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[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That problem is that not all communists were made equal. I've heard plenty of communists talk that I can respect but MLs aren't the ones. Bolsheviks always managed to get their needs especially met and before anyone elses needs.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Some communists, not all communists.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -1 points 17 hours ago

That problem is that not all communists were made equal. I've heard plenty of communists talk that I can respect but MLs aren't the ones. Bolsheviks always managed to get their needs especially met and before anyone elses needs.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago

Some communists, not all communists.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -1 points 17 hours ago

That problem is that not all communists were made equal. I've heard plenty of communists talk that I can respect but MLs aren't the ones. Bolsheviks always managed to get their needs especially met and before anyone elses needs.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -1 points 17 hours ago

Most of my friends are some flavor of Anarchist or Socialist. Of the two outright Commies that I've known (who described themselves as such) one was a man of the people and the other was a lazy spoiled phony who's communism expressed itself mainly as sharing memes on facebook.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Out right lies. The communist parties (the ones that have existed, not the the theoretical ones) derive their power from threat of violence against workers. They're a non-hereditary nobility that oppress workers (except North Korea which is now a hereditary monarchy).

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today -3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Here's one of the bootlickers now. Bro, you're a right winger obsessed with collectivization. Quit stinking up the revolution with your nonsense.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 30 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I can't tell you how many times the AI summary on google is just a cut and past of one of the top responses which is also often Wikipedia.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

But they can’t prove that you intended to nullify

As long as you keep your mouth shut before and after you do it.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago

That's always been the fundamental misconception by everyday people who are conservatives. They got it in their head that less government meant the power relinquished by government reverted to them when it fact that power goes to the wealthy or the organized. On the right, the wealthy always lead the organized.

[–] Aljernon@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

I listed industrialization

 

In a genre packed with "infected", the zombies in Cadaver are unabashedly supernatural with a unique origin story inspired by the Scandinavian setting; itself a welcome change from all the undead stories set in the US. The writing is a little on the weak side but the story telling is better and the various characters better still. Also unique for a zombie yarn is the happy (if bittersweet) ending.

My main complaints are the author using new chapters to jump to different characters to build tension. Usually instead of tension it typically built annoyance. And a guy in his early 20s being kissed by a girl who's age is unstated but heavily implied to be under 18. It left a sour note at the end of an otherwise enjoyable 7 book series.

4 out of 5 stars.

 
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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Aljernon@lemmy.today to c/Zombies@lemmy.today
 

I thought it was good but not great. My chief complaint is brevity. At 6 episodes vs 12-16 for the rest of the series, FtWD promised to show us the start of the zombie apocalypse, something that both the source material & first show skipped over, only to itself skip over most of the time period between Monument Day (the main outbreak) and the culmination of Project Cobalt. Monument Day itself is not sufficiently depicted though the scenes we do see like at the hospital are excellent. The pickup truck journey away from the barbershop should have received much more screen time, it could have been a full episode. And with money already spent on sets during the "safe zone" episodes, you'd think you could have gotten another episode or 2 made without spending extravagantly more money or anything feeling like filler. Most of my other complaints are little details like Commercial Airliners crashing despite cockpit doors in the post-911 era being armored or the Lieutenant practicing his golf swing to make him a less sympathetic character.

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