...the idea that human history is a class struggle between the oppressor class and the oppressed class, a struggle that will only end when the oppressed have eliminated the oppressors and the government that backs them up in order to wrest complete control of the economy away from them and thus reclaim the freedom that is rightfully theirs. But won't there be some kind of power vacuum that might end up being occupied by an even crueler and more authoritarian government than the one that was just overthrown? Don't worry, the people who just violently overthrew it are actually peaceful little doves that wouldn't hurt a fly and know they're supposed to be nice to everyone, so they would never think of doing something like that.

Wait a second. I have the funny feeling that someone came up with this idea before. A lot earlier than whenever libertarians came up with libertarianism. It's probably because someone actually did. It was called "Marxism", and it always went awry at the part where the revolutionaries were supposed to not become an even worse tyranny than the one they had just toppled. I know from experience.

And I'm supposed to believe that switching the classes around so that the oppressors are the workers/poor and the oppressed are the bosses/rich is supposed to make it work correctly for real this time trust me bro? Fat chance.

 xfactor3802 has been scammed out of $3000 and needs help quickly:
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11010127/

I would have thanked each of you individually, but life has been pretty crap to me and I haven't had the time. Psychiatric therapy has helped me a lot, but I've still got a long way to go.

I haven't gotten much more art done recently, but I have begun to make some four-panel comics as practice for doing larger comics, and as soon as I've got a good number of them, they'll be posted here.

Thank you again for watching!

...I would like to remind you that

"I'm neither left nor right"/"Both sides are bad/the same"/"I'm apolitical"

=

"I don't like social inequality, but I have an even greater dislike for the people who are trying to do something to help alleviate it or eliminate it permanently"

=

"I'm right-wing, but I don't realize it (or I don't want to say it out loud)".

Not calling out anyone nor accusing anyone nor naming names, just something that I'd like to remind peeps to take into account, particularly if they're the ones doing it.

Carry on.

Alright, I've really tried to keep my own political opinions off my art sites for as long as I've been able to, but there are things happening in my country and in the USA, where many people I know and appreciate live, that have made me realize it's time for me to take a stand in public.

I have lived in a country ruled by a third-positionist government for almost twenty-two years.

For those of you who don't know what third-positionism is, it's a political ideology which maintains that the State should be in control of the means of production for as long as it has to be, and invest them into the welfare of the workers; the catch is that "the workers" means "pure-blooded citizens of our nation, no one else". Foreigners and people of mixed descent are not "the workers", but enemies, "the bourgeoiesie", "degenerates", whatever you'd like to call them. And you better believe Jews are counted there, too. All who aren't "the workers" must be expelled or eliminated from the great nation, or better yet, from the face of the Earth, for "treason", for having conspired to undermine the great nation with their "degeneracy". That kinda thing.

It's called "third position" because it purports to be neither left-wing nor right-wing, neither communist nor fascist, but opposed to both, and therefore, theoretically, superior to both. However, their way of opposing both, as you can see, is to be as ultra-nationalist/ultra-xenophobic/ultra-antisemitic as fascists (so anti-left) and as promoting of "the State will control the means of production in the meantime" as socialists (so anti-right). In other words, their idea of being neither left nor right is to be extremes of both at the same time. The resulting concoction is roughly the same as mixing Coca-Cola with milk; a disgusting poison.

(Keep in mind that Mussolini and Hitler eventually dropped the "socialist" part entirely in practice, if not in name, which is why their own third-positionism is not actually "left-wing because it's in the name", and anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant or lying to you. One of the first things Hitler did once in power, actually, was to wipe out the more left-leaning-ish wing of the Nazi party, along with several more of his enemies. Does the "Night of the Long Knives" ring a bell?)

