It could be! I've pasted my exact load order here. If I have the time one day maybe I can sort through all 50 something in different patterns but they aren't ever specific. When you have three-four mods that say "put at top" which one do you put at top? ya know?

https://hexbear.net/post/4019698?scrollToComments=false

I made a mod-list here! It's not only ethics and civics classic but the bug branch as well! As well as a few other mods that add govs/policies/etc

From the mods I have it's particularly the opposite. Egalitarian/free empires struggle deeply with ideological struggles as they have the ability to spawn factions that are against the type of "ruling governance". Lots of interstellar conflicts will inflict peaceful ethics attraction, a war will invoke authoritarian/militarist ethics attraction, inequality will invoke cooperatist(collectivist) ethics attraction while being near megacorps will invoke a competitive one (which is neat because as a collective empire you have to fight off the capitalists trying to inflitrate your society!). One of the bonuses of added civics like that is far, far more nuance in governance and politics.

Authoritarian governments like I'm playing (a Proletarian Regime) don't have this problem but their factions are harder to get approval for/have more nuanced points and tend to want to be on your council which can be problematic for 40-50% approval rates like this one.

In this case, the yellow "bullets" don't actually affect faction approval in the sense that it doesn't boost it nor hurt it. "Syndicalism" is in yellow because I have labor unions in a collective congress that decides on a "Chair of Stars" to lead the party. If I didn't have the labor unions civic, It'd likely be red. Their other issues are relatively unaddressable until later game, to where I can adjust nutrition levels and living standards for my people.

Sure! I'll just make a top 10 and then have a mod-list copied down for those interested. Will take a bit of time to do though as Stellaris launcher doesn't have a way to just copy and paste sadly.

I'm not quite sure! It's called Ethics and Civics the one that adds all the ethics at the bottom, with a few comp patches/Bug Branch added as well. My entire list is about 62 mods, so it's hard sometimes to tell which is doing what hehe.

From what I can remember the major ones was a 1000+ component addon, planet modifier mod, gigastructures, expanded UI, expanded ascensions, expanded techs, real space, etc.

Part of the mod is neat in the sense I can set my trading policy to amenities creation and still make commercial pacts with megacorps. Basically, they get nothing from me besides some consumer goods (which I have tons of) and I get energy and amenities.

Yeah I was looking at some paints myself and someone was really railing hard against AK so I took a look myself and dug up this which was entirely different and I was just like...holy shit...thinness of the paint is what you're worried about?

The other day; or perhaps week ago you were arguing with someone on China, their corporations/how they run them and something you said really struck with me.

"What the fuck alternative are you offering?"

I'm paraphrasing because I couldn't find it scrolling through your history but in a nutshell that is how I feel about a lot of radlibs, false-progressives, etc in general. A good chunk of us are trying to build something, but actual principled communist nations are lifting over millions out of poverty while the U.S languishes and dies. Who the fuck are people to diminish their achievements? But sure they'll go ahead and tell me all about Chinese corporations, or Hungary or some other western-brained nonsense.

Socialism and Marxism-Leninism is not different but they are not the same. I would go as far to say that none of them are actually a "vanguard party" that Lenin describes. We don't have one because we don't have the revolutionary potential because a majority of the U.S is a labor aristocracy. Up and coming events with current suggested Trump appointments and Democrat failure is showing us that we have to prepared to offer an alternative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-pdWG8YkZ8

While largely about the urban-guerilla movements in the "core" I think it's a great piece of material dedicated to why we don't have the revolutionary potential. An hour in talks about the decline of these groups to which I am referencing if you wish to skip. You can have an armed, revolutionary force and do some surprising work with it but the apparatus of the state even in the 70s was far too strong. If I'm being honest, more competent. I mean that literally. The ghouls of yesterday are not the ghouls of today. The decline of the competency of these ghouls have been aided by technology however, as you might imagine and the subversive narratives of western-dominated social media.

However, even before that, it was hard due to the sheer atomization, individualism and comfort of the imperial core. Now the contradictions are heightening and you are beginning to see NATO actually lashing out and the conditions of the working class staggering especially during COVID. Back then, in the 70s, small communist parties would have been ruthlessly terminated, dismantled or captured/subverted by the state. Nowadays, we are actually having parties get 90,000 something votes that HAVE the potential to take up that role. They're selling us the rope in a lot of ways.

Further more, you have many, many socialists and like-minded Marxists/anarchists who participate in organization on local or in their community. Those who are simply just sympathetic to the working class and the cause of those who help it. Socialism is moving forward, one way or another.

It wasn't tiny. About the size of my palm, pressed flat though.

Worker's World Party, IWW(sybdicalist), PSL (not communist) are a few. I've worked with both IWW and WWP. Are they not real socialists to you?

The reality is that a majority of Americans are comfortable with imperial extraction and global hegemony from third world countries. This creates a "labor aristocracy" that is tough for communists to break. That is why you must target the most marginalized and oppressed members of the imperial core. Identity politics isn't the central goal or "catered" to in most organization I've done. It just so happens people of color, trans, homeless, etc are among the people who need the most help as they are the most marginalized and oppressed.

As for your point on exceptionalism and imbibing on Western propaganda, I can agree. I've met a few that unironically tried arguing against the Soviets stomping C.I.A backed reactionaries in Hungary.

Yeah that was my first thought as well.

This doesn't read like something valid to focus on. It's never been a problem in the organizing that I've done. Why a comm dedicated to this?