This is a great video that compresses a lot of complex ideas into a single hour. It’s pretty easy to get people to understand capitalism creates so much suffering and ecological damage. Then those same people seem incapable of digesting the contradictions in imperialism and resort to saying this is the best system we have, criticize AES, gillions killed by communism, it can’t work because my narrow world view is reality. Venting a little bit it’s frustrating that these people want marvel brained solutions to complex situations, or aren’t interested in a solution at all and are just practicing their tactics for the next reich debate club

Also loved the dunking on

especially as China is eyeing to invade the de facto country.

Does China know that alt + f4 brings up enemy spy locations?

I like monster movies but I’m not too familiar with all the Godzilla lore. I think theyd be good as a late night item

I implied that I deserve to exploit others because of where I was born and they said no and I was just so upset I cried really hard thank you for blocking them and saving everyone from experiencing a moment of self reflection

Sorry, they’re probably not interested in a discussion, just winning an argument

My experience gives me unique insight vs Your experience gives you biased insight

Or do you mean like they store it for future use in unrelated discussion?

the nyt journo escorting him was great

so uhh whyz youz think you was kicked out?

Israel huh I dont know nuttin bout that

I’m reading Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism and it feels like I’m listening to someone give a presentation broken up in tabs on an excel spreadsheet. I like it but I feel the urge to skip ahead.

Luv this place wish I could import the emojis in to Microsoft teams

Especially this one

Surely they mean Chinas real estate is headed toward a crisis? I read 65 additional articles about it yesterday

back on track

Back on track for what

Water burger execs: how do we monetize this

Russia never formally applied, there’s a series of documents they need to sign to do so.

dog-cant-play-basketball based international order

God they’re so wet

I’ve been reading along and haven’t been discussing because I feel pretty shocked with how relatable the whole book has been. I also attribute my reluctance with some amount of imposter syndrome. It’s very strange realizing all these things so late in life.

This chapter I did want to comment about special interests and how denying children their special interests can be harmful. I have kids and one of them has one. Maybe it’s just a temporary interest but we go along with it and pull up videos about it or play pretend with it. His grandmother however says it’s “weird” and pretends she doesn’t have the item in the house (she does) and doesn’t let him play with it. This made me angry at first but reading this chapter convinced me to be furious.

For myself I feel foolish. At work I would do so many things differently than everyone else - and I thought it was because I worked “smarter”. I used to literally pride myself in my ability to mirror other people in conversation and get along with anyone. Which is horrifying to me because I realize I almost never present my real self to so many people.

I also assumed this was true of everyone. That everyone has these challenges and has to navigate conversations playing the same routines I was taught that don’t really make sense. When I am told neurotypicals want these kinds of interactions I am still doubtful, but maybe I should be more kind to myself and recognize that some interactions are particularly challenging for me compared to other people.

I’m really glad I started reading this. I’ll take better notes for chapter 6

I hope they post each contenders stats such as height, weight, special debate tactic, and respective drug cocktail mixes