I prefer to think of myself as an Epsilon Male.

As in, “Y the fuck are you like this, bro?”

No cummie

No talkie

I’m voting for him as an avowed leftist.

Besides impeding fascism, his reforms on student loans mean I’ll be debt-free with $0 payments in 10 years. That is a material improvement of my life that I am infinitely grateful for.

But I still think he’s a piece of shit for aiding and abetting a genocide and would vote for another candidate if I meaningfully could.

Politics is nuanced. 🤷

My friend got by on 7 years in Germany only knowing

“Ein bier, bitte.”

and

“Willst du fich mich?”

I once ordered from a wings place and left the comment “arrange the chicken into a pentagram. please, I need this”

They didn’t do it, but I hope I made someone chuckle out of it.

Unless the kid brained someone with a tee ball trophy, I categorize this penalty in the “extreme” category.

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You also do it alone.

People generally used to live with their extended families.

The tasks you’re describing were generally spread out between 4-8 grown-ass adults.

Yep. The Romans fucked themselves sideways doing this a few times. You can have all the soldiers or you can have some farmers and skilled laborers. You can’t have both.

Imagine Vietnam-era US, but it was willing to sacrifice every warm body within its borders to win.

Like the US, I think Russia is on a collision course with failure. But they’re going to take it a lot farther before waving a white flag. So much so that it will take the country decades to recover.

And Ukraine won’t be looking too hot at that point anymore, either.

You’re selling Earth blood that makes the sky melt.

That’s pretty fucking evil.

The disease is unlimited money in politics.

There are billionaires who were already radicalized to this level. They’re just pouring their fortunes into bringing everyone else into their fold, too.

Remember 15 years ago when Republicans finally stopped going after LGBTQ folks, and how that slowly started to erode after Citizens United? It is not coincidental. There are evangelist billionaires whose only concern in the world is a regressive future, and that’s bad for everybody.

It truly was a transformation for them.

Given, I think most of their early video game career was spent in Mississippi, which would make any human alive miserable.

But yeah, hats off to Commander Sterling. There’s a vivaciousness there now that is nothing but a pleasure to see.

This is where I tend to disagree with Marx as well.

Capital is a fantastic book full of scathing and prophetic analyses of capitalism and its innate degradation of value and connection.

The Communist Manifesto is a book with some good ideas but some implementation that I find flawed. And that’s not a knock on Marx-- critiquing problems is a significantly easier prospect than offering solutions.

But a lot of Marx’s proposals for the implementation of Communism are rooted in authoritarianism, even if their end goal is the dissolution of the state and capital. Also, for an ideology versed in the formation and interdependence of worker communities, the Day of the Rope is kind of antithetical to establishing solidarity and mostly serves, I believe, as masturbatory schadenfreude.

But hey, I’m willing to fix some of the stuff that doesn’t work instead of throwing more fuel into the machine that over-harvests people and our planet to the point of destruction.

I really like this nuanced take, btw. Thanks for posting it.

Blocking an instance.

Fart.