"Hexbear, will you please repeat for the jury your version of events? What happened to Jackson Hinkle on the beach that day?"

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A comrade of mine said, "this is why the intercept is going broke. Everybody already knows this shit."

I consider you all my children

This was my very first thought. My second was the ancient story of David and Goliath, which bears many uncanny resemblances

Charlie Wilson's War

I PLEDGE TO KILL FOR FREE to anyone with institutional authority to shield me from legal responsibility. I am extremely bored, uninteresting, insecure, paranoid, with three divorces. I have a closet full of black clothes with holsters stitched to them, a hat that says "veteran" on it so I can get thanks for my service whenever I'm standing at the professional sales counter at Home Depot, and I'm on a first name basis with all of the police officers who work home football games at the local high school where my daughter used to go before she moved in with her mother, and filed a restraining order against me (because of wokeness.)

Right. Covid killed over a million people, equivalent to 12-15% of the surplus population (reserve army of labor in Marxist terms.) This created an increase in wages (the media called it "the great resignation".) The fed raised interest rates to get companies to stop hiring, and lots of white collar jobs got let go due to decreased demand for tech/services after covid (blame it on AI.) This stabilized costs in many sectors, but companies didn't decrease their prices to pre-pandemic levels, they kept them where they were or continued to raise them leading to increased profitability.

Read Value, Price and Profit

He's saying that religion takes the pain out of peoples lives by giving them ideas that make living less painful. Marx wants to get rid of the material conditions that cause suffering, so that people will no longer need religion.

The quote is about using materialist political movement to mitigate peoples suffering, not really about religion.

Good bit, 9/10. The "smartest minds in the west" is a bit much, but "I don't have to listen to any of you so don't expect much engagement from me" is gold

We never learned about classes in school. My son was taught explicitly that the US was not a class society. Class is a vibe.

Shorthand for middle class is whether someone owns or could "own" a house

Meaningless unless she tells fans to organize ourselves into socialist political parties and dual power structures and prepare for conflict with state violence.

"I'm not voting," who cares? Is that what we should care about, whether or not celebrities endorse democrats? I know I'm speaking to the choir but this has never mattered less

I use Edge at work, have you ever seen the ones on Edge? "10 things gen xers have ruined for millennials" "how to tell if your boss is getting ready to eliminate your position" "How much self care is too much?" "Eight ways that generation Z thinks that Gen X should be castrated"

Its just naked attacks on consciousness. And we absorb it all day, every day, first thing in the morning until before we go to bed

Also, use librewolf, its just an opinionated version of Firefox with all this toxic shit, trackers and anti privacy stuff turned off