I used to do this. I obsessed over people who were uninterested in me and mistreated people who clearly WERE interested in me. It’s death drive. Everything is death drive. Unconsciously we want to fail. One of these I really regret because she was cool, nice, fun, and hot, but my friends made fun of the idea of us being together (this was in high school, she was kind of nerdy, she worked backstage while my friends and I were actors (I know)) so I chickened out and stopped talking with her. I wish I could apologize to her now although probably she would rightfully tell me to go fuck myself. This was twenty years ago.

It took me a long time to kind of figure out both myself and the people around me, and the journey never really ends, but eventually you’ll find someone you’re crazy about and then this behavior of yours will be a thing of the past.

I’ve watched and enjoyed so many of them but they really are just like a fascist fantasy. “Man if all the poors turned into zombies and tried to kill us we’d fucking OWN them, right?”

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Commence fedposting.

We read Ishmael in high school too. Lib me was frustrated that the book doesn’t advocate for any solutions?

The first three parts of Capital are hard, after that it’s just hundreds of pages of examples packed with dialectical materialist theory and is generally a lot easier to read. I’m thinking now that I’ll finish Capital and then start reading it from the beginning again. I also use VoiceDreamReader to read it to me.

I am white (half-Jewish…) but I think white people are generally hopeless when it comes to abandoning capitalism and amerikkka.

I’ve spent years thinking about this. My conclusion is that the only people who want to destroy capitalism are the ones getting fucked by it. If you’re part of the roughly 1-10% of humanity that benefits from capitalism, it’s unlikely that you’re going to question it. You’ll always be able to excuse it.

I converted because I did everything right. I’m a white able-bodied cis male. I come from a wealthy family. I have a college degree. I still couldn’t get ahead. I couldn’t get a decent white collar job. I also saw people who, in my opinion, were of lesser ability, basically beating me in the rat race. I ran in elections as a progressive democrat, put everything I had into them, and still lost. And then when I won, I found myself sitting at the fabled bargaining table, surrounded by nazis. It infuriated me so much that I started asking questions that I had never asked before. “Are the democrats really on my side?” Radicalization from r/chapotraphouse and hexbear helped immensely. Once you seriously read Marxist texts, there’s no going back.

Yeah, havana couple beers.

Internet liberals are insane when it comes to Israel but IRL support for Israel is almost always tepid and passive at best in my experience.

Sweetie you have to finish assassinating your Trump before you can assassinate your Biden.

They hit my ear, folks, they disfigured me. They disfigured my beautiful ear. But you know what? My resolve, folks, it’s never been stronger!

My tiktok feed is almost nothing but Palestinians begging for their lives.

You gotta problem with scorpios??? This is anti-scorpio discrimination!

So happy to see Bernie to the right of the fucking dorks on MSNBC calling for Biden to quit.

At the grocery store a few days ago I saw a girl I liked in high school. She had been one of the best students and was really nice. She’s some kind of naturopathic doctor now and was, like almost everyone there, unmasked. I pretended that I hadn’t seen her.

Another girl I liked was also nice and an excellent student. She now has the ADL on her résumé and is not Jewish. Thankfully I haven’t seen her since high school. I only found out about her involvement with the ADL because I googled her once.

A third similar girl I was obsessed with for years got a Ph.D, married a Spanish astrophysicist, and moved to Germany. I ran into her a few years ago and we had some nice conversations.

I am also completely surrounded by liberals and chuds. My spouse is a staunch anti-communist but masks, is okay with Free Palestine and landback, is to the left of Bernie, wants to travel to Cuba, is open to living in China, is a unionized nurse, has no interest in voting for Biden, and is super hot. Most Americans would consider her a communist if she described her political beliefs. But she thinks it’s okay to be a landlord. If I were single, I think I’d be happy with someone who at least identified as a communist.

You always have the most amazing stories.

I’ve been asking this question too because I also don’t understand it. Biden has been incoherent for years. He (or his handlers) does/do whatever the bourgeoisie wants. As shitty as he is, whoever replaces him will probably have a worse chance of winning than he has. These people also don’t want trump to win. So why are they suddenly doing this? Yes, the debate was bad, but nine months of genocide is so much worse, and they are totally oblivious to that. If they had wanted to get rid of him earlier, he would have had a serious primary challenger. My only guess is that it’s Palestine. Maybe the bourgeoisie are so concerned with Israel that they want to forget about Ukraine and divert everything they’ve got to Israel. This means letting Trump win and sacrificing Biden the way they sacrifice everyone else.

I thought I saw that the PCF was part of their coalition…?