u/Icy-External8155

What can I read to prove or disprove claims that DPRK used drug trafficking to get money? Specifically in the 1990s, during the blockade period.

I mean, it's a serious topic, and kinda important.

What if they actually did it, so after the revolution and getting sanctioned, I'd have to forget about bourgeois moralism, go to jails, populated during the bourgeois government, and be like "hello Scalp Cutter of Bobruisk, we need your assistance"?

I'm not sure what to add here.

Afaik you don't even know the name of the guy he overthrew.

Maybe this one was better, and Traore needlessly collapsed the anti-imperialist frontline for the sake of western leftism?

Which governments throughout history of Burkina-Faso do you consider proletarian/bourgeois, and why?

Okay, maybe not necessarily "proletarian" or "building socialism", but, maybe, also include just revolutionary democratic and anti-colonial?

I guess you don't like Compaore's government. I can understand: a France-sponsored coup against Sankara, then World Bank-guided school reforms that degraded literacy from 23% to 18,4% in 1996, and only then improved to 34,6% by the end, keeping population with illiterate majority (!) throughout 27 (!!) years. This alone tells everything. It's as if his government deliberately wanted to prevent industrialisation, spread religious extremism and ruin all progress.>! (Though if he said some keywords like "Imperialism, America, national spirit, struggle, imperialism" in his speeches, most lefties would forgive him and hate me for mentioning all that). !<

What about the rest?

What could I read on the topic of history of Burkina-Faso?

The literacy rate in Burkina-Faso, according to their very own official statistics, is 42% in 2021. One of ~10 world states with illiterate majority. No wonder jihadis are taking over.

It doesn't mean I want to hate on Sankara. I don't know his team enough, and 4 years of ruling isn't enough for likbez.

Meanwhile, which governments throughout history of Burkina-Faso do you consider proletarian, and why?

Under what conditions I can simultaneously:

1. Gain your respect;
2. Support Israel?

I've also seen a claim that organisation called DoDaum actually works with officials in DPRK, and together they've estimated that there are 8362 HIV-positive individuals in 2018 (although they've only got that number from extrapolation after limited observations).

There's also "North Korea's National AIDS Commission", according to the same article, and they've managed to put 3000 patients on ARV therapy.

So, does DPRK government claim to be HIV-free, and if yes, why?

Because in order for it to be true, they'd need to (either-or):

1. Have minimal outside contacts since 1920, being aware of every single trespasser;

2. Literally just round up and shoot everyone HIV-positive;

3. Somehow develop a cure.

Proletarian dictatorship is one thing, but covering up epidemic situations really sucks. It will kill no matter how communist you are.

(this one version is very quickly made up, heavily hand-waved and may need playtesting)

There are a few tweaks to the rules:

1. No engines, the city always lies on the ground (still can have fuel tanks as a reserve).
2. Each District is based on SM+14 ship. It can have fewer (but not more) than 20 systems. If the city grows and additional systems are needed, they're built as additional SM+14 ships/Districts with fewer (initially) systems. All Districts can count as one city, but are targeted as distinct ships. Instead of "Core", there are "Central" systems, they can be targeted by enemy, but only from above, or if some non-Central systems are taken over.
3. Districts are connected via City Transport systems, otherwise they become isolated/different cities.
4. Of course, each such city design makes heavy use of all the Habitat cabin subtypes, as well as system size tweaks.

New unique systems:

1. Concrete walls (dDR of Stone Armor, but not semi-ablative. Cost is cost of Steel Armor, divided by 10. Repair skill is Masonry.)
2. City transport (a network of roads, connects two specific districts. Unlike External Clamp, can't unclamp and change direction, but needs only one such system for connecting two districts, instead of two Clamps.)
3. Supply station (a port or ground transport station. Allows for inter-city communication. Cargo intake is 10 times the cargo intake of Hangar Bay).

From Alternate Spaceships: "Basement: A vertical design building may optionally have an extensive underground level. Designate one or more of the lower story systems as basements. Basement systems cost an extra $1,000 per ton of building mass to cover excavation costs over and above their normal system costs, but are hidden from view and cannot be targeted directly. However, they’re automatically buried if the rest of the building is disabled, and destroyed if the rest of the building is destroyed."

In this case, it also counts for the system as having an additional layer of Stone Armor.

The potential army size is limited by the quantity of officers. There is a certain amount of soldiers per officer that can be handled, and exceeding this amount would be like exceeding the amount of patients per doctor: they'll just start needlessly dying from mistakes.

(I've seen this idea in Livejournal)

What do powerscalers think on that?

I'm afraid that more fights with Jack will suck like the one with Hanayama, since literally everything from his arsenal now sucks, except for his biting. Not much of choreography to get creative around.

Maybe start or end points of synths, or very short synths. Or whatever samples. Or whatever artificial sound doesn't resemble a drum.

(it'll probably not boil down to "some EU members should make these two political decisions, and it'll count as proletarian", right?)

Israel is, seemingly, eternal.

Even after there's communist humanity in the whole Milky way, Israel will keep existing, because nobody has any idea on how to actually deal with it.