DornerStan

Please explain how

All people are 12 but some people are more 12 than others

If it's just a title screen banner for a game by the "same studio" then that barely even qualifies as advertising lol. They're not being paid to insert ads for dick pills or something

I'm assuming the in-game thing isn't real (even if it is, it'd just be a cheeky little easter egg).

But like every game I've played will have a title screen message if the same studio publishes a new game

So passing even more decision-making powers to private insurance agencies

If you dipped the filter side in acid it'd probably work well enough

Waste of a lot of acid, though

No idea where the name came from but it's basically slapjack with advanced rules. Popular when I was a kid, absolutely ruined playing cards though

I don't know the details of this specific situation and it's too triggering for me to research, all I'll say is parents who send their kids to these torture camps deserve worse than this. I don't give a fuck that some may have been "tricked", this industry has been well-documented for decades at this point. They spend more time researching a fucking blender than the prisons they send their own kids to.

God I lean on parentheticals a lot (at least my incoherent ramblings are probably distinguishable from chatgpt)

I dunno, I find in my limited experience it isn't hard (but is annoying) to associate with trots as an ML, up until they find out you're an ML (although a bunch of the newer converts don't even know what that means lol, since they just call everyone Stalinist. I openly identified as an ML and was let into a Trot org, and they had no clue lmao).

I imagine he's getting most of his opinions from his friends in the org, so it might help if you feel out their philosophical strain so you can find common ground. Social circles are essential for well-being

You can probably get him to come around on the Soviet Union under Lenin, then emphasize the accomplishments of the workers after Lenin's death (which is true anyways).

Deprogramming is a frustrating process because it's simultaneously sooo much work for such little return-- just getting someone to have a reasonable opinion of Stalin-- but also anti-Stalin obsession is a major roadblock for western leftists to overcome in order to accomplish anything. And Trotsky was such a disinformation artist that it can sometimes be more difficult with trots than radlibs.

Ultimately it kind of doesn't matter that much? Or at least it's low on the priority list. Your brother has friends that are keeping him healthy. You have a lot of common ground with a brother who's communist. Try to have political conversations that aren't antagonistic. Ask open-ended questions, tap into his knowledge to learn things. Humility isn't just essential for having good conversations and relationships with people, it's also necessary for dialectical thought. (I say as someone who's burned bridges probably unnecessarily over political issues).