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Cryptobros have a funny mindset. They want to be their own banks and want the least amount of government interference. Yet when it goes bust (or the exchange goes bust) they want a refund lmao.
Isn’t that literally “socialize the losses, privatize the gains”?
Yeah it’s standard capitalist mindset really. They go to a casino and want to be backed by the casino itself or government but don’t want to pay taxes or fees when they win.
That’s just libertarians in general. Their beliefs are nonsense. Capitalism cannot exist without a state.
Crypto bros after their entire life savings got suddently evaporated for no reason;
I don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with conversations so whenever I open a can of worms I tell myself my next comment will close it and just stop posting for extended periods of time. Sorry about that. Maybe I should just stick to shitposting. I also told a friend I’d read 12 Rules for Life before I read any more revolutionary theory but I’m constantly reading theory on accident, especially if you count maoist blog posts.
It’s also a struggle to abstain from bourgeois decadence because I’m never sure what counts and what doesn’t, and where self-care ends and weakness begins. I’ve got psychological holdovers from abrahamic religion that make me feel like Uncle Joe is watching me 100% of the time and judging me for not being a coward and otherwise not a good communist. Every time I buy something I feel like I’m betraying our comrades that died fighting in Stalingrad. Being alive at this time in history is… objectively better than any previous time but still annoying.
I haven’t joined a party because I want to read enough theory to understand my own positions on everything so I don’t get chewed up and spat out in criticism sessions right away
I kinda understand where you’re come from here. It’s not bad to buy things, otherwise us communists wouldn’t be arguing for better pay. It may be disappointing knowing where the money goes to, but honestly as long as you live in a capitalist state that’s what will happen. So don’t feel bad about Bourgeois decadence, chances are that you don’t have the capital to be bourgeois yourself, so end of the day you’re proletarian and treating yourself by buying Epsom Salts or nice soaps isn’t bad because you earned it, you work your ass off day in day out, nothing wrong with feeling nice afterwards. If you like wearing Jordans, do it because you like them and not because of advertising or commodity fetishization. If you simply enjoy the colors and the way they fit, who cares what someone else thinks at that point
It seems to me that your way of thinking about this is rather unhealthy. We live in a captalist system in which you will have to buy something food, transportation, clothes, and so on. This is not a betrayal to the soviet soldiers that lost their lives fighting the facist dogs. We must do what we can to survive because a dead revolutionary is a non-factor in this struggle. You are merely another worker act like one instead of trying to separate yourself from them. Because right now what I am seeing is a flacid revolutionary sitting on high while the workers struggle on. Theory is useless without putting it into practice and as such you must join a vanguard party. This is going to be your school in which victory and defeat will come to teach you a million lessons. Remember comrade we are racing aganist the clock now as ecological collapse looms over us. We are running out of time comrade and we need as many as people as possible to bring this machine down. Less talk more work comrade day in, day out.
Do whatever is necessary to make you an effective revolutionary. All human beings need to relax. We all have vices, all have pleasures, all have times where we “waste time”…but is it really wasted if it skipping it leaves you a burnt out husk? Husks are no good in wars.
Lose the guilt! You are only a person, everybody has their faults and wanting wanting enjoy life a little is not a “fault.” Lose the sense that you need to be critic proof! If you trying to join an organization ends with you being ruthlessly criticized, the bad guys are the dingbats who wasted time scolding you, not you for not reading hundreds of tomes to feel worthy of being a communist; if you have a decent grasp on the fundamentals, this should be more than enough. I know damn well that even if a completely uneducated person tried to join an org that I ran, I would be delighted at the opportunity to educate, not pissed that someone isn’t up to my standard of ideological purity.
Comrade Rose comming out of absolutely nowhere with like half of the last week’s content
Ikr what is this, Reddit?
Random idea I had. Not sure if it should be a post or an entire community, but we should have a location for a list of worker owned co-ops, etc to support. I recently bought some coffee from a co-op here in the US and it was great.
Would probably be more accessible as a community with a pinned post listing the known co-ops
I agree.
Also, labor unions.
9gag is just 4chan with a fancier ui and looks
I feel like 9gag is for people who tried Reddit, got kicked off for trying to be edgy, tried 4chan, got called a barrage of slurs, then went to 9gag.
