That new mix tape was the bomb. Or did it bomb? I’m confused.

This is a personal method for making up words for things; you won’t find it in a dictionary. Feel free to use it, though; maybe someday you will!

There’s the -dooj suffix, which means “a familiar thing that should be around here somewhere, and that has such-and-so quality.” This is useful for asking questions like “Where’s the … the clickydooj?”

• clickydooj — TV remote
• stickydooj — roll of masking tape, wad of blue-tack, etc.
• pokeydooj — sharp tool, digging stick, etc.
• dogwalkydooj — leash
• scoopydooj — ice cream scoop
• pinchydoojes — tongs

(The variant spelling -doodge is also acceptable.)

They caught all the fish and put 'em in a fish museum
And charge the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em

I was talking about Maoist and Stalinist dictatorships, not socialism.

“Communism” was the brand name that these dictatorships used for their artificially red-dyed flavor of fascist mass murder. This name was stolen from the original Communists, and falsely & deceptively used by the fascist mass-murderers. Neither Stalin nor Mao had any intention of ever living in a classless society. Like all fascist leaders, they demanded obedience beyond that accorded to feudal kings, and erected new forms of hierarchy and class for their servants to populate — while they murdered the common people in whose name they claimed to rule.

The “dictatorship of the dictator pretending to care about the proletariat” murdered the proletariat by millions.

However, when people today say “Communism” — as in the title of this post — they are often referring to those dictatorships, and not to the earlier Communism of Marx and Engels, whose name the fascists misappropriated.

Hence my response, which distinguished Maoist and Stalinist fascist dictatorships from the theoretical communism of Marx and Engels.

Do not bother making excuses for fascist mass-murderers. There are none.

Yeah, where the dangerous job was “hunt something so you don’t starve”, the motivation for doing the dangerous job is pretty obvious.

Under Maoism or Stalinism, aka the dictatorship of the dictator pretending to act for the proletariat? You are ordered to do it, for your own good and the good of the Party. If you don’t follow orders, you just get shot; and your family is put in a prison camp, your children raped and beaten and forced to labor.

Under real stateless, classless communism? Nobody knows, because that hasn’t existed yet. Anyone claiming to know exactly how it might operate is talking out of their hat. Marx is pretty clear on that.

It’s racist to use immigration law to maintain a racial underclass. For instance, many essential agricultural workers in the US do not have access to the courts or law enforcement to protect their rights. If a citizen assaults one of these workers, the worker cannot safely report the assault to law enforcement without being punished for doing so.

Navigation difficulties in the vicinity of Albuquerque, NM

How the hell do you wreck lentil soup that bad? Heck, there are lots of different cultures around the world that make tasty lentil soup. There’s German lentil soup with potato, carrot, and ham; there’s Indian dal in a range of flavors and colors; there’s Turkish Ezogelin soup with bulgur and paprika …

Mare-Ih-Joe-Wah-Nah

If you see this, it worked for me.

Baggini’s The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten maybe?

ADOM’s Tower of Eternal Flame will burn you and your equipment if you’re not adequately protected. It’s also harsh on certain characters that usually benefit from heat!

Absence of awooga is not evidence of safety.

What are you trying to accomplish?

Are you trying to save human lives? Reduce suffering? Reduce some specific harm, such as from pandemics, or from severe weather due to climate change, or from trampling by elephant? Cure the specific disease that killed your great-aunt? Stomp Nazis?

If you say what you think is worth doing, people can point you to specific groups that are doing it.

Live with friends.

• Underpope
• Eggplant vs. Computer
• Mushroom Boyfriend
• Sexually Ambitious Hamster / “Zebra Wants Me”
• Geography Dog
• Your Abstraction Causes Low-Quality Inference
• Super Trogdor Bros.
• Furry Sherlock Holmes / Furlock Mini Mysteries
• Little Red Investing Hood
• Mistress Floggerblogger Teaches Safe Sex
• Classical Realism XKCD

Harry Chapin’s “What Made America Famous?” got an unsuccessful musical, but never a film. In a modern update, the song’s “hippies” are instead gutter punks squatting an abandoned building, and the fat plumber is the one non-MAGA in the town’s volunteer fire department.

few outside of Germany knew that concentration camps existed

The creation of concentration camps was widely advertised in Nazi propaganda, as a show of force to intimidate dissidents. It was the later death camps that were secret: the ones that were designed for no purpose but to do murder at industrial scale.