Assessment isn't necessarily seizure. Why are they checking GB to NI/UK shipments? That's noteworthy, and odd?

I am so confused to why my uk to Northern Ireland shipment is going through Dublin? I don’t think that’s a norm. I just checked the tracking on the Royal Mail website and it’s sitting in Dublin which is strange

Oh. I hope it's okay dude. That's surely not normal as it would cause post-Brexit issues for things that weren't for the EU?! That's bizarre.

They didn’t open or seize it yet relax . Wait

if you change communism to community then you dont have to go very far for an answer

If you shit in a pint glass, it looks like mud!

if you put mud in a pint glass it takes like shit

the family fridge

German Peasant's War (where the word communism derives), Paris Commune, two Russian revolutions minus the Bolsheviks, Makhnochina, Spanish revolution, German revolution, May 68, etc. etc. etc.

Losing in the first half don't mean the game's over.

I don't think Communism has ever worked as Capitalists are always creaming off the top.

A great book on the subject is Eat The Rich by the US satirist (and huge drug consumer) P.J. O'Rourke. I think his and my politics are probably polar opposites, but you could get fucked up at a party with him and have an amazing time. Anyway, good book. Breaks down all sorts of different political stances, and Good Communism is one chapter, and Bad Communism another. He's a funny guy, but maybe don't consider it as in depth reasoned academic analysis.

Ah, fuck. He died in 2022. No future parties.

kibbutzes

The reason you don't hear any success stories is because there ain't none.

Come on down voters give me a success story if you don't like the truth?? Bloody Marxists never except that it doesn't work. What ever iteration you can think of it WONT WORK!!!! everyone being the same sucks the fun out of life accept that hard work pays!

I'm not advocating for Communism but our society is full of people grafting their respective genitalia off that are still struggling financially. The idea that hard work pays ( properly) is a idea propagated by people seeking to exploit the labour of others. Nobody should need to claim benefits whilst working full time and yet...
Fwiw, I do advocate for a mixed economy. Nationalised energy, health, water, public transport etc and luxuries at the will of the free market.

Exactly this - capitalism needs the grafters, the hardworking cogs to keep coming in to replace those that fall off or fall through the cracks.

"that hard work pays" is often true and the capitalists don't only pontificate this to the masses they teach it to their children. children they practise communism with.

You shouldn't be allowed to claim any benefits while in full time employment. It's crazy, we are basically subsidising employers who ought to be paying more.

And I hope that, one day, employers decide paying a living wage is more important than ever increasing profits such that in work benefits are no longer necessary. I propose a link between maximum and minimum pay within an organisation. Let's say; no pay ( overall package including bonuses, perks and dividends) higher than 5x the lowest full time salary.

it wouldn't even have to be a regulation, the government does business with so many companies and beneficiaries. if they don't have these multiples in place no people's funds.

employers don't make that call so much as owners do and when the owner is the stock market it's quite blind to anything but profits.

when the owners are the employees this changes priorities.

I’m sure there are loads they just don’t teach us about them. Capitalism doesn’t work either does it? Too many greedy pocket filling bastards. We are all the same having money doesn’t make you better than anyone else, the fact you are here spouting this shows what a sad state the world is in 😞

under capitalism hard work has never paid and never will pay lmfao. communism actually prioritises labour, capitalism is about fat pigs at the top skimming off 99% of the profit we produce for them. do you not find it utterly insane tesco has like 5 different in-house brands with varying prices for essentially the same product? or that having less money means you have to settle for lower quality products that are worse for you and spoil faster?

So, you don't think lifting 4/5ths of the world out of relative poverty can be considered "paying off"?
OK Che, communism good 🤣👌

there are children starving in this very country

do you have a source for this? not trying to challenge so much as i would like to learn more about it. maybe there is even a way the community could help.

food for the hungry is legit and accepts crypto

there are community outreach programs and obviously government funded systems like food banks to help, but the crisis only really exists because the capitalist system is designed that way. we have the resources to end world hunger but it's not economically beneficial so it will never happen

these are sources on food insecurity in the uk for 2023 and 2024:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9209/
https://foodfoundation.org.uk/initiatives/food-insecurity-tracking#tabs/Round-15

