Add me to the list please and thank you.

Loss is a terrible thing. The loss of a pet is without a doubt one of the hardest forms it comes in. The unconditional, unwavering love a pet expresses takes up more space in your heart then you are even aware. It is as if they exist simultaneously as diminutive souls and as lumbering giants. It's the giant you feel the absence of, it's the giant that leaves its impression on you, it's the giant you will always remember.

Love, in all forms, from all sources, develops us as creatures. You are who you are in part due to the love this giant shared with you. Like a blessing from beyond the vale of the real, you have been touched and forever changed. Carry it with you, and you will always have them at your side.

I'm so happy for the life you shared together, know that it was beautiful.

It's generous that you think these people have read anything from Mein Kampf.

"Only paid subscribers can comment on this post" AKA only those who view my opinions as valid can have a conversation with me about my opinions.

The entire concept of "Class" is so distorted here that it means nothing. Class isn't some intersectional data point that you can tease out of a spreadsheet. It's defined by the relationships within a society, and in capitalist society it's defined by those who earn their money by selling their labor for a wage, and those who earn their money through underpaying for that labor. It's defined by the disproportionate control one group (the labor buyers) has over the way the other group (the labor sellers) lives their lives.

His point about "Dems don't see themselves as working class" is literally the challenge of raising "Class Consciousness". These Dems are part of the working class, they are simply not conscious of that fact. If the "Working Class" is always depicted as greasy car mechanics, construction workers, assembly line workers or delivery drivers, then yes, the white-collar office worker putting in 90+ hours a week to crank out the next GTA game only to get fired before its released, will never see themselves as "Working Class" even though they suffer under the same conditions.

People who work in a cube slamming their fingers into a keyboard for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, on-call 247, will look at a guy who works 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, on-call 247, at a tow truck company and think, "Well, at least I'm not that poor slob." This dissonance is created by a lack of class consciousness!

Liberals read a book challenge fucking IMPOSSIBLE!!

EDIT:

• Workers in factories lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas.
• Workers doing call center work lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas.
• Workers doing technical support lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas.
• Workers driving taxi cabs are replaced by contractors driving their own cars for Uber.
• Workers delivering packages are replaced by contractors driving their own cars for Doordash.
• Workers in factories lose their jobs to automated assembly robots.
• Workers doing call center work lose their jobs to Large Language Models doing synthesized voices.
• Workers doing technical support lose their jobs to Large Language Models doing text communication.
• Workers writing technical documents are replaced by Large Language Models.
• Workers creating art assets are replaced by Generative Imaging Models.
• Workers driving their own cars for Uber will lose their jobs to automated self-driving cars.
• Workers driving their own cars for Doordash will lose their jobs to automated self-piloting delivery drones.
• Nothing is done to address this assault on workers.
• Mother fuckers like this will still wonder if it's the "identity Politics" that is the problem.

That's what makes their movement different from the Trumpoids, they have data and graphs™.

And they have their own Q.

You do understand this is circular logic right? Why should Russia capitulate to every US or NATO threat?

Maybe the US shouldn't have made such an obvious and stupid choice to escalate the conflict by allowing Ukraine to use their weapons?

Woops! My bad.

Keep it secrete, keep it safe!

WE GOT GRAPHS AND DATA!

(Weights and fish meme reference, don't look it up if you don't want to see gutted fish)

this guy has anywhere close to that level of data on voting trends.

That's the part that really blows my mind. Where is the data? Where is the spreadsheet so I can crunch the numbers? Also, the data that is stored at the state level for each election is a nightmare. I don't know if you've ever tried to find it, but every state has a different file format, a different structure to the data, in some cases the data is just missing or incomplete. So I have no idea where he is getting this data from. MIT has a whole lab dedicated to studying election data, and even they don't have complete datasets.

Let sleepy joes lie.

Baller if true

Hell yeah!

Congratulations! I'm glad everything went well! I hope your wife has a speedy recovery. This is definitely the most challenging phases, both physically and mentally. Remember, you're doing great, and you'll continue to be great. Try not to compare yourselves or your baby to anyone else, be your own measuring stick. Don't fret using bottles or formula either. It can be a major stressor, but a fed baby is a happy baby, no matter what. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise.

Enjoy whatever time you have with your growing family! I'm so excited for you!

I tested this out today. It has a real programmers interface but it sure its fast which is real nice.

Hell Yeah!

