That’s when only when the Polish government does it

I concede that I should have said bartering.

I’m talking about the tribal societies

Two grey sections are explicitly labeled as kingdoms.

At least by the Marxist definition, these societies virtually all did have states, they were just very small states. They enforced the oppression of women by men (patriarchy) along with other class relations.

Patriarchal* agrarian societies were brutal, though, and have nothing to do with anarchism if anarchism is worth anything. The “forced to barter bc no money” is a myth made up by capitalists though, since all of these societies were either self-sufficient or simply pillaged from other societies. The telling in which theses societies were reliant on trade between each other is so silly it doesn’t even rise to the level of Adam Smith’s “barter myth,” which itself is discredited.

*in the old sense of men literally ruling as a rule, with all the women being in a condition not meaningfully distinguishable from slavery.

What’s the connection between Britain and Room 101? Well, I guess they probably did a fair amount of torture.

I remember reading a report by a Japanese think tank on the history of film in the dprk, where they described a film that had a fairly plain romance plot as being incredible because up to that point “state ideology only acknowledged love between the people and the Glorious Leader, not between individuals,” which is just the most unhinged take.

I know it’s a boring answer that has already been given, but I really think it’s just projection + making the book more marketable by putting a sex fantasy plot in it. I’ve never seen even a vague gesture at what the USSR would have had as an “Anti-Sex League”, and the anglosphere is filled with them (and was even more so at the time), and it’s objectifying Julia in a perfectly anglo fashion, i.e. a young maiden presses you, a middle-aged schlub, into cradle-robbing

I don’t know of a Gilmour song besides “Learning to Fly” that is actually enjoyable to listen to (though that one is v good, to be fair). It’s pessimistic about musicianship in general to say someone as blegh as him is “medium talent”.

Are you sure that bad isn’t baed and elephant isn’t something else?

These are literal translations of names mostly chosen for sounding at least a little like the country’s name in its own language

Well, the west doesn’t recognize it as a country in the first place, so it’s consistent.

That some people would buy something does not mean the proletariat as a bloc supports it. Very many people think sports gambling on this digital industrial scale is absolutely fucked, and from a democratic standpoint, if the majority believe that, the thing to do is ban it. Moreover, even among the 19% of Americans who use these apps (and not all of them are devotees, mind), a meaningful portion of them are there because of advertising glamorizing the apps, and a fair portion are still there because they are addicts, i.e. it’s not a choice being made freely. It seems like an obvious measure to present the options of banning or re-legalizing it with a discussion on things like gambling addiction.

As an aside, I am once again asking you to read Mao: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm#g9 . Once workers are given power, it is entirely possible for them to take action against the gambling that has troubled their community under the dictatorship of the owning class.

Based on limited information, I don’t like all of the measures described there, but I think it’s unquestionably superior to the previous state of things because what is lost were some cultural affectations and hobbies, and what was gained was freedom from both psychological and chemical addictions, along with food security, safety from banditry, lower rent, political representation, etc.

Presumably ownership lapsed and some .world individual noticed and decided to own teh tankiez

None of them are good, but 9 is truly wretched

Odd that the pants are all hell

Hell

“. . . well yeah, I’d veto any such bill, but I’ll tell congress to keep trying if it wants to”

I forgot about Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, which is also in the Earthbound-like category and arguably maybe the fourth best after UT, Omori, and OFF. It’s also on sale. I have some criticisms of it since it’s probably the game I played the most of any I’ve mentioned (it’s one of the only ones with any post-game, and a pretty solid one at that) that I can get into if you like, but so long as you can stand: a) the occasional veer into edgelord aesthetics (watch the trailer) and b) the most pandering variant of an already exhausting plot-twist trope (though the execution on it makes it worthwhile, imo), then I think most RPG fans will really like it.