No lie though, escargot wasn't bad when I tried it. Like a grassy oyster.
Even then, "positive stereotypes" embraced by a community still cause a lot of harm, especially when those stereotypes originate outside the community. Like Asians being "model minorities" or Black men having "BBCs"
Democrats aren't trying to win. They're doing what their ruling class constituents want and paving the lane for the Republicans to drive over.
Dice up a sweet potato into an oven safe pan and toss with olive oil, salt and pepper, and whatever spices you like (I like to use paprika, chipotle, cayenne). 400 degree oven. After 25 minutes take it out, create some space, and crack some eggs in the space (may have to add a little more oil). Bake for 5-7min, depending in how done you like your eggs.
Easy healthy breakfast that fits in one pan and doesn't take too long. You can prep the sweet potatoes the night before and do other things while it cooks. I like to add an avocado too at the end.
Just wanna say I feel ya. I also got a new job and for the first time in my adult life I will be outside of the "official" poverty line. But with that I have had to let my organizing take a backseat as I acclimate and attend to a bunch of other personal transitions. I simply just don't have as much time and energy to do both. I have moments where it's not easy to reconcile.
Congrats on the new opportunity comrade.
Congrats comrade! Quitting is no easy task, especially when you've engaged in the addiction for years
RevLeft just did an excellent episode on Marx's analysis of both Napoleon's and their relevancy to the current state of the US
If you just compare their administrations in terms of their material effect, Biden has objectively been more evil than Trump. He has started more wars, is responsible for magnitudes more death, has overseen further strengthening of the police state, and has gifted even more working-class wealth to the billionaire class.
The lesson to draw is that no matter who is president, Amerikkka will continue to accelerate into fascism and barbarism.
As unsatisfying as it would be for the imperial core not to be subject to the same external horrors that they've inflicted on the rest of humanity, the world should not need to stoop to the level of the colonizers. The imperial core will continue to grow weaker as China and successive countries that develop continue to build an alternative model of global coexistence. These Western colonizers will then cannibalize their own and eventually succumb to the movements led by their own exploited populaces. At least, that's the best case scenario for the world.
I was gonna recommend this as well! Lol
Really the book doesn't have that much poly content. Important read for Mono couples as well. Most of it is breaking down your personal attachment anxieties. Highly encourage anyone with relationship issues -- romantic or not -- to read this.
All good comrade. Burnout is real. Be kind to yourself. More and more people join the movement every day, so don't feel guilty for taking breaks where you can. Your health is important and someone will eventually be there to fill in the gaps.
One possible way for this shit not to escalate to nuclear armageddon is if these death cultists are given an off-ramp where they stand to benefit from the new global paradigm. Hella unsatisfying.
Basic necessities cost way too fucking much, let alone small luxuries. And your society is gaslighting you into thinking that the genocide you're watching is actually totally cool and super normal. So get back to work, keep buying things, and stream some more pop culture garbage content.
It'd be crazy if you weren't feeling burnt out and dysregulated.
What is insane though is that libs won't admit this is a Holocaust because it hasn't reached those numbers yet. As if they need millions of people dead for Gazans to "earn" their empathy.
Israel has already possibly surpassed Warsaw ghetto massacre numbers with no end in sight. And after the Warsaw Uprising the numbers increased dramatically. Not only that, they're trying to instigate a regional war to settle more of the Middle East and Northern Africa, just like Germany did with Europe. Israel is fucking mimicking the Nazi playbook right before our all of our eyes.
That's such a succinct definition. Reminds me of the left-wing version of libertarians who constantly say "well, that's not real capitalism."
It straight up baffles me that there are some notable Black communists in the US that actually support this opportunist.
It would not be shocking in the slightest if West ended up being on CIA payroll to draw attention away from the actual socialist candidates running on the PSL ticket.
Our activism predictably has very little effect on the decisions of our imperialist leaders.
What our activism has done is shatter the narrative that upholds peoples' allegiance to empire. Moreso than any other time in my life has an event created more communists and anarchists out of Western liberals. That isn't really going to help the people of Gaza in this moment, sure, but imperialist days are definitely numbered now.
And even then, Israel (and the West in general) has completely and permanently lost any facade of "civility.". The aging imperialists in charge are trying to recycle the same strategies from Korea, Vietnam, Panama, East Timor, and so on, except this time the entire world is watching and remembering. These massacres aren't just something being read about in the paper. These soldiers are gleefully making tiktoks of their depraved war crimes while a senile American president fails to gaslight the rest of world that its not happening.
