When a liberal says “Project 2025 will become reality if Trump wins”, what they mean is “Liberals are incapable of putting up meaningful resistance to conservative politics”.
If the other guy winning is enough to make every far-right policy proposal a reality, then what does that say about your side, hm? Because either the Democrats have the capacity to fight the Republicans in Congress and in the courts, or they don’t. If they don’t, we shouldn’t be acting like they’re our only hope to stop the Republicans and we should be looking to other alternatives. If they do, then Biden losing the election isn’t enough for them to achieve every single pie in the sky policy goal they have set for themselves.
Biden’s low poll numbers are the fault of him and his campaign. The refusal of the Democrats to even entertain the idea of nominating someone else shows exactly where their priorities lie. They are perfectly comfortable with Trump winning so long as it means they don’t have to capitulate to the demands of their base.
I try not to comment on US politics because I don’t go here and god knows it gets enough attention, but fully agree with this. Fascists, by definition, don’t care about democracy. If one of the two parties in your two-party system is able to implement fascism as a result of winning one election, then your democracy has much deeper-rooted problems. Screaming at people to vote because it’s The Most Important Election Of Their Lifetime isn’t going to work indefinitely.
I can’t keep having the same conversations about love languages, mbti, iq, bmi, “brain fully formed at 25” and shit over and over again…
these things exist on a spectrum from untrue to straightforwardly racist btw. so if we could retire them forever that’d be nice.
quick rundown so we can put it to rest:
love languages: MADE UP! it’s just a list of some common things viewed as traditionally romantic (and mostly from a western society/european culture tradition)
MBTI: RACIST! its creator wrote “murder mystery” novels that revolved around the ideas that personality type could identify murderers, and that suicide is the correct answer if you discover you have non-white ancestry. the MBTI has cultural bias allowing corporations to effectively segregate by colour by pretending to be “screening for collaborative types” when in reality they only hire white people. It’s also obviously bunk I hope this goes without saying but the racist stuff is never true
IQ: MADE UP!“intellectual quotient” tests can not test “the intellect,” only a few functions across a narrow spectrum of what brains do. Not only are those functions not inherent, but trained (you can just get better at IQ tests by practising them), they’re also used as a be-all-end-all of intelligence, a notion notoriously hard to define. RACIST!After being taken to mean “intelligence,” the IQ has been demonstrated to be tied to abstract cognition functions mostly valued and trained in the global north, the reaction to which has been “well that proves the others are dumber” with IQ consistently used as an argument to support that claim
BMI: MADE UP! It was invented by and for health insurance, not health services providers. Exploring in detail claims about BMI showed most of them to be bunk and the others to need infinitely more nuance, some weak correlation never strong causation. RACIST! fatphobia affects non-white people a lot through a mix of difficult economic situations and compounding effects of already-strained access to healthcare
“brain fully formed at 25”: MADE UP! A widely-quoted study on brain development just stopped looking after the age of 25 but brain development and maturation etc showed no sign of stopping before, and the criteria used in number of connections, readiness to create more etc showed impressive variance with young children having more “mature” brains than adults
yeah IQ was literally a metric made up by eugenicists to test how well their eugenics was working lol
i’m glad no one in internet comments is letting complaints about white collar office jobs being The Worst Jobs slide. maybe i’d get bored and stressed at such a job but would managers have me work outside while there is an active shooter on the loose in the area and say “just use the buddy system if anything happens”. probably not
i love the concept of divorce lawyers. the only things in the world that have the power to undo your marriage are death itself or a special little boy with a law degree.
it’s interesting how so many “authoritarian” things anticommunists associate with communism were emergancy measures during war. “wtf look how paranoid the commies were that someone could betray them, that is NOT normal” [country is actively being invaded]
meanwhile fdr set up concentration camps for “national defense” and is considered an iconic US president. fucking insane
a fun thing to do when you come across an image of Mr. Beast is to zoom in so you cut off the lower part of his stupid grinning face and just look at his eyes. they’re never the eyes of a happy man
The Marxist Internet Archive also has an annotated web version of the text, which I find to be quite an easy read. I highly recommend this version if you have the patience to sit down and read a large chunk of it at once.
