There is not a single other country that is as fucking stupid as the US when it comes to this. Would love to be proven wrong.

Anti-car-infrastructure-action :train-shining: :live-tucker-reaction:

Respectfully every labor organizer automatically has :awooga: energy

Yeah valid.

Not to start a struggle session but I don't even know why I should worry about China, whether pro or anti. Wtf am I gonna do about that anyway? Being opinionated one way or the other would take an amount of amount of studious discipline that I'm not even close to possessing. If someone has any kind of take on China my response will just be "damn that's crazy."

There's a growing labor movement in my own town. So how about I focus on this extremely-not-complex conflict that I actually have some power over?

IMT is pretty cool in my experience. I've seen IMT people at picketlines with 0 literature and 0 IMT branding, just there to contribute good vibes. They even defended the picketline from the annoying pamphlet-pushing trots. Said something like "This is not the time for propaganda, this is the time to support workers!"

Yeah that's probably true, maybe especially the UK's political/media class VS pro-Palestine Labour. Meanwhile actual anti-semitism is ignored.

Farted immediately after opening the image

MF changed his name to Chadwick, truly is Wakanda forever.

Oh no apology needed at all, I blame myself somewhat. Best of luck & support in your struggles comrade <3

Yeah my family truly made me feel like a psycho. I'm weak willed and it wore me down eventually.

Your comment seems sincere & understanding but it starts with "I'm blaming you" which I think might be a typo but if not, I totally don't blame you for blaming me, I deserve it 😭

It's true, I'm in lots of situations where it wouldn't even be a bother

I think tho when there's hundreds of people unmasked in one place you just start to give up and prefer to 'fit in' rather than 'be safe'.

I'm insanely frustrated for you.

I was extremely cautious with covid for a long time to the point where I'd get into arguments with friends & family who weren't. It was mostly out of solidarity for others as I'm a relatively low risk factor (and because I kinda hate myself lol). But I've totally given up being cautious.

It's selfish of me. But the thing is, now that it's left up to individual discretion and EVERYONE decides to stop wearing masks in my town, what is even the point for me continuing? I know the logic doesn't really follow here (might as well mask up regardless) but the peer pressure is so strong. And I do feel happier when I pretend like it doesn't exist, which I'm sure is a big reason NOBODY here is even thinking of masks.

I'm not trying to defend myself or evade responsibility, more just sharing the perspective of a privileged dumbass like me who has given up. I just wish we had the kind of social consensus required for this.

EDIT: Also I'm really sorry for you and your girlfriend. I hope she makes a full recovery soon. But thank you for sharing, I'm going to be less selfish and make more of an effort after reading this.

I actually kinda get it if you sub "gay" with "PMC" which where I live means the same thing to many people lol. Anyone with a reusable bag has a visibly higher class status than anyone without. Anecdotally speaking of course.

Won't stop doing it though it's just more convenient!

I spend so much of my time playing Rocketleague and listening to Trueanon / Chapo. Like way too much.

As soon as the kids get toxic I miss the podcast and have to rewind.

Seriously? I keep having this idea that my soy meats are my bad-but-better-than-nothing protein. Legumes are instead my "good" protein.

I say this as someone who has not read up at all lol

I'm the inverse of this, I play too many video games and my wife is not interested anymore. This could change things...

Kinda sad she seemed on the verge of tears after being harassed in the original video :/

On the other hand I laughed a lot just now so it's probably fine

It's the only funny way to talk about Hunter but also fair play to the man for going mask off nepotism to get hot girls and drugs instead of being a democrat Trump Jr or something

I love Felix so much and also this is complete nonsense to me

Actually this is kind of my primary intellectual dilemma recently. I've kinda strayed from the anti-socdem sentiment you see online a lot, especially on here.

I no longer fully buy that social democracy is as simple as a pro-capitalist concession to socialists. It IS a concession, but it was still won from militant socialist worker organizing. That's how anyone gets anything. Vietnam got national liberation and an experiment in communism, Norway and almost every European country got some form of welfare state.

As for the comfort thing you mention - the slow privatization of the welfare state has definitely been met with some radicalization. I wouldn't be super optimistic or anything, I think it's a similar situation as the US, just that these countries started the situation with a welfare state that the population is fiercely defensive of compared to anything you can be defensive of in the US. Honestly you can take the US or UK political situation and with some minor alterations more or less understand every western country's political situation:

Left lost power continuously since the 70s/80s,

Capitalist end of history sets in,

2008-and onwards shows some ugly side of capitalism and radicalizes people,

2020 and COVID happens and radicalization goes up even more.

...all meanwhile racial fascist elements have grown twice as fast.