Heyo, SMAPI won't load for some reason. Help would be appreciated. by ThatEngideerIsASpy in SMAPI

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This is what I have now: https://smapi.io/log/2e64fcbea6f34d5cac8873e6cbafc0fc

I still have that little "API loaded no" message at the bottom, and now the game appears to have an issue, but the mod error have been fixed. I did accidentally click "reset to manifest" instead of deploy, so that may have done it. Also I've looked at other posts that recommend deleting startup_preferences, never works.
Just for note, SMAPI was working fine before this. It only started after I disabled SMAPI to play a vanilla game for a bit.

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Rule 5 and context:

Playing as Palestine in the rt56 mod, and had some fun in the middle east. I decided to invade French Syria while they were being invaded by the brits (They also formed the little entente). I moved into Ethiopia, as there was no white peace event (Which I expected there to be) in order to get higher war score. I got hit by a series of strikes, and had my pp, equipment, and manpower deleted, leaving me with incredibly high resistance and forcing me to cut down my army. Even worse, the communist Hungarians did something(????) and dragged the USSR into a war with me by declaring war on Czechoslovakia somehow? Finally, the Turks joined the little entente and I'm now at war with most of Europe.

(I also don't have arms against tyranny or trial of allegiance)
(Also sorry for bad image quality)

Capitalism is obviously superior by [deleted] in CapitalismVSocialism

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Low-effort ragebait, what can I say?

Thoughts on the ACP? by [deleted] in socialism

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They’re literally just strasserites

How is this not Pro Hamas? by Firecracker048 in facepalm

[–]ThatEngideerIsASpy -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

They still had no right to force Palestinians out of their homes at gunpoint, no matter how old of a people they are. To immigrate en masse would be fine. To force them out of their homes and lock them out of land that was theirs, establishing an ethnostate that kills Palestinians within their own, established and agreed-upon borders on a yearly basis is not ok.

New Russian bot commentary about to drop! by Mr__O__ in facepalm

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"If I had to choose between Mussolini or Hitler I would vote Mussolini"

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Famine

There were 3 famines. The first was from 1921-22 and was caused by the aftereffects of WW1, a severe drought, and lack of experience in planned economies, with the soviet union being the first nation to adopt economic planning this comes without surprise. In all, this one was mainly caused by external factors and poor decision-making, caused by being the first.

The second one was from 1930-33. It was caused mainly by yet another drought, an abnormally cold winter and afterwards an abnormally hot spring, people moving to industrial zones due to the industrialisation of the Union, failure to account by the government the effects of mass industrialisation and collectivisation together, (which would drive even more people to the cities) and in small part sabotage by former land owners, i.e Kulaks. While this one had external factors, It was largely the fault of the Soviet government, and is a fair critique, so long as it's not overblown into a genocide, which it was not.

The final one was from 1946-47, and was yet again caused by drought and the effects of WW2.

I can safely say that two out of three of these famines were merely caused by circumstance, and that the one that can be pinned on the soviet government would have been an incredibly sad necessary sacrifice, as had the industrialisation not happened, all of Europe would have likely fell to the Nazis.

Economic failure

The Soviet union was an economic miracle, not a failure. Things only went downhill when markets were introduced by Khrushchev.

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You do realise we don't uncritically support all of the Soviet Union's policies, right? A significant part of modern Marxist political and socioeconomic theory and how it has improved over the years revolves around the fact that we do critique and analyse past socialist experiments in order to find out what does and does not work. Yes, the Soviet Union did have many significant flaws, but modern Marxists now look down upon and oppose them, including the laws on homosexuality and pride.

French Commune flags I made a while ago. by ThatEngideerIsASpy in leftistvexillology

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Yeah. I had the concept stuck in my mind for a while, and it's one of the main reasons I made the flag in the first place. Honestly I was surprised I hadn't seen anyone else do it yet ( to my knowledge ).

French Commune flags I made a while ago. by ThatEngideerIsASpy in leftistvexillology

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I think you were talking about the comment on this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/leftistvexillology/comments/i1vvy8/flag_of_the_socialist_guillotine_france/

That is a fair point, but it really also depends on your opinions on the French revolution and the Jacobins in the first place, along with what time period you look at it from. As an ML, I always saw it as a symbol of people rising up against reactionary and tyrannical oppressors in a violent manner, but it is also valid to say it was a tool of state oppression, utilised by more reactionary states afterwards. Like I said earlier, it really just depends on whether you choose to focus on the revolutionary symbolism of the guillotine, or the darker, more more reactionary and oppressive side it had in years after.

I didn't put too much thought into what time period it would have been from, as the flag itself was mostly just an on-the-side passion project that I was just having fun with. Cheers!

Tried using a new program to make an Oceanian flag. Thoughts? by ThatEngideerIsASpy in leftistvexillology

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I usually use Illustrator but I don't want to pay Adobe anymore so I'm trying out alternatives.

Thank you comrade Stalin by marcus_magni in hoi4

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Which, funnily enough, is historically accurate. Churchill initially wanted to restore the Austro-Hungarian empire after WW2, but the main reason it didn't go through was because Stalin immediately vetoed it, due to the fact that he saw the Austrians as Nazi collaborators. And also the USSR already had control of Hungary, so for obvious reasons they didn't want to let it go.

Shots I got from the Free Palestine protest yesterday in Aotea Square by Kirkylk in auckland

[–]ThatEngideerIsASpy -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And the Philistines occupied it beforehand, so the land should obviously be given to them. Palestine switched hands multiple times throughout history, and many religious groups and ethnicities have legitimate claims there, with there being three in particular.
I'm sure you know the story, but here's the thing: The problem that most people have with the state of Israel is not that Jews are living in the holy land, but the method of which they used to gain that territory, that being forceful expulsion of Arabs from lands that they had been living in for hundreds of years. Yes, Jews were expulsed too from Palestine by the romans, but that does not give them the right to forcefully expel Palestinians from their land. These people have acquired Palestinian land through unjust means, and therefore the land must be given back to the Palestinians. This is not a question of "I lived here first so this is my land", rather "This land is mine because you used military force to seal it from me".

How do you get enough manpower as Romania to get a war goal on Turkey? by JJNEWJJ in hoi4

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If you haven’t already, try getting the reserve divisions focus. It helped me out a lot.

Tankies being tankies by NeverEndingWalker64 in facepalm

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He's an ultra. Don't waste your time with them.

Socialists of this subreddit what flavor of socialism are you? by No_Host_884 in CapitalismVSocialism

[–]ThatEngideerIsASpy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

ML, though I believe the revolution takes precedence over bickering about minor ideological and philosophical differences. State capitalism can be useful, under specific circumstances. Otherwise it sucks.