Yeah, I feel like the first summer, at least around me, cases got super low and it seemed like we might actually get over it, then after the hell that was delta the vaccines came out and last summer cases got super low again, I even got comfortable without my mask in certain outdoor spaces. Then omicron hit and this shit keeps evolving, getting more contagious, yet people are at an absolute low with taking precautions, they won’t roll out new boosters, testing has decreased. I clung to what little hope there was for the past two summers, but this is the first summer where there’s really nothing to give me hope and yeah I feel worse than ever

If you’re all healthy death is unlikely. Just try to stay healthy - get enough sleep, try to eat well. My friend was telling me the other day that fermented foods are supposed to be good for covid, he specifically mentioned kefir.

A lot of people saying truckers aren't bourgeois but I thought it was usually the case that the people pictured owned trucking companies, and employ people under them. Which would make the people pictured petit bourgeoisie?

just below that you have a lib going

I wouldn't characterize it as an assassination, myself

...I feel that calling this an assassination is somehow dignifying the murder/murderer, and taking into account too much the murderer's beliefs/policies. I can understand using the term "assassination" if you take down a brutal warlord, say, or a head of state who's leading a genocide or in some other way doing significant harm to the world (Trump or Putin, perhaps). But this was the senseless murder of a peaceful, cultured, positive, and intelligent person. Please let's not try to assign, or seem to be assigning, any sense to it...

Not New Jersey, Long Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center#Controversy

going off your hate for cryptobros, there's a type of person who mixes the cryptobro personality with the "bro science" fitness-bro mindset and the whole bougie "travel the world" personality. I hate all these types of people seperately, but there's a type of person I've been seeing a lot of lately that mixes all three and is completely insufferable. Like the type of people investing in crypto while doing sexpat shit in Thailand.

Lol this is how I learned about it too. I think watching theGandhi movie was the only teaching we were given on modern India/South Asia

"Wait. Is this guy seriously saying that I can’t get laid? 'Incredible. I will give you $5000 if you can get some poon tang before January 1st'? Do you have any idea who the fuck you’re talking to? When I got off Tinder because of the fucking Russian Civil War, St. Petersburg wept. Even ignoring the fact that I have a girlfriend, even if we’re just talking like randos, I’m two hours away right now from being inside someone else. I have two skills -it’s non-monogamy and speaking publicly, okay? Do some fucking research!"

More than anything this is what has convinced me revolution is impossible in the United States.

idk my old coworker pre-covid who was into skincare told me that that was what she did. I knew nothing about skincare so I started doing it bc I figured putting aloe on my face can't hurt. Then I lost my health insurance so no longer could get this acne cream I was using but I kept using the aloe and I didn't really have bad acne flareups with this method, so I kept doing it and haven't gone back to using acne cream

Yeah I rinse it, I use it pretty much like a cleanser

the only thing I do is wash my face 2x twice a day (morning + night) using aloe. Honestly it seems to work, I seem to be holding up pretty well as I get older.

I also use post-shave balm after I shave, which is like once a week if I'm lucky, usually less, and wash my sheets 1x/week to keep them clean. Neither of which is skincare per se but they definitely help my skin

damn how can i get in on this?

Yes, I do the surgical masks when outside and n95 when I’m going to be indoors. Only time I don’t wear a mask is when I’m outside and people are far enough away from me for me to feel comfortable. If someone comes up and tries to talk to me I’ll pull it up.

I can see people’s hatred of it and my attitude is fuck them. No one’s said anything to me about it yet though. I figure these people hate me anyway (well they would if they knew my politics), so why should I bow to any social pressures? That’s what’s got me through feeling awkward.

I think the bunny wolf symbolism is that the wolf is the big bad left that wants to destroy the right, represented by the bunny. You know, because its right wingers who are being oppressed. The left is chained to the 2nd amendment, so it can't kill and eat the bunny, but it wants to abolish the 2nd amendment (get rid of the stake) so it can be free to destroy the right. The 2nd amendment holds the wolf back I assume because it allows right wingers to stock up on guns which dissuades the leftist hordes from attacking their gated suburbs, something that would definitely 100% happen if right-wingers didn't have guns.

patriotic socialist - so yeah a nazi

specifically outdoor ones

more 👏 female 👏 bottomless 👏 pit 👏 inspectors 👏

:Care-Comrade: thanks comrade I was really proud of that one

From my perspective its not that class is the primary struggle separate from "culture" issues, but that class is intertwined with these other issues. Where class reductionists get it wrong is that we can ignore these issues and still build a unified working class movement, but there are also those who aren't necessarily class reductionists, but still separate race and gender from class, treating race and gender as important, but not the focus.

The goal is to build a unified working class movement, and we're not going to do that by allowing divisions to persist by accommodating the reactionary elements of the working class. To ignore these reactionary elements is to introduce and allow divisions in the movement that threaten to tear it apart. While we are focused on class, to focus on class means also to focus on these other "culture" issues.

And I think part of the reason working class conservatives can be viewed as the enemy is because, when we're talking about violence against our comrades, a lot of it is carried out by them. Sure, with the right amount of education and discussion they can be won over, but while they're not won over they are potentially very dangerous to us and our comrades. Libs are fucking insufferable, but I don't expect a run of the mill liberal to shoot me for being a communist, they'd probably just send me a bunch of china bad nyt articles. Chuds have the potential of becoming violent.