Does the existence of those children make anything I said less true?
Strawman though. I didn't make a claim that there is no poverty in any country. I think you missed the qualifiers "relative" and "4/5ths" of the world.
I would say, that "starving" inarguably applies to way less than 1 in 5 children in the UK, US or anywhere in the West which makes your point about the ills of capitalism fairly moot in context.
I am no fan of cronyism, and I don't think capitalism is utopia, but it's insane to try and persuade anybody that communism would do better than this.
Thanks for the downvotes. I have over a thousand upvotes and less than 30 down.
Drop me a line next time you are tipping your bathwater into the atalantic. I'll do it too 🤣

"I have over a thousand upvotes and less than 30 down"

This is one of the saddest things I've ever read on the internet xD

TLDR

Ah, the Lords prayer of the troll world.
In other words, you have nothing worth saying because you are too vacuous to argue your way out of the little communist hole you dug 🤣
Thick.

found the reddit moderator 😂

Do you mean the actual communists who don't want to respond to fair and cogent points about their lack of reasoning?

You should look into some unbiased reporting on the soviet Union, and some witness statements from the older generation who lived through it.

You will find that many of them tell you life was better in the USSR, than in post USSR Eastern Europe and Russia. Besides that they were several decades ahead of the west on womens rights and social services.

But like anything good, the Americans bring it down from the inside, or out, USSR, Great Britain, either way. Their media controls the narritive, and communism effects their ability to steal all the money. There is a reason Cinema is oversaturated with anti Communist rhetoric.

I'd honestly rather have the worst communist government, than be America number 2.

i'd settle for being ireland number 0.5 :)

they currently have more than double the uk's gdp per capita

Yeah and east germany was the most successful communist country of all, just ask anyone that wasn't killed trying to leave.

Have you ever listened to Konstantin Kisin? A Jewish family - He moved when he was 9 from the ussr to England at the end of the soviet Union just before the fall. His first hand account of his own life tells a very different story to what you describe.

love triggernometry

The communists on this thread think KK first hand account of late soviet communism is invalid for some reason.
I suspect many of them have never listened to a reasonable, adult centrist common sense. Perhaps it is not synonymous with the cult like adherence to social, political orthodoxy that would like to see nebulous victimhood everywhere.

Hey man, great discussion, and I'm no authority but I had to retort to your 'hard work pays' comment: I have to disagree, hard work doesn't pay - call me whatever but nurses, teachers, delivery drivers, anyone in public service, works their asses off for little pay and much abuse from all sides.

We exist in Capitalism and while hard work and 'hustle' works for a short period for a small number, hard work is not a critical proponent of Capitalism, that's increasingly evident, imo.

Nice alt greenbeans/cherry cola. I can't believe you are actually calling other people schizo and creating multiple accounts to appear to support yourself 🤣

you are a literal schizo, my comment was just insulting you for being a pathetic redditor bragging about 1000 upvotes ,never mentioned politics, this guys actually responding with points and now you dont respond because you schizophrenically think im him. 😂😂😂

hilarious thanks for proving your sanity

You didn't respond with any political talk aside from your comment about reddit that makes NO sense. Yes, you really didn't. But you did downvote every comment I made on this thread within a minute when you appeared on it before we had any interaction. Just as restricted account Tiger man did 🤣

you bragged about having 1000 upvotes which is pathetic redditor behaviour 😂 not that difficult to figure out as long as you arent an obsessed psychotic responding 5 times to a little comment, oh wait 😂😂😂

I'm actually really surprised that you are hating on reddit. There are so many commies on there that want everybody else to do the hard work for them. Sounds up your street.

There is. It's UK

I came here to say this. Glad someone else knows what's going on.

It's gradual. Socialism is the route to communism. The NHS, which we are all trained from an early age to worship, was one of the first big steps in socialism. Benefits too.

Do you all remember when Richard Madeley of all people called out Susan Michie for being a member of the Communist party? She was a main player in the 'behaviour science' part of the scamdemic. Do you remember how we were all pressured into performing that awful clap for the NHS gesture? That was like something out of North Korea/China, where citizens are softly compelled into worshipping the state - like those obvious crocodile tears that were shed over Kim of N Korea.

