FromPieces

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Requesting !watches@lemmy.ml in c/community_requests@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I'd be interested in a watches community

After less than a day, the Athena lander is dead on the Moon in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
Seems like our kind is not allowed in the Star Trek lemmy website in c/shitreactionariessay@lemmygrad.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Isn't the United Federation of Planets explicitly communist?

How much do you tip at a restaurant? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml -4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

While your argument is sound, a server can't feed their children or care for disabled parents with sound arguments and principled stances.

How much do you tip at a restaurant? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I usually aim for the nearest dollar around 30%.

I'm a defense contractor and none of the "work" I have ever done in my life has done any human any good. I think it's important to use my nonsense salary to pay the people who actually add value to society.

EA releases source code for four Command & Conquer games in c/opensourcegames@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ooooh it would be fun to do SimCity 2000 again...

Art is very important for socialism in c/socialism@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh wow, yeah it totally does. I thought Le Guin died in like the 80s

German match abandoned after referee bitten on TESTICLE by player's child in c/andfinally@feddit.uk
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, I get that, but where was it he was bitten?

Protestation in c/communism@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'd really like a source for the "200 million per decade" number, the closest I'm aware of is this catalog of US atrocities but that's both a wider and narrower subject than this one, not directly comparable.

Donald Trump wakes up from a coma in c/jokes@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't get it...

I don't speak Canadian

Steal This Comic in c/comics@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, and apparently thepiratebay.org is back?

Steal This Comic in c/comics@lemmy.ml
[–] FromPieces@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait, is it really easy as that? I can just set Proton VPN up and download the LotR Extended Editions, no problem?

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Why Did The Nazis Call Their Party "Socialist"? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

This question has been steeping in my mind in the years since a conversation with an ex-friend of mine (libertarian baby-fascist) regarding his self-identification as a "Nationalist" and his point that he thinks "The 'socialism' of Scandinavian countries would be okay here (United States) if it were only for the American citizens".

It didn't occur to me then to ask him if that made him a National Socialist and if he had any familiarity with that term, but... Now I don't talk to that baby-fasc at all.

So anyway, the question that I have now is "Why Did The Nazis Call Their Party 'Socialist'?" I understand they definitely weren't socialist, they were extremely capitalist with private interests using the power of the state to plunder the networth of "undesirables".

So why did they call themselves socialist? Was there a pretense that the state would build a socialist support network after it established itself as an imperial entity? (But) The Night of Long Knives was them scouring the party of any left-leaning members, right?

Did they call themselves socialist just as branding?

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