but I don’t believe authoritarianism is the best way to go about it.

Humor me for a moment, which of the following do you consider authoritarian?

• asking your boss for better wages
• using the power of a union to force your boss to give your coworkers better wages
• using the power of the state to force all bosses to pay all workers better wages

Our election is going to work like Russia’s does

We already have sham elections, ours just pretends to have two democratic parties instead of one.

Just learned about Erewhon. That shit better make me cum when I drink it for that price damn.

o7

Tankies are hypocrites who didn’t understand their self-proclaimed ideologies.

Tankies are very frequently the only people in the room who’ve done the reading. If you believe that so called “authoritarian methods” are antithetical to leftism, then I recommend you read the following pamphlet by Engels.

we can’t fix our current situation in one election.

We can never fix the current situation in one election. Fixing the American system, within the parameters set forth by that system, requires a dedicated voting bloc that lasts multiple elections refusing to vote for the Dems until they shift far enough left to appease that bloc. As long as you are focused on the next election, your prescription for fixing American politics is just as unrealistic as a random Twitter tankie declaring a general strike.

tell anon that we’re comparing pain between men and women

study is actually about which gender is more willing to lie for no good reason

crank the pain up to the maximum legally allowed

he’s sweating

he’s crying

he’s still saying zero

It’s an illustrative comment though. Our society teaches us not to view women as predatory, and to always view men as such - so that creates the difference between a woman talking about baby anatomy and a man talking about baby anatomy.

I want Hillary so bad. I’m imagining the scenario plays out similar to how Biden got elected but on fast forward, maybe over the course of a single night - Biden doesn’t get the support he needs at the Zoom convention, a bunch of candidates put their names into the hat, a Socdem takes an early lead, and then everyone gets behind the only other recognizable Democrat brand in consideration in order to beat them out.

Biden throws a fit, but without the DNC there’s no way he can actually run an independent campaign, and he spends the remainder of his term wandering around the white house with only the secret service for company. Hilldog wins and there’s another Jan 6, but it’s like 1/3 the size of the original and the entire national guard of Maryland and Virginia are stationed around DC for the duration.

She then gets into office and it’s basically a shot for shot repeat of Biden’s term. By 2028 Hillary is deep in Alzheimer’s and can’t be shown on TV because she keeps saying really racist shit and thinking white house staffers are prison inmates on work release. Gavin Newsom finally gets his shot but he loses in a landslide to someone who has been credibly charged with grooming a minor.

calling the NYT a “far right rag”

Hey! That’s our line!

You know it would be really funny if the federal government seized a bunch of clinic-sized plots of land in red districts all around the country and established abortion services on them.

The Democrats will never change how their party runs or what their awful politics are as long as people keep voting for them no matter what. So basically we’re stuck with this genocide-supporting neoliberal bullshit until America finally collapses (inshallah).

Watching an anime on Stremio, and the little “next episode” boxes that appear at the end of each episode are spoiling the next one every single time. Who the hell wrote these blurbs?

You’re gonna want something to occupy your mind during the long waits in the selection process, but I’ve heard that if you show up with a book there’s almost a 100% chance you’ll get dismissed.

im doin homework

i wanna get this shit done by tonight so I can spend all weekend riding my sidecar motorcycle, maybe finally get confident enough on it to put my dog in the sidecar and cruise by the beach which has been my dream for like the past two years

Basically the same. I can’t imagine using my real name on a website that I post on regularly, it just seems like such a terrible idea and I’ve seen so many people go down for shit they said years and years ago so I’m glad I never did it - the only one I have is a linkdn which I only look at when I’m updating my resume.

The average age of Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia is 43-45. Ukraine is almost certainly the worst developed country to live in right now.

Plus, North Korea may be poor by western standards, but they have a lot of comforts that many third world countries lack, so even if you discount my example they’re still not the worst by a wide margin.

My point is that if you see people salute you and you salute them back, do it enough times and it will become a reflex. The response to Obama bowing to someone in a culture where bowing is totally normal was equally stupid, but it was conservatives doing it instead of liberals.

The 18% figure is a biased sample from an anti-DPRK NGO. More comprehensive research into North Korean defectors by Cho Cheon-hyeon for his book Defectors indicate that most North Korean defectors simply want to make money in China, with only about 40% of defectors wanting to go to South Korea.

So I did misremember, but my point still stands on the fact that most of them don’t want to defect to South Korea, even before taking into account that even at their 2009 peak defectors were a tiny fraction of a percent of North Korea’s population and the existence of them in no way implicates all of North Korean society in secretly wanting to escape.

the worse country in the world to live it

worst* in*

And I dunno about that. North Korea’s average soldier age isn’t forty-five.