“…reflects a Marxist agenda”

Keep it up folks, just making marxism look cooler

Hopefully the onion can eventually buy it at a steep discount too!

Ohh damn, and if an entire society experienced this type of abuse…

Yes, ban the treat factories, I’m sure that’s a good strategy.

Labour Unions in their current form do help win the working class concessions, but a ton of apathy is usually present. Plus, a union does nothing to help those with the most need under capitalism: the unemployed.

So imo its important to have concessions in the west because we have no revolutionary spirit and things will likely get very bad as the empire crumbles, so they are better than nothing, but they can and likely will be unlawed at some point.

If, like tenets unions, we can find new approaches to unionizing (its just organizing), those may actually help to build solidarity and working class power.

I mean, it is exciting

Petro dollar collapses too. The west blames China and probably Russia for economic disaster and huge unemployment (even though it’s the wests fault for not planning for that inevitable reality).

Civil unrest in the west, potentially war with China unless NATO collapses first.

Many bad things for the people in the west since our entire political economic system depends on cheap energy facilitating “infinite” growth (of GDP at least).

Though, hopefully leaders in the west are smarter than trying to beat a dead horse.

I just meant ask here.

I dont think my leftist views have anything to do with exercise selection, maybe they occasionally cause me to not skip cardio (lol), I want to be useful after all. But they have affected my views at the gym. I am very strong. The gym is typically filled with very conservative people (cis men especially), and it can be intimidating for some to be there. Even more so when there is someone lifting a tonne of weight next to you. Luckily I’m not super tall so it makes it easier, but I still try extra hard to be welcoming and approachable. Hard when I have inter-set-poo-brain but still.

I am currently cutting weight post season. So I eat a bit of lean meat, a pound or so of vegetables, quite alot of oats, a protein/berry/banana/spinach smoothie, and at least one piece of fruit a day. I am eating around 2800 calories a day. Basically get a bunch of protein, have some grains/beans, and fill up on fruit and vegetables to keep it simple.

For training (off-season):

3-6 sets per movement pattern (squat, bench, deadlift, overhead press), and 3-6 sets of accessories to grow the muscles for those movement patterns. Increase the stress each week (more weight, or sets, or reps). Add in a bit of core work (RKC planks, bird dogs, suitcase holds, etc.), end each (4/wk) session with 3-5 10 kcal sprints on a rowing machine, assault bike, or ski erg, and thats that. As well, I walk for 30+ minutes in the woods 3-7 days a week.

Now for someone training for fitness, 10 sets per muscle/movement per week, some walking and higher intensity cardio, and some sprints will cover everything.

For example:

You could do 5 sets of squats one day, and 5 sets a few days after.

Or:

5 sets of squats monday, then on say thrusday do:

5 sets of leg extensions, 5 sets of bulgarian split squats, 5 sets of core, and maybe some back.

I hope that helps!

If you are interested you can check out

https://rpstrength.com/blogs/articles/complete-hypertrophy-training-guide?_pos=13&_sid=d25e71c5e&_ss=r

Its mainly focused on bodybuilding style training, but if you do more compound exercises (squats, bench, etc.) and keep your number of sets in the mev range (minimum effective volume) it should work well.

My memories started coming back once I finished grad school, got diagnosed with ADHD, and had some time away from being employed. So stress, anxiety, depression, being too busy, not sleeping, etc., definitely affects memory formation and retrieval.

You can use me as a resource if you would like

That depends; if you drive, what make is your vehicle?

Ohh no thats awful. Where is this happening so I can avoid it?

Also: this wouldn’t work if things were good in the west

As a former personal trainer, they’ll ask you your goals as part of the consultation. You could say “I’d really like a huge squat and deadlift”, and that should work. You’ll likely also be given some upper body stuff (good for sure), but if you just half-ass arms, shoulders, dynamic abs, and forearms, while three-quarter-assing back and chest, you should get you what you want without outting yourself.

Plus its really hard work to grow muscle, so you’ll have to work your ass on any way. It will likely be easier to fake training arms than it is to train your glutes hard, for example.

Good luck!

https://www.thestorygraph.com/

I enjoy using it. Its not too flashy and lets me keep a list of books I have, want, am reading, and have read. Its searchable and has some graphing functions

IMO Its China and the perceived Communism that exists. What I mean is Americans and current American leadership have been drinking the red scare sludge for basically their entire lives, so real communism doesnt need to exist to be fought against, just perceived communism.

Like “cultural marxists”, socialized health care, education etc., unions, workers rights, etc

Sounds like Mexico, Canada, and China should write their own trade deal

Great work!

The funded organizations also will give funding to the best projects. Does that mean most interesting? Most likely to succeed? Biggest potential commercial/industrial application? It obviously depends.

Well thats an interesting idea: how many more people can the earth support for each billionaire

They’d stop believing people are stupid, especially those they disagree with, and realize that their differences are mostly made up by the ruling class to keep them in line.