Ugh, most people are too close to it to see it but it is ABUNDANTLY clear.

I would recommend anyone to watch Yuri Bezmenovs lecture on how the west gets subverted to Communism. He was a soviet defector who used to subvert countries and bring them into the soviet fold for a living.

@Chambertin4 I wish we lived in the world you think we live in xD

The rich people who own the media want to push an ideology that stops them being able to hoarde all the wealth? care to explain how that makes sense?

im happy living right here

i think all the best examples of communism are monuments

open source software (you're soaking in it)

I don't think you'll find any. They've tried it and hundreds of millions died. Ok in principle but man's greed quickly takes over.

yeah it's the trickery of it from the knowers side and the sheer gullibility from the mark.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

To the naive person, this quote from Marx sounds like everyone will just pull their own weight for others and everyones needs will be met.

But with the benefit of hindsight, it is clearly a recipe for slave labour/the gulag system where each man is worked to his utmost but only has his basic needs met. Pretty clear with the benefit of hindsight.

There are no luxuries. Worked to the max, as much as your body can stand and in return you are provided a concrete bed, thin blanket and bowl of gruel twice a day. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

Concrete bed?
This could easily be satire. Thanks for the laughs. xD

Yes, the realities of a fringe political experiment that has resulted in serious human disaster and loss of life every single time it has been tried makes great satire if you have your head so far in the sand that you can't and won't learn from the past. Come on Che, you are convincing nobody with your smarmy , condescending replies that do not rebut the subject matter. It's totally lazy.

“Best examples of communism”? A bourgeois framing! The Paris Commune—1871—was the first workers’ government: producers seized power, abolished class privilege. Short-lived, but its essence: *proletarian dictatorship* as communism’s midwife. True communism isn’t a “model”—it’s the *movement* to bury capital.

My wife, she’s very keen on redistributing my wealth.

It doesn't work
Never has, never will.
The communists and socialists will tell you that " it just hasn't been done properly"
Problem is, they always need other peoples money to spend...

None. A demonstrably failed concept.

The West is the best. Don't have a Mao

The only people with positive stories perished in the gulags.

"It was a laugh in the beginning, but things went steeply downhill shortly after."

seriously the first few years in the gulag are brilliant

Some people apparently laughed themselves to death.

Ants 🐜

If we ask what communism is attempting which is elimination of hierarchy, collective ownership and resource equality it looks good on the surface but in reality if you look at Cuba and ask any Cuban that managed to fled the country they will tell you when communism is applied through force and suppression it disrupts and destroys instead of harmonising. Sadly we feel it never comes without corruption at it's core...maybe Vietnam?

Its a pipe dream, we are all living under an authoritarian dictatorship disguised as something else and it doesn't matter where you are that's just how it is.
What doesn't seem to be understood is that despite what you are led to believe nearly everyone in the world has more in common with eachother than they don't and non of the current leadership, the oligarchs or the current appointed shop floor managers (politicians) aren't doing anything about it.
And to get a rise from people.
China is winning on making it better and we are not allowed to participate in that.
Although realistically China is winning at the current version and realistically China has always been winning except for a minor blip.

Not exactly a success story but interesting fact. There are more cannabis users per capita in Communist North Korea than there are in any other country. They smoke to relieve the pain of living there.

Best example of communism... in the ground... deep in the ground with the devil from whence it came.

yet when everyone looks above and sees devils we know what cycle communism - or now capitalism - is in.

Cambodia - says it all.

It doesn’t work people become lazy and there will always be those who have and those who have nothing.

Argentina’s current turnaround under Javier Milei from socialist basket case to small state and low interference is what you should be talking about. We don’t need the public sector time to slash it.

We need to get our self respect back relying on the state has made us weak and pathetic.

