Yes, so long as you feel safe and comfortable owning one. There is nothing anti-communist about arming the proletariat.

The only good monarch is a dead monarch.

Return of the Obra Dinn is probably one of the best games I’ve ever played. It is simply fantastic.

I’ll second Geopolitical Economy Report. Also, Revolutionary Left Radio is fantastic. The host, Bre is intelligent and charismatic, but more than that he’s incredible at finding great guests and doing great interviews. If the episode topic even remotely interests me, the episode itself is almost always 9/10. He is also a part of two other podcasts, Guerilla History and Red Menace, which are also both great.

Blowback has had 3 seasons, all are fantastic.

Actually Existing Socialism has some good episodes, though they haven’t been around for too long.

This one isn’t expressly political, but The Dollop is amazing. Both the hosts are somewhere on the left, though I’m not sure exactly where. It is easily the funniest podcast I’ve ever listened to.

A bit more about Lyudmila Pavlichenko and how fucking badass she was.

She got 309 kills, making her one of the deadliest snipers ever, and she got them in only 2 years. That’s almost one Nazi every 2 days. Once her skills were made obvious, she was given more dangerous and high-stakes missions, such as being sent to find and countersnipe Nazi snipers. This is basically a duel between 2 snipers. She engaged in 36 duels like this, and she won every time. One of these duels lasted 3 straight days. When asked how she finally beat her counterpart, she just said “He moved too much.”

It took a mortar round to stop her, but even that didn’t kill her, just put her in the hospital. After she recovered she wanted to go back to the frontlines but Soviet command stopped her. Instead she trained snipers until the end of the war. Her nickname was “Lady Death.”

After she left combat, she was briefly sent to the USA and Canada, where she met the First Lady Elanor Roosevelt (as seen above.) While in the US she was, of course, belittled and dismissed by western journalists. They referred to her as the “Girl Sniper.” They asked her things like if she wore makeup while on the front lines, and did she curl her hair, and “One reporter even criticized the length of the skirt of my uniform, saying that in America women wear shorter skirts, and besides my uniform made me look fat.” The reporters said that she was “very blunt and unemotional” in her responses, which I have to imagine was a result of her trying not to murder the stupid motherfuckers.

I think she is best summed up by a line from a speech she gave in Chicago, trying to convince American men to join the war and fight the Nazis. “I am 25 years old and I have killed 309 fascist invaders by now. Don’t you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?”