I hope you get stuck in traffic for a comically long amount of time on your morning commute. I hope both sides of your pillow are lukewarm. I hope you shit your pants in a social gathering and have to awkwardly crabwalk out of the center of the crowd while everyone levels you 'the look'. I hope you burn your tongue and everything tastes weird for the rest of the day. I hope you stammer for a good six seconds trying to bail out on the improper 'you too' you offered the waitress serving you food, while she just hovers there, expecting something she has to add on to the order, but ultimately not receiving it as your attempt to recover fizzles out with a whimper. I hope you sleep weird on your shoulder and it aches for the rest of the week. I hope you bite your cheek. I wish you a constant stream of unfortunate and inconvenient happenings

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Your comment makes me want to see a fan cut of Captain America where he just gets the shit beaten out of him and his limbs ripped off and he dies and every five minutes “I can do this all day” but it never turns around and he fucking dies. He never appears to make a come back. He just keeps getting his ass kicked and never stops saying the line. Except it’s not his ass getting kicked, it’s some random children he took off the street and forced to be child soldiers or he’d kill them. And he just keeps saying “I can do this all day” while tens of thousands of people keep getting killed and not once for any reason or goal that progress is made towards. Just tens of thousands of dead bodies every month. “I can do this all day” except he’s not even there he’s on an internet forum. It’s still tens of thousand of dead bodies but not his. And he’ll never give up. But he’ll never get any closer to winning. Just death to countless people who aren’t him. He can do it all day. And every time he says it you can tell he feels really cool and badass. He’s Captain America. He doesn’t quit just because it looks bad.

Context: debate over whether America supported the opium trade in Afghanistan during the occupation. (Of course they did.)

Also, acting like it is unfathomable that the American military, whose sole solitary purpose is to murder people, would murder people, shows how dethatched so many liberals are from reality.

Also also, feeling good about the American military "not pulling the triggers themselves" but instead subcontracting the murder to private military companies is mind-blowlingly stupid. "My father is not a murderer. My father is a good man. Yes he hired a hitman to kill people, but he never pulled the trigger himself!" Liberals are the crying Statue of Liberty in every Kelly comic.

Had to preserve this little nugget from @Tastysnack because I'm definitely going to be looking for it again in the future.

I don't bully anyone into revolutionary thought because building social justice awareness, economic understanding and critical thinking are journey's everyone takes at different paces based on circumstances I'm not privy to.

What I do bully people for is having bigoted opinions or arrogant takes based on personal bias and subversive media slop that fundamentally impacts other people's lives, wellbeing and right to exist as themselves within our system.

You can be a raging lib and not a bigot, yes there's a deeper conversation to be had around how neoliberalism IS built upon bigotry and exploitation and that defense of it enabling bigotry but I can work with anyone if they understand what is needed to better minority rights in 2023 without evangelising their milquetoast political takes.

It just so happens most libs I meet online and irl are more concerned with personal trinkets, wants, personal privilege and their cringe entitlement than actually making material changes to improve the lives of those less fortunate than themselves who chances are we're exploited to provide the comfy standard of living most of these asshats speak from.

So like naaaah I don't look for fights, but I'll dirtbag left anyone who wants to debate someone's right to exist in conversation or have takes fuelled by subconscious white supremacy about nations and people they've never understood outside of media propaganda.

Am I the bully in those situations? Or are the majority with their gross ass bigoted takes just so used to being able to vocalise their bigotry with others that me and any other dork on this site calling them out feels like oppression because their victim complex built upon their privilege always sees calls for betterment and self improvement as infringements upon personal liberty vs a collective social call for better standards of discourse and civility?

Yeah we don't take shit on this site but it isn't coming from a place of Liberal/ally/white Knight paternalistic chauvinism but from a place of genuine struggle as most of us ARE victims of the same oppression we have no tolerance for.

