I get paid to do this what do you mean?

I lose them, but I have this pop socket thing on my phone that looks like a record and spins

Can you imagine parents of an autistic child spending $800 to help them?

Kids? That's the marines specialty

It's at least $50 billion a year for the IHS

Haha I love textbooks! You can get a massive amount of info all in one place and as long as it's not a shitty book you can usually rely on the info to be relatively accurate. The reason I think an intro textbook is good for studying philosophy is that it will give you a broad look at the topic without an overwhelming amount of detail and typically there is some effort put into the order in which the info is presented, which matters a lot when we're talking about thousands of years and dozens of different philosophers. Like don't only read textbooks by Marxists, but it's not a bad place to start

We also don't have to decide what to put in the text as these books already exist. There are a lot of Marxist academics, especially in philosophy. Obviously there are disagreements and such, but idk what your point is tbh. I'm just saying to find an intro to philosophy book written with dialectical materialism in mind. Even one without a Marxist perspective would be useful to anyone trying to learn about philosophy.

Plato is a good place to start if you're already comfortable reading difficult texts. Mainly because of how influential he was to all of the other western philosophers. A more modern starting point would probably be Bertrand Russel, most of his stuff is easier to parse.

If you're purely interested in the historical context of these ideas and their influences on societies, I'd say read it mostly "in order" as the ideas tend to build on one another. If you're trying to understand some specific aspects of life or something, like you're interested in the philosophy part itself and not just the historical context then I'd say write your questions down and look for the authors who discuss them the most.

Anyway, Diogenes is the only ancient philosopher worth a fuck and the meaning of life is to overthrow our oppressors

Future Democratic President Liz Cheney with Vice President...uh, one of W's kids?

Any time I see politicians in a row I think about those rad 2 for 1 shots you can do in video games

I wanted to say Tim Cain but I know that's wrong, but like...it's not really wrong

Clearly racism and misogyny plays some role in it, but Harris/SomeGuyIForgot was short something like 6 million votes of Biden/Harris. This liberal talking point is one of the most frustrating because it is also exactly what trump says when shit is obviously not perfect.

Even 2012 Obama only lost ~4M votes compared to 2008 Obama. Dems are becoming more and more disillusioned as time goes on, which should be a good thing except in the Burgereich it means they get more fascist because one time a communist corrected them on twitter about some historical fact