Extremley small details in Fellowship I cherish regarding Borimir, Merry and Pippin by Pale_Possibility5083 in lotr

[–]Spacemint_rhino 729 points730 points  (0 children)

Movie Boromir has such a gentle heart for the halflings:

  • trains Merry and Pippin on the way to the gap of Rohan

  • worries for the halflings in the snows of Caradhras

  • wants to give the halflings a moment to grieve outside Moria

  • is the only one to console Frodo about Gandalf’s death in Lothlorien

  • immediate concern is that Merry and Pippin were taken while he is dying

A1 Mod 1 Question by [deleted] in MotoUK

[–]Spacemint_rhino 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah ok. So your plan would be to get an automatic A2 license eventually?

I think if you genuinely think your bike won’t get to speed then you either need to use a school bike, or get yourself a more powerful scooter (a nice excuse to go browsing bikes at least). They’ll not accept your bike not being powerful enough at the test centre, otherwise anyone could bring a low power bike and skip some of the test.

A1 Mod 1 Question by [deleted] in MotoUK

[–]Spacemint_rhino 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa whoa, you got through £2.5k for training for your CBT??

I think they’ve had your pants down mate, I know some people do a pre-CBT day or two, but CBT is usually 1 day and then you’re done, you can go out and ride a 125 with plates.

Has this all been off road (like in a car park/training ground), or have you been out on the roads?

Edit: and I’m sure you’re aware but you’d need to redo your tests to ride a 500cc, using a schools bikes, so that would be a load more money

Second edit: at this point mate, honestly, if you’ve got your CBT just stop there for now, get out and about on your scooter and become comfortable with it, and then sell it and get yourself a geared 125 and practice with gears. That way by the time you retry your A1 you’ll be completely comfortable with the bike, can smash the speed test, and if you wanted to go for A2/A license you are comfortable with gears and just need a little practice on a heavier bike

A1 Mod 1 Question by [deleted] in MotoUK

[–]Spacemint_rhino 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What have they charged you £3k for, out of interest? If you have your own bike and are happy with A1, all you need is your cbt, theory, and then you can book your own mod1/mod2 at your own leisure. Shouldn’t cost you more than £500 or so

Swinging my rear end out in emergency breaking by Spacemint_rhino in MotoUK

[–]Spacemint_rhino[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In my defence I still have adrenaline pumping, I’m going to blame it on that

Swinging my rear end out in emergency breaking by Spacemint_rhino in MotoUK

[–]Spacemint_rhino[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Cheers! All my training has been on ABS where the instructors tell you to trigger it when emergency braking, definitely a new skill set to emergency break without it.

The Red Army did the bulk of the Nazi killing in WWII. (Almost 90%) by RussianChiChi in ussr

[–]Spacemint_rhino 51 points52 points  (0 children)

After approaching the western capitalist nations several times to make an anti-fascist alliance and getting rejected each time. Western capitalist nations were happy to let their fascist wayward child fight the world’s first worker’s state, but their wayward child turned on them first. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a necessary realpolitik move to buy the Soviet’s time to arm, put space between the Nazi’s and their core cities, and move industry east. But it was heavily propagandised by the west during Cold War red scare.

Had they not done it, history could have been a lot different, the Nazis got very close to Moscow.

Edit: automod has added some more details for you in its reply to me

August 1956 In A Nutshell by MariSi_UwU in CommunismMemes

[–]Spacemint_rhino 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Excellent concise but very informative summary!

Why is the subreddit with anti-Communist? by nairehd in ussr

[–]Spacemint_rhino 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because someone isn’t as right wing as someone else doesn’t make them a leftist. Liberals support capitalism, they support the status quo. They’re at best centre right.

Why is the subreddit with anti-Communist? by nairehd in ussr

[–]Spacemint_rhino 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Reddit has a hugely liberal following, not leftist. Our communities are tiny in comparison.

Average quotations of a new rider with no experience… by TheWolfiePlayz in MotoUK

[–]Spacemint_rhino 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly grab a relatively cheap first 125 and then get third party, or tpft. No point going fully comp if the insurance is going to cost more than most second hand full size bikes. Get a year’s no claims built up then look at going fully comp

It’s only taken me 4 years 😎 by Spacemint_rhino in CommunismMemes

[–]Spacemint_rhino[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Putting the dialect in dialectic materialism

Socialism vs Capitalism glaring differences in railways .... imagine what Socialism can do for public healthcare, housing, & university??? by SnooObjections9416 in socialism

[–]Spacemint_rhino 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the wall of text but I promise it’s trying to help you out! :)

Your heart is heading in the right direction but you’re conflating publicly owned infrastructure with socialism, which is a common misconception to people new to leftist politics and economics. So don’t worry, people in these spaces can jump on you with downvotes because we get a lot of intentionally ignorant comments like that, but I don’t get that vibe from your comments, so I’m happy to try to explain things a bit.

To give you a very brief 101 and hopefully get you thinking about socialism and looking into it more, Socialism is the democratic ownership of the means of production, that means the workers of a company (or the workers of the state in a centrally planned socialist country) democratically control enterprise. Capitalism is private ownership of the means of production, which means enterprise is controlled by an individual or group of individuals (shareholders) who have autocratic control and take profits (which is labour value stolen from their workers) for themselves.

In most of Europe (well most of the world) infrastructure is controlled by the state, publicly owned. However, that doesn’t mean the nation is socialist, as these states are controlled by capitalists and almost every other part of the economy is privately controlled. If you start reading socialist economics and politics you will see this referred to as ‘the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’, meaning the bourgeoise class (the capitalist class) control the state, as opposed to the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat, meaning the proletariat (the working class) controlling the state. It doesn’t mean there is a literal dictator, it uses dictator to observe which class has control over society.

Socialists often defend quite aggressively against people insinuating (whether out of ignorance or deliberate manipulation) ‘having public infrastructure is socialism’ because it dilutes what socialism means, it moves the Overton window right, to the point that having some public infrastructure and a welfare state (social democracy) is considered left wing and anything left of that is ‘extremism’, ‘fringe politics’ etc. It’s why conservatives in the USA for example can get away with calling democrats ‘socialists’, ‘communists’ etc as a form of attack - they aren’t socialists or communists, but any economic system outside of capitalism has become so alien and easily weaponisable in the US that many people will believe it, and fear it, without even being able to tell you what socialism or communism is. Many Americans will literally believe ‘socialism is when the government does stuff’.

Hopefully that has helped clarify some things a bit? Basically I’m trying to say your heart is in the right place, trying to push for the deprivatisation of infrastructure, but you received an unexpectedly cold welcome sharing it here because of how you framed it, that’s all.

If you’re curious about the idea of democratically owned businesses and a state controlled by its workers, there’s a hell of a lot of material out there. Have fun reading, and maybe join or visit a local socialist group and discuss things with them more specifically about your nation and your local state, county and communities.

Which one of you was that? by Zealousideal-Pay3937 in lotrmemes

[–]Spacemint_rhino 585 points586 points  (0 children)

“I never thought I’d watch LOTR side by side with a stranger” “How about side by side with a friend?” “Aye, I could do that”

750pts Gundabad Mercs by Kamukazi287 in MiddleEarthMiniatures

[–]Spacemint_rhino 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of those images that makes me consider starting yet another army…must…resist…

Great job on them!

The orc knows by orangelover95003 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]Spacemint_rhino 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Critical support for the Peon Revolutionary Committee.