i love and cherish all hippos and wish i could befriend them but they're too angry

yeah but it's not rooted in some principled stand, it's because we're the funhouse mirror that lets other genocidal settler colonies (or the genocidal mothership herself) off the hook for as long as we're around. "oh no, the mean americans are making me do a genocide again, oh no"

death to america by all means but let's not pretend most of the australians marking "disapprove" didn't do so because the nasty seppos with the school shootings make them feel better about their own settler violence

Yes. Escalating in recovery is a bad idea, as long as you’re good w staff and advocating for your own needs just keep your head down otherwise and stick to the chill people

thirding this, did the same thing and it's been a massive quality of life improvement even if it's still the US.

the plus side is that a massive portion of the us proletariat is completely disengaged from electoral politics and generally politically incoherent. I’ve had good experiences reaching these types and a smart party (like the Black Panthers were) can convert wins from this group (like the Panthers did and a major reason why the feds went hitler+ on them)

Committed chuds aren’t really worth the time or effort to “convert” imo, and the salvageable ones ime start their own deconstruction first

agreed, if I wasn’t clear I meant your assessment of that excerpt, we’re on the same page. I definitely consider myself part of that working class considering I’m a minority in a non computer non credentialed retail job in my late 30s.

I like a lot of roderic day’s writing but I do think this is a fair assessment at least in the context of the working class in the us and describes only a relatively privileged section of the proletariat here

In song form

no gods no masters no homework

because it takes longer to say that I hate a certain predominant type of country music that is overwhelmingly the most likely to be heard in any public space or around almost anyone who “loves country” who isn’t a music head or a comrade. Like that’s a long ass sentence

THANK YOU. coming from a place where it is endemic and now living in the NE I was very confused about the love my rehab roomie had for it until she told me all about her extensive cop and conservative family and it clicked. Everyone else up here that listens to it that I personally have met is the same, and it’s never the kind of stuff I don’t mind hearing either (George jones or Gary Stewart or Delbert McClinton or even some patty loveless or juice newton). It’s always the trucks n flags n eagles shit, kinda reinforces the point

im way more concerned with people glazing the woke pope and liberation theology as proto communism than I am somebody doing a birth chart, idk.

thanks for posting this out more coherently than I could. I’m no astrologer but the weird ass struggle sessions we have about it tri annually are really fucking dumb and pointless and I’ll point out that we have more than a little catholic apologia on this site pretty consistently and it shouldn’t be controversial to say astrology has done much less material harm to women and leftists generally than the fucking pedo cabal that did literal crusades and genocides and witch burnings

it makes discussing the war anywhere else but here at best a deeply unpleasant slog and at worst just completely impossible. especially when libs won't even pay attention to the verified ethnic cleansing of russians by ukrainian nazis reported on by their lib rags prior to Russia going in

people everywhere want to kill us for the crime of existing. it’s fucking exhausting. rip

“There’s one thing I can’t stop thinking about” lol fucking dweeb

they’re oooo kaaaayyy libs domestically, still rabid imperialists otherwise unfortunately