God I wish being gay was free

Tbh I always prefer this, the weird misquote kinda bothers me for some reason.

Don’t we all?

Phones home, masks up

That’s the way we like to protest

Expensive?? Lol whoever the seller is is straight up drop shipping these, you can get them for like 0.99 on temu or Aliexpress

Coins and cash are supposed to be wadded and jangling in various pockets

The photo of your cat is supposed to be tattooed on your chest

And they hold like 20 cards, idk

Trade-ins like this are probably guns the pigs have seized from evidence or gotten from buy-back schemes. I’ve seen everything from a mud-encased hi point to a hundred year old break barrel shotgun with no serial number.

Semi auto shotguns aren’t usually great guns to buy cheap fyi. Prone to jam. Maybe there are fine models I’m not aware of. But at 200 you’re usually looking for a decent pump action, like a maverick 88.

The guns reddit for your state will be full of fash but also information on state laws. At the very least you usually have to get it shipped to an FFL, who will charge &15-50 to fill out a form. They’ll do the federal background check where you’ll answer honestly that you’ve never smoked weed or been institutionalized or whatever else. The FFL calls the feds to submit the info and, in a more permissive state, you walk out with your new gun.

More restrictive states might have waiting periods, fees, restrictions on gun type and mag capacity, license requirements, etc that you’ll have to research

Grok, alter this picture to show Elon Musk wearing a bikini with the US nuclear launch codes written on his bare chest

Customers masking while shopping is like the easiest cost-benefit decision though. Wear a mask for 15 minutes to protect the workers who are forced to be there for 12 hours.

Well, you can start the process of buying a gun now. In some states it’s a long process, as is learning to use one.

But yeah doing so isn’t a revolutionary act. Joining an org is.

I don’t remember to be honest, but there’s an article or podcast interview somewhere in which the translators give their reasoning. All I remember is at the time I listened to or read it, it was convincing enough for me to buy it.

And after having read the translation itself, it’s the version I recommend because of the modernized language. Older versions I had to quasi-translate nonstandard wording to understand, like rereading paragraphs and sentences a few times to actually absorb anything. Whereas this translation just flows.

Harry Potter

Yep! If it’s not on audiobookbay or somewhere else let me know and I can probably upload a file

Absolutely wild

Machine learning is well-suited for diagnostics and treatment, there’s already tools for this, there is no fucking reason to use a language model of all things. 12+ years of school, making 400k+ a year, but is too lazy to use UpToDate or any of the hundreds of other options. Rather than a glorified Markov chain. Walking past millions of hours of human study and knowledge to pick up a fuckin magic 8 ball.

Absolutely the Reitter translation. Also has a professionally-produced audiobook.

Co-ops aren’t some magical solution, but neither is bank robbing or unionizing or even revolution.

If leftists think robbing a bank might sometimes be a viable way to fund an org, then carving out niches and enclaves of productive forces shouldn’t be off the table.

A lot of us delivery drivers were considering an open-source or co-op model a few years back. I got out of that job so idk if it’s gone anywhere. But if the current delivery apps are even viable (which is a big if during an oncoming depression) then it stands to reason that eliminating the corporate/marketing/engineering bloat as well as the parasitic shareholders should make a co-op model actually competitive.

Yeah wtaf is this post? Am I missing some sort of context? Am I misreading the tweet saying peaceful protest isn’t enough?

No, Mamdani is gonna assassinate RFK, then get shot by some Mafia guy

Ventpost aside, I think as leftists we need to be comfortable reading people with bad takes. Check Lenin’s or Stalin’s or Mao’s libraries, they both read voraciously and critically-- liberals, anarchists, ultras, fascists, idealists. Analytical development comes from analytical practice, not a study of perfect truths.

That being said, the labor to record an audiobook is something else so I understand that frustration. I’ve gotten a lot of value from listening to and sharing your other recordings, and your criticism in this post is also educational.

In this case I’ll take your word for it, from your description it sounds like there isn’t much to be gained by reading a book that rife with disinformation. Your post just reminded me of something that’s been on my mind recently. There’s got to be a balance between not wasting time on nonsense books versus critically investigating things for ourselves to hone our own critical thinking skills.

My comment itself is probably a ventpost from my time trying to get by in a Trot org lol, some of the most anti-intellectual dogmatists I’ve ever had the displeasure of interacting with. Refused to read anything that wasn’t published by their cult org, talked like Lenin and Trotsky were divine besties. Some of them bragged about having not read Capital lmao.

I’m not gonna speak to this case and I’m too dumb to really know anything, but it’s frustrating that everything is so dominated by spectacle and image nowadays to where the enemy gets to use every bit of subterfuge at their disposal to undermine us, but we can’t really do the same against them.

Like maybe Mamdani will be disproportionately based and be the exception that proves the rule, but there’s a plethora of examples of institutionalists giving lipservice to workers and then selling out to the bourgeoisie, and like zero examples of the opposite. But if someone were doing that, they’d lose support of leftists immediately, and for good reason since it’s pretty much always the former. You gotta talk out of two sides of your face to get anywhere in politics, and the side that persists post-election is the one that’s getting buttered (a tortured synthesis of two idioms was on my to-do list for today sorry).

Idk electoralism is a fuck, party politics is the solution