I also did my best to annotate the text in this run, mostly with Wikipedia links to relevant historical figures or events, as well as a number of economics-related definitions as well. Requests for specific annotations to be included as the sections roll out are welcome.
Serialization will begin on this Friday, August 16th, 2024, with new updates on Tuesdays and Fridays. The formatted version of the text is 38 parts, which I expect will run until basically the end of December of this year. I plan on following this up with the appendix to Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, titled The Mark, which is about 7,000 words. However, my feelings might change, and we may end up reading something else. As always, recommendations for socialist, communist, and anarchist texts are welcome. Currently we have The Principles of Communism by Friedrich Engels and Blood in My Eye by George Jackson on our suggestions list.
Once again, thank you everyone for your patience; I can’t wait to reread this with everybody.
his name is redd white and he runs a company named bluecorp we dont ask questions here
if you mix redd white and bluecorp together like paint you’d get a light purple or pink depending on ratios. we’re just not on his level. we never will be.
His hair is purple which is red and blue
His suit is pink which is red and white
And his jewels are light blue which is blue and white.
his shirt is beige there’s something going on
he’s a murderer also I think that’s worth mentioning
This needs to be added though this post is so damn old
his friends call him WHITE BOY
not to mess everything up like a stupid language nerd, but, as a spanish speaker…. they would call him white boy if it was NINO BLANCO, if it was BLANCO NINO, they would call him Boy White :3
This feels like a joke they would make in aan ace attorney game
his name is redd white and he runs a company named bluecorp we dont ask questions here
if you mix redd white and bluecorp together like paint you’d get a light purple or pink depending on ratios. we’re just not on his level. we never will be.
His hair is purple which is red and blue
His suit is pink which is red and white
And his jewels are light blue which is blue and white.
his shirt is beige there’s something going on
he’s a murderer also I think that’s worth mentioning
This needs to be added though this post is so damn old
his friends call him WHITE BOY
not to mess everything up like a stupid language nerd, but, as a spanish speaker…. they would call him white boy if it was NINO BLANCO, if it was BLANCO NINO, they would call him Boy White :3
This feels like a joke they would make in aan ace attorney game
his name is redd white and he runs a company named bluecorp we dont ask questions here
if you mix redd white and bluecorp together like paint you’d get a light purple or pink depending on ratios. we’re just not on his level. we never will be.
His hair is purple which is red and blue
His suit is pink which is red and white
And his jewels are light blue which is blue and white.
his shirt is beige there’s something going on
he’s a murderer also I think that’s worth mentioning
This needs to be added though this post is so damn old
his friends call him WHITE BOY
not to mess everything up like a stupid language nerd, but, as a spanish speaker…. they would call him white boy if it was NINO BLANCO, if it was BLANCO NINO, they would call him Boy White :3
This feels like a joke they would make in aan ace attorney game
here anomaly drawn in windows xp mspaint with my mouse only using windows xp mspaint colors
lumi i want you to know that the only reason i dont draw with my mouse anymore is because of constant wrist pain if i dare try otherwise i would be drawing everything with it still
his name is redd white and he runs a company named bluecorp we dont ask questions here
if you mix redd white and bluecorp together like paint you’d get a light purple or pink depending on ratios. we’re just not on his level. we never will be.
His hair is purple which is red and blue
His suit is pink which is red and white
And his jewels are light blue which is blue and white.
his shirt is beige there’s something going on
he’s a murderer also I think that’s worth mentioning
This needs to be added though this post is so damn old
his friends call him WHITE BOY
not to mess everything up like a stupid language nerd, but, as a spanish speaker…. they would call him white boy if it was NINO BLANCO, if it was BLANCO NINO, they would call him Boy White :3
This feels like a joke they would make in aan ace attorney game
a fun thing to do when you come across an image of Mr. Beast is to zoom in so you cut off the lower part of his stupid grinning face and just look at his eyes. they’re never the eyes of a happy man
Lindt, Mondelēz, and Nestlé together raked in nearly $4 billion in profits from chocolate sales in 2023. Hershey’s confectionary profits totaled $2 billion last year.
