What's up, is insulin expensive to make or something?

/s

Imagine supporting a western political economy for reasons other than fear. I don't say what's on my heart for fear of an FBI visit. There's no love lost between me and the country I exist in. As an academic exercise for the purpose of education, the only reason I don't leak state secrets is that I don't have any.

2000 in a day is going sicko mode

Lenin dies? Wow I'm hearing about this for the first time.

What can you say besides that he led an amazing life. If it were me I wouldn't have stopped at Berlin, you'd all be saying "WDYMP what are we going to do with all this... Communism?" And I'd look back at you. I'd look back and tell you "there's not going to be a state for long anymore." because it would be so late. It'd be like a paper due at 11:59pm and you'd all be getting sleepy. Not me, I'd keep writing my manifestos and union contracts. If it were me I'd be in Spain or even further west with my red army celebrating our late communism time right now.

why did I write this?

Did they not mention that the world was in danger because of him anyway? I'm not a MIhead.

If I were a Twitter poster this would be a fun bad faith argument. Some kind of "does it hurt your feefees when the DSA says something you disagree with?"

It's not a clean shot so that's why you'd have to be bad faith about it. If you wanted to take them into deep waters you'd have to go "well Elias already addressed why they targeted them." and cite the manifesto. If they take the bait you could bad faith them there or wait a couple vollys before posting that morally neutral civilian who works on the death star meme. Shit would be like flicking their nose after telling them they got mustard in their shirt.

My heart sank for a second.

Ironmouse is streaming a game fundraising for the IDF.

It's the Immune Deficiency Foundation. She has an immunodeficiency that keeps her in her room. She is incredibly celebrated as she once held the title for the most subscribed to person on Twitch. Her good friend, CdawgVA, if memory serves, has raised over 3 million dollars for the cause. It's about as heartwarming as the situation could possibly be and moves me to tears.

Well fuck. I am now. That went hard as fuck. It was a good cooldown from work

I'll never be able to properly appreciate how relevant secondary education made the decision making during COVID lockdown coherent to me.

The vaccine made sense, the respiratory vector, herd immunity, hospital overload, and mRNA all seemed like they were in the conversation being discussed how one might expect.

I had this conversation when I worked in the adrenochrome factory that was like "imagine all the bullshit of our dogshit job that we know helps people, but on your way to the car afterwards there's a crowd of people booing you and throwing tomatoes.

500 calorie 20g protein breakfast

DEMOLISHED the wordle, mini, and connections

Full clear pokedoku

Blessed morning. I'm fucking unstoppable

I don't think you convert people with facts and logic. It's the same way you don't make a lot of sales by telling people what offerings you have. "Hello, John Business? This is Sammy Stranger. I think you'll like using Sammy Software, we have 300 gigabytes of... Hello? Did you hang up on me?"

Some people need bad things to happen to them personally before they'll think about things. They might be immature, incurious people or simply willing to gamble. When your mom gets a 100k healthcare bill and then you're like "well then this whole system is fucked up!"

Some people have a troop dad and a cop cousin. It's really hard to disentangle their propagandized upbringing from their personal identity. They'd sooner empathize with the Israelis than the people they're genociding.

Some people study economics and get their news from mainstream sources. Fuck it, maybe they're familiar with first hand accounts of people treated poorly in AES. China really did have a famine made worse by their central planning.

You need to expand someone's horizons to get them to entertain socialism in the first place. You necessarily have to probe their sense of justice and empathy. If they're not down to care about the people they punch down on then there's not much use teaching them to care. You'll get into deep philosophical discussions like "would you be a valid target in a Native American rebellion?" and "what if you treated your tenants fairly?" You would probably need to know finer details about military interventions all across the world, the actions of the Soviet Union, and what happened during the Sino-Soviet split. It might not happen all at once. If they're serious about intellectual curiosity then they might give you a chance to prepare your case. But at the end of the day you'll probably have to demonstrate that your ultimate goal cares about the plight of the oppressed and demonstrate how it makes the world more prosperous. It probably happened to you if you're here - otherwise who debated you into socialism?