Um excuse me sweaty, we made so much progress in 2020 by bending over backwards for liberal sensitivities. Lenin himself only overthrew the tsar when he said: “mr. tsar your fired sir.”

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what blue collar work are you doing that pays so well?

My spouse found out about a month-or-so-long class for fixing oil burners. Fuck oil but I decided to go for it. The class was also free (thanks to covid relief money, not sure from which president). It was definitely not easy. They used a lot of words I had never heard before. But I survived! And graduated. I took my state's license test a few weeks later and passed. At that point, I started calling local businesses. All of them were super excited when they talked with me, but none of them followed up and some even canceled interviews they had scheduled (presumably because they googled me and learned about my sordid political past). Maybe the fifth business I contacted, which is probably the biggest in my state, brought me in for an interview the morning after I called them (in the evening). I've been working with them for two weeks and so far it's been alright. They said they'd start me off with $18/hr, but my first paycheck amounted to $13/hr, so I'm like, what the fuck is going on with that, I have to ask them in a couple of days. They said that once I'm comfortable enough to be working on my own, they'll pay me $24/hr. The thing is, they charge customers $200/hr for service, so starting your own business is extremely tempting. A worker co-op could be life-changing for a lot of people, too. We could train communists in the trades and also radicalize blue collar workers (although the former is a million times easier than the latter). There are thousands of burners for every technician within like a hundred miles, and the best techs can only fix about four per day, so there's no end of work to do and a lot of the customers are loaded. The only issues I can foresee are climate change destroying everything or oil burners getting replaced with heat pumps (which I welcome honestly).

What I would say at this point is that a lot of businesses of all kinds are desperate for help and would probably train you if you ask. You can call them, talk with them in person, see if the vibes are positive, and there are so many businesses it's probably not an issue to quit and move on if it doesn't work out. My experience thus far has been that blue collar work seems intimidating at first, but it just takes guided practice to understand. I don't know that the class I took was necessary. It was also, like, eleven hours a day when commuting is included, and even more than that when you factor in all the homework and studying I did, so yeah. Doing hands-on work with people probably makes it a lot easier than listening to three or four hours of lectures per day, which is what I did.

this sounds sick but how are you going to deal with county and state level officials fucking your shit up?

Guns. It's also not impossible that within five or ten years, the state will actually be too weak to bother with us. Who knows? Building up local power (backed with force) might be the only way we can even survive. I don't know. The plan is just: learn blue collar work. Start worker co-op. Train communists. Build (or purchase) housing. Expand into other moneymaking fields. Run candidates in elections. Defund the police. (Other towns around here don't bother with having police, though sometimes they pay the sheriff to patrol there.) There's also so many empty houses here (in excellent condition) that even if every single full-time resident remained here, we could still bring in thousands of squatters without having to build a single house. Squatting laws in this state basically make it impossible to legally seize someone's home—unless you have plenty of people with guns.

Nope didn’t do it for me but I liked Peele’s other movies. The scariest moment in Nope for me was the kids dressing up as aliens. Aliens have always terrified me. (Someone please psychoanalyze me here, I’m serious.) I found Fire In The Sky to be legitimately terrifying and disturbing.

For me, the funny thing about Us was how similar it was to Parasite.

Peele also signed the Israel letter demanding that Biden do even more genocide to free the hostages . The white people got into his brain.

Who has slaughtered more children so far, Biden or Trump?

They’re all cranks unless they belong to a communist org.

“But we still need to support downballot candidates to protect vulnerable minorities!”

Supporting Russia is morally superior to supporting the United States.

Thank you, I’m a fellow hexbear who supports Russia for all its imperfections. I’m also Jewish so I’m happy with almost anyone mercing Nazis. Americans likewise have no right to criticize any other country, and saying that both sides are equally bad merely helps the aggressor, which anyone with an awareness of history prior to 2022 knows is amerikkka.

Western communists should also realize that a clear NATO defeat in Ukraine could create new opportunities for us in our own countries, while I think we all know that a NATO victory will lead to more of the same fucking bullshit.

That’s not REAL capitalism, that’s crony capitalism. Real capitalism is when I get rich. Crony capitalism is when I don’t.

STOP IT WITH THE RELENTLESS HILLARY JOKES AND EMOJIS

Omg I missed his comment before it was removed, what did he say?