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[Trianon]

Spoiler: Commie book spergery

The Communist Manifesto was written to be an easily digestible synopsis of marxism to rally the workers of the world. It's a pretty quick and easy read, though one that may leave the reader with more questions than answers. When I read it in history (along with so. much. Hobsbawm), it surprised me that this form of communism was built on and not exclusive of capitalism, like a parasite. It also assumed without supporting evidence that once the workers took over the means of production and overthrew the bourgeoisie through nonspecified but undoubtedly bloody means, crime would cease and peace would reign. Once again, no how was given so the plan presented was pretty much 1. Workers take over 2. ???? 3. Peace and prosperity. It's a rather immature and naive ideology as laid out in the Manifesto, though of course Marx, Engels et al go far more in depth in the theory.

Yeah, my understanding is that Marx thought communism could only take place after capitalism because each system is a successive link in a chain toward a utopia with plentiful resources.

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The issue was he thought greedy factory owners would artificially keep capitalism going too long, thus oppressing the worker. And the workers being too dumb to realize they were being oppressed, the work of pushing for communism fell to nerds who had read Marx and didn't have to work for a living. The way Marx pitches it as an inevitability that can still be "pushed along" is why there are so many communist revolts. The short , memetic version of the literature sanctions violent accelerationism, even if Marx in most of his writing is more tactful.

Marx was even very pessimistic of the chance of communism taking root in Russia. They had a totally different caste system that he felt was incompatible with the development of communism (little industry, LOTS of landed serfs). Maybe this is the seed that makes people think it wasn't "real" communism, according to Marx's specifications.

Space communism is basically people filling in some of the gaps Marx left in his utopian future idea, but it's hopelessly naive about technology. You will never create a static, perfect system that will just keep those resources coming indefinitely. No communist society is going to supply Kev with his toys.

 

[Particle Bored]

Fishing for free Anthem for their larp future City State

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Okay Phil, I'll bite. First one's free, but I'm charging commission on any revisions. I know you got them griftbux.

To the tune of "The Ballad of John and Yoko," by The Beatles:

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Standing in the wind out at Westcliffe
Gazin’ cross the arid expanse
Phil eyes the alpaca shed
Trailer for Jarrod the sped
Fondles the pistol strapped up tight to his pants

“Goddess, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
The fash will never touch me!”

Bonnie stuffs his face with burritos
Mumblin’ ‘bout Transformers and NEETs
“If I had my way
He would be gone yesterday!
Is there any more of last night’s ground beef?”

"Goddess, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
I’ll have to bury him deep"

No room for all the brain damaged eunuchs
Three dudes in a bed, damn it reeks
One day Norintha said
"Kev, what you doing in bed?"
He screamed, “Can’t a girl just dilate in peace!?"

Goddess, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
He’ll forty-one by forty

Runnin’ out of money for bullets and hay
Can’t sell yarn that’s full of dirt and weeds
The fake call to arms said
“That chud Earl wants us dead!”
And in the suckers’ dollars start to rolllllllll!
Sweet!

Shootin' our new guns over neighbors
Wavin’ all our troon commie flags
The Kiwis all said
"The lies have gone to their heads!
What a bunch of dumb LARPing fags!"

Goddess, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
Waco by twenty twenty-three

Now we’re working on our new earthship
Hoping the support beams don’t crack
Gonna set up this cave
For the new tranny slaves
And make them live with Kev’s rancid snatch

Goddess, you know it ain't easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
Condemned by the county
The way things are going
Just blame fat Bon and Penny!

 

[White Devil]

Anthem of the Tranch- Sung to the tune of Horst-Wessel-Lied

Raise the flag, pastel and gaudy
The tranchers cope, seethe, and dilate
Comrades shot dead by Earl and the Kiwifarms
Meet those in the fourty-one percent

Clear the streets for Kevin's gaping amhole
Clear the streets for the dying pets
Many are looking upon their gruesome forms with dread
The day of wounds and infections dawns

For the last time, the call of coom is sounded
For the fight, they stand unprepared
Already they are crying to be called women
But fuck that shit for they are not and will never be

You've now ruined what was a genuinely good marching song to me.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Burrito night... again...
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Who the fuck puts olives into burritos????

I know there's a group living on the tranch but...godamm their meals are pure gluttony plain and simple.

