DragonBallZinn [he/him]

Ws:

1. My goal of limiting alcohol to one drink a week max is going well

2. Noticing I’m stronger than I think I am at the gym. Recently benched 205 for a 1rm and my bench for reps is 185

3. Went to dentist recently and nothing seems wrong, except for just needing to floss more

4. Finally making my first solo long distance travel in my life. Paid for the ticket and everything to visit my more successful cousin. Hopefully I’ll learn a thing or two about getting my shit together

Ls:

1. Looking for jobs again, and of course since I didn’t major in stem that means not even an interview because clearly whether or not you’re good at an engineering discipline is the single determining factor of your value as a human

Nothing really, but I’m trained to expect there to be a catch of some kind.

EDIT: bad technophobic take I retract. pls disregard.

I’m guessing the motive was that he wanted Trump out of the picture because he wanted to force something like JD Vance or Haley.

But of course the dems are getting blamed and you can see Elon scrambling to try to sic someone on Kamala Harris. Sure, I despise the dems but I suppose this is them doing their job, making sure the “left” always is left holding the bag for all the wrongdoings of reactionaries.

Oh cool, so we’re going to get extra blamed. Fun.

In the event where this was fake: Really goes to show just how mask-off bourgeoisie elections have gotten that they’re not even pretending to respect the very institutions they champion. Thanks Dubya for being the Catalyst to this.

In the event a leftist did this:

• Stop doing wanton adventurism, only fascists can get away with that! You want another Reichstag?! Read theory you bloody liberals!

I mentioned it before but this feels so much like the modern day version of the Peloponnesian war we learned about.

Amerikkka: the modern day Sparta, simply attacking China out of envy.

Can someone ELI5 why America seems so dead set about throwing away all its supply chains? And does the EU have this problem?

And oinkers have the gall to lecture you on “family values” as they LITERALLY STEAL CHILDREN FROM FAMILIES for profit JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN!

Once again, this redsails article is being dropped. It seriously should be considered Theory.

The same inquisitive nature that first led them to unravel war propaganda narratives begins to feed an even larger psycho-historical narrative, and nihilism takes hold. The tragic cycle begins to appear eternal: innocent, well-meaning, hard-working folks are, time and again, viciously tricked by the scapegoating of a new rogue in the gallery — Indigenous, Black, Spanish, Jewish, Soviet, Vietnamese, Cuban, Serbian, Muslim, Libyan, Syrian, Korean, Venezuelan, Russian, Chinese. Due to the sheer power of propaganda and mass-media, the masses helplessly fall for hatred and volunteer for war, even though it comes at a very high cost to ourselves, our loved ones, and our ideals (religion, environmentalism, etc.). Sadly, the innate human propensity to “hate the Other” seals our fate as a society… or something along those lines. I am going to argue that this narrative is nonsense. It tries to pass off as universal and eternal something that in reality is particular and ephemeral. In short: Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style; they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on. This is because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits.

I believe that, on the contrary, the process of Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming. In this alternative account people aren’t “brainwashed” insofar as they don’t actually believe the lies, not in the way that we generally understand belief. It’s more correct to say that they go along with them

I swear, if we ever need to use dogwhistles on the left. All we have to do is call ourselves “anti-Malthusians” and it will not be a lie.

EDIT: And to follow up on your point, some of the most famous mass shooters were practically set out to do the GOP’s dirty work. The Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989 comes immediately to mind. I worry if it happened today we’d see tons of memes of it owning the libs

We all miss sometimes.

You jest, but I see this as the new angle for homophobia.

: “Those dang lgbt folk, we ordered them to have kids…but they’re in relationships where they CANNOT produce kids! No, you can’t just adopt and raise a child in foster care…you’re shirking your responsibility to give us more cattle!”

Seriously.

I refuse to raise any kid outside of a walkable city, even if they paid me to stay in podunk suburbia and gave me a house for free I wouldn’t have a kid. Raising anyone here would practically feel like abuse.

Yep.

Personally, I got slapped with the ugly + picky employers means I’m underemployed + live in a podunk suburb so can’t meet people wombo combo.

Agreed. I’ve been a teacher before and I don’t hate kids. So I think the problem is that “I hate kids” is more of a lie we tell ourselves because we cannot in good conscience have kids.

There’s also the fact that the onus is always on women, so we know this is a proxy for something else. If more kids was that much of a priority the bourgeoisie would make some concessions in order to get it. They’d allow more building in “prime real estate” walkable cities and introduce the idea of “community” to America. They’d take a hit on their rent prices and let young people move to the walkable cities they yearn for so they can actually meet people, and you know, get laid to have kids.

But no, their idea is that they want to mandate that women reproduce or be tossed in jail, and further hammer in the idea for men that if they don’t get laid by age 30 they’re a hopeless loser.

Seriously , if Kurzgesagt actually thinks that I’m absolutely disgusted, that sounds like Hitler particles shit right there.

EDIT: disregard the stuff I said about Stalin’s quote. I double checked it and apparently that quote wasn’t even something he actually said.

Oh yeah, one thing about fertility rates going down is because Teen pregnancies are way down

So far so good with my goal of limiting alcohol to at most one drink a week.

Right now, I am unfortunately unemployed as my seasonal work expired and the infamously stingy job market meant I couldn’t find a new job in time: not even an interview. So I’m hoping I can grin and bear it with some part-time work to a: save up money to move out again, and b: it wouldn’t be such a surprise I gtfo’d a month after starting if the best case scenario happens and I find a better paying job. Being reserve army of labor sucks.

“Not to worry, rich people will do all the consumer spending that keeps our economy afloat FOR US! That’s right, the most miserly demographic will consume for the economy, so don’t worry your pretty little heads and enjoy having less money, peasant! Porky needs it!”