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I think throw it up in !ama@hexbear.net you'll probably get questions forever.
It most definitely is. Cross post with !main@hexbear.net for solidarity
This sounds dope. It's rare for working class people to get to connect about their life experiences
Is it a western myth that Russian men are less afraid of dying than American men?
I'm mostly thinking about how if you watch parkour videos, the N. American ones will be cool gymnastics, maybe some big hops, but the Russian ones are a lot of men climbing around the edge of skyscrapers.
Reddit lib: "I don't understand why these people [antifa/anarchists/BLM protestors] would do all this [property damage] in my city!!"
"I think that reading something like The Conquest of Bread could help you better understand what might drive people to do this, you don't necessarily need to agree with it"
"I'm more interested in their individual psychology than their driving ideology"
?????
Deflection of responsibility to the individual, rather than the system. It's easier to blame people when you view them in isolation.
Yeah I was also thinking about how they're rejecting the idea that someone could have a ideological/value system that thinks property damage as a protest is neutral or good or whatever, cause it surely must be a psychological issue I guess.
[property damage] in my city
the petite bourgeoisie are almost always not residents of the cities they infest. Remove kulak Americans!
'their'(plural) 'individual' (singular and) psychology.
Okay....
Yeah but it's plural in this usage. I think they knew that, but they're making the point that the liberal mindset is still forced to focus on the responsibility or mindset of the individual protestors, even though it's obviously a group of people that we're talking about.
Let's get some things straight since there seems to be some confusion on the issue,
re: liberals can't be radicalized.
- Ideologically committed online liberals, like Twitter donuts and /r/neoliberal users: Near-impossible to radicalize, debate with them only for an audience if that, its not worth your energy.
- Well meaning but misguided liberals who have been mislead into believing that the Democrats (or whatever the Democrat-equivalent in their country is) are good and that they want the best for people: Completely reachable, it may still be a struggle because ideology poisoning but just do things like normalize socialism for them by being openly socialist and reach them on a level they care about (like pointing out the shitty things Kamala did to trans prisoners, for example, this worked for me with a lib recently).
- 3/4 of THIS VERY COMMUNITY are ex-liberals. Saying that liberals can't be radicalized is demonstrably ridiculous. Particularly if you yourself are an ex-liberal, don't let hatred for your past self cloud your judgement.
- Believing that the ideologically committed liberals outnumber the well meaning but misguided liberals is born of very online poisoning. You've spent too much time arguing in /r/politics or whatever. Most liberals fall into the later category.
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plenty of hairdressers in the sea, or whatever.
do you really want to live a life where you dont sex it up out of fear that your coiffure will be messy afterwards?
Weed is so much better than booze. And this is coming from an alcoholic.
I thought NY would never do it, but since every state around us is legalizing, it's only ever 1 hour away in any direction LOL
all prisons are private. They might be owned by the state but they contract out their nursing, food, maintenance, custodial, construction, and sometimes even their guards. This is why prisons in America grew so much in the neoliberal era, they were just following the laws of capital.
laughs in prohibition
private prison industry says slave labour good, but if we legalize the reefer, we can sell it
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Because alcohol's been around way longer and everyone is used to it
Also, as much as my fellow stoners don't like to admit it, it does kinda make you lazier. Unlike alcohol, you can still kinda function on weed just less efficiently, so people are more proned to smoking it before/at work.
It's always weird for me when I see people say this. I feel like physical labor is so much easier stoned
I've done manual labor and now I do skilled labor. I definitely couldn't do my current job stoned and I was definitely worse at doing manual labor when stoned but I still did it. I got lucky and never had any major injuries that would require a piss test for workman's comp, but I definitely smashed my finger and cut myself a few times with razor knives because I was stoned. I'd drop shit more often. This wasn't limited to me, my friends at work would smoke with me and all of us sucked afterwards lol.
I'm stoned at work for slacktivist reasons. They want to pay me 12/hr they can get what they pay for.
My pre-employment drug screen came back negative (guess 30 hours is enough time to get 12.5mg Adderall out of your pee), so the testing place must have been slow. Which means tomorrow, I get to call my boss on his vacation and give him my two weeks notice first thing in the morning :party-parrot:
Nervous AF to leave the place I've worked at for ten years but literally everything on paper about the new place is better. From what I've described to them of my soon-to-be former job, they've assured me that I will be doing less work and they are paying me 20% more for the trouble. And I'll be spending roughly 260 hours less per year in a car.