Last minute finals studying
wish me luck!
break a few legs
Hopefully not literally. 🤣
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Thanks, I made that a long time ago
Video says 2008, but I think you made it back in 2003.
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Yeah, those were the days. It was a birthday present for my fourth grandchild
Good luck!
thank you!
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Doing well in my own semester.
Bought a radio yesterday. Now I have a radio, and am chilling with some tunes c:
living the life, I wish I had a radio to bop to
Radio? An actual radio? You can listen to that online, I think, nowadays.
Where can I buy an online
You can probably buy from them, but you could just email your local union, if there’s one nearby. Idk. They may find that kinda weird, but eh. My own org has noticed a lot of good will from labor orgs recently. An interesting development, imho.
I can’t see your comment anymore
Weird.
Whoa, I can see it again
Now that I can see what you replied to: I was using “online” as a noun, ideally intended to cause a barely audible chuckle or two
Oh haha
And give Google and Amazon more data with which to sell to the capitalists so they can target us? no thanks
Shortwave radio lemmygrad community when
Depends how you do it, imho.
Yeah, it’s a nice little device to have. Plus, it has stuff like Internet Radio and Bluetooth. Which is useful, since I’m studying abroad, and I like listening to the radio stations from back home.
Radio stations are the future, I swear. People will think I’m crazy, but they’re coming back.
Boo! Zoomer!
Gah!
Who wouldn’t want to go boating with this man.
I appreciate the lack of a question mark, since the answer is obvious to everyone here
Nay, inter-tubing 🤩
hair go whooosh
when the Juche hits just right
Ooooooh I’m gonna <big>Juche</big>
Conservatives are already trying to blame Monkeypox on China, using the same lab in Wuhan even. I’m starting to think the real conspiracy is trying to rally support for nuclear action on the mainland because of a “WMD threat”.
Yeah, it’s despicable.
Have you guys seem how common “jew jokes” are on the internet? I swear its some type of nazi stereotype, and i find extremelly sus to see this type of “joke” at random on youtube. Does anyone know why this bordeline nazi stereotypes are so common? Why so many people say so casually that jews are aways rich money hungry greedy traders?
I’m pretty sure it’s a Nazi psy-op. Normalize “joking” about Jewish people being greedy and paranoid and also running the world. It doesn’t help that mainstream tv shows are doing it too, like Family Guy.
Yeah, I’ve also noticed this lately. Comes right after the “lumping Jewish people with Zionism” and “erasing Yiddish history and communism” too.
I don’t like any of it one bit.
“Edgy humor,” especially involving race, is very popular nowadays.
That’s just the antisemitism ingrained in western society. It’s nothing new.
idk but literally all the Jewish people I’ve met (n=~8) make them too lmao
Not sure if it’s actually an acceptable thing or if the Jewish people I’ve met just wanted to lowkey humblebrag about their family’s wealth
Has anyone read Xi Jinping’s Governance of China book? I’ve just started reading regularly and I’ve got a huge backlog, but I was wondering if it’s worth adding to the list?
It is! Though a bit overrated as there are other great translated work by Chinese intellectuals, academics, administrators, party-men-and-women, etc.
Zelensky just got on the horn to give “thoughts and prayers” about the Texas school shooting. The comments are predictably a bunch of his fans talking about how great he is.
I don’t know why, but seeing that Nazi puppet try and take the moral high ground makes me very angry. Plenty of atrocities in your own country, by your own guys, to address you heinous person.
Debating taking an edible tomorrow because hashtag why not, but I fear I will just tweak out and waste the time. However, I also need to do something fun and shake things up a little.
I’ll check this tomorrow, even upvotes/downvotes number is a no. Odd number upvotes/downvotes is a yes. Net zero I will take twice the amount of edibles that I should. We shall let the mercy of our lord and savior Complete Luck decide.
If you get too high peppercorn works great to sober up quickly
Either chew like 3-10 whole ones up a bit before swallowing or grind them up and lay them on your tongue a bit before swallowing
I can’t seem to find my original post (maybe I broke a rule?) but thank you for your concern and the tip! I ended up doing it but I maxed 3/10, nothing crazy. Bless
I take breaks from Twitter so it honestly doesn’t annoy me.
Here’s a nice tip: Don’t spend multiple hours debugging a microcontroller only to realize you didn’t specify which pins should be used for I²C. (I definitely did not do this for sure)