That might make us seem immature or combative to the outside and yeah some of us can be dickheads but the core ethos of this site and community is protection of minority groups and promotion of leftist ideals BECAUSE we are both victims of systemic and overt oppression and as leftists who understand our struggle through the lens of society and therefore capitalism we won't relent for someone wanker redditor coming in to flex his debatelord muscles for clout.

Oof! Somebody took Karl’s kool-aid.

So, first off, it’s not the capitalist system that is at fault for the miners not having a back-up plan after the coal mine dries or coal is not marketable anymore. It’s due to corrupt politicians and lack of foresight from the constituents, that’s at fault there. But that’s to be expected. Most people are unable to plan their life with more than 5 years ahead, imagine a whole town working for commodities company where they don’t have enough education to understand the complexities of the market. It’s simply nearly impossible. The only place that I know that did something like this is Norway, where they have a trust fund coming from all the oil money, so when their oil dries up, they can still live out of that money for a while.

And as you can see from my previous paragraph, that’s not something that communism or socialism can change. That’s human nature. Cuba is not a shit hole because the US embargo, it is because Castro wanted its own SimCity. The same goes for Russia during the Soviet era, or China even now. Corruption is endemic of the politicians. And that’s a fact. No system survives corruption.

Finally, addressing the whole “history is a class struggle”. That’s to say a lot. You could say that human history has inherent class struggle, and that’s fine. But in reality, history is not defined by class struggle, more than could be defined by change of ethos, power dynamics or even whimsical change of heart. It’s too simplistic to say that everything has been a class struggle, because it simplifies human emotions and desires to materialistic possessions.

Deleting my post for racism wasn't OK.

I totally realize most people are going to disagree with me here but I feel compelled to say that deleting my post for racism wasn't a very kind thing to do. We have seen TONS of posts from vulnerable honkeys talking about how this sub is a source of support and humor in a dark time. Solidarity and edginess aside, taking away that support without warning was not okay.

You can say I'm being silly, or humorless or reactionary. Whatever. I love Nick Mullen and I love this community. But sometimes I come home after dealing with craft beer marketing and our nightmare reality all day, and this sub is one of many things that make me feel better. It wasn't a good feeling to find my post deleted for being racist and unfunny. Maybe that's laughable or pathetic. But for me, it's true.

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I was a social liberal and economic conservative. I read The Economist and Ayn Rand. My mother had a copy of Mao’s Red Book from her grandfather, but none of it made sense and there was nothing about communism in the media. I even had to seek out anti-communist literature, I read Solzhenitsyn and Orwell.

My evolution to social democrat happened during the Obama administration. I had been railing at GW Bush, flabbergasted he would start two wars, watching the Daily Show, and eager for Obama to get in and stop the wars and close Guantanamo. When Obama did a troop surge in Afghanistan instead, kept Gitmo open, and invaded Libya and Syria, I started to realize that there is no major anti-war party. Obamacare got everyone talking about health care and I started to realize that it makes no sense to deny health care to poor people. I didn’t vibe with anyone but I read in a magazine about a Vermont senator that sounded pretty based, and he went on to run for president.

So I gave over a thousand dollars to Bernie Sanders’s two presidential campaigns. I was pretty crushed to learn that the DNC is a corporation that will openly work against popular will to suppress any threats to private health care. CNN was handing debate questions in advance to Hillary, the email leaks showed open conspiracy against Sanders in the DNC. The second go-around wasn’t much better and ended with a whimper as COVID obscured everything. Warren acted like someone trying to pull the left wing of democratic voters back to the center.

From time to time I would see socialists on Reddit. Bernie was talking about socialism like a good thing and I liked Bernie so I would see what these people were saying. My first impression was two things, firstly that I had no idea what they were talking about and secondly that they had more in-depth discussions about international relations than anyone I’ve seen.

