I was at a local bookstore/clothing consignment/vinyl shop with a friend because he collects vinyl. I was looking through the books and spotted "A People's History of the United States" by Zinn and ended up picking it up for another friend. I started talking to the owner as I was ringing up about the few leftist texts that he had and how it's kind of cool to see that sort of thing in the TX panhandle since there aren't really many leftists here and he simply replied "yeah, we're out there."

I now call that place the "Commie Record Store" lol.

Last time I was there he had a 4th print edition of State and Revolution from 1935, that is now in my possession. The book is super old and the spine is brittle and I don't know what to do with it, but I feel like it's somehow special now.

He now acts as my source for physical books. I mostly read digital but I would like a small collection of "the classics" so to speak.

And similar to comrade Queerecommie, I have a hat with several buttons that anyone here would recognize but the average lib won't. I also use the big nerdy Marx words like dialectics, material conditions, praxis, bourgeois, etc.

Dusting off that 2020 boomer chud lore, huh?

Looking at the bigger picture I hate realizing this sort of thing sometimes.

China gets mocked for suicide nets(and like no one even questioned if it was real or not) but the US legit has workplace shootings that often end up with suicide.

I'm still mad about how ridiculous the "communism is bread lines" train of thought is because we have food banks, soup kitchens and church food based outreach in our great United States of America. If food insecurity is a symptom of a failed state well guess the fuck what? And that's not even covering the fact that Russia has breadlines during and after the transition to capitalism after the USSR was desolved. So again it was a direct result of how bad capitalism is at food security.

Can we just let all the fashies in here so we can all just get along and have tea and scones together puh-leaaaaaaaase??????

Fair enough.

From my last job, US factory dairy cows only go for about 4-5 years before they are turned into burgers.

Also I usually get the years part mixed up because God damn has it been 22 years?

Is tail wagging considered stimming?

Anyone who thinks that leftists are secretly fascist and support people like Trump or Putin or any other capitalist pig in charge needs to take a step back and seriously consider how they themselves view the world critically.

Some of the commentary over here and on grad might seem like that but people need to keep in mind that the actual left(stateside, global Southside, or other) are outside the realm of Dem vs Rep 2 party politics. And as such we can and will be critical of any war criminal that is or was or will be the president of the United States.

I think a lot of ideas about us leftists being secretly pro-Trump probably stem from our critiques of Obama or Biden. And those people in the comments on other instances stating that we are somehow fascist bots pretending to be leftists need to figure out how to stop viewing the world in back and white.

I had a former co-worker pull this "compromise" card when I was talking about how maybe minimum wages should be a living wage. He said "both sides should just come to a middle ground". Like bruh, you know that "compromise" would be literally not a living wage, right? You get that, right?

"You see, the Nazis were bad, and I get that, but those soldiers that did all the genociding had families and stuff and I am sure they also liked the gays."

That's basically what I gathered from that admin in the 5 minutes I was over there.

Damn they really are the cracker 👀

It doesn't help that there really is nuance in discussing previous and current socialist experiments but even that has practically become a meme and is met with "communism has never worked" commentary from liberals.

Y'all are number one in my heart though. 🖤🖤🖤🖤