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Maltaell wrote:

I'm already out to my parents, the real problem is my grandparents because I have only one biological grandparent left, and that's my maternal Grandmother, and she's a Trump supporter (boooooo) but I hope to transition soon<3

I got you. I hope you didn't have a super negative experience with your parents. Good luck, then, with your Grandmother. However you decide to handle it.

And also, again, you got this! :D

hey so this may be a weird question but could there be still socialism even though there's a monarchy which is for strictly ceremonial position? since I pressed the wrong button:(

I'll check it thank you

New Balan Lib wrote:

hey so this may be a weird question but could there be still socialism even though there's a monarchy which is for strictly ceremonial position? since I pressed the wrong button:(

Yeah, I mean like as long as your country is classified as a leftist classification (like democratic socialist, SLP, communist state, etc.) then yeah, socialism can still exist. (Or what you’re originally asking, as long as country has mostly leftist policies, it’s ok!).

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Maltaell wrote:

damn although despite being a communist I'm only right leaning on one topic, gun rights, but that's not here nor there

Karl Marx was actually pro gun, as was Mao Zedong:

“Where the workers are employed by the state, they must arm and organize themselves into special corps with elected leaders, or as a part of the proletarian guard. Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary. The destruction of the bourgeois democrats’ influence over the workers, and the enforcement of conditions which will compromise the rule of bourgeois democracy, which is for the moment inevitable, and make it as difficult as possible – these are the main points which the proletariat and therefore the League must keep in mind during and after the approaching uprising.”

― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League
London, March 1850

"It is very difficult for the labouring people, who have been deceived and intimidated by the reactionary ruling classes for thousands of years, to awaken to the importance of having guns in their own hands. Now that Japanese imperialist oppression and the nation-wide resistance to it have pushed our labouring people into the arena of war, Communists should prove themselves the most politically conscious leaders in this war. Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party. Yet, having guns, we can create Party organizations, as witness the powerful Party organizations which the Eighth Route Army has created in northern China. We can also create cadres, create schools, create culture, create mass movements. Everything in Yenan has been created by having guns. All things grow out of the barrel of a gun. According to the Marxist theory of the state, the army is the chief component of state power. Whoever wants to seize and retain state power must have a strong army. Some people ridicule us as advocates of the "omnipotence of war". Yes, we are advocates of the omnipotence of revolutionary war; that is good, not bad, it is Marxist. The guns of the Russian Communist Party created socialism. We shall create a democratic republic. Experience in the class struggle in the era of imperialism teaches us that it is only by the power of the gun that the working class and the labouring masses can defeat the armed bourgeoisie and landlords; in this sense we may say that only with guns can the whole world be transformed."

― "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938), Selected Works of Mao Zedong: Vol. II, p. 224-225.

Full works:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_12.htm

Hello. Just asking: how's it going in your respective nations?

Hello everyone

Serenysle wrote:

Hello everyone, I'm new to the game, I've only been playing for about 5 days. I wanted to vent here on the bloc because most of the decisions I make always make jobs fall a lot and when I make a decision that makes them grow, it's very little considering how much has fallen 😭.

Here's a helpful link for NS decisions: http://www.mwq.dds.nl/ns/results/

Also, just remember - a lot of this just takes time - growing economies, etc.

You can do it! And if you've got some regional questions, check them out here:

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Does Ink Cloud commands work with extra text? Probably not

Nice... and quite possibly an overly literal way to avoid double/triple-posting accusations