Why am I making the distinction between third-positionism and fascism? Because there is a growing movement in my country, which is made up of absolute Trump worshippers who truly and genuinely believe he is correct and anyone who opposes him must be destroyed. People who would gladly have a legitimate military ultranationalist dictatorship in my country, much like the one we had for almost the entire decade of the 1950s, because these people don't care about genocide as long as it doesn't happen to them and they have money to live well. People who now even disown the very democracy they used to touch themselves to between 1958 and 1999, because it allowed "the degenerates" to rule. People who now believe that uniting a country's people on the basis of their nationality or race to expel or exterminate the "inferiors" in order to make their country "great again" is a noble cause that is worthy of any kind of support. Who are even now expressing all kinds of support for the bypass of all democratic processes entirely in order to maintain the leader of such a cause in power indefinitely. People who want regular fascism instead of "fascism in a Che Guevara t-shirt".

And you know what? After I have seen the results of nearly twenty-two years of fascism in a Che Guevara t-shirt, I have decided that I don't want to see what even a fraction of a week of regular fascism is like.

I believe that the best form of government is democracy, the rule of the people. Specifically, socialdemocracy, the rule of the people in a market economy where they can and do still receive help from the State. I honestly understand why pure communism (no State, no classes, no money, no material greed) would be the best, but, unfortunately, the human species' collective psyche hasn't evolved that far yet. I wish it could, and, indeed, I hope it does. For now, though, democracy is second best, and for as long as I can defend it, I will.

Here's what we're gonna do. I'm going to leave comments open, so you (whoever is reading this) can tell me whether or not you agree with me.

If we (mostly) disagree, well, that sucks. I hope, that, before the end of your life, you can realize exactly what kind of monstrous, inhuman atrocity you are backing up, and walk away from it before it takes its toll on you.

If we (mostly) agree, all I can say is: thanks.

Today was my final presentation at college. I was rated 100/100 on all categories. I am, officially, a systems engineer -although the graduation ceremony will be in 2020-. One of the biggest and most important steps towards my lifelong dream -programming my video games-. has been realized.

Ten years of studying! From the months of August to December, 2009, to now. It wasn't easy, and I'm lucky my university was so lenient on me, but I did my part and the results are satisfactory.

Now, to resume attending my office job tomorrow!

I don't post politics 99% of the time, unless I really feel like blowing off steam about them. This journal is meant to be humorous.

Since this whole shebang about political ideologies is a mess, here's a series of practical examples meant to illustrate how seven of the most well-known work. Each example proceeds from a common assumption; that you own two cows.

COMMUNISM: You own two cows, which are also owned by your family, your neighbors, your friends, and everyone else, as are also the cows of your family, your neighbors, your friends, and everyone else. Until one person borrows all the cows at the same time, becomes de facto Supreme Cow Hoarder, exerts unfair authority over everyone else, and nobody sees their cows ever again.

SOCIALISM: You own two cows. The State takes both away from you to nationalize them, does absolutely nothing else with them, and lays the blame on you. If you're lucky, they'll compensate by paying you for the first calf born (at official prices, mind you) or selling you some of the milk (as long as you stand in line).

DEMOCRACY: You own two cows. The State lets you keep both, but it's up to you to get your stuff together and work your butt off to take proper care of them, in order to produce high quantities of milk and sell it overseas so that the country's banks and businessmen may become rich and prosperous; a certain percentage of the profits, just barely enough to keep the operation going, is for you. Sooner or later, the bubble bursts and you're forced to sell what's left of the milk and/or both cows, and the money goes to the State.

CAPITALISM: You own two cows. Without the State or any other of those filthy, goddamned parasites of society interfering with the individual freedoms given to you by the Constitution and the Founding Fathers in person, you sell one of the cows to buy a bull. They mate, reproduce, and have many more cows and bulls; these also reproduce, and soon enough you're the head of an international, multi-billion dollar milking corporation. Then, from here, there are two possibilities: either you run low on hay, or you have an excess of milk. If you run low on hay, all the animals die and you go bankrupt; if you have an excess milk, its value in the international free market goes down and you also go bankrupt.

FASCISM: You own two cows. You're free to do whatever you want with them, really, no problem. Just as long as your profits aren't destined to the poor, nor to any country or general global region other than your own. If this happens, you're declared a "blood traitor" and/or a "degenerate", the State takes both cows away, sells some of the milk to the rest of the people, and has you executed by a firing squad to keep you from protesting.