We are already experiencing communism even in the modern world , it's a hybrid between communism and democracy , based on feelings and personal I , me Happiness and DEI.
Don't work , hand outs , nobody knows what a woman is , men are all monsters and rapists , everyone can be whatever they FEEL , massive division - past remembering - payouts for past events , people split into groups protesting, government is everything - Marxsism 1:1 .
You already have 6 - 7 nations that have fallen fighting for this aspect -
Argentina - down - Saved by Milei
Columbia - down
Venezuela - down
Chile - About to fall
Salvador - Down - But saved by Bukele
Australia - About to fall
USA - About to fall - massive border issues and most cities are walking dead with people zombies being poor and homeless.
UK - about to crash due to importing victimhood across all minorities , brits on mute mode not even saying anything to anyone.
Go woke in a country and your entire society crashes.
Capitalism + Merrit Based society is the only one working.
This has been in the works tho since the 90s - starting with the feminisation of men and masculinisation of women - Split up with your men , you can do whatever you want , then they wake up at 40's with a carrer , no fam and alone crying on Socials crying for a men.
Men - don't react , be soft , toxic masculinity , every reaction has been deemed as something is wrong with you.
Therapy is all processed from the perspective of a woman , so men don't go to that.
Men just kill themselves at some point due to loneliness , women keep talking and talking and move on.
This is where you are at in 2024 in the Western World's
So majority of people need to stop and go back to standards otherwise Societies crash entirely , we see the results Live ongoing
North Korea is the only one truly communist spot ON and it's only because the majority of the population simply wants to live like that , they don't know anything else , never did , not every nation is attracted to this notion of rich , poor ,progress yourself some just want to live like in a big Foster care home totally controlled.

Communism is inherently tyrannical. History shows that. There aren’t any examples of success for a reason. It goes against the human spirit. Millions more died die to its tyranny than under the Nazis but you never see documentaries on the BBC or Netflix about Stalin, Mao or Pol Pot. Capitalism isn’t perfect by a long way but meritocracy is natural and drives progress. People to an extent sort themselves into roles and structures on natural ability and interest. Socialism just teaches people to rely on the state whilst the state gets to dictate how people think and behave. It’s ideological tyranny on the one extreme and financial exploitation of a liberal society by the few on the other. My grandad was a carpenter and paid his subs to his union for years until he acknowledged the financial and ideological corruption that it was based on.

retard can't even spell laissez-faire 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Retard can't even argue against the substance of my position.
You've not made one good point about anything on this thread 🤣

We appeared on the items and topics wall at the beginning, then we were manually kicked off and ever since been blanked by admin for over 3 months, make of it what you will..

We appeared on the items and topics wall at the beginning, then we were manually kicked off and ever since been blanked by admin for over 3 months, make of it what you will..

Yeah, my posts hidden too now. Ah well, guess you're leaving then Steez?

You're already familiar right JC? - My post (topmost: https://littlebiggy.net/viewSubject/p/4858628) pointing out the troubling similarity between two vendors (confirmed by vendor to be the same "team" behind both accounts) was, as far as I could tell, also hidden from the topics wall, within about 12 hours of posting.

The team responsible for both accounts are purportedly drop-shipping, with both rated very poorly, and the older account having been accused of "blackmail" earlier in the year (and having continued to to wrack up further extremely negative reports since).

Both continue to appear on the wall to this day.

Now I can't recall so may be incorrect, but was Steezy C not offering a significant price reduction over other vendors? I could see that ""warranting"" this kind of market manipulation.

Regardless the truth, it's really disappointing to see lb's notoriously dodgy dealers, lambasted on lb and reddit, many who *still* seemingly retain pride of place. while at the same time some newer vendors putting in the work to provide reliable service get choked off.

Not a hot look

Gentlemen Dealers have been shown to be selling fake goods numerous times, still here. It's bad. Either they have significant sway over Admins, or there's something dodgy going on.

BUT, that's life. Good luck Steez, was good while it lasted.

You summed up the entire thing in two words in your post, I’ll let you quietly figure out which two words I’m talking about.

Now that I think about it, the exact same happened to Thai-Wrecked, a Thai vendor that opened up and started doing well. Honestly, I think the Web code probably can't be edited, hence website looking old and outdated, but Borgs don't talk to us. Never really have.

Doesn't really matter anymore, does it.

Yes we are leaving as this is not an open marketplace as it claims to be. We are just waiting for all current orders to land and one reship to go out, once everyone’s current orders are received we will no longer be logging into here.

have you tried changing your terms so they don't make people wait past the dispute window for a refund, this is a common scam for international shippers.

We can’t consider packages as lost or seized or stolen, say 7 days after dispatch because it’s an international order, 21 days is more than fair on both sides.

