I say the word “deft” at work and my supervisor echoes “death to America”, what is going on

Still doesn’t qualify them as a “shithole of a site”.

A “20-year anarchist” who is fully invested in incremental electoralism and takes politicians’ words at face value is not serious to begin with.

Honestly it’s sad to hear you talk about your own desperation; comic relief is a natural response. Read Inhabit (or some Goldman or Kropotkin or even some Crimethinc), take some agency in your own life, and organize against the capitalist hydra instead of cheering for which of its heads you find the most soothing.

These things will become uninhabitable with 1/100 of the neglect of a Roman road.

Do you really read the “Issues” page of a campaign and say “wow, I’m sire they will do everything they say they will”?

Congratulations, you’re a liberal.

Enemas have existed for a long time

More like a postshit than a shitpost.

Unless the FMT goes thru the mail.

Someone in the comments is mentioning the UC Berkeley student who flew up from SoCal for classes.

a friend of mine who’s a therapist once told me that some days she reflects on uncovering people’s inner minds and wonders why her occupation is spelled as all one word, without a space

Sounds a lot like

We don’t need to invite the fascist base into the big tent party. We have a model now, DSA has been a rising force for 8 years, and they recently had one of their people (someone with a career at a housing advocacy nonprofit) upset a political insider to win the election in a major US city. There is no need to backtrack from that.

You don’t win elections by taking stances in the middle of the pack, you win them by galvanizing people and offering something worth striving for. You mobilize the disenfranchised people, and you don’t pander to your enemies who are going to call you a communist amd oppose you no matter what you do. Otherwise, you’re effectively no different from a Third Way Democrat.

Sucks that you’re desperate. You’ll find an antidote to this in building tangible pieces of local power with people who are committed to egalitarian anti-capitalism. Half my city council is people I campaigned for, I’m part of multiple anarchist networks, and they have tons of lands and urban spaces that can accommodate people to build a real movement where we can contest political questions instead of begging for them.

You’re being a bit obtuse here. Do you trust everything that comes out of a politician’s mouth, or do you have a better way of assessing it?

I am talking about likelihood, not absolute certainty. Of course anything is possible. But we understand the world through a lens of what is most likely. We know that the 3 dice you roll are probably not going to all land on 6, we know that the S. aureus that get the same methicillin treatment in hospitals are probably going to develop an allele that makes them immune to it, we know that the big companies are probably going to merge and lay off employees in the quest to become more profitable, and we know that politicians on the campaign trail are probably lying. We don’t make projections based on vibes or what an individual says, we make projections based on how we know the world works.

You sound like a new leftist. I was one of those, once. I remember listening to what Obama was saying on the campaign trail about ending the war on terror, closing the Guantanamo Bay facility, and so on. I thought a “middle-class” PoC community organizer had a good shot at doing what he said he’d do.

All 3 of them have supply chains that run through China.

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What does Moldova have to do with the rest of all those?

Maybe it’s the fructose that Americanizes them? More research is needed

No wonder about that, I’m a socialist.

I may be a weird kind of anarchist who wants to do a cultural revolution around an emergent class of people who escape debt and wage slavery by forming cooperatives around housing and work and collective defense.

But I am still a socialist through and through: I see the world through the lens of class; I know that people’s habits and loyalties are mostly a function of what their direct material interests are and what they’re personally accustomed to; I lend more credence to what people do rather than what they say.

And Platner’s record is as a chauvinistic war criminal who happens to have said some progressive things in the past few years. As a US senator he will serve MIC interests, small business interests, probably national-bourgeois interests, while being pro-LGBT+, pro-universal healthcare, possibly pro-union, and possibly less interventionist in foreign policy.

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This is ticking me off

What’s with that phrase anyway? Nobody should be giving babies candy in the first place. Let them develop their taste smoothly before dumping concentrated sugar on them.

People don’t just change everything about themselves on a dime in their late 30s. In a person’s 20s they might take 3 years to have a substantial transformation.

In his campaign he is literally just saying shit. There’s an opening to the left of the Democratic center and he’s leveraging it. There’s nothing to betray besides very shallow words; he’s not a part of any organization and has no political history beyond volunteering for the campaign that had the largest ever number of volunteers. To any longtime and sincere observer of politics, this looks like opportunism. He is oriented towards the interests of the military and of business owners. Even AOC and Bernie are far to the left of him.

Depending on low-wage employment for a living for several years, or some equivalent experience of subordination, is what gives you class consciousness in a country full of temporarily inconvenienced millionaires. Having a high-tipped position for a few seasons, or taking over a 3-employee business, does not suffice to align you with the interests of the American working class.

I don’t live in Maine. If I did, I would support someone else’s primary campaign. If Platner won, I’d hold my nose and vote for him over Collins, but not expect anything.