 

[AnOminous]

In my experience it's the opposite. The ones who have actually read it are either boring history nerds who think it's important or hardcore lefties who actually understand what they believe in, and can make a semi-coherent argument for what they believe in (Regardless of whether you think that political ideology is right or wrong, good or evil).

I think I made it a little under halfway through before deciding this is bullshit, I'm not reading any more of this. And it's the second class that inspire the lower level ones. The problem with Marxism, to me, isn't that its critiques of capitalism are wrong as such, but that its suggested solutions are far worse.

 

[Sexy Senior Citizen]

I think I made it a little under halfway through before deciding this is bullshit, I'm not reading any more of this. And it's the second class that inspire the lower level ones. The problem with Marxism, to me, isn't that its critiques of capitalism are wrong as such, but that its suggested solutions are far worse.

Communism and Marxism are necessary to a degree, in that they hold up a mirror to capitalism and point out the flaws (e.g., you're exploiting the workers and that's bad.) Where these ideologies fall flat is their refusal to look at human nature and compensate for that.

For all its flaws, capitalism takes a realistic view of human nature: humans are naturally greedy and selfish, especially where their personal resources (such as time, labor, and money) are involved. Capitalism there rewards greed being channeled towards an end that benefits society (factory owners and workers who use their time, labor, and money to make product to consoom, people who use their time and labor to take out your trash for you, etc.) This leads to competition as businesses try to market their product as being better than their competitors, or employees advertise themselves as being better workers than the competition. Rather than deal with competition, people will work to crush their competitors, so some regulation is necessary to prevent monopolies. If all works well, this should lead to better products, better workers, and better quality of life.

Communism and Marxism believe that greed can be suppressed by seizing the means of production and equitably distributing resources; think Harrison Bergeron, but for economics. It ignores that people will lose the incentive to work harder if that work isn't rewarded proportionally (love of Mother Russia can only get you so far); as input (labor) drops, output decreases as well, so there's less resources to distribute, meaning there's fewer rewards to hand out, so people are even less inclined to work. This actually happened in the Plymouth colony; they tried to equitably distribute the food, and people simply refused to work because they knew, whether or not they worked, they'd get their food. This led to starvation, and rather than work, people began hoarding their food. When the governor instead decreed that "if you do not work, you do not eat," people suddenly became more inclined to work, and the colony thrived. Communism ignores that people won't work harder without promise of a greater reward, and it ignores humanity's inherent laziness. Communism instead believes that people are the product of their environment, and that by changing the environment you can change the person.

The t-shirt communism that the Tranch engages in is even worse; Marx suggested a dictatorship of the proletariat and that the proletariat support each other for the good of the regime; the Tranch, and "communists" like it, are instead bloated ticks sucking money out of a far more successful (capitalist) regime. But we're talking about men who want to convince the world that they are actually women; they're hardly going to admit to parasitism. Hell, they don't even want to do the work; they're trying to lure other troons in to do the farmwork for them.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

Kampuchean Communism (Khmer Rouge) was actually one of the more based flavors of Communism; early on the Party declared that "if people want to eat, they should go work in the rice paddies". Pol Pot built on the resentment of the peasantry of the urban elites, who were viewed as taking the production of the peasants while giving almost nothing in return.

Pol Pot emptied Cambodia's cities and killed outright those who were viewed as beyond the help of reeducation. Then the urban bourgeoisie were marched into the countryside and forced to become farmers. The massive amount of death was generally from urbanites not knowing anything about farming and the Party refusing to tell them how. Mao's Great Leap Forward was built on similar principles, and fell victim to similar pitfalls.

The dominant line of Communist philosophy today is Lenin-Stalinism, which is based more on a neofeudal system where the nomenklatura get all the benefits and "somebody else" does all the work. Eventually the "other people" get sick of being forced to labor without any benefit to themselves, just to see all the benefits go to the people at the top, and revolt.

Reaganist Capitalism (US, UK) has a similar problem in that none of the profits "trickle down" to the proles.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

Kampuchean Communism (Khmer Rouge) was actually one of the more based flavors of Communism; early on the Party declared that "if people want to eat, they should go work in the rice paddies". Pol Pot built on the resentment of the peasantry of the urban elites, who were viewed as taking the production of the peasants while giving almost nothing in return.

