Jeffrey Dahmer was at a part-time prison like that. He worked at a chocolate factory at night.

Sohrab Ahmari is an outspoken reactionary and an adult convert to Catholicism

First, I legit believe that Biden chose Harris as his VP as a pure accident. Biden had made a claim he was going to put a black woman on the Supreme Court, but when asked about his VP, he said something to the effect of "Yeah that too." Since there weren't exactly a lot of national level black women Democrats to choose from, he was basically stuck with Harris.

Then they were stuck with Harris running for President because of something about how campaign finance laws are worded. Or something about how advertising on TV and billboards work. Kamala's name was already registered on all the forms. I believe the deadline for even registering to run for president had passed them by as well.

I truly believe the Democrats didn't want to run her at all, but were stuck because Biden has a massive ego. By extension it's Obama's fault as well for manipulating the 2020 Democratic primaries to get Biden the nomination. Thanks Obama.

Breaking: Iranian scientists have developed multiclassing thus allowing soldiers to use poison attacks

GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY PENIS

I fed her chicken last night but she got salmon flavored dental treats afterwards!

That's a lovely kitkat! Needs many ear scratches

one time the vet called her blonde!

yeah she's a weird pale orange I've never seen in any other cat (except her brother, who was also orange. He's...gone now, but he's alive forever in my heart)

She's so majestic. Main-jestic

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"we settle our differences at the battle box" is pretty funny

Where do I find this information lol

every 40k faction is just a different type of annoying Br*tish person

yeah my experience has been that anarchists online and anarchists working at the food bank might as well be two separate ideologies. The organized anarchists on the ground, at least in the US where I've been, are gonna be a lot more idiosyncratic in what makes them an anarchist. I've known a lot of self-described anarchists who, when pressed, will admit they're some type of Christian nationalist. I've known anarchists who are UFO cultists. I've known a bunch whose primary political animus was ending vaccinations and promoting alternative medicine.

And yet none of that mattered when it came to handing out food together, or helping raise money for the shelter, or helping out migrant families. The common denominator ends up being the desire to build a better world out of mutual interests, with our collective powers. I would take a thousand real life anarchist comrades who might have odd beliefs about crystals or UFOs over a single internet forum anarchist whose every post contains the word "tankie."

Someone here the other day said the main purpose of the Democrats is preventing any kind of organized left, beating the Republicans is just a bonus. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Like they just got tens of millions of people to vote for genocide. There's that phrase about how Israel is a testing ground for what western countries can get away with. The Democrats are extremely pleased with themselves right now. They just had an admin continuing Trump's policies, except worse somehow, and now they won't get the blame for the consequences. They got everything they wanted.

Probably because most western socialists come to leftist politics not through on-the-ground organizing, but rather, some dissatisfaction with their own society that leads them to seek alternatives. The first place to seek alternatives is going to be looking to the past or reading theorists, and then it depends on a lot of factors on who they'll sympathize with. It's often just aesthetics because I've organized with both Marxist and anarchist organizations and there's not a whole lot of difference when you're actually outdoors.

Also there's a long history of western states using Trotskyism as a cudgel against leftist organizing. It's cooked into the standard education now that Trotsky was supposed to be party secretary after Lenin, but Stalin betrayed them all. That's the standard understanding of how things went, so that takes a lot of time to disentangle. The primary operating mode of the western mind is an imperialist xenophobia and depending on how they get over that will say how their political outlook may shake out

Also I can't stress enough how much of simply an aesthetic it is, at least in the west. It doesn't matter. Unless you live in like...Greece or the Philippines or somewhere in rural Colombia, there aren't warring factions of Marxists and anarchists. The only sectarian conflict I've ever seen in person were when cops were involved, like the "Maoist" groups that would overturn tables at Food not Bombs or show up at PSL events to call the organizers a bunch of crackers.

On the ground you gotta understand how little of this actually matters. There simply isn't major conflict. Anarchist and Marxist groups cooperate all the time. They might have disagreements on how to do stuff or what symbols to use, but it basically never matters. The closest thing to a sectarian conflict that I can remember among the groups I roll with is around 2021 some of the anarchists I knew wanted to boycott the covid vaccine. But they ended up getting it anyway so who cares

It's anecdotal but I have gotten liberals to understand that it was probably a bad idea when the Spanish Republicans started refusing guns/artillery from Stalin. Except I think most anarchists also agree that was probably a bad move.

If that counts

this is what I've had trouble putting into words. I'm now internalizing just how primed the white moderate is for morphing into a chud.

You're right too, it wasn't like this in 2016. Libs back then fell into a wormhole of anti-reality. They tricked themselves into beliving they were an organized resistance and got deep in the weeds with conspiracy theories. They seriously thought that any day now Trump would be faulted on a technicality that would remove him from office. I think now in 2024 they realize there's just nothing they can do. They already tried pee tapes, leaking his tax returns, impeaching him, leaking audio, doing the whole Russia thing, and none of it stuck. He won, again. So the liberal mind doesn't have anywhere else to go but grumbling spite that only goes in one direction if you're a white suburban comfortable liberal - blaming immigrants and gay people for everything.

This was the same thing that conservatives were saying in 2020. That it would be funny if Trump got impeached, Pence became president, and Pence immediately appointed Trump to the SC.

They also all think he's gonna legalize weed and recreational ketamine from my experience. But they mainly think he's going to somehow make everything half as cheap, but also round up and deport millions of people.