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Cake day: August 24th, 2019

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  • Thanks for reading! The original theme maker basically mastered the header, as they should since they made the theme. For example, you could always press the / key to bring up the search menu on any page with this theme, it’s just that it wasn’t advertised. Hence, like them, we put the shortcut in the new search bar.

    I’m not 100% sold on the pillbox and I’m looking at ways to think of it differently; it works well on their wiki for various reasons, but I feel it’s a bit out of place on our wiki and there’s an information overload. Still, it allows us to compactly (as you pointed out) direct visitors to areas that we want them to look at, like our marxism portal, or areas of the website that we know they are often looking for. I notice now I didn’t really talk about the pillbox in the article, I might go back in and edit that.














  • We are slowly making companion lists to this one, though it’s always difficult to figure out a scope and then only 6-7 books within that scope. When I made that list I imagined someone who knows they’re a marxist, or just wants to learn it deeply, but is starting from absolute 0 knowledge. But it wasn’t really thought for people who just want to dip their toes in it and figure out if it’s “for them”.

    I think to convince people it’s “for them” I would suggest in no particular order the manifesto, blackshirts and reds, discourse on colonialism, On protracted war, and I think also A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work” which is a very thorough and convincing article on the topic. We all have them on ProleWiki.

    That’s what comes to mind right now anyway. With this list I would start chipping away at instilled ideas and show the power of marxist analyses while still remaining accessible.

    To OP the thing with marxism-leninism is that once you get into it it just makes so much sense that you eventually come to the same conclusions as all other MLs. That’s why not many people trust online quizzes; they might be able to tell you where you are, kinda, but not where you will end up, even if they often make you think they can. You’re also relying on someone else to tell you what your ideology is when chances are, with those broad quizzes, that they don’t quite get them. We’re talking about a quizz that claims to place you on every ideology conceivable; they can’t all be perfectly described. But I get the urge to get some guidance when you’re starting out lol.




  • The part about cold fusion was strange and I completely occluded it in my original article (the OP). I think he had to mention it because he had to find a way for these nukes, if there were indeed nukes used on Gaza, to be conspicuous. Cold fusion would allow for payloads that, like he said, would be no bigger than a baseball bat.

    But the findings stand on their own. For example I don’t believe Busby is lying when he said he analyzed air vent samples and soil samples and found what he found. They definitely require further investigation and Al Mayadeen was looking for more vehicle air ventilation filters and long hair samples from people and vehicles that have been around “Israeli” bomb craters to analyze through another researcher.