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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • It’s really crazy. I hate being the smartest/among the smartest people in so many of the rooms I’m in because I don’t think I’m smart enough for that to be ok. I don’t think I’m stupid, not at all, but holy shit. I know way too many people who can’t figure out basic shit, who struggle with such simple concepts. I also know a bunch of people I can actually trust and would even but above me, but woof.

    But yea, I’m getting so tired of people running on monkey brain like we’re still running around naked in Africa fighting other groups for the chance to eat a gazelle we found. We have smartphones and yet most of us are so stupid that even university education(passing courses and getting a degree) and having facts at our fingertips can’t help us.


  • Ya know, at this point I’d like to see what they could even do if all air traffic controllers walked off. Like, there’s a point where it doesn’t matter what they threaten, they cannot afford to even punish them. Airlines and air shipping would freak the fuck out and the replacements would take forever to train abd would, after something like that, be almost entirely made up of desperate people who(in a way I wouldn’t really blame them, even) would probably not even be that good at their new jobs.

    People need to figure out that they have power together. This “that would never work” reflex that people in the US and Canada have is so fucking lame.







  • The Wikipedia page for Capitalism also doesn’t have any atrocities in my quick check; the “criticism” section is fairly short and tame. Somehow though I’m sure this doesn’t bother conservatives.

    And to act like communism can only exist in a soviet context is just ridiculous. Like you said, the atrocities are very real and have their own pages because they’re not really so directly connected to communism. We shouldn’t lump every nasty thing the US has done into the capitalism page, either.

    God, I just wish for once conservatives would have a thought that was even vaguely consistent across their worldview but in the end all we get is record-breaking hypocrisy and twisted feelings over any kind of sense.






  • “Anti-Netanyahu Israel supporters”? What, people who hate the leader but are fine with the slaughter and subsequent extermination of an entire ethnic group? And the only reason why people “can’t work with them” is because they get mad if you say that Israel is committing a genocide?

    Anti-MAGA conservatives are also still very wrong and we have piles of evidence to show it. Compromising and making them feel good abojt how they’re only just now realizing how bad the far-right is while still clearly not learning the bigger lesson isn’t going to help anyone and instead just muddy the water.

    There are a lot of progressive people who would get energized by a better campaign. Just gotta actually do that.