reporting back: after visiting four different local bookstores and not being able to find it anywhere, i caved and just ordered it through the last store i visited. sadly i'm too tired from working doubles all week to even look at it right now.

but i was able to find murray bookchins post-scarcity anarchism for $2, so that was pretty neat.

I mean, I'm kinda surprised Jon doesn't even point out the obvious provocation of the prospect of Ukraine joining a hostile anti-Russian military alliance that would put hypersonic nuclear missiles 5 minutes from Moscow. Like, literally right on the Russian border.

Uh -- let's entertain a hypothetical in which one of the US's neighboring countries decided to join a hostile military alliance that put nukes 5 minutes off the US coast. Oh right, that happened! We responded by invading, trying to assassinate their democratically elected president, and then we blockeded, sanctioned and starved them for generations.

Why not point out that Putin is literally doing what any US president would do, except, like... not nearly as barbaric?

new Alien sequel looks HAWT

crazy that this technology could be used to free humanity from wage slavery, but naturally, instead we've been put in a zero sum contest with the tech to drive down the cost of labor.

its too bad the rest of his manifesto beyond the first line is borderline incomprehensible, ideologically.

that first line though. shit goes hard.

edit: just realized the first line of a manifesto is probably the only one people will remember. "a specter is haunting Europe..." and "the industrial revolution and its consequences..." are probably too of the most memorable lines of any political text i can remember.

Kor

can you imagine how boring that conversation was

hopefully some IOF sniper sees her vest and mistakes her for a journalist

China is stealing tech patents and its not fair, also their tech is 10 years behind, also they live in a dystopian tech-ruled surveillance state, also their economy is about to collapse, also they are single-handedly destabilizing US hegemony

for comparison: over-emphasizing every other word kills the natural flow of reading something yourself (and makes it seem like the writer is talking down to the reader). italics can be helpful for understanding what exactly an author is trying to say by emphasizing a certain word, but when you start forcing emphasis on every other word, and you're doing it every sentence, reading the entire essay/book becomes unnecessarily arduous. I literally cannot read much of Lenin's work, because it reads like a condescending reddit post. when I can find his writing with all the heavy-handed emphasis removed, it reads a lot more naturally.

over-emphasizing every other word kills the natural flow of reading something yourself (and makes it seem like the writer is talking down to the reader). italics can be helpful for understanding what exactly an author is trying to say by emphasizing a certain word, but when you start forcing emphasis on every other word, and you're doing it every sentence, reading the entire essay/book becomes unnecessarily arduous. I literally cannot read much of Lenin's work because it reads like a condescending reddit post. when I can find his writing with all the heavy-handed emphasis removed, it reads a lot more naturally.

e: sorry i responded so late to this comment, its a good question

also my oversimplified understanding of why the cold war even happened was that stalin beat the shit out of the nazis for the allies but the west didnt want to give him too much credit or put the soviets on equal footing as economic post war partners, so the US basically engineered a long era of continued weapons manufacturing using the domestic and liberated/defeated nations industries to subsidize and expand our military while also protecting western capital interests from having to compete in a multipolar global economy where international prols would have increased bargaining power and autonomy, am i doodoo brained or is this kinda sorta accurate

absolute banger of a quote

political economy – despite its worldly and voluptuous appearance

volcel police get in here

no. its so much worse

some of you may die

which key sounds better?

https://on.soundcloud.com/5J6WE9HoLFTDnoiF6

also if any of yall use DAW-based drum plugins for natural sounding drums please share your recommendations

i cant remember whats in the cab i love the jcm 2000 though! literally everyone used the 900 so its cool to have a slightly different tone, also its killer for heavier stuff if you do metal or heavy alternative/hardcore, whatever :) (the guitar in the track is just shitty ableton simulated distortion, the jcm2000 sounds 8 million times better). would totally recommend! i also love that it comes with additional tone control and the double-extra-mega-crunch button to really saturate the distortion, which i leave on pretty much all the time.

wow listening back to the song it is not nearly ready to be shared, im gonna take it off and repost it when its cleaned up a little. thank you guys for listening tho!

good post