eesh, $6/lb is still a lot for a homemade staple. I eat a lot of seitan and take about a year and a half to go through a 50lb bag of gluten, but I think seeds would go rancid in that quantity / time. I might try it as a treat eventually though. When I first saw non-soybean tofus in the store I assumed they were for Whole Foods suburbanites scared of soy turning them gay, this is the first time I've heard that they actually have some advantages

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How much does it cost you, ballpark, to make a block of pumpkin seed tofu? I'd like a fattier protein source just for convenience. Never tried a non-soy tofu.

I have a good seitan recipe which I will post if anyone's interested. The trick is you do the stretch and braid technique and then pop it in the instant pot. Comes out really dense with fibers like muscle, can be pulled into a pulled pork type texture if you want. No fuckery with tinfoil wraps or whatever because of that and the pressure.

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Probably gonna change soon

not with the current supreme court

Video that doesn't need to be a video. TL;DR: the released picture shows a typical printed lower (Chairmanwon's stipple remix of the dd19.2) with metal upper. Shooter likely used a printed suppressor (could be FTN-3, FTN-4) without a Nielsen device. In PA the gun is legal but suppressor is not so if they pursue gun charges we'll get to see it.

"skill issue"

IMO, people who experience health effects from cutting out flesh either failed at meal planning or they're sensitive little babies who couldn't handle a change. I empathize, western pattern diet depends on flesh and I guess it's jarring to make a big dietary change of any sort (though it wasn't for me), but that is what you're signing up for. Maybe ask about specific things, like "how did you get enough protein" or "did you take B12" and find obvious mistakes. Broader level though, animals still don't want to be killed even to give a carnist a better night's sleep.

why would you assume this is real? Looks like creative fiction written and posted by someone immediately after they saw the news of his arrest

maybe this is, perhaps, engaging in prefigurative politics in the way Bevins criticizes in If We Burn, so maybe we should be less precious about it

hm this is a neat connection. From If We Burn or you? I'd never thought about demands for collective action as prefigurative politics.

I like Palestine Action, they're doing good work, but they can't win. If we apply settler-colonialism to say that their acts don't directly benefit US/British citizens and won't appeal to more than a fringe minority, their membership can pretty much only go down as they get taken out by the state. Winning has to be done by a group that has something to win, in this case the Palestinian and peripheral resistance. There's a bunch of climate activism groups that had the same fate (including a surprising amount of adventurism that is so effectively quashed it never gets on the news). Idk, it's just so pessimistic an ideology that you can't spread it. Like Lenin was going around bringing people the good news of social democracy - "guess what, you're part of the mighty working class, here is how we can have a revolution that will improve your life" - and we get to go around and say "sorry I know you're struggling day-to-day but you are at the top of a global pile of bodies, and once I convince you there ain't shit you can do about it except wait for a revolution somewhere else."

It's like the same kind of logic that gets you the White Panther Party. I don't think it's attractive to the masses to be part of an auxiliary force. But then again there's a lot of proxy consciousness around, where people say "I like unions, shout out Teamsters" and don't bother organizing because they figure someone else has got it covered. As far as 40s Germany, at that point Germany had brutally repressed any communists trying to organize, but if not for the state it would be been possible to say, "hey guys I know you like the sound of lebensraum or whatever but you're going to suffer tremendously under the war" and essentially point to the possibility of the GDR, which was better to live in than Nazi Germany!

The note on apartheid is wrong. If the definition of apartheid is something with a de jure character (which I would contest, that's the same argument Israeli apologists make for that country) than that simplistic definition won't tell you whether whether the working class is split.

I don't think it does justice to the settler-colonialism theory, but there don't seem to be any existing orgs doing justice to it either. In my city, the settler-colonialism folks are ultras who have given up on mass or workplace organizing in favor of ever-smaller groups of increasingly burnt-out activists showing up to fight the cops. That shit is a waste of time, and you don't have to be a communist to recognize it. The author says something I agree with: if the implication of settler colonial theory is that American workers have no revolutionary potential, and that trying to organize them won't lead to a revolution, then it is self-defeating as far as application in America. (I left SAlt because they also have a self-defeating thesis: effectively, that Palestinians should lay down and die since everything depends on an Israeli working class coalescing and unifying.) To combat this widespread perception, the folks on the other side need to shout from the rooftops what they think American communists should do. The author should have also examined what believers in settler-colonialism are saying to this effect.