They were saying that history shows that incremental reform through elections in a country controlled by the wealthy will never bring about lasting socialism, and the elections of Bernie Sanders, Jesse Jackson, Howard Dean, Eugene Debs, Henry Wallace, Jeremy Corbyn and Salvador Allende showed that. These were not people talking about revolution because they like violence and death, they were talking about revolution because it is necessary to stop all the death that comes from capitalist exploitation at home and abroad.

I wanted to have an informed opinion about communism, so I could understand exactly what’s wrong or right about it. I read Marx, Lenin, Frantz Fanon and Michael Parenti. The State and Revolution by Lenin explained with historical context why a revolution is necessary to overthrow capitalism, and why a state is needed to protect the revolution from being overthrown by capitalists.

I read The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin and The Ecology of Freedom by Bookchin to get an idea of the left-libertarian mindset. I went in wanting an answer for how an anarchist revolution would protect itself better than the Paris Commune did, and I left with no answers. It seems to me that libertarian socialism only works if there’s so much popular support for anarchism that there is no state suppression necessary, and there are no sufficiently strong foreign influences that will profit from invasion and overthrow.

This whole journey basically came from two questions about my disillusion with the USA Democratic Party, what will it take to get our country to stop supporting unnecessary wars, and what will it take to keep tens of thousands of Americans from dying every year from denial of health care. Most people don’t want war, do want everyone to have health care, yet something keeps us from getting it year after year.

I remember feeling smart because I read Solzhenitsyn and The Economist. I understand how pervasive anti-communist propaganda is, and it makes perfect sense that it is so when monopoly media and the CIA have no interest in portraying communism in an honest light, and I’ve seen how they work, reading “Manufacturing Consent” by Chomsky and “Inventing Reality” by Michael Parenti.

So people generally call Marxist-Leninists “tankies” and now the tankie is me.

Can we keep Russian memes out of politics please? it’s such a load of bullshit, it contributes nothing to the discussion and memes have been pushing propaganda since the first trump election. I really wish we (lemm.ee, but really everyone) would defederate from hexbear, it’s such a cesspool

https://hexbear.net/comment/3727415

I have noticed that, although the Hexbear and Lemmygrad federated instances have a combined 770 users per day, I am not receiving 770 upvotes on my posts. I'm not sure if this is being done intentionally or if these "comrades" are forgetting to click 'upvote'. Either way, I've had enough. I have compiled a spreadsheet of individuals who have "forgotten" to upvote my most recent posts. After 2 consecutive strikes, your name is automatically highlighted (shown in red) and I am immediately notified. 3 consecutive strikes and you can expect an in-person "consultation". Think about your actions.

It’s already a hexbear fest in here. There is zero point posting anything about China or Russia - every comment is trounced on by hexbears.

Yes yes, if I didn’t want your opinion I should have stayed on Reddit.

Yes, yes, you got here first.

Yes, yes, I’m a brainwashed liberal.

Yes, yes, you’re actually one of the oldest Lemmy communities but you’ve only recently started federating.

Yes, yes, you’re seeing the light and can see through the western media’s bias and the rest of us are just mindless sheep.

Yes, yes, China is great, Russia is fantastic, Ukraine should pursue for peace and roll over.

Yes, yes, you never allowed downvoting so you’re used to just comment and that’s why there’s so many hexbears in here. And you’re definitely not Russian or CCP farmed trolls.

Yes, yes, all those things are true.

I’m sure I’m missing a few, but I’m pretty close to a hexbear “Bingo!” I think.

This comment is a great example of the "insight" that you find on that instance. Random insults that don't make much sense unless you uncritically agree with the most boot licking China / Russia defenders.

It's not insulting, it's just boring. It's like bots repeating old Chapo comments from different articles, none of which make sense.

Has anyone else noticed how prevalent Hexbear posters have suddenly become? Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda. That or getting all excited about trolled libs. The way they tell it, you'd think everything from DW, to Fox, to Propublica, to straight up AP News articles, are all written by the same people. Not to mention, their info on the Fediverse observer [https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list] is either straight up wrong or there's some serious botting going on. According to that, the instance is less than a month old, yet somehow they already have one of the largest, most active userbases, along with far and away the most comments of any instance. Seems to me like Lemmygrad on steroids. Considering we defederated from them, seems like a no-brainer to block Hexbear as well. So glad this thread could become such a perfect microcosm of why we need to defederate.