NAZISM: Same as above, but in addition to the poor and the foreign, your profits must also never go to the non-whites.

NATIONALISM: Same as any of the above cases, but the cows are painted with the country's national colors beforehand "in defense of our sovereign homeland".

Conclusion: In the upcoming elections, let's all vote for the IPP (Independent Pansexual Party); since, no matter who wins, we're gonna get screwed, at least let the pros do it!

My friend  PrivateDoomsday is looking for more watchers, so he's put up a YCH raffle which I'm advertising and participating in: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33177432

In the very early morning hours of today, a small faction of the military, loyal to Guaidó, freed big-time political prisoner Leopoldo López and captured La Carlota, a major military air base. In response, Maduro's goons are out in full force. There was supposed to be a march scheduled for tomorrow, but here's a way to call it off.

More as it develops...

UPDATE: Well, that was a great big load of nothing.

Now that I have the chance, I may give a status report as to why I've disappeared for so long.

On March 7 of this year, there was a massive, nation-wide power outage in Venezuela for almost three days straight. As of today, the situation has normalized somewhat in my state, but not in the rest of the country yet. There's no telling how many people in hospitals have died, or how much food in refrigerators has decomposed. Every day they're declaring the next one a holiday. And this has not helped the water situation in my house which many of you might be familiar with already.

There's no Internet service in my apartment indefinitely. I am currently writing this from my cousin's house and logging off immediately afterwards.

The best thing my foreign friends who read this can do is spread the word of the horror that's going on here - that has been going on since 2013 now. One way or another, this has got to stop - it's our most desperate hour.

Thank you for reading...

Things have happened which have provided me with the inspiration to try again.

The bios for Ogni, Ivory, Kate and Fido already exist in the pictures for each, although at some point I’ll draw Kate and Fido on my own. What I can do for now is write a summary of “The Adventures of Ognimod” and ideas I’ve come up with over the years but I’ve never realized, and why I came up with them.

“The Adventures of Ognimod” begins with Ivory leaving Ogni’s house because she’s sick of him being obsessed with spending as much time as possible near her. The day she’s going, they’re attacked by Anonymous. Ogni is tied to a chair and forced to play “The Game” (every time he thinks about The Game, he “loses” and gets an electric shock), but he escapes and discovers Anonymous’ plan is to exterminate the human race. He sets out to thwart them and rescue Ivory. In the end, as expected, Ogni destroys the Anonymous leader, who turns out to be a hideous, psychopathic, murderous alien, thus saving the world (which remains of it, for half the human race has already been exterminated by the end) and reuniting with Ivory, but allowing her to leave so she can remake her life without him, thinking he doesn’t deserve her.
I had just read about Anonymous, the 4chan activists, and although I had nothing against them at the time, I liked the idea of the villains being 4chan (who have always abhorred furries with all their might, and I liked using villains who were real life furry enemies) and them being a faceless, identity-less army. But I didn’t want to make them literally the real Anonymous for fear of retributon on their part. So I came up with their Anonymous Leader being really an alien who just discovered memes, got them wrong, and based a plan to annihilate the universe “for the lulz” on them. He was the ultimate normie. The governments of the world didn’t understand a thing about memes nor Internet humor (the latter a concept which I find utterly distasteful today), but Ogni did, so he realized he was the only one who could explain it to them. The entrances to Anonymous’ secret subterranean base were located under bridges because they were trolls, as a wink to the trolls of classic Western mythology. It’s curious that, in the end, world poltics in real life have been dominated by memes but nobody understands what they are and how they work still. On the other hand, today I abhor 4chan myself, and the kind of far-right thinking, antisemitism, racism, sexism and all the other things they and the rest of the world’s imageboards have associated themselves with because of the influence of /pol/. If I was writing “The Adventures...” today, I would make the real ones the actual villains, as well as portraying them as authentic inhuman fascists, all out of my saltiness. I have been very lucky to have written it before my opinion of them took such a sharp turn. The idea that one person could unravel a terrorist organization’s plans from within and undetected came from Die Hard, the movie from 1988, which I had just seen at the time, more or less around the year 2008.