Even if the Palestinians are completely displaced from Gaza, it's just a matter of time before the Israeli state is in ruins. The most powerful tool that imperialism has is the mask of legitimacy that upholds its narratives. And the US and Israel, as regimes in decline, will never be able to restore it. While things are pretty bleak and are bound to become more violent in the shorter term, the writing really is on the wall for the yankee empire.
So far this decade seems to be defined by Western empire maneuvering and provoking its victims to "attack first." We saw it with Russia and we saw it with the Palestinian resistance.
Looks like you're doing that thing where you develop healthy boundaries with your phone
China’s paramount leader is restoring faith in the free world — inadvertently, of course.
From the NYTimes Opinion Section:
"Dear President Xi:
Please accept my country’s gratitude and congratulations as you embark on your third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Though it may not be obvious now, we believe your reign will one day be recognized as one of the great unexpected blessings in the history of the United States, as well as that of other free nations.
A few exceptions aside, this was not what was generally expected when you first became paramount leader 10 years ago.
Back then, many in the West had concluded that it was merely a matter of time before China was restored to its ancient place as the world’s dominant civilization and largest economy. China’s astonishing annual growth rates, frequently topping 10 percent, put our own meager economic progress in the shade. In one industry after another — telecommunications, banking, social media, real estate — Chinese companies were becoming industry leaders. Foreign nationals flocked to live, study and work in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing; well-to-do American parents boasted of enrolling their children in Mandarin immersion classes.
At the policymaking level, there was widespread acceptance that a richer China would be vastly more influential abroad — and that the influence would be felt from Western Europe to South America to Central Asia to East Africa. Though we understood that this influence could at times be heavy-handed, there was little political will to curb it. China seemed to offer a unique model of capitalist dynamism and authoritarian efficacy. Decisions were made; things got done: What a contrast with the increasingly sclerotic free world.
Not that we thought that all was well with China. Your rise coincided with the dramatic downfall of your principal rival, Bo Xilai, amid rumors of a possible coup. Longer-term challenges — widespread corruption, an aging population, the role of the state in the economy — required prudent management. So did the international resentments and resistance that swiftly rising global powers invariably engender.
Still, you seemed up to the job. Your family’s bitter experience during the Cultural Revolution suggested that you understood the dangers of totalitarianism. Your determination to crack down on corruption seemed matched by your willingness to further liberalize your economy — demonstrated by your appointment of the competent technocrat Li Keqiang as your premier. And your stay with a family in Iowa in the 1980s raised hopes that you might harbor some fondness for America.
Those hopes haven’t just been disappointed. They’ve been crushed. If there’s now a single point of agreement between Donald Trump and Joe Biden — or Tom Cotton and Nancy Pelosi — it’s that you must be stopped.
How did you do it?
Your war on corruption has turned into a mass purge. Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags. Your economic “reforms” amount to the return of typically inefficient state-owned enterprises as dominant players.
Your de facto policy of snooping, hacking and intellectual-property theft has made Chinese brands like Huawei radioactive in much of the West. In 2020 F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray noted in a speech, “We’ve now reached the point where the F.B.I. is opening a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours.”
Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies. Your foreign policy bullying has mainly succeeded in encouraging Japan to rearm and Biden to pledge that America will fight for Taiwan.
All of this may make your China fearsome. None of it makes you strong. Dictatorships can usually exact obedience, but they struggle to inspire loyalty. The power to coerce, as the political scientist Joseph Nye famously observed, is not the same as the power to attract. It’s a truism that may soon come to haunt you — much as it now haunts Vladimir Putin as his once-fearsome military is decimated in Ukraine.
You could still change course. But it seems unlikely, and not just because old men rarely change. The more enemies you make, the more repression you need. Surrounding yourself with yes men, as you are now doing, may provide you with a sense of security. But it will cut you off from vital flows of truthful information, particularly when that information is unpleasant.
The Achilles’ heel of regimes like yours is that the lies they tell their people to maintain power ultimately become lies they tell themselves. Kicking foreign journalists out of China makes the problem worse, since you no longer have the benefit of an outside view of your compounding troubles.
None of this solves our problems here in the United States. In many ways, your truculence exacerbates them, not least in the increasing risk that we may someday come to blows. But in the long-run competition between the free and unfree worlds, you are unwittingly helping make the case for the free. To adapt a line from my colleague Tom Friedman, does anyone want to be your China for a day? I doubt it.
Which is why we want to say thanks. We know our Union is faulty; we know our leaders are flawed; we know that our society’s edges are frayed. To take one hard look at you is to prefer all this to your dismal alternative."
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