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LIBS ARE REAL. ITS NOT AN OBSESSION ITS THE TRUTH. THEY BROADCAST THEIR BELIEVES WORLDWIDE ON LONG BAND RADIO FREQUENCY AND WIRED CONNECTIONS THROUGH YOUR SKULL DAILY[1][2]. THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM THE SKY-FOX MEDIA WANTS US TO THINK THEY ARE A MINORITY THAT DONT MATTER AND THAT THEY ARE FIGHTING AGAINST BUT WE AT HTTPS HEXBEAR.COM[3] HAVE DISCOVERED: THEY LIVE AMONG US ALL! THERE MAY EVEN BE LIBERALS IN YOUR TOWN AS WE SPEAK?!?!

EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT THE LIBS HAVE RULED THE USA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) FOR MANY DECADES AND THAT EVEN THE FOUNDING FATHERS WERE ALLEGEDLY LIBS. COINCIDENCE??? IT WAS PLANNED FROM THE VERY START. BUT IT GOES FURTHER.

THE LIBS EVEN SECRETLY DOMINATE THE RIGHT WING WORLD WIDE[4][5][6] AND HID THIS FACT FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS. BUT THEY ARE BETRAYED BY THEIR CALLS FOR FREEDOM (LIBERTY && LIBRE) AND ECONOMIC LIBERALISM WHICH HAVE BEEN THE CORNERSTONES OF LIBERALISM[7] SINCE ITS BIRTH IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT ERA. THEY HAVE USED THE MASS MEDIA MODEL[8] TO TRICK THE MAINSTREAM PROPA-CULTURE INTO BELIEVING THE LIBERALS ARE MERELY THE IMPOTENT PASSIVE LEFT HALF[9] OF THE MAINSTREAM POP CULTURE AND NOT ENCOMPASSING ALL THREE LARGEST PARTIES OF THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM. ITS A NEO-LIBERAL EMPIRE AND YOURE LIVING IN IT.

Basically everything I just wrote is undisputed academic fact, despite the stylized phrasing. Liberalism is by far the dominant force and status quo in modern Western societies, it would be absurd not to address its issues when discussing politics.

No I think you misunderstood. I agree with your idealogy. But to talk shit about liberals, when we are liberals who actually lean left (unlike Democrats who are moderates in disguise), well that’s just plain dumb. It makes you sound like a Trumpanzee. I’m a liberal, and I’m also a proud socialist. And so are you.

Edit: Y’all are missing the point. There’s no reason for all this infighting. Communist, Socialist, Liberal, or whatever; we need to stop arguing over the differences and band together to stop the rise of Fascism. Some of these replies make me worried that a lot of you will vote for 3rd parties in the next election and effectively hand the votes over to Trump. Please don’t do that.

My boyfriend, who I’ve long suspected might be attracted to men, got into a big fight at the club yesterday. I don’t know what to do.

For context, I am a female and have been with this boy for several years. He’s always reassured me that I am the perfect girl in his eyes. Only problem is, I’m not entirely sure if a girl is what he even wants.

For the past 6 months, my boyfriend has been attending BJJ classes once a week after finishing up his shift at Wendy’s. The first red flag in this story is that I suspect he has a different reason for going to these classes than learning how to fight. I pick him up after class every week, and on several occasions I have noticed that he has a huge erection coming out of class. At first I thought he might be getting turned on from wrestling with girls in this class, and I got really jealous. However, I quickly found out that the only people who attend this class are men, so my worries were put to rest. Until last night.