The plan was for Ogni and Ivory to reunite forever in Part II, which I never finished and I don’t seem to conserve any drafts of. Nevertheless, at all times my further ideas assume Ivory and Ogni are back together.

At the beginning of “The Adventures of Ognimod, Part II”, she came visiting him and both ended up targeted by Manuel Gómez, a media mogul who was trying to portray them as bad people and encourage their killing because he simply didn’t like them; he saw them as anti-natural freaks. Unlike Anonymous, Gómez was meant to be an offensive caricature of a real person: Marcel Granier, who owned the TV station Radio Caracas Televisión before Hugo Chávez wouldn’t renew their broadcasting license, for purely political motives. I am left-wing, and I continue to call myself a partisan of Chávez’ even after his death; but not one of his replacement Nicolás Maduro, for reasons which I’m sure must be obvious. Back then I wasn’t bothered by the disappearance of RCTV, for after all I didn’t like the channel, nor what free Venezuelan TV in general has become (even if it was already a little gone to waste since before I was born; often I think it would be good for us to make productions which appealed to as many people of the world as possible, as Hollywood has been doing forever).
In Part II we were going to see the Furriverse for the first time. “[It] is different to everyone”, I had written referring to the way each person perceives it differently just as every furry perceives their fandom differently in real life; and Ogni saw it as a nostalgia Paradise where everything is a mishmash of things he and I remember between the years 1994 and 2000. But this doesn’t make it an ideal place; because interspecific discrimination and much social inequality does exist (a concept that Disney would later execute masterfully in their recent movie, “Zootopia”), and even some evil furries with world domination ambitions, although I only ever thought of one, a female, whom I’ll describe on another journal.
There was a character in the Furriverse called, sometimes Cait, sometimes Weyr, sometimes Zero, whose creator (he knows who he is) changed their species and gender many times. He had created Ivory, actually, but based on ideas of mine, so he ended up giving her completely to me. My idea was that Ivory had escaped her house because her parents were going to force her into marriage, and he was her bodyguard. He’s been looking for her for years to get her back to her house. When he bumps into Ogni in the Furriverse, he immediately realizes Ogni doesn’t belong there (he was born on Earth, remember), because he’s never seen him before. So on top of avoiding Gómez and the three furry bashers he hired to persecute him and slander him publicly (the webmasters of Something Awful, Portal of Evil and Crush Yiff Destroy, anti-fur heavyweights back then), he also had to avoid the bodyguard, who was looking for him in order to kill him and take Ivory away. In the end, I decided to replace the bodyguard with Kate and give her several of his powers, but not all, and explain them away as Kate being a bodybuilder, which is what makes her so strong.
The final character from Part II was Moonfire, a superior being from a higher dimensión who, on Earth and to the eyes of Ogni and crew, has the form of an anthropomorphic black cat with a long black robe and a staff with a headpiece shaped like a crescent moon. He has to do this in order for his presence to be comprehended by beings of lower dimensions. I haven’t drawn him yet. He’s the one who explains Earth and the Furriverse are part of the Omniverse, which is the collection of all alternate universes, real or ficticious, which were, are, and will be. He can teleport the main characters to any universe where they’re needed to fight enemies or whatever the current plot requires. Once I settled on this detail, I imagined Ognimod and company’s further adventures as a TV series in the style of He-Man, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers; mostly episodic, in which Ogni and crew would have to face a gallery of outlandish rogues.

With the exception of the three furry bashers (who were also not represented as the real people, and, truth be told, I didn’t really see them as unreedemably evil), all these characters and concepts still exist in my mind and I haven’t abandoned them – I just haven’t realized them yet. They apply today for (almost) anything other people would like to make that’s set in Ogni’s world.

I may have become one of the next targets of a deviantart troll who goes by variations of the name "Sepulchre" or other terms related to funerals (but it's not all he uses as nicknames). He makes fake accounts pretending to be other users, and leaves creepy insulting comments, either as others or as himself.

