I think voting is useful tho

If there are decent options, votes can show support for it, regardless of a win or loss. The results would signal that there is decent support on it or became a part of awareness on issues or points.

Not dismissing other parts on direct action and the fact that there is no right to recall in elections(Not USAmerican or EU-ian. Do you have right to recall?)

*imperialism

Most rebellions against western attacks seem not to be for socialism or against capitalism.

But, the imperialism is due to capitalism and seems like a natural extension, so in a way, yes too

I think most people are indeed agreeing that Venezuela is facing financial hardship, but not because of Maduro, but mainly due to the sanctions by western govts.

Venezuela is a small country and the US is a large and influential one. So such sanctions are going to hurt Venezuela.

Can I ask a question to get the idea across?
We have heard news that Palestinians have faced food shortages and there was even famine warning.

Do you see it as a failure of their leadership or that of Israel blocking food and aid to the place, while isolating and attacking them?

If it is the latter, then wouldn’t Venezuela be in the same position but relatively more favorable?
I think that is the view that many in the thread have.

Wasn’t a US-backed military coup against Chavez attempted in the early period? It was defeated by the people and soldiers who were loyal to Chavez, but that might’ve had an rffect

Are you Venezuelan?

They might not be noticing the noise. Earwax buildup, reduced hearing or different angles etc.

Could be that they are in a hurry or that the door is tight too?

Learn how to breathe

Any pointers or tutorials/videos that you’d recommend on this?
Is it about diaphragmatic breathing?
Or remembering to breathe while exercising or doing things?

That’s a cool mindset, if the fck around part is not too extreme

Which ones do you find most useful?

Intrinsic motivation?

Less bad is good there too

And as you said, not a good comparison.

Pollution going beyond the capacity of our environment is the issue, right? Every decent improvement is a good thing there. Not that we should stay silent with that, but we should be cheering for improvements and encouraging them.

Less bad is good, right?

Obviously, stuff like better public transportation will be good
Electric buses, trains etc

Have been hearing about China’s solar adoption and them looking into thorium reactors.
My country, India, seems to be looking more into solar too.

I think it’s a correct direction. Though, the pace needs to be a bit faster

Reporting and fining drunken drivers need to speed up in the location.

Are electric cars a net improvement?
I’ve heard that they are, because electricity can ve produced more efficiently and pollution can be better handled than individual car exhausts

What happens when the US and allies forments coups and starts bombing you?

Obviously, peaceful means are preferred by most people.
Like, why would they allow you to take power peacefully?

Imagine you take power and want to redistribute land to the common people who were exploited and forced to be landless or without proper homes in the previous regime? Would not the ultrawealthy landowners try to coup you and get support of US and other countries?

Then you’ll have to go there, right?
Or you’ll have to stop or allow yourself to be couped.

Like, in Russia, they took power away from a monarchy and came into power with the slogans of 'Land, peace and bread:. They faced an attack by the White army, which was supported by major foreign powers.

In China, they took power away from Japanese colonialism and subsequent mix of Koumingtang rule which violently opposed communists and the public who wanted land reform.

In Vietnam, they fought French colonialism and US invasion.

Similarly, in Korea, US installed a dictatorship to kill people who may have been even slightly sympathetic to socialism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre

Even in the case of slavery in US, the North, under the Lincoln govt, had to fight the south, right? Republicans were attacked in the south by Racial supremacist groups on that toom

Compared to the Western govts? Much more likely

Is USAmerica(worlds largest superpower) a successful capitalist country?
Is slavery and Eps stuff a success?
Success would need to be defined then, right?

And your notions on everyone having to be perfect seems to be wrong. The main basis of Communism is who owns the means of production and the level of development. The minority of the ultrawealthy in capitalism vs the majority of the regular people in communism.
Also, capitalist planning that focuses on profit and externalises social cost vs general planning that thinks about the ‘externalised stuff’.

And if you want to go deeper into critiques of capitalism and why we need to plan beyond that, I think looking up aspects like the crisis of overproduction and the tendency of the falling rate of profit might be good.
Others here maybe better able to explain more on that.

Hypocritical, yes, but different from directly voting in favor, although effect is similar.

They abstained from the vote
So the last panel of them joining in would be incorrect, right?

Who uses that term tho?
I think it’s used by progressives. So they might be blind to loneliness of women?