We were at the club to celebrate his recent accomplishment at work, where he was given the “employee of the month” award for the first time in his 6 year long career at Wendy’s. He was very proud of this and hence he decided to take me clubbing to celebrate. When we got there, he kept pushing me into a dark corner of the club, insisting that I deserve personal space as a woman and that he wants me to be safe. The problem is, on several occasions, I caught him brushing up against other men at the club - it looked like he was doing this hoping I wouldn’t notice from the awkward angle he kept pushing me towards. Eventually I got jealous and my previous suspicions regarding his “BJJ classes” resurfaced. Maybe he really is getting turned on by pressing his body against other men.

Things took a turn for the worse when he eventually got really drunk and started grinding on another man at the club. At this point he wasn’t even trying to hide this from me, presumably because of how drunk he was, as this grinding quickly turned into full blown twerking. The man, who was almost double my boyfriends size, was visibly upset by this, but to my surprise he was very polite in asking him to stop. In response, my boyfriend lashed out and pushed the guy to the ground, using the strength of his whole body. At this point I thought my boyfriend was gonna get killed as I saw the big guy standing up looking pretty pissed off, but what I didn’t even realise is that my boyfriends training partners from BJJ were at the club too. They came up and stopped the fight, before then taking my boyfriend away for a “chat”. I then didn’t see my boyfriend until the next morning, and he’s still refusing to talk to me.

Just wondering if this is a common occurance in the BJJ community?

https://www.reddit.com/r/martialarts/comments/15b8gij/my_boyfriend_who_ive_long_suspected_might_be/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=2

Okay, long story short: I know how hard-left this sub is, and I'm pretty much to the left myself. I can't stand crooked law enforcement. I fiercely support Black Lives, and I think we need reform badly. But I happen to enjoy some movies/shows/games that have police characters. And I'm getting beyond fed up seeing a certain movie (Zootopia) that impacted me so much get attacked from the let in this manner. Basically, I don't agree with how some in the hard left keep holding it up as "cop propaganda" or "fascist", which it isn't, and people accusing it of "getting racial allegories wrong" when in reality, the movie is an allegory for prejudice as a whole. Like, I don't find crap like this funny. I find it infuriating. Because it's not true. https://i.redd.it/0qy9v4on7gs31.jpg Some hard leftists accuse the film of missing the mark because the "predators" evolved from eating prey mammals to eating fish and bugs. That's not meant to symbolize anything in real life, it's just something that happened with those animals in a kids' movie. It doesn't clash with the movie's messaging at all. It's not "police apologism" because the police department is depicted as inept in many ways, and the story contains a moral against unfair profiling. Now for some reason, the "NP" link option isn't working, but I discussed this before in BreadTube and CompleteAnarchy. I'm asking you how you feel about this because I once encountered a thread in this sub mocking Judy Hopps, doing the whole "ACAB" thing, and I was legit upset by it. If you think I'm some kind of idiot, weirdo or loser for getting so emotional about a movie aimed at kids that's part of a big corporation that's your right. But people have been sharing "Judy's a pig, smash the state" memes in the Zootopia sub. And as someone who can't watch certain scenes in the movie without crying my eyes out, they really bothered me and I didn't think they were fair at all.

Surely nobody would be stupid enough to earn a Darwin award by trying this in real life.

Certainly not some allegedly intelligent individual such as a billionaire

Let alone five of them, at the same time.

No way would they pay a quarter of a million for the "privilege".

After sacking the guy who told them it was unsafe.

Bolted shut from the outside.

With no tether.

Surely not.

This could never happen.

We live in a meritocracy, right?

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It was the late eighties, probably '88 or '89, and even though some of the excesses of that decade were dying down in the culture a bit I was still very much an unironic greed is good guy who was all about materialism. I wasn't the only one of course, Harvard was full of ghouls and mostly other privileged failson assholes like me. I always did alright romantically but there was this one girl my friend wouldn't shut up about in his poli-sci class. He'd pointed her out a few times while we were drinking at Grendel's Den and she was gorgeous, but the one time we tried to ingratiate ourselves to her group of friends it was loud and busy and she didn't seem to want anything to do with us. Maybe not surprising, they were all bohemian types and we, well we liked looking expensive.

