CriticalResist8

If NATO told liberals to jump, they'd say "fuck off authoritarian redfash tankie".

But there's somebody you forgot to ask, and it's Ukraine.

So NATO says to Zelensky "tell our idiots to jump or you won't get the new F-16". Zelensky does the song and dance and tells liberals to jump, and liberals say how high.

let's get this on federation shall we

I know I found it somewhere around here but I've looked and looked and can't find it. Please help

We're preparing a bigger survey that will see wider distribution, but to help me calibrate it and know what I want to ask, I want to run some preliminary questions here.

Your answers will help us improve the wiki in the short-term, so thanks for participating! You can simply comment below or send me a DM if you want to remain somewhat anonymous.

Section 1

• Do you have an account on ProleWiki?
• If not, why?
• Were you aware that having an account on ProleWiki allows you to edit pages and participate in the editor community?

Section 2

• How often do you visit ProleWiki in a week or month?
• What keeps you coming back to ProleWiki?
• What impact has ProleWiki had on you? Either positive or negative (please detail)

Section 3

• Where do you feel ProleWiki is lacking?
• Please take a page you remember that you didn't entirely like and provide your criticism of it, not only on the content but on the phrasing as well. Please don't choose a stub (we know they're too short 🙏)
• How would you rate the language and tone used on ProleWiki from 1 to 10? With 1 being casual (as if between friends), and 10 being academic (as if presenting a paper to an auditorium).
• Do you perceive ProleWiki to be a credible encyclopedia?

Bonus question: how would you like to see ProleWiki evolve?

Be as honest as you can, I won't take it personally.

Hexbearers can answer too now that we're federated btw, but this remains a small-scale internal survey until the real big one gets published.

wtf I thought we were doing a bit

https://prolewiki.redbubble.com

Our redbubble account was finally approved, which means we are now selling stickers, pins, magnets, even coasters lol. Tote bags, t-shirts... I mean, why stop at just stickers?

But that's not all, we teamed up with artist Tamaryn (https://www.artstation.com/tamaryn) who graciously offered some of her own art for our store, to help fundraise. I think her art looks dope.

We ended up settling for Redbubble due to two considerations: price and ease of access. They ship worldwide, and they are one of the cheapest POD (print on demand) service for the consumer. At this time we don't have the capabilities of offering all this stuff ourselves.

Of course, we encourage you to make your own stickers and pins if that's cheaper for you. It's shipping they get you on. We barely make any money on any sale, our main fundraising avenues are still direct donations, the store is just a way to get some merch (eyeing some of that stuff myself personally).

Anyway, we're pretty stoked about this new store and we're hoping the art can help make sales on the broader site to fund the revolution with liberal money lol

Is because communists seek consensus, not just majority.

Voting in liberalism (the ideology of capitalism) is like everything else you experience in capitalism; it's alienating and alienated.

We'll focus on the alienated part. The liberal vote goes like this: here's the question, you can answer yes or no, knock yourself out.

They don't care about anything else. They don't care if you're educated or not about the question, or the reasons you might have to be voting one way or the other. All they care about is the box checked on the ballot, and then whichever option gets the most votes, even if it's one single extra vote, wins.

The communist vote goes like that: here's the question, why do you want to vote yes or no?

We build consensus. Build is the keyword here: consensus is not reached by random luck or letting enough time pass, it's a conscious effort that you have to make.

We educate people about the question and their choices, we try to understand why they lean one way or the other, and then we talk with them to give them all the facts they need to make an informed decision.

It's something we naturally started doing on ProleWiki, we try to reach a consensus for most decisions (the most common ones being account requests). If someone votes no, we want to know their arguments for it, and that's why most account requests end up with a pure 9-0 result or similar; we talk and convince people to reach one decision or the other. We motivate our own decisions as well; whether you vote yes or no, you're encouraged to explain why -- votes are not yet anonymous in our case.

But there is debate happening, which is healthy and helps reach a better solution.

It's also what Cuba did for their new constitution. The way these votes happen in liberal democracies is, again, they give you the question, they give you the changes that would happen, and they ask you yes or no and that's it. The way Cuba did it was to first talk with communities and their citizens, before any vote even took place. Then they refined a proposal based on these discussions, submit drafts for auditing by the population, and then finally the vote happened.

You can see them work on my sandbox page: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Comrade:CriticalResist/sandbox#Communists

The plan is we'll use the big cards for like our main authors or topics, and then the mini cards for "smaller" authors.

On mobile the difference is sizeable, you can fit 7 mini cards in what was 2 big cards.

Do you want to know what the debugging was for? They didn't align properly. Not how I wanted them. Somehow that took 2 days to figure out, but they look all neat now :D

btw if you're a communist dev you can request an account on prolewiki and help us with these projects or anything else you have ideas for, we love people with initiative, you don't necessarily have to be writing!

Or really not just devs, anyone that has ideas to help ProleWiki can help make them come true.

I'm guessing you can't vote on mastodon if you don't have an account, so you can vote here too.

We need to figure out:

• what they're going to look like
• who to sell with (redbubble, spreadshirt, maybe even aliexpress, etc)
• pricing, though it will probably be affordable. We plan to give them out to our editors on request, so you buying a sticker will fund them to our editors. Really by buying stickers from us you help support the website.

but they could be shipped out to you by the end of the week...

or the next, it's a bit hopeful lol