We have however put forward the suggestion ourselves for our escrow to be set to 30 days, which has enough time to cover our policies and keep customers safe and happy knowing the escrow is held 30 days so they can dispute if we have stepped out of line.

We have been completely blanked by admins for 3 months, despite countless big giveaways and recently a massive $2500 one which has 0 traction due to no visibility.

you're asking them to change the rules for you, that's a real reach and i wouldn't play victim like this. that is also scammer behavior and it's only going to make things worse.

but you don't need it, look at your delivery time, it's 9 days average so the 16 day dispute window that everyone else here has works for you too.

We’re not asking for any rules to be changed, we’re asking for communication as we have been blanked for over 3 months with no resolution offered other than “fix your disputes” which we have already explained is completely ignorant.

In what sense are we playing the victim or displaying scammer behaviour? Are we not allowed to stand up for ourselves?

What do you mean by make things worse?

So in your words you are saying to remove the 21 day timeline policy of how long to wait before an order is considered lost or seized? And this will get us visibility?

Why can’t the admins just tell us this themselves? We have been blanked for over 3 months.

"So in your words you are saying to remove the 21 day timeline policy of how long to wait before an order is considered lost or seized? And this will get us visibility?"

Good question, shame the admins can't be fucked to answer you.

We aren’t sure if dr drek are hinting they are an admin or what, this can all be resolved very easily if the admins really want it to be resolved.

All it takes is one clear cut message from an admin account about wtf we are supposed to do.

Are you on any other platforms? As I'd still love to use your services here in the u.k somehow...

Hi mate. All strains we have got are white ash,clean smoke.

Absolutely top shelf stuff from here, at a premium

Hey bro. I got a bunch of well reviewed uk organic.
Always have other strains available so hit me up if you fancy something good 🙏

Hashcollective for the white, green cats jealousy is probably the best clean burner value wise

Agree with this. For me at the moment THC23 for the AAA stuff and Green Cat for clean tasty value for money AA strains, white ash and oily from both. THC23’s Cali and Top Shelf UK menu is excellent. Recent Rainbow Belts being a stand out.

I just bought a q of jealousy, never tried it, does it have that nice sherbet sweetness at the end of the toke?

Yeah man it's pretty classic sherby gelato temps, really nice bit of bud

Excellent news :)

Bought the jelousy; for the price it’s alright, defo not white ash, but does taste good. The ash is dark af lmao, maybe it needs further airing out, but idk. Defo not what I was looking for, but will be stuck with it for a bit

Hi everyone! Thanks for your comments! I’m going to work my way up for least expensive to most.

Starting off with green cats jealousy.

Drbudz your menu looks good too! I will defo be round on my next pick up!

Ronnie - also looks very good! Will hit you up in due course!

Just wanted to comment here as I was fed up with the amount of blash ash strange tasting weed off LB I had received over the last year or so, with a few exceptions usually more expensive than I wanted to pay for.
Recently discovered rocketdogronnie, two orders in and it's the best flower I've had in a long time off LB that's also decent value. It just smokes like weed should, I can't believe how rare that seems to be these days! I smoke blunts so I'm pretty fussy about this...The descriptions are spot on and just makes it a pleasure to smoke again without me worrying wtf is hidden in the bud. Yeh I won't be changing vendors again unless he runs out!

Ive got some superbly impressive UK Riot by Compound Genetics

Hey bud yea had the same problem haven’t been able to msg you, will get the Boyz to msg you tomorrow and sort it out bro👍. Eddy🍭🫶

Update on the Boyz 1 punctured lung😓 bruises and cuts ☹️keeping him in for checks hopefully he’s ok thanks again for the well wishes biggas ❤️ Eddy🍭🫶

OMG! I'm so sorry! I hope that punctured lung is the worst thing that came out of the accident. I just found you folks and I was actually coming to place an order. No problem, I'll wait until next week and DM before ordering.

I can't imagine how distressing this is for you. Health is most important! I'll be glad to order when you're ready.

You and the boyzz take care. You all have my prayers for good recoveries for all.

Speedy recovery to the Boyz.

Omg 😱
Best wishes to the boys
A big hug 🤗
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