uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
I saw a tweet recently arguing that you should need to be a parent or a troop to be allowed to vote since it shows that you have a personal stake in the country's stability 
bluesky has both mutes and blocks. I always just mute people - anyone determined enough could make an alt to bypass my block anyway.
another thing on my mind is that recently a big account blocked me for calling him out on eating animals, and then he quoted me for his followers to laugh at. I engaged with some other ppl in his thread but I couldn't see the QS they were all referring to because I was blocked! it didn't make a lot of sense
the next time I get an invite I'm just going to use it on myself I think. that way I can at least see what people are talking about if someone mentions me from an account that's blocked me
that's more or less gramsci's revolutionary optimism take. sometimes you know that you're not going to accomplish anything, but you also feel compelled to do something. so you compartmentalize and try to hold on to both at once: pessimism of intellect because you can't do anything without some guidance from theory (which is blinking "you're fucked" in 700pt impact) and optimism of will because will is what's driving us to action in the first place :schopenhauer-grimace:
notably this does not allow one to "axiomatically" reject the reality of the situation, it's more just cope to help us stay sane in modernity
all we need is to bring back 
it should be a wakeup call for us. "progressive" liberals' interests are evidently so intertwined with those of the bourgeoisie that msm can snap their fingers and the whole internet is instantly back on team america.
I wish ppl would stop putting such an emphasis on deboonking propaganda for a bunch of students and labor aristocrats. propaganda only works because people are willing to believe in a system that still works for them. blaming everything on propaganda is I think often missing the point
if you engage on purely marketplace-of-ideas terms the best you're going to get is the same as everyone else: one share of the pot from thermal motion randomly jostling a few disaffected libs off into communism, fascism, etc. there's no reason to expect any particular advantage in this game, and in fact the deck is stacked against us
idk about blahaj but this tracks with everything I've ever seen from the subreddit. if these are the same people then I'm a little puzzled about why we care what they think. 196 has been infested with vaushits and really uncomfortable chasery stuff for a long time and their mod team bans people on sight for even posting parenti
I wonder if overcrowded american jails mysteriously get more funding after some bigshot like sbf goes to jail and the msm media is running "look what indignities billionaires have to suffer when they get caught" schadenfreude
you too? that was me a couple of weeks ago when remembering liberalsocialist
hear me out what if we just put bright yellow caution tape all around the baltics and did the world communist revolution without them?
unlike you liberals, I think for myself. the fact that I look and act and talk identically to my dad and everyone else in my small town is just a coincidence 😎
to buy even a median home in san francisco at current rates a homeowner has to be able to shell out like $115k/yr on their mortgage and property taxes. not including other col, not including income/capital gains taxes to get their money in the first place
then a pretty typical amount for them to retire on would be an additional $2m - but say they're younger and only halfway there. even stashed in literal cds their nest egg is already yielding more than minimum wage every hour of every day, even while they sleep. then add in another couple hundred bps of equity risk premium
ofc they can sell their house at any time and pocket all of the equity they've been banking up. in the meantime why not throw in some rental income from that downstairs bedroom, that's easily $1500/mo passive
nothing to lose but our chains amirite fellow proletarians
only extensions listed on amo. mozilla got a takedown notice and delisted BPC which made it essentially impossible to install, since you can't sideload xpis. firefox mobile is fully locked to their proprietary service
the americans had previously supported several draft proposals to have the prc on the unsc while also recognizing the roc with their own separate seat. on the day of this vote the assembly was just about to fully recognize the prc as china's representative. so I think it's fair to say that the eleventh hour american proposal to add a 2/3 supermajority requirement to any measure "depriving" the kmt of representation was effectively a vote on the un splitting china
to be clear this is a vote on some last-second american maneuvering to try to split china into separate seats (prc/roc)
I used to live in this pretty small beachfront town. it was strange area- there were a few vegetarian/vegan restaurants in town but only one that served meat. a lot of animal lovers around, you know the vibe I mean. and so this one meat restaurant was hated by basically everyone, to the point that it was a running joke in town. nobody would be caught dead going in there. the thing is, it seemed as if the restaurant owner was trying aggressively to piss off the residents. the whole concept of the restaurant was basically to serve a pile of sloppy joe or something in a little metal pail? like basically trying to be as unapologetically gross as possible to make some kind of point about meat. and as you'd expect, I never once saw a customer in that restaurant. no employees ever seemed to be around either, just the owner. something was definitely fishy about it. I don't know how the owner got the money to keep that place running, since the place was open for at least 13 seasons. maybe his robot wife had a side hustle.