That's very cool! I think the closest I've had to that kind of experience thus far with our kiddos was when our oldest presented me with a drawing of people she made while at daycare. They were little circles, with eyes, and a mouth, and little stick arms and legs (very very long stick arms and legs). I remember thinking, "last week you had no idea how to do this, I even tried showing you". Now her people have proper bodies and hair, and she often has something to present me after daycare "This is YOU DADDY!!". Every little drawing of "me" really makes my day, and every week she gets better at it. Now we regularly doodle together, and it's so fun.

Reconstruction needed to be bungled to ensure that the emancipated slaves did not become part of the landed class within the American population. With the abolition of slavery after the Civil War, it also was the abolition of the "southern economic system" the south was seeking to maintain. The south, having lost the war, would have to rapidly adapt to a wage labor system, and much of the emancipated population drew up contracts with their former owners and returned to their plantations as wageworkers. Slavery, as an economic system, was unable to compete with the emerging industrialization of the agribusiness in the north. Much of the southern "wealth" was tied up in their property (which included people), this property was leveraged as collateral on loans which funded much of the southern plantation owners' extravagant lifestyles, as they had no real liquid assets to spend.

If the freed people of the south were given 40 acres and a mule as they were promised by William T. Sherman, you would have seen a rise of a new landed class, and potentially the formation of a new Black lead state. Unlike in the District of Columbia, where northern slavers were given compensation for their loss of "property" after the DC slaves were emancipated, the southern states were given no such compensation. Post-war, the former Confederate States were strapped with war debt that deeply impoverished the former wealthy classes. As the states were reintegrated back into the Union, they also participated in paying for the Union's efforts in the war. While the latter half of this debt would have been shared by the Black landed class, it wouldn't have had the same connections to the confederate war debt, much of which was held by individuals and not the state(s). The former Confederate states were effectively bankrupt post-war, and this is what drove the practice of Peonage or "Debt Slavery", as well as sharecropping, that haunted the freed people in the post-war era. This would have left the new landed class in an advantageous position, free of most of the war debt, suddenly in possession of effectively a turn-key agroindustry.

A detail of this land reform policy that is often omitted from its retelling, is that the land also came with military protection; "until such time as they can protect themselves, or until Congress shall regulate their title". This land constituted a contiguous 30-mile-long strip of abandoned or confiscated Confederate plantations from Charleston, South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida. It also included an exclusive right to the freed population to settle the region; "in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, shall be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves."

Could this have really been the foundation of a new Black state within the borders of the greater United States? Very likely, based on the actions and developments as a result of this redistribution of land. Skidway Island, representing almost 11,430 acres, was home to dozens of former plantations. With assistance from Ulysses L. Huston (future representative of Georgia, and instrumental in the writing of this land reform), over 1000 freed people had been resettled to Skidway in an attempt to build a self-sufficient Black colony. Fifty freed men and women were issued land titles at Grove Hill on the mainland, south of Savannah. They held elections that formed a board of representatives who advised the Freedmen's Bureau* agent in their district, formed their own militia, and continued producing rice to sell in Savannah. Not long after this reform was announced, Rufus Saxton, charged with implementing and overseeing the order, reported some 40,000 Black citizens had settled on the land. The political and economic activity within the area show a clear intention of building Black lead communities and organizations independent of white influence.

If this land ownership were to endure, it would have an estimated value of $640 billion, according to 2020 estimates. The implications of this land redistribution posed a serious and imitate threat to white dominance in the south. If this state had been allowed to flourish, one could imagine (hopefully), the emergence of a multipolar political reality in the region. This vision is what lived on both in the struggles of Martin Luther King, and very explicitly in the struggle of Malcolm X and the Black Liberation and Black Nationalist movement. The assassination of Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, with the support of the Confederate Secret Services, made the dismantling of this policy all the easier. However, well before his assassination, even Lincoln made attempts to backpedal on General Sherman's vision of land reform. At the onset of this resettlement, Rufus Saxton, speaking to the Second African Baptist Church in Savannah in February 1865, reportedly told those who gathered:

"The soil is the source of all true prosperity and wealth, No people can be great unless they own soil. You know that; General Sherman knows it; our Father in heaven knows it. And now I want to tell you, you may own the soil."

A few weeks later, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a bill clarifying that Black families could rent their chosen plots for three years, with the option to buy them. Undercutting the message of both Saxon and Sherman. The Freedmen's Bureau was also established with this bill, maybe as a kind of spoon full of sugar to help swallow the pill that was Lincoln's clarification. This didn't stop the 40,000+ Black Americans from traveling and settling within the borders of this "new state". Post assassination, Andrew Johnson, slave owner, and outward white supremacist, fully rescinded on even the bruised version of reform left by Lincoln, strangling this fledgling Black State in its crib.

Read more:

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/
• https://baltimorebeat.com/40-acres-and-a-lie/