Hi I posted this about Belarus if you want to learn a bit more about the situation. I'm from there.
Uh did chapo just do a real journalism? Good post (both you and the one you linked).
Thanks. Well, it's in the news and I have perspective. TL;DR : there are no "good guys" in this election as far as the future of Belarusian people is concerned and it's fucked.
Seems to be a common theme for the world right now. The empire might not be crumbling yet but the cracks are visible everywhere and the collapse I fear is going to be so fast given the interdependence of global markets that nobody will be able to react in time to avert total chaos. What we're seeing now is barely a preview.
I agree. People still talk about democracy but show me where is it still happening? I'll tell you a lot of people in Belarus think that the US is the perfect exemplar of democracy. I tell them things. About vans in Portland, or closed poll stations, or red lining. They nod but it doesn't compute. Belarusians love to complain, for a lot of us it's kind of a competition. "It's worse here," "No' it's worse here," completely missing the point that this global order has fucked all of us.
No shit, the US propaganda machine and its influence extend far beyond our borders.
"How many layers of Deep State are you on?"
"Like, maybe 5 or 6 right now my dude"
"You are like little baby, watch this!"
Happy Epstein deathday comrades. Hard to believe it's been a year already.
https://morrowindcommands.com/commands/resurrect-5788687
I just spent an hour at the verge of tears questioning my very worth as a programmer not knowing why my game didn't work all because i left an extra space at the end of a string. fucking kill me
I once forgot to put a
notin my condition after changing it and missed it for like 30+ mins. I think I would have taken longer if I didn't take a break to clear my mind.
Gen X never “fought the man”. Their whole shtick was not caring about shit, they tried to tune themselves out of political reality by obsessing over aesthetics and music and being “authentic”. And the easiest way to lose authenticity was to care about something as fake as politics, maaaaan.
Gen X never “fought the man”.
literally rioting against neoliberalism
It was not just a World Trade Organization ministerial that collapsed, but also a creed that had been widely believed to be true. After Seattle, the press began to talk about the “dark side of globalization” — about the inequalities and poverty being created by globalization.
After that, we had the spectacular defections from the globalist camp, such as financier George Soros, Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, and “Dr. Shock Therapy” himself, the economist Jeffrey Sachs.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/12/06/how-the-battle-of-seattle-made-the-truth-about-globalization-true/
they tried to tune themselves out of political reality by obsessing over aesthetics and music and being “authentic”
As we all know the aesthetics of capitalism are beautiful and soulful and all of us lead authentic lives
There just weren't that many of us, and we grew up in the last days of the monoculture. So, we didn't have much chance to make a cultural impact before the millenials, a much larger generation, came along. Plus a lot of our ethos was anti-consumerist, search for authenticity, etc. Not really something to organize a socialist revolution around.
Plus, there's chuds in every generation.
If you think millenals are getting commier, wait til you find out about gen z and the new gen alpha
Currently trying to find a way to be more Communist than Stalin. Hoxhaist maybe?
If I was going to keep a generation from getting shittier over time, I would just tell them to stop aging.
I really have no answer, it's a question that has gripped the minds of even the most ironically detached hipsters of all time.
top post on reddit: "chicago thug rioters break window, steal shoes." Top comment under top post on reddit: YOU'LL NEVER HEAR ABOUT THIS ON REDDIT
Lmao, what else did you expect from computer people? At least they are not a "race realist" lolbertarian or something.
That account has always been a mix of good posts and a few dodgy ones, but liberalism always wins out in these cases
I keep watching several Showdys in a row, despite knowing it makes me pretty mad.
But I do like that Cody. Smart dude.
It's weird that i went from Cracked listicles with cody to getting radicalized more or less in tandem
Same here. He reminded me of Jon Stewart at his most outraged but going a step further to the left with every episode.
Also after hours still exists on Swaim's channel as Off Hours (I think).
Worst Year Ever has also gotten a lot better in recent months mainly because they stopped covering the election because who cares anymore (though they did spend the most recent episode talking about it). Also Robert's been fully jokerfied after two straight months getting teargassed by the cops and the feds. The recent episode on the extremely thirsty Obama/Biden mystery novel was some of the funniest shit I've listened to this year. Same goes for the Ben Shapiro reading series. Also pretty much every episode since the non-bastard Christmas Special on John Brown has seemed like he's becoming more and more radicalized.
Edit: Katy's still a huge lib but I think they'll drag her left.
I mean she seems like a nice person I guess I'm just naive and think that exposure to the sort of shit they cover should make anyone with empathy into a raging communist.
Apparently Dinesh D'Souza recently wrote a book about socialism and from what I can gather, he gets it as hilariously wrong as he gets everything else. According to him Liz Warren is part of the socialist vanguard in America, and the "socialism" of Norway only works because they're homogeneous.
Oh wow I clearly haven't gone deep enough down the rabbit hole. TIL.
Are the echo marks used by leftists to mark general dog whistles nowadays? (I do linguistics lol, the spread of ((())) is bizarrely fascinating to me.)
