Will this be pirate friendly or should I just bite the bullet and get a legit version?

Explains a lot tbh

If you read their declaration you'll see it signed by reactionary self proclaimed "patriotic socialists" and "MAGA communists" like Jackson Hinkle, Infra Haz, and Eddie Smith.

Please give me some good follow recommendations on Mastodon

I think the key difference is that the One Piece showrunners were massive fans of the source material and worked very hard, and even with the author, to keep it faithful.

Since it was in retaliation for a lynching I imagine it was just cruelty on the cadres' part they thought was justified

That's my issue, as a party you can say you follow Stalin but if you're not backing it up that's a problem!

It's also the party of Khrushchev and Gorbachev, Zyuganov is not exactly Stalin.

Baseless in what way? They're the self described continuation of Gorbachev's CPSU, which most MLs rightly criticize for a ton of reasons. They have an ossified aging leadership that refuses to bend to the more radical youth of the party and instead pushes milquetoast parliamentary "communism" to stagnant electoral results. The same social democratic dead end we've seen a hundred times already.

Has there been much in Ukraine in way of anti-war protests? I've heard there have been some but it doesn't seem like there's an organized anti-war or even anti-conscription movement, although that could be due to the western media bubble

I think this isn't something specific to the internet and smart phones, it's just the sheer ubiquity and convenience make existing without them unfathomable despite plenty of people in the world living without it, like electricity or running water.

Last names as first names is definitely part of the trend