Pol Pot emptied Cambodia's cities and killed outright those who were viewed as beyond the help of reeducation. Then the urban bourgeoisie were marched into the countryside and forced to become farmers. The massive amount of death was generally from urbanites not knowing anything about farming and the Party refusing to tell them how. Mao's Great Leap Forward was built on similar principles, and fell victim to similar pitfalls.

The dominant line of Communist philosophy today is Lenin-Stalinism, which is based more on a neofeudal system where the nomenklatura get all the benefits and "somebody else" does all the work. Eventually the "other people" get sick of being forced to labor without any benefit to themselves, just to see all the benefits go to the people at the top, and revolt.

Reaganist Capitalism (US, UK) has a similar problem in that none of the profits "trickle down" to the proles.

Brother Number One was uncancellable.

Anyway, the Tranchers would probably be the epitome of "To keep you is no benefit, to kill you is no loss." They mistreat their farm animals, they're parasites who rely on others to do their work, and they eat far more in calories that they put out.

 

[Gone Ham]

Lamb has already been rejected by the mother…

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Lamb has already been rejected by the mother…
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This is the second time they've dealt with a lamb rejection. Is it supposed to be this common?

 

[Taylor Swift's Ghostwrite]

Its more like the 6th rejection I believe. And no it isn't. Almost all their mamas rejected and the only thing I could find to explain rejection on this scale is that female sheep will reject babies if they themselves are malnourished and feeding the lamb might be too taxing for them.

Sheep are super dumb though and if they are giving birth in fields there is a chance the mom straight doesn't realize it's her baby inspite of just giving birth to it. I don't think that is common enough for that to be the case though.

 

[AnOminous]

Mao's Great Leap Forward was built on similar principles, and fell victim to similar pitfalls.

One of the specifically idiotic things Mao did was decide sparrows were a pest and ordered their extermination, based on nothing but his own personal opinion they were eating grain. Unfortunately, they also ate locusts. Result: a plague of locusts and as many as 50 million people dying of starvation. And then they had to ship in sparrows from other countries.

It wasn't the sole cause of the famine, but it seems every time Communism is tried, it nearly immediately results in the society losing the ability to perform even the most basic functions like growing food. That's so universal it is obviously baked in to the whole ideology, and there's usually a mix of stupidity and malice to these disasters, as they take farms from people who know how to grow and either outright liquidate those people or send them elsewhere, then replace them with people with no idea what they're doing.

It seems it only works in small, tribe-sized groups with extremely homogenous societies, where everyone knows everyone and has shared interests. Even then, they need some method of eliminating deadbeat members or again, you get the refusal to work and attract undesirable members.

The tranch has one of these things, a group of similar people and a reasonably small size, but they're a batch of, without exception, raging narcissists so this project is ultimately doomed, it's just a matter of how big a disaster it is when it fails.

 

[Comandante Marcos]

It wasn't the sole cause of the famine, but it seems every time Communism is tried, it nearly immediately results in the society losing the ability to perform even the most basic functions like growing food. That's so universal it is obviously baked in to the whole ideology, and there's usually a mix of stupidity and malice to these disasters, as they take farms from people who know how to grow and either outright liquidate those people or send them elsewhere, then replace them with people with no idea what they're doing.

It seems as if farmers are considered counterrevolutionary by newly formed Communist governments for some reason, and they eventually get wiped out. It could have something to do with rural people usually being far more conservative than the second generation bourgeois who usually end up victorious in Communist revolutions.

You can see this in the US if you follow what few media outlets cater specifically to rural farmers/ranchers, notably Range magazine, which is almost a 180 degree perspective from the New York-based mainstream bourgeois press, and which is constantly ranting that the urbanites want to wipe out farms and ranches. Some of the stuff described in Range is almost right out of Stalin's playbook during the Second Holodomor in the early 30s.

Hardly anybody in the US has any idea how to farm or raise ranch animals, including the bourgeois troons on the tranch, so if Communism was fully implemented here the resulting collapse and famine would truly be breathtaking, possibly resulting in most of the population disappearing within a few years.

 

[Emperor Percival Tachyon]

I don't care what utopian ideolgy you are peddling, if you think putting overeducated urbanites in charge of a nation's farming and food production is a good idea, you are pants on head retarded. No amount of googling or even reading books and academic texts on agriculture is enough to prepare your average city slicker to take care of crops and livestock. It takes years of hands on experience to actually learn and know what you're doing. The most experience that type of person has is if you're lucky, maybe growing some herbs and houseplants in a window box or in an apartment under a light. Not exactly farmer material there.

