Appreciate your comments. My grandfather fought Nazis, but then he stayed in the Navy through the Korean war. Guess which one haunted him the most.

Yeah same goes for recycling. Any place that charges a bottle/can deposit is also supposed to redeem them.

Calling bullshit on this. The US has always been a genocidal settler state with nothing but contempt for the poor especially if you aren’t white.

This romanticism of some bygone “better days” is also part of the problem. Those days you pine for were extremely fucked too, you just weren’t there or if you were you were comfortably middle class and probably white.

Where I live it is illegal for any place that sells prepared food to not have a bathroom or customer seating.

Which is why I am incredulous at the idea that a Blu-ray player needs to connect to the internet

Is it really that hard to imagine a future where DRM encroaches further and further on us? Your fuckin blue ray player might not connect to the internet but it is still region locked.

fucking everything connects to the internet these days dude. You fridge, you tv, hell probably even your toothbrush what the hell comment is this? “what you are driving at” is a world that no longer exists, this smart tech shit is being shoved down all our throats as we speak.

Oh shit yeah now I remember, that was a pretty good show for marvel slop

what is this from?

It’s so hard to wrap my head around too. I know I grew up around much much more radical folks than your average westerner but still had to get over some internalized brainworms as I grew more mature but I never found it hard to be self critical and have always strove to be able to put myself in others shoes or challenge accepted narratives. On that last part I thank my parents and stepdad for inoculating me pretty well against bourgeois/imperialist propaganda. I remember I got called a lib quite a few times on the old CTH subreddit, but instead of telling everyone else they were wrong and acting smug or superior I dug into their claims and realized “oh shit I have totally been misinformed on or had the most important bits of almost all of history omitted. Fuck me, time to take my ass back to school”.

Between that and a lifetime of low wage labor, by the time I started reading volume one I practically skimmed over the first 5 chapters because it all just seemed perfectly obvious when I went through it. If anyone else is trying to read capital but gets bored reading a bunch of simple algebra forms about bolts of linen and wage labor in the abstract because you already have a passing familiarity with Marxist concepts, I usually recommend people skim if not just skip ahead to Chapter 5 cuz that’s where he really starts cooking once his whole economic proof is out of the way.

At least this person is the polar opposite of that guy from yesterday who refused to watch that video about the great firewall, accused the author of being paid by the CPC, then refused to engage in any good faith until finally complaining about getting “dogpiled” lol.

This is a weak ass excuse collaborator. You get the pit too.

You’re being racist af right now fyi

Lol it is a very real thing. You don’t just get to plug your ears and call people delusional when presented with facts that contradict your worldview. You libs are worse than MAGA I swear.

Says you parroting absurd bullshit made up by paid “defectors”. I bet you actually believe they have to push their trains too.

I am happy to know it’s not worth my time to keep debunking the same old tired talking points time and time again so in a way sure you saved me the time by confirming that you are just another JAQing off concern troll and no amount of explaining will convince of how or why you are wrong.

You are the one that cited Falun Gong, which is a weird fascist cult, not me. Also as people have already told you every part of the federal government has had to admit that it was all propaganda with zero evidence. I am done talking to you. You refuse to read anyone else’s sources and don’t even stop to think that the paper owned by Jeff fucking Bezos might not have a vested interest in demonizing China and particularly socialism as a whole. Take your fascist nonsense back to reddit lib.

You can lead a lib to sources, but you can’t make them think.

Then why are you citing them? Epoch times literally worse than british tabloids.

Yeah the most pro Nazi democrat of them all. Er go I have no choice but assume this person is just a fascist that doesn’t like the optics of republicans except when, of course, they apparently do.