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humans used to have tails but then a Major Nelson Mandela Momentm hapened (actual)

Funniest lunatic tinpot communist dictator of the 20th century has to be Enver Hoxha just because he spent more money and concrete than the Maginot Line building thousands of useless bunkers across Albania, a country with a housing crisis because his plan for defending the country from invasion (from both the Yugoslavs and Soviets, he was a paranoid whackjob) was to lose the actual war bit and just do partisan stuff because it landed him the job of running the country during WWII

I usually hear about Hoxha in the same breath as J. Posadas.

Posadas believed nuclear war was both inevitable and desirable, and that communist aliens would come and save us from ourselves if only we could convince them to do more than stop by to observe us now and then.

The synthesis, then, of Hoxhaism-posadism is the theory that we must build the bunkers to survive armageddon and then go about constructing the worker's paradise. Ideally with the help of friendly observing aliens who are only too happy to assist us because they, too, are good communists.

It's probably for the best that Posadas never got anywhere near nuclear launch codes in his lifetime.

So, hey, Bandcamp is a great service that a lot of musicians and fans rely upon for fair distribution and sales of music. It is a really great thing.

Unfortunately, Bandcamp's owners decided that having a sustainably profitable business wasn't Enough for them and sold it to Epic Games a year ago, with the idea that it'd become a money-printing factory that does All The Licensing.

And that didn't pan out, so a week ago Epic re-sold Bandcamp to Songtradr, which is basically an A&R pay-for-play scam with the trappings of respectability. Here's a video Benn Jordan did on the topic (focusing on a site called Taxi but Songtradr is the same basic thing):

Now Songtradr is blocking the Bandcamp union from actually being, y'know, a union. They aren't honoring the union terms, have locked workers out of critical systems, are completely ignoring the collective bargaining power of Bandcamp as a company and are doing all sorts of heinous shit.

However! This is not a time to boycott Bandcamp! All that does is make Bandcamp less valuable and gives Songtradr more sway over them, while disproportionately impacting the musicians who rely on it. Please look to see what the union is requesting in terms of support and solidarity. There's a lot you can do to show your support.

Independent musicians thank you.

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