Ok, but can we give the Kurds the lasting support and right to immigrate easily we keep promising them? They’ve been some of our greatest allies, especially in the region (actual allies unlike Israel), and we keep leaving them out to dry.

That being said bike people are certainly a certain type of odd, and if you’re looking for women, we’re definitely a minority of people really into bicycles. Like, I love bikes, if you’re interested in them look for bike groups and see if there’s a bike repair coop nearby, 10/10 hobby, especially if you’re looking for left wing people who aren’t super self destructive.

It’s also just that it’s easier to talk to people while doing things. Chatting over a task/project/activity is kinda just what people do

Yep. I’m exhausted after work, but when I spend some time after work biking I find I’m less exhausted after work once I’ve gotten used to it. Then add social events and yeah, I might need a day of rest regularly, but I also need to get out and do stuff regularly.

Also, learning to flirt is hard and vital. You will make an ass of yourself. Eventually though you get good at it. I’m an awkward dweeb with crap social skills, and yet after learning to flirt and years practicing I’ve managed to find myself making out with strangers on nights out every once in a while. The vital addendum is learning to chat with strangers and have a good time without it going further. Once again, awkward weirdo, but I’ve had so many lovely evenings out chatting with people I may or may not see again. It’s fun and results in a good reputation.

Get a hobby, go to events, find social circles, and drink at the sort of bars you can chat with strangers at.

I met my wife at a dungeon, but I know that’s not to most people’s tastes.

Yeah when I was a Christian I thought that all was pretty explicitly clear

Ok the country. I routinely forget what cities my parents were born in. Yeah you should remember what country your parents were born in unless it’s something like Yugoslavia where the location kept changing country over the course of their life.

Damn dude, congrats! Gotta appreciate someone who’s clear about her intentions

The Dispossessed hit me like a truck, but I wouldn’t call it theory. It’s political fiction that’s subtle about it by using sci fi, but I think calling it anything but a novel/fiction does a disservice to such literature. It does that which all message based fiction aspires to: lies to you in a way that makes you think about the world and see everything differently. I love all of LeGuinn’s books that I’ve read, though I felt Omelas was overrated. I’ll also plug Graeber for easily accessible theory written in modern language for modern life. Bullshit jobs hit hard.

And yeah, theory matters, but only if you do praxis. Do the hungry care more about who you feed them, or that you feed them? Do your coworkers dream of a dictatorship of the proletariat or do they just want their voice heard in the workplace? If all you do is read theory, you’re a book club. The least you could do is mail some dictionaries and whatever other books to prisoners while you discuss the theory. Offer them some zines while you’re at it. What is in your heart and your mind are irrelevant until your actions reveal them.

There’s plenty, and they can help, but you ain’t gotta read em. They’re guides and ideas. Nobody ever told me I needed to read Proudhon to think the state’s bad, and usually older texts become more of historical interest than theory interests. When I wanted to understand anarchism I was told to go out and engage in praxis.

Jesus about to go full Bobby Hill with how firmly he tells this administration he doesn’t know them

Yeah but Melania is no Cleopatra

And not some logistics job. Something difficult, sucky, and dangerous. If the powerful will send our sons to die, they should send theirs as well

I’m increasingly feeling like America is the Germany to Israel’s Austria in WWI. Absolutely complicit and down to be a villain, but also being dragged into a stupid fight because of incompetent leadership and an ally that insists on biting off more than they can chew because they know they can make us fight for them.

First striking without congressional approval needs to trigger an automatic impeachment and carry prison time if convicted of not having immediate necessity. No more quick drone strike bs. No more “well I bombed them so now we’re at war whether congress likes it or not”.

T shouldn’t impact their logic or critical thinking, but it will impact their emotional regulation and impulse control. At least based on my experience with trans guys. And anecdotally when I started E I had about a year or so of getting into stupid fights with my mom despite knowing better before my body adjusted. Getting back to the right amount would probably calm them down, but these guys are more juiced up than a bodybuilder who can’t do math. They’re probably also being tilted by their grapes turning to raisins from that.

But yeah it’s a drunken roid rage by a man who simply refused to mature or develop logic or critical thinking since their teens. And I think that’s a bigger component to his inability to see than the T or the hooch. These men never grew the fuck up, and as such rather than living a good life at each stage, seeking to grow and mature until it is time to return to the earth, they strive to live a life eternally young and foolish, unable to even see that their unhappiness stems from this lifestyle.

And yeah, don’t get me wrong, I miss feeling young, but hormonal instability wasn’t fun either time. I like having stable emotions that can be reasonably controlled.

At what point do you suspect he’s going to switch to meth like his idols?

Nah he’s the type to show up in 6" stilettos he can’t walk in and fishnets thinking that’s what the sexy secretary look is, all while unable to touch type.

Those people have been around decades though. I had a classmate in high school in the early 10s demanding we nuke Iran despite us not being at war with them and us actively being involved in the wildly unpopular Afghanistan war.

No god worth worshipping would condone their actions. I stand by the wisdom of Marcus Aurelius, that I will live a moral life and reject any god that has a problem with it. Killing to kill is the mandate of an evil god.