because that matches seasonal cycles which is important for agriculture and the like. Ofcourse along the equator lunar calenders were historically used because they don’t have different seasons but a calender used by everyone keeps things consistent for trade and the agricultural trade is still one of the most important things for humanity so it best remains a solar calendar.

As for time, 60 and 24 and in general multiples of 12 are great units because they can be easily divisible in many ways. This is why they were established as such in the first place, because Babylon had a big thing for what is called “extremely composite numbers” which are basically just a number that has more factors than any previous and equal to all subsequent ones (until the next extremely composite number) and all multiples of 12 (as far as I know) fall into this category. This means that units that are multiples of 12 both easily divide into each other (making it useful for changing between units) and easily divide into many other numbers making it easier to schedule a day as you have nice clean boundaries.

Honestly, only 18.5% isn’t that bad. Means most like it there. Probably because they can go on TV, say anything bad about NK and get 200k all in an afternoon. Honestly I’m surprised anyone regrets it with how easy it is. If they cared so much about their homeland they wouldn’t have left it so its not loyalty or anything like that stopping them.

No, it really doesn’t. It’s all the same “go out and vote our way to socialism” BS. That shit ain’t on the ballot. Never is, never was, never will be.

Electoralist nonsense.

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/413496

Bruh.

Look, I’m not just gonna go back and forth with contradicting each other. I know what I read, you know what you read, it is what it is.

Maybe you just didn’t read the ones I did. Regardless, they definitely did.

It really did, at least their paper did. Every article was “We must stop the rise of fascism and Biden will do just that!”. On r/cpusa they post like every article that party pushes and it was pure Biden simping. Most pro union president and shit. My view of the party comes from its publications (as its still not really impactful in terms of actions, at least not in my area as its so tiny) and it was pure liberal nonsense. “Voting is a revolutionary act!” Sounding stuff (yes, an article said that).

CPUSA did simp pretty hard for Biden during 2020 though. They, just like every liberal outlet, painted him as some savior of democracy against fascism. When in truth, Biden is just a quieter fascism. Hell, their subreddit was one of the most libshit places I’d ever been. Ended up getting banned after getting into an argument with a mod about if voting is revolutionary (they claimed it was!).

Badly. Its ran by reformists and is extremely revisionist. Not to say much bad about the rank and file, a lot of them are based but that is also a huge issue with them, I’m willing to say the majority of the membership is quite based but they become succdems the closer to leadership they get. Indicates to me that something is structurally wrong with the party as the views of much of the rank and file are not reflected by its leadership. Took the democratic out of democratic centralism.

US btw.