So this one day were on campus, I'm waiting for said friend, just smoking cigarettes on the edge of the green between Harvard Yard and the accomodation on Prescott St, people watching as it was always steadily busy there. I'm minding my own business when over the chatter of two guys talking about their history professor I hear a girl's exasperated voice. I look over and that's the girl, from the bar, the one lefty chick that my friend has spent all this time pining over. She's trying to blow off this freshman who's doing his best to play it cool, but has kind of a desperate energy about him and won't take the hint.

I put out my cigarette, pull out another one, and walk over with it unlit despite having a lighter in pocket. As I walk up I can hear him asking if she's read something or other and she just looks bored as she nods. I interrupt, flash her a grin, and ask if she's got a lighter. The guy looks at me, annoyed. Naturally he doesn't have a lighter and resents my interruption. He's not bad looking, quite tall, black, fairly handsome with a big grin - now gone from his face as she hands me a book of matches from some bar - but he's all chin, nervous energy, and hesitant pauses.

He asks her if she liked some recent lecture on Mercuse. She rolled her eyes. I took a puff on my cigarette and asked her if she liked Unsolved Mysteries. She looked surprised and said she liked it fine but most of them weren't that good. I told her that what was a mystery to me was how we'd never gone out before. She groaned. The freshman guy just stood there like 'uhh' with a look that said 'what are you doing dude'. I remember her response being something like, "because I bet you're just another rich daddy's boy who thinks the Jon Birch society is the moral center of the universe and Reagan is the greatest president in history". I just took another drag on my cigarette and said something like "Maybe, you've read all that pinko commie stuff, you wanna talk, prove me wrong?"

She looked pissed. Then pleased. Got a cute smile and invited me back to her dorm room. The freshman looked crushed that it had seemed to work. I followed her up the stairs, enjoying an eyeful of perfect long legs and a great ass, and she offered me a beer. We argued for a bit, I conceded a little, she recommended some books I should read, and half an hour later we were in bed together.

After we finished up she went to take a shower while I had a smoke. She'd asked me to smoke out of the window because the smoke detectors in the hallway were too sensitive. So I did. There I am hanging out the top half of the window that slides up, with a shit eating grin on my face, but also thinking she made some genuinely great points in our little debate that I hadn't heard before, when I realise that freshman that was trying to hit on her is still across from the building, sat on a bench at the edge of the green.

I didn't know his name so I just shouted "Yo, Mercuse!" He looks up, confused and annoyed and I ask him "Sorry bro, but do you like nuts?"

He looks more confused and annoyed so I repeat it.

Finally he gives in and shouts back, "Sure, I like nuts just fine, but uh, let me clear, what you did wasn't cool".

I remember thinking what a fucking nerd as I shout back "How do like these nuts" as I press my freshly emptied balls up against the glass of the lower half of the window.

He didn't think it was funny and stormed off, almost dropping his books.

I dated that girl for a few years after that and she was pretty much responsible for slowly turning my politics around until I was an avid socialist like her. Obviously I'm a much better person for it and in general now too. As for the guy, I don't know what happened to him. I wonder if he ever got over it though.

Every time we chat, I'm the one who turns the discussion turns towards capitalism. He’s the one who hesitates when I say we should kill them all. Now, he's not even okay with torture. And I'm not talking random chuds here. I'm naming names like Bezos, Musk, Ben Shapiro, and Andrew Tate.

I say we should force them into an abandoned mineshaft and wall it up. After a month we open it again and if any of the fucking parasites are still breathing we tie them down and let rats do to them what they did to their colleagues. Let them learn the error of their ways. (After the revolution of course. During it many of these fucks will die easy and I’ll be sad).