 

[Gone Ham]

Delicious yummy breakfast at noon. Also did they have a grease fire? That scorching and black shit looks to have been burnt.

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More degenerates are on the Tranch this week. Look at the man with the girl scouts green dress.

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"Sky" is the tranch manager (dunno if we knew that or not). First time in a while seeing him on here. Also lamb is rejected still. Also Naga really wants to take a bite and I don't blame it.

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Look at how filthy this shit is dear lord

Boxed wine and an absolute mess

 

[Ghostse]

Something that magnifies the problem with commies is that they all become authoritarian dictatorships. This allows terrible decisions to become magnified as no one dares question leadership. Anyone who could be a threat (i.e. motivated and with talent) is prevented from being a threat.

The Soviet Union got their shit pushed nearly all the way in by Germany because Stalin had purged the officer corps because he viewed the military as the only threat to his rule.

And while claiming to displace the nobility, they simply replace the existing elite with their own party members. The fact that commies will excuse Politboro excess as peasants starve is just mind boggling. Yes, capitalism does the same with the people at the top, but it doesn't hold itself out as some great system of equality. Arguably it says it'll only increase inequality. But what it does do is make it so that even for the folks on the bottom, things get better.
And given the number of fatties you see in homeless camps today....

 

[Prolego]

Yarn Review Time!


Final Review: Actually surprisingly decent. Not shit. If you are looking for some Tranch Memorabilia or want to keep the show rolling, grab that burner card and a dead drop and grab that yarn. Or use your real address. The Tranch won't Hunt you down and make you right a good review at gunpoint. Haha.

A good review, how brilliant. Sadly they've not yet tweeted a link to it. I guess we just have to wait......

Realistically their ranch doesn't have as much work as a real farm.

1. Let animals out.
2. Throw hay on the ground.
3. Put animals away at some point.

I'm sure there are other things they do, like putting the poop in a pile. They don't have fields though, they don't take care of the animals properly at all and all of that is going to greatly decrease how much work they get in. Add in they eat a lot of shitty but high calorie food and they aren't really get a deficit in calories in vs calories out.

We know when they do work because they take the trouble to take photos and upload them to twitter. Lamb born. Photo. Staircase of death installed. Photo. Put up fence. Photo. Repair shed. Photo. Most of the time they're doing fuck all. What other farmers go out for coffee with the ladies every morning. And why did they need outside help to put up those stairs? Kevin, Michael and the cupboard dweller are useless, but that leaves Phil, Paul, Sky, Daisy and the Psycho which should be plenty. And as for the lamb rejection issue, use a stanchion. It's a lot easier than getting up every couple of hours in the night. Or better still, stop cuddling and washing the new borns and leave them to get to know their mothers. Make sure the amniotic sac is cleared away from the nose and mouth then get out the way and leave mum to clean up.

Ewe in Stanchion

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[Meriasek]

More degenerates are on the Tranch this week. Look at the man with the girl scouts green dress.
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Worse than being a Girl Scouts dress it appears to be, may Allah forgive me for uttering this word, a Utilikilt.

 

[Crinoids]

They really bring those feminine sensibilities to their cozy, domestic home. It’s inspiring!
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This is such a frustrating image. If I had those boxes around I would IMMEDIATELY consolidate, lie them all flat, remove all tape, and then start weighing them down outside in big square shapes to prepare an area for planting something. I don't know if that's what Colorado soil needs, but that's where my mind goes when I see lots of cardboard. And they live on a FARM

At least shred it and make some compost out of it

Delicious yummy breakfast at noon. Also did they have a grease fire? That scorching and black shit looks to have been burnt.
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"Sky" is the tranch manager (dunno if we knew that or not). First time in a while seeing him on here. Also lamb is rejected still. Also Naga really wants to take a bite and I don't blame it.
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Archive is being slow, so when they're done in 6 hours, I'll upload them.

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Still too many boxes. Watching people have this much land and laze around with it (not only that but cause desertification) while not having a job is so irritating as someone who spends so much time maximizing the small amount of land they have.

I'd start with turnips if I was in the area, I like turnip greens and turnips grow in colder weather and with short growing season. I also happen to know that alpacas love biting into turnips, but I'm not sure how much is good for them.

 

[S.C.U.D.]

The stove keeps getting worse.

You'd think they would have made one of their troon serfs clean it or something.