I love this quote. What’s even worse though is being technically literate but still so fervently anti-communist that you refuse to even look at Marxist texts. Or, if you do look at them, they just look like gibberish. This is what happened to me when I attempted to read The Communist Manifesto and Capital as a liberal teenager. I got nowhere.

Not crazy about nuclear engines (unless the radioactive material needed can be mined and then used a safe distance from Earth) but imagine the nuclear meltdown levels of cope if the Chinese get to Mars before Elon Musk (who will never get there).

Boots Riley doesn’t suck. Roger Waters and Oliver Stone are also okay. Is there anyone else? Celebrities are basically just theater kids who actually made it, which means there is no reason at all for them to question their deplorable politics.

Haven’t read it in twenty years but The Persian Boy is about this and was pretty good.

My parents are skiing right now 😆 🔫

Mayor Pete reconsidering plans to visit NYC.

Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

The graph also doesn’t take imperialism or colonialism into account, how amerikkka’s global south vassals are vastly poorer than the vast majority of Americans living within the USA’s borders. Income also doesn’t always equal class. Labor aristocrats in the USA can make more money than the petite bourgeoisie, for instance.

The only language the capitalist ruling class understands is violence.

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You weren’t being sarcastic when you said “cool story bro”?