Bob [he/him,he/him]

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  • Bob [he/him,he/him]tofoodApple pie
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    4 years ago

    if you're par/blind baking and then finishing then it helps on the second bake to cover the edges with foil so that they dont burn, since they're likely already caramelized







  • i agree with everything except the "i dont think this happens very often"

    bernie sanders has garbage foreign policy as does aoc and basically everyone except ilhan omar who barely is ok

    we just think they're great by contrast to everyone else, but their foreign policy scope is still trash

    as for regular people, you'd be amazed how many comfortable "progressives" there are who think couping venezuala or HK is a good idea, or that we should sincerely consider invading china or whatever

    go back to the iraq war days and check out how many "progressives" supported war

    we killed like 2 million people there

    but as for the idea that these two things are linked, i totally agree. As long as youre not suggesting that we cant stop empire until the imperial core has no homelessness, then yes i agree with you. These spheres are linked.


  • telling AOC to have good foreign policy positions (or any at all) en masse isn't the same as telling your union friend that he's a dumbass for not knowing the difference between trotsky and stalin

    also i agree that if youre walking up to random people and screaming about the Truth About Syria then youre probably not helping but if youre getting on the case of comfortable "progressives" (especially the ones who are in office!!!) to actually have a foreign scope to us policy then you are probably are helping

    what you do about it on an individual level, if youre in the US which im not, is the same thing you do about anything else in the US that affects the federal level. the same levers of power you have to affect what the fed does about your life are the same levers of power you have to affect what the fed does to millions of other people around the world.

    strikes, unions, rioting, etc all can apply pressure to stop homelessness as well as genocide

    you can relate to your fellow man in the same way the student protestors did in the 70s, since your fellow man if he's worth a damn probably doesn't want to kill 3 million people in se asia either







  • Bob [he/him,he/him]toMain😬
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    4 years ago

    this is baby brained american leftist shit

    anti imperialists are aware that the platforms they can get are unsavory

    however, the domestic concerns of those platforms are less important than anti imperialist messaging, so if youre an anti imperialist you jump to any large platform you can even if they're unsavory because anti imperialism is systemically stamped out in the US


  • Bob [he/him,he/him]toMain😬
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    4 years ago

    frankly kind of disappointing how many people here stan the intercept

    greenwald has published some wonderful pieces of anti imperialism and on that front is a net positive, but the intercept REGULARLY PUBLISHES US IMPERIAL PROPAGANDA, so with him gone its like wtf is the merit of the intercept now

    oh they're gonna publish some lukewarm jacobin tier garbage about cops being bad? come the fuk on, the intercept used to be about publishing snowden tier shit