His current job is extremely cushy. He has good hours, he's friends with his coworkers, and he's making a living wage. So I get his hesitation. But it’s also scary. I don’t know if he'll have my back if I get in any trouble.

I don’t know if I should be gently turning him towards imagining a slow and painful torture of capitalists or not. Am I being too extreme or is he a lib?

• Don't smoke marijuana out of a pen, smoke it out of a pipe or bong. Don't do drugs in concentrate.
• If you're pushing through a land reform program of any kind on behalf of the peasantry, push it through very quickly without telling anyone first.
• The coalition always fractures.
• Always get the Interior Minister position. Do not let anyone else in the coalition get the Interior Minister position. If they do, have a random person assassinate them first before they assassinate you.
• Never ride in a helicopter. (Unless you're a door gunner, or getting MEDEVACed.)
• A large plane is always safer than a small plane.
• Always watch your ratio of officers to enlisted, you don't want too many or too few.
• Don't talk about the coup in public, do it day one or just shut the fuck up about it until you do.
• If you sentence a guy to death, kill him the next day.
• If you fly, don't all fly together.
• Never, ever, give up your nukes. If you don't have any, BUILD THEM. If you absolutely have to get rid of them, always keep ONE hid in reserve.
• Treaties are fake. NO ONE is maintaining your territorial integrity for you.
• Never release political prisoners to placate protestors.
• Never let the opposition delay elections.
• When someone you know gets really into German runes (or really any kind of runes at all) get them out of your life.
• Never trust a South American with a German name. Be careful around any with Italian surnames.
• Never move anywhere for a religion, especially South America.
• If your affinity group starts any sort of compound, don't move in. Be the guy that works and lives outside the compound. Better yet, become their lawyer or some other type of public facing middleman.
• Never go into sewers unless you're a sewer guy. (Molemen, professionals, etc.)
• If someone is trying to talk you into committing a crime, assume they're in the FBI.
• Never become an FBI informant, they will never let you go. If you do become an informant, record EVERYTHING Nixon style.
• Never relinquish your arms-- if you're going to get patted down, hide your first weapon as a decoy weapon. Act like they found your hidden weapon and let them take it, but keep a secondary weapon in an even more elaborately concealed area. If you can, bring a third even smaller even more well hidden weapon in case they find the secondary weapon.
• Aim for the eye at point blank. It doesn't matter how small the caliber is, if you shoot someone in the eye they're cooked.
• Always get it in writing. Duplicate that writing.
• If you keep gambling, you'll eventually win. The long arc of the universe favors the gambler, the house just thinks it can outlast you.
• Never talk to cops without a lawyer. You think you know this one, everyone thinks they know this one, but you're gonna forget. You're gonna want to seem helpful or honest and they'll try to sound friendly. It doesn't matter if they're nice to you, they already think you're guilty. That's why you're being arrested or interrogated dumbass.
• Pay taxes on crime money. They don't get you for the crime, they always get you for the taxes. Get an accountant.
• Never deal with an "explosives expert." If they know what they're doing, they're probably an informant. If they don't, they'll get you all killed. If they know a very specific, seemingly perfect spot to place the C4 they're definitely with the FBI.
• Always duck if you're getting shot at. Then, shoot the other guy. If you don't have a gun... then you haven't followed the other rules, have you? As a last resort, wait for them to run out of bullets then roll away.
• Distractions work, and they're a really good move. Learn the art of distraction. Example-- take your jacket off, throw it over their head, and fucking punch. Or bend down to tie your shoe, then throw pocket sand.
• Never let a woman see you play videogames.
• Never talk to journalists, they're just like cops.
• There's no such thing as "off the record."
• Don't fuck your roommate.
• Always pay your guys on time. Don't try telling them you can pay them later, the moment you admit you don't have the money they're no longer your guys.
• Keep your dollars in money.
• Don't give up your passport. Take the other guy's passport.
• Everybody snitches. You have to treat it like everyone else that you ever did anything with is snitching.
• If a guy with an analog camera wants to take your picture, they're trying to have sex with you.
• Whenever the FBI foils anything, assume it's fake.
• Always shoot first. If you find yourself thinking "am I gonna need to shoot this guy" you probably do, and if you have to shoot someone just do it immediately. Ideally when they aren't looking. Honor is fake.
• Under the waist isn't attempted murder. If you shoot someone under the waist, it's legally a warning shot.
• Never warn anyone, just attack.
• Always keep it loaded.
• Always keep cool, baby.

