I’m not putting anything past the ruling class, they are increasingly desperate

Sounds incredibly convenient tbh

Yeah they are behaving like a wounded animal. Hoping for the least amount of death possible before they are put down

Wouldn’t be surprised if Russia vs NATO develops into the first front

So the US plan is to just escalate violence all over the world until somebody punches back and we start another world war? Am I reading the situation right?

Slugdge is a proggy tech death band with amazing riffs and solid songwriting. Esoteric malocology is their most recent release and their best and they are supposedly coming out with a new album next year.

If you want to listen to death metal that sounds like a space demon lord burping out acid, Demilich is pretty fucking sick and unique and unfortunately only had one album in the 90s that sounds way ahead of its time.

Saw them recently, they put on a sick show. Now I’m going back and checking out some of the inspiration for this stuff like Timeghoul and it’s also sick as hell.

As a former grad student, you both dive into enough papers to see that a lot of the supporting evidence is bullshit in some way, and then when you write your own you hope nobody does that to you lol (I would never do this for a published paper though).

Putting in a little bit of water helps with reheating a ton of leftovers, it can make anything more moist that has been dried out. I like doing it with pizza and chicken wings a lot.

Totally agree with all that. Life is really fucking hard in the states, just for reasons other than poverty (although also poverty :l) so people are able to accept a lot of bullshit to be a part of community-oriented things like churches. I don’t think people really “believe” either, they believe it as a set of social customs moreso than anything else.

Satire is popular under capitalism because it reinforces the system. The idea that we need to abstract our critiques instead of making them explicit serves no one but the ruling class.

When you realize Americans are almost completely deprived of community, genuine personal relationships, and frankly just the ability to trust other people, it makes sense that so many choose to live in some sort of bubble. It simplifies a life where you feel completely alone and without answers, and if you aren’t getting emotional comfort from those key interpersonal bedrocks and resources it’s not surprising people seek it in all sorts of places.

That is a comfortable lifetime’s worth of money for thousands of people. Fucking gross

Ah so this was the point of the DPRK soldier nonsense

The children of those folks are all renting now. Just completely out of touch

Doesn’t help when liberals constantly resort to backing up their arguments with a single academic paper that they do not have the credentials to interpret. Just go look on r/science on stormfront.

Academic papers are not holy divinations of God’s will representing a steadfast unequivocal truth. They are written in the context of their particular economic and social system that incontrovertibly influences their hypotheses, methods, samples, findings, interpretations, etc. I have read papers that twist themselves in knots to provide milquetoast answers that avoid reckoning with capitalism and poverty, especially in healthcare and public health. However, they go along the rails of liberal ideology so they are not sufficiently questioned.

I think even Marxists and other leftists could benefit from improved scientific literacy in that way. We could be much better equipped to talk about and fight against how the system reproduces and enforces itself through academia.

Fellas, is it revisionist to view the world through the lens of social and political relations?

The Dems are going to lose every single presidential election for however much longer they can exist for

I still don’t understand the reaction to the Last Jedi. Otherwise sensible people have the most dogshit takes on it.

Shit, we are like 4C above fucking 2020 temperatures it feels like the last few years