Twas revealed to me in a dream 💆🔮

Lesson definitely learned. There’s always people looking for fools to finesse. I wouldn’t have minded if it was like 30 a session, but 200+ is disrespectful. I think I intentionally rejected the offer because I also wanted to see how she would react. I figured if she left it alone, then she was probably someone a lot of people had reached out to before. Lo and behold, she tries to call me back within a few minutes to try and finesse me lol.

I have not been doing as much cardio as I could possibly do, but tbf it’s kinda cold (it shouldn’t be this cold where I am during August 🥴). I’d like to go swimming sometime in the coming weeks when it gets warmer, but I have been going to the gym about… 3-4 times a week. Last I did chest and it was moving pretty smooth! I feel like I’m ready to rep out 45 and a 10 now…4x6…hopefully…

I made Japanese curry (store bought mix) and just cooked it with chicken, potatoes and carrots! Shoutout to people who make that stuff from scratch :')

I hope so as well, thank you.

I’m studying to become a mycologist! I haven’t studied anything mycology specific just yet, but I’ll be one semester closer after this one :'). Good luck with your union job!

I just got out of a laze of a few weeks. I wasn’t really able to do much besides very barebones party work. Well now that I think about it…I think partywork was really the only reason I was even leaving my house for a bit. I’m back to the outside world, I replied to a bunch of my penpals finally, and I’m semi back to dating after like a 2 year hiatus. I’m talking to someone whose on a break with their partner, but they did talk through it with eachother, so I don’t feel as bad about it. I’m probably leaning towards something casual, but who knows. I’ll probably go for a smoke then hit the gym tonight with a friend.

I’m back to school next month, and with that, I can get back to my free therapy. I’m excited for that more than anything.

I’m currently on the move so I can’t currently give more lengthy response, but these are the people. There’s a growing right wing opposition to NATO, which now, might seem insignificant, but as the war drags longer and longer?

The US knows it can’t drag the war on in perpetuity, and if support falls come time for the next election, this puts Democrats in a dangerous and weakened position.

I’d be interested to see what instances you’re referring to in terms of the SU and China allying with other imperialist forces. The instances I can think, such as the Molotov Ribbentrop pact we’rent so much allying as it was a stalemate that allowed the SU to gather up it’s arms. Even then, the SU ended up going to war against those same forces, which points to the reality points to how alliances with reactionary forces is ultimately short lived and can be dangerous.

I do think that Russia plays a progressive tole in today’s landscape, but that’s different than expecting Putin to liberate us from NATO.

I’d be happy to help contribute to it :)

The putin worshipping stuff is less of a development on the left imo, but something you see growing in the rightwing camp. There’s a PSL article about the similarities between the “America First” chauvinism prior to WW1 and the similarities between the same right wing opposition to NATO currently.

Shea sometimes reads like a straight up CNN article the way he editorializes 😂

Bruh, you don’t wanna jump into accusations of chauvinism but accuse him of borderline nazi-apologetics? C’mon dude. Read my longer comment, Rainer is completely misrepresenting Becker.

Shea is such a bad faith op, I’m not even sure why people take him seriously. Another funny thing that I saw in the article was that he quoted Becker saying “what we need is the multipolar world.’…as a Leninist” when Becker says in the full interview “as a marxist leninist”. It’s literally ONE WORD that he chose to editorialize out. Why would he do this? I don’t know…

Go to the 1 hour and 24 minute mark of the interview, that’s NOT what he’s saying. View my other comment.

For anyone whose really interested in what Becker said, go to the 1 hour and 24 minute mark and watch the whole section. Becker never says that he’s opposed to multipolarity, but that multipolarity as an end all be all is not what socialists should strive for. He asks the question "How can we make radical change in America by saying ‘Vladimir Putin is our leader?’, which is a very salient point. He goes on to say that we should strive for socialist leadership in all of our countries. What is so off about that? Seriously?

The point about the WW1 and multipolarity is making the point that multipolarity alone doesn’t end war. Multipolarity between capitalist powers is still destructive.

Rainer Shead is really good at finding convenient quotes from revolutionaries and diluting it to hell and back. He cites Kim il Sung saying “The differences of state socio-political systems, political views or religious beliefs can by no means be an obstacle in the way of joint struggle against U.S. imperialism”, but just thinking about it for like 20 seconds, this obviously wouldn’t mean supporting reactionary states against the US for the pure sake of it. Would Kim il Sung have supported Hitler? Obviously not.

This dude misses so often.

LGBT+ people aren’t an “agenda”. Yes, it’s true that the state tries to co-opt their identity to pink wash itself, but like with any sort of radical history, it tends to get co-opted.

Look into the history of events like Compton cafateria and Stonewall. LGBT+ history is just as much a part of worker history as any other group’s.

The Office of Naval Intelligence is sounding the alarm about the huge gap in U.S. and Soviet Chinese shipbuilding capacity and its implications.

RIP 🥲

Damn, this post got a lot of traction

On an individual level, they’re fine, but they’re certainly not going to lead us out of capitalism. If you can get better living conditions, do it. Nothing wrong with that.

Perhaps I misunderstood your point…I was a bit high. Nonetheless, I’d say that it’s not supposed to come with universal frameworks. The experience of these countries is theory in real time.

Might not necessarily answer your request, but a bit of a different way of thinking about it.

One example, the newly passed Families code in Cuba!