Putting in a little bit of water helps with reheating a ton of leftovers, it can make anything more moist that has been dried out. I like doing it with pizza and chicken wings a lot.

Totally agree with all that. Life is really fucking hard in the states, just for reasons other than poverty (although also poverty :l) so people are able to accept a lot of bullshit to be a part of community-oriented things like churches. I don't think people really "believe" either, they believe it as a set of social customs moreso than anything else.

Satire is popular under capitalism because it reinforces the system. The idea that we need to abstract our critiques instead of making them explicit serves no one but the ruling class.

When you realize Americans are almost completely deprived of community, genuine personal relationships, and frankly just the ability to trust other people, it makes sense that so many choose to live in some sort of bubble. It simplifies a life where you feel completely alone and without answers, and if you aren't getting emotional comfort from those key interpersonal bedrocks and resources it's not surprising people seek it in all sorts of places.

Don't you know empires just spontaneously arise with no structural cause? Just a completely stochastic process that we have no way of understanding!

That is a comfortable lifetime's worth of money for thousands of people. Fucking gross

Ah so this was the point of the DPRK soldier nonsense

Wild that the same publication also had Ed Yong who has done some excellent journalism during the pandemic

"Voters don't realize all the good things Biden did and blame him for stuff that isn't his fault, they are so misinformed!"

"Actually, here is concrete evidence that Biden's policies directly led to millions of people being impoverished and indirectly killed hundreds of thousands domestically"

"Fuck off I don't care and I also I'm smarter than you even though I don't even fully understand what you are talking about"

I much prefer chuds who are transparent about their ghoulishness to these freaks

The children of those folks are all renting now. Just completely out of touch

Doesn't help when liberals constantly resort to backing up their arguments with a single academic paper that they do not have the credentials to interpret. Just go look on r/science on stormfront.

Academic papers are not holy divinations of God's will representing a steadfast unequivocal truth. They are written in the context of their particular economic and social system that incontrovertibly influences their hypotheses, methods, samples, findings, interpretations, etc. I have read papers that twist themselves in knots to provide milquetoast answers that avoid reckoning with capitalism and poverty, especially in healthcare and public health. However, they go along the rails of liberal ideology so they are not sufficiently questioned.

I think even Marxists and other leftists could benefit from improved scientific literacy in that way. We could be much better equipped to talk about and fight against how the system reproduces and enforces itself through academia.

Fellas, is it revisionist to view the world through the lens of social and political relations?

The Dems are going to lose every single presidential election for however much longer they can exist for

I still don't understand the reaction to the Last Jedi. Otherwise sensible people have the most dogshit takes on it.

Shit, we are like 4C above fucking 2020 temperatures it feels like the last few years

I see blue MAGA shitheads STILL downplaying it like we are all a bunch of morons who can't possibly remember our own fucking bills going up by 50% under Biden. We all saw it. We all still feel it.

Like my parents

So the people who were profiting off of the COVID wealth redistribution supported the Dems and those who were harmed supported Trump. Seems pretty straightforward

I see it as a blow to American hegemony for sure, but nothing that fundamentally change anything at this point. Maybe more of a benchmark to look back on than anything else

They convinced themselves by saying 'the economy is great, actually' and ignoring what voters were saying