All states are bad, but if we’re talking about which ones are arguably better or worse on the world stage…

“USA USA USA, WE’RE NUMBER 1!”

Proudly colonizing for 250 years?

I live in a fairly conservative area that’s working class.

People intuitively understand when you describe how much capitalism sucks because they’re living it.

If you say “capitalism sucks”, you are going to get reactionary thought and action. You have to say things in a way to engage their experience and understanding without tripping the propagandized brain worms.

If you can do that, you’ll find that they’re primed to reject capitalism, they just don’t know it yet.

“These rich fuckers don’t give a shit about us, but they have no problems helping each other out.”

“Everybody’s boss is the same, they want you to work harder, more hours, and do it all for less money. They want us to be able to barely survive.”

“The only way we can make them change is to all work together. They’ll screw over each one of us individually, but if we’re together they’ll know it’s actually them who needs us.”

Operation Sea Spray

COINTELPRO

MK Ultra

For the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

You’re right. Perhaps I need to touch grass. My “is this commenter worth actually expending energy” meter may be off.

And to be clear, there was no jab at marxists. There was a jab at the lack of working class solidarity and wealth cult that exists within my everyday context in the US. Which you aren’t necessarily aware of and I wasn’t explicit about.

Marxist and Anarchist end goals really aren’t so different that it makes sense to foster any leftist infighting. We all ultimately want things to be better for everyone, especially the working class.

You can start by height. If that doesn’t work you can try favorite ice cream flavor.

And no, boot leather isn’t actually an ice cream flavor. There seems to have been some confusion about that amongst us workers lately.

“Social Murder”

In response to that…

Try this on

My wife and I have been abusing our Ryobi for like 10 years. I thought it was finally dying, but then I got a new battery, still going strong.

I always start with harbor freight. When I break that one, I buy a nice version of whatever it was. I don’t buy “nice” tools very often. HF is nearly always “good enough.”

Good for them for attempting to redeem themselves after what they did to my potatoes. But I’ll never forgive them.

They may have fooled you with their cute little rolls and their ability to mitigate human pollution, but I see them.

Worse.

“Vulgar sense of entitlement” - you think you deserve more than I think you do and it is viscerally disgusting to me.

In context - “You think we shouldn’t be able to coup your government/group because we don’t know better what you need than you do and that viscerally disgusts me.”

ETA: the “woke” bit is fun too because it adds a layer of racism to this seven layer shit salad.

Til cromulent, thank you.

To save the Google: adjective with a humorous connotation meaning acceptable or adequate.

Wait till they hear about the guy who destroyed an entire social media platform for the same reason.

Centrist Nazis, you know, like “I don’t want to kill them all, I just want them to… Not… Be… Here… Anymore…”

Gen Xers have always been pretty cool, as long as you don’t expect them to care about much. I get the feeling that the close proximity to the Boomers really took it out of them.

Skibidy toilet is just part of the modernist version of dada. I’ve (a millennial) always loved dadaism and absurdism as art and my zoomer kids make me so proud showing me their humor.

https://www.thecollector.com/dadaism-art-of-dada/

We have those problems here (the US) too but the greater problem is that corporations buying up homes is driving increases in housing prices. Greater housing prices leads to higher rent and higher mortgage payments, fucking over regular people every which way, unless of course you happened to buy your home 30 years ago, in which case everything’s peachy and you can reverse mortgage yourself into a vacation home in Boca.

I ended up the same way. The heat pump washer/dryer combo I got happens to have wifi. I genuinely enjoy this machine even though I don’t think I’m capable of fixing it outside of buying a whole new “heat pump unit” and installing it. It works well and it’s way more efficient than the old electric unit that was here when we moved in.

We prefer to spend our time embedded in the c floor.