The four corporations paid out on average 97 percent of their total net profits to shareholders in 2023.
The collective fortunes of the Ferrero and Mars families, who own the two biggest private chocolate corporations, surged to $160.9 billion during the same period. This is more than the combined GDPs of Ghana and Ivory Coast, which supply most cocoa beans.
Decades of low prices have made farmers poorer and hampered their ability to hire workers or invest in their farms, limiting bean yield. Old cocoa trees are particularly vulnerable to disease and extreme weather. Many farmers are abandoning cocoa for other crops, or selling their land to illegal miners.
texas is funny. this one time a guy(in his truck) yelled at me(outside)(in summer) for wearing a cowboy hat(to provide shade)(while working)(in the sun) while i was working in the garden (in summer)(in texas)(on a sunny day)
sorry i’m a #FakeCowboy for wearing a cowboy hat(in the summer)(in the sun)(while working)(in a garden) instead of wearing my cowboy hat(meant for working)(in the sun) while driving a truck(air-conditioned) like a #RealCowboy who does Manly Work (with his truck)(spotless)(unblemished)(with AC)
does someone have this post. i need to see it again
God, even when they exist, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen those services cut for lack of funding, turn out to be abuse schemes by some religious group, be in conflict with a law that means they can’t actually help anyone…
God, even when they exist, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen those services cut for lack of funding, turn out to be abuse schemes by some religious group, be in conflict with a law that means they can’t actually help anyone…
I just turned 43, but I have to say, trying to figure out what Skibidi Toilet was, made me feel much older.
It’s basically a bunch of 14 year olds (and younger) who have had their first taste of surrealist content and because it is so novel to them, they can’t get enough of it. And it has become extremely popular.
It has a perfect storm of features built in to appeal to that age group. First and foremost, their parents don’t get it. It frustrates older people. But it isn’t objectionable enough for parents to put their foot down and say they can’t watch it for arbitrary moral conflicts. It’s like Baby Shark for tweens.
And so these young people get to truly explore what weirdness is. How it makes them feel. And it gets to be… just theirs. They get to claim ownership of it and have this community surrealist experience together and then laugh at their parents because they’re all, “Okay, but why is the head in a toilet?”
Kids are exploring the limits of their imagination and finding the wonders of surrealism… in the most infuriating-to-parents way possible.
A tale as old as time.
I’m betting there were some caveparents thousands of years ago looking at doodles on the cave walls and just shaking their head.
I can’t stand people that don’t let me speak hyperbolically. If I can’t respond to a minor inconvenience that someone should get shot in the fucking head for it then what’s the point of it all.
it’s funny when quotes from communist figures breach containment online and people are like “btw in case you didn’t know this guy was really problematic”
what characters from the owl house did mao ship
if you don’t remember this man abused his wife to the point where she was so mentally ill she decided to pee for hours on end and starved people to the point where they ate their neighbors kids… maybe
Genuinely what do you mean by “she was so mentally ill she decided to pee for hours on end” what does that mean. I can find nothing on this and the human body cannot physically do that. Is this a typo???
Well, the best description for this would be that she decided she was going to pee on drip, which is why it would take. All day. She also also known for abusing the people who worked for her but given who her husband was, I’m not surprised
Which of Maos wives was this and where is your source
Fourth one, and I heard this one from a friend’s dad, who had family working for them at the time. Lived experience is good enough for me, as I know them personally, but you can take it or leave it
if anyone’s wondering what this is about, a woman died from an allergic reaction at a restaurant in a Disney park after repeatedly confirming that the food was allergen-free, and Disney is claiming that because her husband signed up for a free trial of Disney+ a few years ago, he waived all rights to sue them for any reason. i wish i was joking.
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