And remember, fuck nuance (PDF warning). A theory isn't better the more contradictions it mentions. This applies to both sides of this debate.

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Because from my eyes, what they do (breaking into factories to smash drones and smashing windows of bank offices) fit into the exact profile of what adventurism is.

I love Palestine Action. I think the factory shutdowns are different than the bank offices. As the rate of profit falls and capital accumulation continues, fixed capital gets so expensive and vulnerable. If you, for instance, burn down a factory, you have obliterated several lifetimes of labor in one go. It's not using the power of the working class, but you still have a force multiplier. And companies can only bounce back from so much capital loss. The bank offices, I don't know. Barclays didn't actually need any of those offices to do business. I think that is just sort of brute force bird-dogging where eventually the company does a cost-benefit analysis, I've seen PETA do similar things against fur sellers. But I think that both of these things are different than the classical adventurism Lenin was arguing against, doming random tsarist officials or healthcare CEOs, because people are expendable to capitalism and capital is not!

Re: "but they will crack down on us!", they are going to do that anyways the moment we pose even the tiniest threat.

yep. See How Nonviolence Protects the State for a longer refutation of these arguments

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this site tends to be on the vulgar materialist side. But I really do think our spectacular society makes us tend to overestimate the effect of propaganda. The left loves marches, flyering, stickering, blocking a highway for an hour to get on the news, and we reach for these things before collective action aimed at material conditions. Multiple people burned themselves alive to protest Israel's genocide of Gaza and it did not slow the bombs at all.

Propaganda of the deed is a little different, you're supposed to actually do something, but the problem is that killing a CEO actually doesn't improve anyone's insurance coverage. There's no material effect, it all depends on invigorating a mass movement. If it was during the height of Bernie's M4A campaign I bet it would have done something material. But what's today's call to mass action, go kill a CEO? That won't be heeded by more than a handful of people, and if that's all that happens there won't be material change. I would love for this to ignite a popular uprising against private health insurance but that only works in movies and color revolutions. I think that deeds aimed at high-value capital targets, oil pipelines and bomb factories (shout out Palestine Action), are better because if there's no accompanying movement at least they do get a smidge done on their own. They also lend themselves to propaganda about systemic change, not individual greedy CEOs.

I said propaganda is propaganda. It's not useless. But it will not win the class war alone. The working class is propagandized, but it's held down primarily by the state - economic coercion and actual organized violence - and not ideas that somebody has put in our head. Most people don't kill CEOs not because they believe the ads they see on TV, but because they don't want to be jailed or killed and there is no movement to prevent that outcome. Propaganda is a useful tool that can help us organize our class, and the organized class is what will carry out a revolution. I think what this guy did was great. But until there's a mass movement to go alongside adventurism - which can't be built by lone wolves - we're just gonna have narodniks.

If posters on this website aren't doing adventurism we should be doing mass organizing to create a climate where violence will be more effective. We should use this to call for public healthcare, tell everybody about social murder, etc. Build a huge public force for M4A so that a healthcare CEO killed makes you think "right, M4A" instead of speculation about it being a mob hit or whatever. Calls for more assassinations - although they'd be good news! - are "easier" versions of Twitter leftists calling for strikes. It'd be nice but it won't work unless we make it possible.

Also, the guy's dead and not coming back. Even more tangible change. Waow

The health insurance company will keep on doing the same exact thing, that's why their stock price didn't move at all yesterday.

Propaganda of the deed is just that, propaganda. No revolution without organization.

Sure. I'm vegan because animals don't want to die. I'm totally cool with synthesized food (as long as it doesn't need fetal bovine serum, etc). But on a practical level, I can't see "lab-grown" anything becoming cheaper than animal products for a long time, because biology is just so efficient. A lot of the substitutes out there, I consider the $6 pint of fake ice cream and I instead pay $3 for a quart of Italian ice.

thought this would be the Onion but it's real

https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures