My back hurts really badly (6 out of 10, chronically) these days, and it is super hard to pick up my 60 lbs. seven-year-old boy. But he is autistic, and rarely speaks. So when he tries to say "pick me up", I feel compelled to oblige. T_T

Thank you! 😊

Can I please see more pics of your setup?

My partner is super angry and depressed.

I am too but that's just my default state. And I've been this way since about 2016. But even more so since October 7th. I guess I feel kind of inoculated to it by now?

I would really love to try to get my partner activated in some organizing with me, but we have young kids and one of them has special needs. Being a parent is super demanding. But I went down this road before I got really radicalized into truly resenting and hating the US empire.

What's the best way for an insanely overwhelmed tankie dad to cheer up his radlib partner?

Why does this seem to me to be like anti-Russian propaganda from some Western rag known to print lies?

Super awful and mis-carriage of justice, if true and kid just did Internet search like article says he says.

Otherwise, joining anti-state groups is risky business in any country!

Also, not to be whataboutist, but this kid is white, and the US ruins thousands of black kids' lives every fucking year on far weaker charges.

And if the media even mentions any of it, the take is only ever: "Oh dear, whatever is to be done?"

Furthermore, it really does sound like what the US actually did to Julian Assange.

This is what you get when you exploit your family members on social media: some random anon will try to get you in trouble with a fascist state in Amerikkka.

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True. It was for me. Noam Chomsky is a little inscrutable at first, but a good example of the ethos perspective.

Being raised in the states by parents who used "Commie" as a cuss made it a difficult indoctrination to overcome to even consider the notion of a people's state requirement first before any chance at utopia.

But then I joined a Communist Minecraft server last summer and joined Hexbear and Lemmygrad and now I wonder what took me so long to come around.

I think the biggest obstacle for me personally was the notion of means-to-an-end based morality being dangerous, and how it can be used to justify any atrocity.

But stuff like gulaging unrepentant landlords is obviously justifiable lol.

Parenti is awesome.

Libertarian Socialism is effectively the end game of Communism, from what I understand of Marx's meaning by the eventual "withering away of the state".

Unfortunately, the ethos adherents are typically just a bunch of theory illiterate very onliners who like the idea of not paying taxes and doing whatever they like, but also, trying to still be humanists.

They are skipping all the hard work steps, which involve revolutionary solidarity and action which deliberately dismantles the structures which protect capitalist power. Anarcho-Syndicalists completely ignored that the people who have monopolized capital will fight tooth and nail to maintain and preserve their privileges. They will murder using war and police without remorse.

Libertarian Socialists will try to both-sides the state monopoly on violence. This is a false equivalency logical fallacy. The Capitalist state will do extra-judicial murder all the time in order to protect their hoards. They are anti-human dragons. The Communist state is explicitly pro-human, and uses violence to fight back or to protect and preserve the people's revolution, because without that ever vigilant revolutionary spirit, we will again fall victim to the psychopathic greed of the anti-human Capitalist.

Is violence always bad? Sadly, it is not. Humanity was born out of a violent nature, and was raised amidst it. But humanity will have to fight for justice, and preserve it.

I have an idea. Have every single article or comment posted by a user scanned by an LLM. Prompt the LLM to identify logical fallacies in the post or comment. Post the user logical fallacies counts on a public scoreboard hosted on each federated instance. Now, ban the top 10% scoring users each quarter who have a fallacy ratio surpassing some reasonable good faith objective.

Pros: Everyone is judged by the same impassive standard.

Cons: 1) A fucking LLM has to burn coal for every stupid post we make. 2) LLM prompt injection/hijacking vulnerability.

Why not Germany?

Also, advanced medical technology, what are human lifespans by the TNG time period? I know, I know... this is not Daystrom Institute.

My heart aches for you and your family and friends and their families. Solidarity.

Bold move, taking fresh onions off the menu, leaving only the unfresh, expired, E. coli infected onions on the menu.

Too late. Early agitvoted.

/c/effort seems good

What even happens to a "market" when you try to sell 4.67% of total cap, even incrementally? Would not someone sound the alarm that a whale was dumping? Author seems like stupid for fash horny.