me and all my beautiful footnotes

wow. i learn something new every day

“Stop or I’ll shoot!” I say, pointing the gun at my own foot.

the only difference here is the joke candidates don’t win

you had prime minister boris johnson

the reason trump is flipping on this is probably because it’s beneficial for the US to keep Europe bogged down with the war in Ukraine, especially now that theyre looking to pressure Europe into their dumbfuck tradewar with China

i know it’s difficult for liberals to remember anything further back then two SNLs ago, but we actually already had a widespread unrestrained genocide under biden

we’re gonna need more beans

the single most progressive president in my lifetime, joseph robinette biden

You’ll miss out on some spider-lore, but it’s possible to jump into Spider Solitaire for the Windows XP home computor system without having played its predecessor, Spider Solitaire for the Windows 98 home computor system

please don’t speak ill of soup on this webbed site

The remainder of chapter one, and really the rest of Capital, is Marx developing these abstract categories in order to recover concrete reality again.

I feel like this has to be one of the greatest value of reading Capital today. Not sure how to word this properly (especially not on mobile), but to me it seems capitalism creates layers of abstraction (beginning with the fact that all commodities, regardless of use-value, can be reduced to a ‘third thing’ in its exchange form), and that these layers, which obfuscated the material reality of commodities and commodity production, only intensifies over time.

Great read, thank you for the write-up!

can you add me to the ping list, please? i participated last year too, but i’m ready and eager to report back to posting duty. it’s also cool that we now have a complete archive of discussions to look back on.

oh and thank you for leading this year’s book club!

this dude is going to die from one of his “anti-aging” surgeries/treatments. he recently had a botched fat transfer to his face that made him look like he’d stuck his head in a bee hive

my vote is for super imperialism

another bad year for microsoft spider solitaire windows xp edition

yes, i’m interested! i tried to read it earlier this year but found it difficult to get through on my own

i unfortunately don’t think i can commit to leading the bookclub (work is driving me crazy rn rip), but i hope we’re making this an annual thing because i’m reading to dive back into vol 1 again with my hexrads next year

my sweet little torchic

he was my bestest of all best friends in pokemon mystery dungeon