Let's say, hypothetically, you're on a farm.

If you're on a farm, they probably produce food, yes? Then - hypothetically speaking - you might even see an animal being raised.

Now let’s say that that animal is a pig. Since we’ve established they raise pigs on this farm, then I believe you’d agree with me when I say they also need to breed pigs. And the pigs used to breed must have their sexual organs intact, am I not correct? Thus, is it not logical to conclude that this pig might have balls?

Going off of this, let's say that this pig is also a very good breeder. Well then, I think we can agree that its balls are very large. And a pig's balls are located just underneath its anus, right? And if we've established that its balls are indeed very large, they would obviously protrude back past the anus.

Hypothetically, this pig took a shit. It's clear that we're forced to conclude, based on facts and logic, that this shit would fall on top of its large balls.

No everything has to be serious at all times and we cannot find any humor in the absurdity of hell world.

The last time I smiled was on August 19th, 1991.

I wear a dirty ushanka at all times, do not shave, and only take cold sponge baths because hot running water is bourgeoisie decadence.

Every day at exactly noon I have the same meal of an expired Maoist MRE I store in a pit covered in old issues of a revolutionary newspaper.

I sleep in a bed made of flags from every failed revolution so that they are never forgotten.

In the evenings I stare at a picture of vodka by candlelight, but I do not allow myself to drink because there is nothing to celebrate.

Every local org has banned me after I attempted to split it by assassinating the leadership.

There is no plumbing in my house I shit in a brass bucket with a picture of Gonzalo and Deng french kissing in the bottom of it.

My house is actually an overturned T34 in an abandoned junkyard in Wisconsin.

I have a single friend in this world and it is a tapeworm named Bordiga that I met after ingesting spoiled borscht on 9/11 in the ruins of building 7 (I blew it up after finding that a nominally leftist NGO inside of it wasn’t sufficiently anti-imperialist, the attacks on the world trade center were a perfect revolutionary moment for me to enact direct praxis against liberalism).

My source of income is various MLM schemes in the former soviet bloc that have been running for so long no one remembers who I am, they just keep sending money.

I have not paid taxes since McGovern lost the Democratic nomination for president and my faith in electoralism died more brutally than my childhood dog after it got into an entire jar of tylenol.

I own 29 fully automatic rusted kalashnikovs and three crates of ammunition entirely incompatible with them or any other firearms I own.

My double PHD in marxist economics and 18th century Swiss philosophy (required to understand Engels) sits over the fireplace of my home, my fireplace is a salvaged drum from a 1950s washing machine that was recalled for locking children inside of it.

I chose that washing machine model on purpose because I am anti-natalist.

During the latest BLM protests I firebombed a Nikes outlet in the middle of a peaceful candlelit vigil.

William F Buckley and I wrote hatemail to one another for 47 years until my final letter gave him an aneurysm. The only water I drink is from puddles.

George Lucas and I dropped acid together during an MKULTRA southern baptist summer camp and he went on to write the movie Willow about our time together.

The best way to test whether an electrical wire is live is to drool on it and shrimp salad is racist. You can make an IED out of potassium and the instructions are online thanks to Timothy McVey, who was actually a committed antifascist communist slandered by the deep state as part of operation condor.

Every time a liberal files a restraining order against me, I carve a mark into the wall.

I am running out of walls.

When Amerika finally collapses I will be ready to lead the revolution.

I am very smart and people like being around me.

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