There’s a story that Wong Wifu, the great Chinese martial artist… had a fight with a guy and beat him. Then the guy gave him this light tap. Wong looked at him and the guy just nodded. That was it. He had given him the death touch. Wong died.

Then and there?

No. About eighteen years later. That’s the thing about Dim Mak… you never know when it’s gonna take effect.

The only way to extract profit is to produce degrees of separation from the workers and the products of their labor. They receive the full value of your labor and then act like it’s a generous gift to get paid a small fraction.

now that you’ve gotten that out of your system, what are you going to do about it? Silence is not an option.

Stuffing and deviled eggs. However my family is also full of deviled egg fiends, so mostly stuffing

Those bales are pretty new, so they’ll likely sit in the field drying for a while and definitely won’t be easy to light. But hay is absolutely flammable once dry, my friends and I almost burned an entire field because someone was lighting dried loose hay on fire while we were playing on them

Just like root beer

Probably one that’s feeling the pressure from over 1000 workers organized into multiple unions and wants an out. At least that’s my bedtime fantasy

US government too. Blinken and Biden should face a new Nuremberg as well.

Alphabet didn’t turn enough profit this quarter, so they had to make some difficult choices and cut their less used options

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The way I look at it, things have to get better. Because if they don’t then we will destroy ourselves. Barbarism until socialism.

And Blinken will find some excuse to keep pushing arms despite them crossing the line

Microsoft is already working on it

True. I blame him for the start of the country to slide into neoliberalism, mostly because of what the Palmer raids did to the labor movement

Seriously, fuck Woodrow Wilson.

I’m not aware of the history of this movement. Could you please provide some context? I want to push against reactionary undertones I might come across

I was this way, and then being an undiagnosed autistic 3yo plus 1 too many mild chastisings from my parents made me shy from talking for years. Engage them with a thought provoking flip of the question. “Why do you think food gives us energy?”

Your cat seems quite annoyed at you taking pictures of their ginormous nut sack

I agree with most of your analysis, when viewed through the lens of immediate consequences. However I’d like to push back on the idea that it’s just revolutionary roleplay, and I’d like to explain why I see things that way.

I’ll agree that both parties, as in the voting base and establishment, are generally supportive of capitalist policies. However I believe that it’s far deeper than that. Not only are the folks at the top of both parties capitalists, but a vast majority of all the fundraising money they earn comes from billionaires. In a political context, money is never given without a reason. When you or I donate money, it’s because we want to see 1 or more candidates to win. When a billionaire donates money, they want political influence to direct party and government policy to benefit them and their capital. If they can’t get that influence with one party, they will happily change party allegiance because the duopoly does not provide any wiggle room for genuinely progressive policies due to financial incentive, unless there is a true working class crisis (i.e. the fallout from the great depression). It’s happened constantly throughout US history.

I will always point out that Marx would have never been able to do his crucial work in economics and political theory had Engels not funded and co-authored the endeavors. Everyone in the ruling class has the capacity to become a class traitor and fight for workers, but not the incentive. Mark Reuben genuinely seems like a decent person to me, and I respect him stepping in with Cost Plus. However, he has an economic incentive to get influence through the democratic party to improve profits for his other ventures at the cost and exploitation of the workers at those companies. It’s nowhere near as blatant as Musk, but it’s absolutely still present. If the Democratic party puts forward a policy that is in direct opposition to his profits, that support will dry up immediately.

Not only that, but remember how the democratic party forcibly pushed out Bernie in 2016, because he was offering genuine improvements to the working class? That pressure came from both the billionaire donors and the billionaire party establishment. The same happened in NY to AOC, to a lesser extent and primarily over her anti-genocide and anti-colonial stance towards Israel. The billionaires want to profit off of illegally seized land, and they do not care how many people they need to kill to get that profit. In my eyes, this might be a reason why Harris didn’t even try to disingenuously sell an anti-genocide stance.

He’s just another Republican. And that’s just another form of capitalist, so it’s the same as a Democrat too. /s

I’m genuinely asking, because from my perspective you’ve always seemed to be on the socialist progressive side of things and it’s something that seems to be true as indicated by the ratcheting effect. Do you truly understand where this sentiment comes from?