I don't think that anybody really tests for Adderall, but lots of places test for meth, which Adderall will return a positive result for.
They dismiss that out of hand too. They say it's all "moscow mcturtles" fault. You can show them video of nancy saying she was gonna torpedo it and they just go 🤷
“neither party even made a serious attempt at passing a second stimulus” absolutely has to be the base of your argument
Capitalists want poor people without jobs to die
Not quite, they want them to almost die in as visible a manner as possible, to depress wages. Dead people can't be a reserve army of Labour.
Of course, if the non-employable poor and a few people at the margins die. No skin off their nose.
I haven't hugged anyone since February lol. I lived alone for a while, then I got covid. The economic hit from getting fired made me move back to my elderly parents, and now too scared to be involved in any relationship or friendship because I don't want to kill my parents by accident. Life fucking sucks I keep breaking down mentally
happy birthday!
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congratulation you are so old!
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I hope I get some strokes on my 33rd birthday too.
Also, happy birthday lol
th the uh tt … we have a responsibility, we take an oath, to protect and defend the continuation of this bit
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This is from Michael Roberts (a marxist economist) blog. He notes that the actual problem being experienced by the G20 is low profitability, which is why proposed solutions like "make people save more so they can repay debt, hope that it doesn't lead to a depression as they spend less" and "keep growing the economy by slashing regulations and cutting taxes, even though debt hampers economic growth" can't work anymore.
One potential solution floated by capitalist economists was to issue special drawing rights (an IMF thing that's kinda like an international gold-standard money for settling debts) and let countries float a little longer on that as a form of credit - but the US vetoed doing that for this crisis already.
Which means, this (meaning the covid depression) could very well be the untractable contradiction of neoliberalism and we're reaching the end of it right here and now. What comes next is either Great Reset cyberpunk neo-feudalism or socialism over the next couple decades.
Saw pictures of me from the top/back today. As much as I hate to do it, I think by the end of the year I’m going to have to take the plunge and euthanize my hair. Ive tried to keep it going but you have to consider quality of life at this point.
Solidarity with your follicles. I'm facing this dilemma myself.
Stay strong comrade. I know it's inevitable but part of me still wishes I could keep it and not look like a fuckin dweeb.
How people feel about you is how they see you. Your friends think your cute, regardless of what’s going on up top.
I started balding early. Large recession at 21 that I covered with bangs until around 24/25 and then started using concealer creams and hair fiber powders until around 27-28 when it got to be too much maintenance. I hated it at first but within the last few years or so I've become really confident and accepting of being bald. Idk, it seems like a big deal now but you'll eventually grow accustomed to it. It can feel strange at first because it feels like a part of your identity is slipping away but over time it'll really become more comfortable and you'll find that no one really cares or is bothered by it.
The only downside is I can't wear doc martens without looking like a skinhead but heyy
You've really got no choice except to get a trojan records cut and wear it everywhere.
I have started taking minoxidil but if that fails then I will be in the same boat as you unfortunately.
I've been doing it for a couple years and the most I can say is that it feels different. Technically there's hair there, but its all young and fuzzy and doesn't ever mature, meaning that by appearance it doesn't seem that different.
I started balding around 21/22, currently 23 going on 24 in a couple days. I buzz it with a cheap phillips clipper with no guard about once or twice a week depending on the season (I work inside and outside so headwear is accepted in the fall and winter). I tried shaving with a razor but I found it kinda daunting since I get in grown hairs really easily so I'm putting that off until I get more confident. I kinda like not having to fuss with my hair anymore and paying for haircuts tbh, it helps if you have a decently round shaped head though.
There are so many things I hate about capitalism but one of the absolute worst is that things are manufactured so that they're intentionally impossible to repair so you have to buy a new one. There's something up with my printer, which I've never even used once, and after taking it apart as best I could I can't fix it because there's absolutely no service manual anywhere on the internet, no parts list or diagram so I can't even figure out what the piece I suspect is the problem is called. I hate that I even have to have a printer but I can't go to the library or my office to print things cause of covid. Fuck me, I can't believe ive spent close to 10 hours in total trying to fix and troubleshoot it.
