I look at the infrastructure and think about how we should build it. Sometimes I tell people that building the infrastructure will be expensive, sometimes peoples tell me I'm wrong. Fuck do I wish I was wrong more often.

This fight will be rigged.

Actually young men vote Republican because they haven't played the entirety of the Metal Gear series. Once Konami releases MGS Delta: Snake Eater they will understand the geopolitical implications of their decisions.

Trying to make a unique take about the election that happened a week ago. 'The solar eclipse back in April reset everyone's circadian rhythm and that's why so many people forgot what an evil bad cheeto the mango Mussolini truly is'.

I guess this is a dumb request, but since everyone else is airing their grievances I'd like to profess mine. Way back during the rail worker strike I had a couple comments deleted for being reactionary by the mod team. I thought that was unfair and would like those comments undeleted or any strike against me removed or whatever. I expressed my experiences as a tradesmen in a union and my assessment that workers in the West can sometimes consider themselves labor aristocrats. I know it's the stupidest little thing, but yeah mods and admins can be morons sometimes.

I've been reading both Settlers and Wretched of the Earth since last week and it jokerfied me. Now that the election has passed I keep thinking about the US calling Venezuelans election illegitimate a couple months ago meanwhile my ballot has still not been counted.

I remember when the defederations were going on and someone defended Hexbears with the statement, "Hexbears is not a communist org meeting, it's the bar all the communists go to after the meeting". That has always been and will always be my relation to this site. I have a local org that I can go do my serious work and share in how we improve society. I'm here for shit posting and mild socializing.

Democrats faired alright on the lower offices but got blown out in the presidency. Could it be that the president has unique power to influence foreign policy? Is ending war a viable tactic the president can employ and something they should campaign on? No, we were too mean to crackers!

Nazi sympathizers telling people that you must be kind to Nazis is the greatest summation of US politics.

Discussing US politics with exclusively modern day movie topics and themes. America is house Slytherin. America is the Harkonnens. America is Thanos. America is the Empire/First Order. America is Homelander. America is Miles Quaritch. This is the kind of discourse the Democratic Party needs to engage in.

I think about 10% of the vote hasn't even been counted. I checked my ballot yesterday afternoon and it was still marked as received and my county is only reporting 96%. We are a deeply unserious nation.

There will be a recession starting sometime between the end of 2026 to beginning of 2028. Probably goes on for a couple years just like 2008. Trump will blame communists and Americans will idiotically agree and bail out the banks again.

I really thought the race would be closer. I'm surprised that 15 million voters just didn't show up for Kamala 4 years later. That's like losing half of the voting blocks Pew Research define as outsider and progressive left. Absolutely abysmal campaign by the Democrats, and that's pretty cool that many folks decided not to endorse their bullshit.

Trump will have essentially had three terms. Brandon spent four years doing nothing for the left. His only accomplishments were one justice appointment and some bullshit bills full of pork projects.

I want to go to a cool bar that's apparently having an election party.

Our local org brought in a guy at the annual dinner who tried shaming us all to vote for Joe Biden. Absolute fucking miss of a public speaker booking, it was so embarrassing listening to this guy when we all know even sleepy Joe could win NY by 10 points.

Biden, Lieberman and Moynihan were all more than happy to defy the party line for their own interests. Dan Moynihan was particularly shitty about abortion rights, he accused women abortion activists of being bad for the party image.

Can you get an inspection with this house or ask for repair credit? If you were really concerned about the foundation integrity I'd pull in an inspector before buying. It could be that the brick that's cracked isn't structural and it's no big deal. It could be that you have vertical cracks in the foundation from settling and a repair guy could inject some shit in it for maybe 1-2 grand. If it's horizontal cracks though you're looking at excavation, demo and replace while shoring up the house which is that huge cost you want to avoid.

You mentioned it's in the Southeast so if you aren't in that freeze/thaw cycle the cracks wont grow as quickly as up North if they do start leaking. Also, when you say crawlspace do you mean most of the floor is on foundation pads with posts throughout the interior? I'm just not sure what the typical foundation on a house down there would be made of.

I closed on my house without hiring an inspector and I'm sort of paying the price. I've got a couple foundation issues with a small leak and this pilaster they set for a corner addition that settled.

-What region of the US are we talking and how old is the house?

-Is this a full basement?

-Is the brick just a veneer or is the entire foundation structurally brick? Most foundations are poured concrete, CMU block, or stone for really old homes.

Most commercial CMU walls have a control joint, they stop laying the running bond (staggered pattern) and leave a vertical joint that allows expansion and settling to occur without head joints (mortar joints on the sides of the brick) cracking, residential foundation walls wouldn't have that detail so it's much more common for a crack to appear on houses. If the bed joints (joints on top and bottom of brick) were cracking you have a bigger issue because that could indicate the foundation wall is buckling from the lateral/hydrostatic pressure.