Get a different can opener. They make them now that don’t leave sharp edges at all.

This show… lol. I’m kind of hate-watching it. It’s a soap opera for dudes.

Might not be quite what you’re after, but look into the writings of B.R. Ambedkar. He was a contemporary of Gandhi, and a “low-caste” convert to Buddhism. His retellings of Buddhist stories are decidedly communist, and he used them as a liberatory tool for the most oppressed castes in India.

This is funnier if the thought is coming from the skeleton.

This comes off as pretty intense projection.

It’s (kind of) a joke, but I meant to imply that liberals would just roll over and accept the new de facto government. How exactly would liberals react to a coup?

I thought the power in question was immunity from prosecution for “official acts”.

Like I said, I don’t know shit. I don’t know what the upper bounds of foundation repair costs are, but I have helped with some fairly minor ones.

I mean…

I don’t really know shit, but I’ll give you a gut reaction anyway: if you’re planning to live there awhile, and as you say the floors don’t seem effected by this, then it is probably fine. The increase in value you expect may well more than offset the foundation repairs.

I like this community for all the weird shit that gets posted. It is definitely difficult to navigate firearms-spaces online as a leftist. For one because of the obvious which you’ve mentioned, but also I think it can be hard finding a way to be “normal” about guns. Like, I’ve got some, and I may get more as I see a need, but I’m always on guard against consumerism and fetishism. I’ve got them for a reason, not merely for their own sake.

So why won’t Biden use this power to do anything? He’s not even running for reelection so he doesn’t have anything to lose.

Inspirational 🫶

I’m blocking a bunch of .world communities and “power users” because of how toxic they are. The same stupid memes over and over insulting people who don’t want to vote for a pro-genocide candidate, condescending attitudes, calling people tankies/bots/shills/Russians etc. I don’t consider that “real engagement”. I consider it self-congratulatory preaching to the choir. No wonder some people are hostile to that kind of nonsense.

Dude I know about it. It’s never gonna change.

When democrats go to the right on issues, they don’t attract republican voters. What happens instead is that republicans go even farther right in order to differentiate themselves from democrats.

We will never be going back. Lesser-evilism has led to incrementally more evil, not less. Trump and Trumpism are symptoms of the sickness, not the cause. Liberals love Obama, but after eight years of him we got Trump! What has our political leadership --our democracy– done to address the problems that brought about Trump? Obama before, Biden in the interim, yet here we are. Everyone has moved to the right.

Lol, no distance on support for genocide, but criticizing people voting for someone she herself called a fascist is out of bounds.

Lesser-evilism has gotten us to where we find ourselves today: bargaining with genocide. If you don’t stop now, I wonder what it would take.

Sometimes there are “issues” that we must absolutely not compromise on. “Why gain the world to lose your soul?”