I wasn’t trying to other anyone, i was being kind of genuine: how are we as communists meant to find common ground with people so disconnected from the concept of economic hardship that they can throw money around like this? normally you can communicate your ideas to people and be understood (even by conservatives if you phrase it right) because at the end of the day, most people under capitalism are fucked over and living under capitalism sucks, but for this guy it presumably doesn’t suck. how do you get it through to someone like this that the current system is unbearable? because surely it doesn’t feel unbearable from where he’s standing.

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oh fuck i’ve been really online lately but i still wasn’t online enough i even checked the last few pages of new before i posted this in case someone had done it first

invading iraq, good. invading ukraine, evil.

i wonder why

bullshit jobs also comes as a much shorter article that introduces the book, which is incredibly useful. in fact reading that article when i was 15 is what really started my radicalisation and lead me to reading theory. the key to cracking libs is just letting them know that yes, that vague feeling they have is right, something is wrong, and people (graeber or perenti at first, then marx/lenin/etc) know why. bullshit jobs is fucking great for that.

found it!

men proudly carrying papoose-swaddled babies

imagine trying to paint men giving a shit about their kids as bougie

ugly, cracked loaves of home-baked bread.

wtf are you talking about? “ugly” and “bread” are not words that go together. its wheat and water and its sustained your entire species for 10 thousand years. dumbshit.

Now i never specialised in particle accelerators and i can only speak for syncrotron type accelerators (like Diamond in the UK) but i took exams about them and i got to tour one so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Generally, they’re a pretty normal thing in particle physics and materials science now, like, they’re places where a bunch of people have relatively dull 9-5 jobs and parts of them are rented out to random companies. Mostly they’re used for medical/drug research and semiconductor stuff now, and to my knowledge they’ve discovered nothing that would excite the general public for years.

They can’t really be a ‘failed theory’, because they’re SUPER useful for telling us whats in shit and how materials behave, they’re just not the magical world-ending bullshit that the news like to say they are. No one really expected them to be (except the media trying to farm clicks). Making stuff go fast is fun and informative, thats all we need

If we didn’t have a government - say tomorrow there was a complete government collapse and only corporations and people remained - do you genuinely think there would be no one arresting people? Do you think that walmart or disney or whoever would just let people steal from them? No, they would expand their security forces immediately, with no laws to stop them, no laws to say that they can’t just kill theives or people who might be theives or employees who try to quit, etc etc. No laws to say they can’t just reintroduce child labour or bulldose your house to make a parking lot. How is anyone going to fight them, when the rich have billions to raise an army with whereas normal people have comparatively nothing? It wasn’t always the police arresting or killing union people, it was pinkertons or other hired thugs.

unregulated ancap bullshit becomes a land of warlords very quickly.

I’d like to be the blue dude. I want to try running a little campaign, but my group has 2 very good GMs and I’m generally nervous and not good at talking. I’ve considered maybe running something online with some vague online friends to learn how, but our GMs are my roommates and I’m sure they would hear me playing with strangers and ask why and/or insist that our own group won’t judge me. Which they wouldn’t, but that doesn’t mean I want to look like a fuck up in front of them in comparison to the standard of GMing theyre used to

a post about my little pony in 2023

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probably, its cool and anti-power. but more importantly it will wildly galvanize his entire base and people who are even vaguely adjecent to his base, people who’ve never really bothered to vote. people who don’t typically vote are a massively under-utilized demographic, if you can get them moving you pretty much win

damn, this “purity” shit is easy for people who uphold their volcel pledge

the only one i actually remember is toys are us and honestly it wasn’t that great? i don’t see the appeal, but maybe its just that my family could never really afford much in there

stop being a bad person

god these people genuinely think they’re the protaganist of a YA novel don’t they. fucking christ

about to move for the first time and i’m pretty sure my room is gonna look like this for a week or two. assigned male at apartment

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