imo toss up between the CIA and/or one of those new Q follower congresspeople

I dunno a bunch of screaming used car dealership owners took selfies in congress, seems like it's about time to get out the emergency powers to me

I got an ascension on nethack.alt.org recently and have sworn to never play that cursed game again

no we just gotta get out your fluxions I promise lemme just make your bones make the GOOD noise and then all your fluxions will be gone 100% money back guarantee (apologies I was out of office last week as I was practicing my constitutional right to free speech in the nation's capital

lol yeah when I started adderall I kept getting nauseous in the evenings. I asked my psych if that was a common side effect, and he was like, "no..? Wait, are you eating food?"

(I had not been eating food.)

SA calls these "probations" or "probes" and they work great there. You can also go to a user and see their history of probations.

thanks bro that really narrows it down

it is the most American possible photo

extremely good post, thank you.

on a more personal note, I’m also deeply frustrated with a space filled with apparent leftists that does so little organizing or any actual praxis. what does it mean to profess left politics and to engage in purely symbolic action. there is so much good and important work to be done. not all of it requires you to know and talk to people. it merely asks that you attempt to solve the problems that you yourself encounter and to share that work with as many others.

something i've realized since i've started doing organizing work is how helpless online-leftist-posting makes me feel compared to actually, like, doing stuff. twitter, reddit, all social media are just simulacra, endless spinning boxes designed to make us feel helpless, to make us think that what matters is numbers on a web page instead of the real people around us.

when i recognized the necessity of the work, but i wasn't doing the work, it was killing me inside slowly. i think that's the root of a lot of the nastiness in online left spaces; people feel helpless, turn their rage inward, and then outward.

so getting out and doing work is important. it really doesn't have to be huge, doesn't have to be Building The Party For The Ultimate Revolution. just doing anything is good.

and sure, read, understand history and science and theory, try and radicalize the people around you. but it doesn't have to be everything at once.

one brick at a time.

:fidel-salute-big:

e: oh, also:

it is not the job of marginalized people to do emotional labor to make you okay with the fact that you’ve hurt them. the assumption that you are owed that labor is part of the system of oppression that makes life miserable for people you call comrade. it’s the same notion as when a loved one informs you that you’ve hurt them - if you make it their problem to make you feel better about the fact, you’re being an asshole. deal with the hurt you’ve caused, then deal with the feelings about yourself that having hurt someone causes within you.

this is a great point. however, having struggled to get into good habits around dealing with this stuff myself, i know it's not necessarily an easy skillset to acquire. if anybody's struggling with this / wants to talk, i'd be happy to chat about it, just dm me.

homoerotic text is the new homoerotic subtext

Give Iran A Nuke

i found On Contradiction made a lot more sense after reading the Tao Te Ching.

Everybody on earth knowing

that beauty is beautiful

makes ugliness.

Everybody knowing

that goodness is good

makes wickedness.

For being and nonbeing

arise together;

hard and easy

complete each other;

long and short

shape each other;

high and low

depend on each other;

note and voice

make the music together;

before and after

follow each other.

A core idea Mao and Laozi are trying to get at is that things aren't defined by platonic ideals. There's no perfect abstraction that describes reality. There's only reality itself, constantly changing and contradictory.

Concrete things, which we feel we can grab onto, are really only temporary eddies in the current. They're defined only by contrast with the things around them, and by their internal structure. Also, our understanding of the world can be confused -- our senses sometimes don't line up with reality, and our ideas usually don't line up with reality.

Different philosophers react in different ways to this insight. The Buddha says we should try to totally let go of ideas. Laozi says we should just vibe. Mao says that we should try to sharpen our ideas, by bringing them into contact with reality. "Ideas are tested by experiment", basically.

Many comrades do not see the importance of, or are not good at, drawing together the activists to form a nucleus of leadership, and they do not see the importance of, or are not good at, linking this nucleus of leadership closely with the masses, and so their leadership becomes bureaucratic and divorced from the masses. Many comrades do not see the importance of, or are not good at, summing up the experience of mass struggles, but fancying themselves clever, are fond of voicing their subjectivist ideas, and so their ideas become empty and impractical. Many comrades rest content with making a general call with regard to a task and do not see the importance of, or are not good at, following it up immediately with particular and concrete guidance, and so their call remains on their lips, or on paper or in the conference room, and their leadership becomes bureaucratic.

   -- Mao, Some Questions Concerning methods of Leadership

Mao also talks about how things are defined by their internal conflicts, the forces within them moving with and against each other. That's Marx's insight into economics, but imo it shows up all over the sciences. Like, I think it's not actually a bad description of how modern physicists think about "symmetries".

...that's my understanding anyway, lol

tempted to comment "yikes"

it keeps hapening

they kinda already are, but due to how GDP is calculated, all the consumer merchandise they build for us counts towards our GDP

i have accepted that posting cringe is inevitable and so am perfectly tranquil, like a still pool

Robert E. Lee

how does bread even work

like you put bread soup into the oven and bread comes out

magic, huge respect to the ancestors for figuring that one out

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what the fuck