Triple parentheses in the general sense of an ethnic dog whistle
It’s only because they’re white and speak a funny language isn’t really a convincing argument against.
Unfortunately, it is for racists and "casual" racists. I came back to my family bc of the pandemic and was very surprised how casually racist my parents are.
I haven't read it but from what I gather in reviews, yes, he says it works. But he says that Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren (I think he adds DeBlasio and Mayo Pete in there) want to turn the US into Venezuela, not Norway. And it looks like it gets prrrrretty racist from there...
Had no idea that State and Revolution was just 70 pages of Lenin complaining that nobody understands Marx. Pretty enjoyable experience, i think i finally understand the concept of the state withering away
glances at China
glances at the United States
Did Mao have it wrong? Was the real revolutionary anarchist... Ronald Reagan?
By negating the Welfare state he removed the biggest obstacle to revolution
Learned today that my late grandpa was a "very pro-union" Teamster trucker before he retired (I knew he was a trucker, but not the other details).
Proud of him.
I got banned from a forum for saying that a 30 year old college professor sleeping with a 20 something student that he is not teaching is not really something I’m offended by. Am I in the wrong?
I mean I don’t think so. As long as there is no power imbalance I would say it’s not offensive or more importantly, exploitative.
It’s about the Alex Morse guy. The accusations are vague to say the least. I respect their privacy but it seems like he hooked up with some ppl he met at an event for dems? Idk
Okay so I looked it up and idk I agree. I would like to see if actual folks claiming to be victims come forward and what they say about it but I looked at the initial article and it all seemed very vague on that front?
I do think that power dynamics in this situation are probably a little more complicated than just “student” vs “teacher” or whatever but it’s also not enough to just claim ~role model~ status as proof of any significant power dynamic (which is just really vague in the context of the article that broke that - like does that mean that at the time this Morse guy was in any position of power? And if so, what did that look like at the time? Was it commonly accepted?).
On a much broader note, I feel like when it comes to people who are 18+ but in college, and I am speaking from experience here, there often seems to be a sense of “this person might have connections that make this student loan debt worth it” in regards to anxiety surrounding not just that debt but the ability to pay it off. And it does make college students vulnerable in ways that differ from children (which I am really bothered by this idea that adult college students are treated like fucking kids - they aren’t) but also provides people with power to come in and exploit them. I would say this has nothing to do with ~role model~ status but in my experience was wealthy, much older men trying to exploit my anxieties about future income and trying to convince me that they could help with connections to good jobs in my area, while implying I had to have some sort of sexual relationship with them to achieve that. I’m not getting those vibes from this story at all.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I think that validates your instinct that this is a hit piece while also recognizing that this can be a complicated topic.
Yes. You are probably more eloquent than me but I echo a lot of your sentiments. I think there’s a huge discussion to have on that and how college students are easily exploitable because of their economic situation but in a public liberal space with an obvious hit piece I don’t find that to be the place for this nuance and found it more acceptable to just say that it’s a hit piece. I’ve learned that focusing on nuance in hostile areas often just leads people to think I’m agreeing with the general premise of a smear or lie if I do that.
No that’s totally valid, I just jumped on because I do have experience with the sort of vague aspect of how being an adult in college but still in a disadvantaged/easily explored place in life can lead you down some really unfortunate shit. I still haven’t come out with my stories about that and I want to but I don’t want to really deal with a public response to that.
But yeah, I completely understand that we aren’t collectively ready for that conversation. And really it just feels like we are infantilizing college students in this story using woke me too language without any concrete input from anyone claiming to be a victim. I would rather hear that. So if anyone can point me to that, I’m all ears, but I haven’t seen any of that.
Also the whole ~role model~ discourse just reminds me of how people talk about female celebrities. Like when Miley Cyrus branded herself as publicly horny or whatever and everyone was like “omg these are the ~role models~ for our children.” It just doesn’t sit right with me. And literally anyone can be a role model, even a role model with a moderately sized platform, and that doesn’t seem to me to be enough to say that sex with that person is inherently exploitative.
seems like he hooked up with some ppl he met at an event for dems?
DISGUSTING
From an outsider perspective, there is a lot of actually good american food(love me some burritos and chilli and cajun stuff). Problem is from an outisder perspective, yall have huge portions, and too much corn syrup where it doesnt need to be.
burritos and chilli and cajun stuff
isn't that basically Mexican food the yanks stole?
Yeah, but added their own twist. Most US cuisine is also different variations and twists on European cuisine anyway.
Their twist: Grease and using hotcakes as tortillas. :face vomiting:
I'm not american, but yeah there is probably tasty american food, but no healthy and tasty food.
Disagree. Helathy can be many different things, and nothing stops something from being healthy AND tasty. Deep fried corndogs is what you describe. But there is nothing wrong with a good burger. Or a burrito. Both can be healthy and tasty.
Still can’t believe that Juan Guaido got 89% of the vote in the Belarusian election
