r/TheDeprogram ain't bad

BRB chugging colloidal silver to turn smurf

Matt - starting a cult when?

Oh you sweet summer child

I don’t really mind Amber or Will either

Oh to be clear, I am not one to hate. But I will rank my love

but Amber can lay down the obvious hot take

It's all part of her role as the Pragmatic Idealist

will can be a bit of a snob occasionally

That hipster cred secures his place as the everyman

Virgil has always been the snarky third wheel

Which would be the best I could ever possibly do

You will make an excellent Arch Nemesis!

why are you being so aggressive

You're not wrong for pointing this out... I guess it's just that the internet was made for giving pointless opinions no one asked for. That, and porn of course.

I might've employed the same strategy given that condition. Though let's be real, he doesn't need it.

Obama was a bad dude. He ran a bunch of bad boys.

Don't think I've ever put in so much effort to read three words

Wow. I'll keep that in mind. I do smoke most days, but it's not like I am high all the time. I took a couple months off at the start of the pandemic due to anxiety around COVID and when I'm anxious weed isn't fun, but I picked it up again once I sadly got used to the reality of 1000s of Americans dying literally every day to this. My past breaks, whether short or long, the main effect seems to be a few nights of lucid dreams, but I'm generally a 1 bowl a day guy, so hopefully I can avoid the worst of those withdrawal symptoms. Course the last couple weeks its been more than that what with having nothing to do all damn day.

This is why I stick with the drugs that don't fuck you up on the way out - weed and games. That way, I'll never have to face my personal demons and can stay blissfully stunted and immobile until the sweet release of death.

He died before he could vote for Biden, so he ain't black, jack

Ironic. Seeing as I wrote this because I was way too high.

Got into Punk music in High School. First election I was old enough to participate in was Bush v. Gore - and I fucking hated the Bush administration. Every so often, while listening to shit on the radio, I'd hear a clip from this obscure congressman from Vermont, who would lay into all the other politicians for all the right reasons. I really liked him, but was ignorant of any larger movement and otherwise kinda nodded along to much of the liberal ideology. Bush was the first president I was aware of as anything greater than a character on Animaniacs, I despised him, and the democrats seemed like the ones who stood in opposition.

The Obama administration was largely disappointing, but the liberals were convincing enough at the time at pushing this idea that their hands were tied by Republicans, and if only not for that, then it'd be smooth sailing. And that was when that congressman from Vermont, now a Senator, ran for president. The day he announced I was stoked, and was thinking this will be cool, maybe he can get like 5% support, and his ideals could get discussed a wee bit! But the campaign that began on a lawn, with little fanfare, quickly grew. As such, I soon discovered that I was far from alone. Equally important, I learned just how little the rest of the Democratic party seemed to like what he had to say. I think that's what brought me over to the "left."

Addendum: Found the chapo sub a while later, after a couple instances of folks with bad takes bitching about how awful the subreddit was. Naturally, this piqued my interest, and I discovered the best community on reddit. I even started listening to the podcast, and unironically enjoy it. It was around this time I discovered there were leftist video streamers online too.

Dems has done nothing for the leftist movement the last 100 years.

I've gotten flack for this take before, but I kinda think The New Deal etc. was better than nothing. 50, 60, 70 years idk, you're right, but although things seem to be getting worse over time, they're still better in some ways than they were in like, 1900.

They are just as staunchly anti communist as the right and the Dems don’t even like Bernie

Very true.

What makes you think they give a shit what tankies or anarkiddies have to say?

I don't think they do. The bar is very very very low here, it's more just a well, maybe the secret police will be slightly more inclined to shoot us in the legs than the eye? It's fucking awful. But we're not solving the larger problems through electoralism.

We need to amplify a Succdem to show the working classes what is possible and use that to start a proper movement outside of electoralism. Biden is not that.

We need a proper movement, that is for damned sure. But we shouldn't be putting all our eggs in one basket, and hinge our dreams on the hope that the presence of a mythical political representative will create a massive upswell in support its own and bring about a revolution. Barring catastrophic events on an unimaginable scale, the fight for getting leftist ideology disseminated and accepted is going to take a while, and we'll need to remain in a society that, at the very least, allows us to exist. In my mind, it kind of comes down to whether increased social unrest from keeping Trump in charge can be capitalized upon to an extent that surpasses a potentially quicker erosion of norms regarding personal rights. Will Biden's mere presence give people the permission to stop paying attention to politics entirely again, or are the consequences of late stage capitalism at a point where political realities cannot be ignored? I don't have an answer to these questions, hence my current ambivalence towards the issue.

It's impossible to be completely in the bubble as leftist - the establishment narrative is all around us.

I do. If only I wasn't already knee deep in Pod Damn's version.

Garrett Foster's medic is being interviewed on his stream right now, giving his recount of the events that lead up to his murder. I doubt Destiny would do the same.

esports are more interesting anyhow. and carpel tunnel ain't nearly as bad as having your brains jostled into jelly.