So you know the deal - any disturbing comments you might get from me are NOT from me!

 typhlosion95 is taking commissions right now. He has a similar style to that of Bryan Lee O'Malley, creator of Scott Pilgrim (although he does a lot more things than just Scott Pilgrim fan art), and I can do no less than recommend his work. Rating: Awesome!

Price list here: http://68.media.tumblr.com/c18503ce.....g5nno1_500.jpg

The Internet service in Venezuela has been failing constantly these latest months, and not too long ago, CNN in Spanish was banned from basic cable. This has lead to a rumor that the government is slowly but surely getting ready to shut down all Internet access to silence their enemies. In my house we believe this can't be the case; they would likely prevent access to most websites, but not all. I don't believe they will be shutting down any of the government's websites; I think they're far more likely to get rid of anything but those.
I know I've made journals in the past about impending doom coming down on the country which seems to never actually do so, but who can tell if any of it is true or not? Better safe than sorry.

If any of the two scenarios happens, I hope they shut down www.aporrea.org which was a news and opinion pieces hub favoring Chávez, but which has lately hosted quite an amount of criticisms against Maduro's rule from the left-wing itself, and this in turn has them singled out as some super-secret stateless fascist traitor hideout. There is a chance that they won't stand for having their closest thing to a reliable official source messed with, and they'll let it know.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/21256271/

For  elunaodis

Here's a journal on the recent shooting at Orlando which I thought was worth boosting.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7638047/

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7453275/

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7453322/

I've let some people know already, but just so this gets to most of the rest:

A rumor is going around that my country will have a nationwide power outage in two months. Already the malls are operating on a tighter daily schedule than usual in preparation for it. This is because the appropiate hydroelectrical plant is not getting any water.

It's a rumor -can't tell you how true or false it is because you can't trust anything in this country anymore- but, just in case it ends up being true and I disappear for a while... now you know.

I am getting away from Skype for the moment. It no longer works on any of the computers I'm regularly on at home; it won't update and it won't install. Tells me the installer can't connect to the servers. Well so be it; it was acting like shit for a while anyway.

Anyone who wants to talk to me should write to domingohijo[at]cantv.net or ognimodzednanreh[at]gmail.com

That's all for now.

Just came back from seeing the new Star Wars movie and in a scale of 1 to 7, I would give it somewhere around a 5 or a 6. It won't live up to any feelings you have about the originals, if you have them, but it's still very well made and a worthy successor to them. I will say it is the movie the prequels could have been (not "should" -I am no one to suggest that); it's entertaining, it's got good effects and action sequences, and most importantly the dialogue and characterizations aren't as embarrassing.

It does suffer from the Nolan-realism syndrome: the notion that high fantasy must be "realistic" in order to be taken seriously and therefore be good. As a wise man once said, Star Wars fans hate Star Wars; it's only the "idea" of it that they like, but not how whimsically and make-believe-ishly it has been executed. No spoilers, like I promised, but the villains are Nolan-realistically bloodthirsty and merciless, because the old "Stormtroopers miss every shot" thing is not Nolan-realistic, it's too fantastic for modern day "geeks". An odd thing to be happening to Star Wars -which triumphed at first precisely because it wasn't Nolan-realistic and everything else around it was-, but it's about my only pet peeve with the movie as a whole.

A new fantasy movie like A New Hope might or might not happen to deliver us from all the excessive Nolan-realism these days -but while we wait for it, let's all rejoice in the return of Star Wars to the big screen. The Force is with movie theaters once more!

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7169326/

The food in her fridge went to waste due to a power failure which lasted 12 hours, she needs $100 to resupply.

I'm 25 years old today. Can hardly believe it!

I thought nobody read my journals because nobody ever comments on them, but apparently they do read them... I guess they just have nothing to add. Do I talk too much?
Anyway, I will try to promote important journals/stuff from other people on a regular basis again. Starting with (sorry, I'm biased) Baron Engel and how pledging to his Patreon works in his benefit and yours: http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7150045/