TupamarosShakur

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The only thing stopping him, he said, was that people in Texas “believe in democracy.”

sorry fellas, stop the balkanization celebrations, the gop is just as civility brained as the libs

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what's israel?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

city-data.com has to be one of the most racist sites on the internet

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

this is my dad

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

they're not poisoning the blood they're just invading our white nation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

do you have any sources for this stuff? Because my understanding was that the post was extremely unreliable until the late 1700s, and while the news was there, it's availability fluctuated based on who was in charge, and in any case, regular periodicals weren't really widespread until the improvement of the post and the road system into the 1700s, and their circulation remained small until the steam press in 1814. And most of those improvements were happening in England first with France usually following. So the rest of Europe would've been behind (not sure about other parts of the world).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

A lot of social media reminds me of what the world must've been like in the seventeenth or eighteenth century or something. Like your main source of news of the outside world is some random merchant who is "just passing through." Like, if he tells you oh Louis XIV eats children to prolong his life so that he can stay king, what are you gonna do, look it up? You can't even read and have never left the manor, meanwhile he's been to Lyon so surely he knows what he's talking about.

Now instead of passersby spinning long yarns that aren't based in anything resembling reality we have influencers just spitting out whatever thought crosses their mind and we all absorb it because they have 700k followers and you have like 80 so surely they know what they're talking about. Even some of our favorite leftist influencers - I mean who the hell are some of these people? Some of them have no reason to be considered an authority. Why don't I start making video essays on youtube or something? I have more of a claim on being an "authority" on socialism than like most of the people I listen to...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

sometimes i wonder if ive crossed paths with some of you out in the real world

but i know we havent since i never leave my house

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

sorry sweaty, can't do it 💅

[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

The original tweet is not even correct in any way. Ilhan Omar is not from Puntland, she's from Mogadishu. Her father is from the area of Puntland. But Puntland didn't even exist on a map until 1998 - when Ilhan Omar was 17 years old. No one in her family, including her, ever lived in a place called "Puntland." Her father was basically from the area that became Puntland, but never lived in it at any time it was referred to as "Puntland."

Furthermore, the Puntland flag is from 2009 - 14 years after Ilhan Omar's family was in the United States. Not even her father has any ties to that flag, its extremely modern. Chuds will just find anything to get worked up over.

edit: Puntland didn't even exist until 3 years after Ilhan Omar's family was in the United States

edit 2: furthermore, I'd love to see EndWokeness' source for "largest Somali population in the west" because I don't think that's true either. I'm pretty sure London has more Somali people than Minnesota.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

hit or miss, I guess she doesn't miss huh

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But did you take into account that there is at least 24 hours between each win?

 

Also has free pdfs for their books

 

Thinking of joining an ml party. I’ve been doing little things with dsa and other orgs now and again but it gets tiring having to hold my tongue around liberal progressives all the time and I’d like to be part of an org where I theoretically don’t have to do that.

If you’re in one of these parties, why do you like it, why should I join? I’m also mainly interested in any reasons why I should not join any of these orgs. Like are any of them just full of cops, or are they political cults full of abusers or anything? Tbh right now I’m leaning towards frso just because I like their stance of national liberation struggles within the us and also the idea that they’re sort of a “pre-party” organization, since I recognize while I’m probably knowledgeable enough theory-wise to join an ml organization, I definitely still have a lot of learning I need to (and would like to) do. But it would be nice to have comrades and not just be reading alone in my room lol.

But that is by no means set in stone and I’m hoping someone can give me a rundown of the ml landscape in the USA and/or guide me away from any parties I probably shouldn’t join.

 

Unfortunately I need to find new masks. I don’t know if they changed the fit, or I just haven’t noticed for some reason, but I’m realizing the masks I’ve been wearing are too big for my face. I’m in the market for some new masks and I’m wondering what brand/types people have been using (n95s).

 

Article from 2021, wondering what people’s thoughts on this are

 

Lead, microplastics, forever chemicals, etc - seems like a lot of things to be worried about when it comes to water these days. What is your source of water, how do you get your drinking water? Tap, bottled, do you use some kind of filter? And what do you think is the best way to get water?

 

So this is HICPAC, which advises the CDC on infection control policies. They’re trying to update a 2007 document on preventing transmission of infectious agents in healthcare settings, which will direct infection control practices across the US. One of the things they are set to recommend is that surgical masks are equivalent to N95s, and that surgical masks should be the default PPE for healthcare workers caring for patients with respiratory viruses. They do recommend N95s for viruses like measles and tuberculosis and “pandemic phase respiratory viruses,” including Covid. But not only does this fly in the face of what we have learned about aerosol transmission of respiratory viruses during the Covid pandemic, it’s also a weakening of the 2007 guidelines, which states “respiratory protection requires the use of a respirator…” and only recommends surgical masks for blood or body fluid exposure.

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