You ever watch Requiem For A Dream?

I live in Taiwan.

Can confirm that plenty of shit is slathered in cheese and/or mayo, milk is readily available at any store, there’s an absurd amount of Häagen-Dazs, and milk tea is the most commonly purchased beverage in the whole country.

Butter can be a bit scarce, though, strangely.

I dunno about you, my dude, but the only people I’ve seen fucked up by antifascists were not saying that they didn’t want to bake a gay cake.

But I’ve seen the people who didn’t want to bake a gay cake be called pieces of shit who should do better. And I think that’s just called social consequences.

This is where I tend to disagree with Marx as well.

Capital is a fantastic book full of scathing and prophetic analyses of capitalism and its innate degradation of value and connection.

The Communist Manifesto is a book with some good ideas but some implementation that I find flawed. And that’s not a knock on Marx-- critiquing problems is a significantly easier prospect than offering solutions.

But a lot of Marx’s proposals for the implementation of Communism are rooted in authoritarianism, even if their end goal is the dissolution of the state and capital. Also, for an ideology versed in the formation and interdependence of worker communities, the Day of the Rope is kind of antithetical to establishing solidarity and mostly serves, I believe, as masturbatory schadenfreude.

But hey, I’m willing to fix some of the stuff that doesn’t work instead of throwing more fuel into the machine that over-harvests people and our planet to the point of destruction.

I really like this nuanced take, btw. Thanks for posting it.

Tell that to anarchocommunists.

I’m sure it will be news to them that they will want to hear.

The Wheels On the Bus on loop and full blast is part of my shock and awe strategy.

I guess that makes me number 3?

The ending was a bit silly, but the Qunari storyline was fucking incredible.

I love everything else about island life.

Except the fucking roaches.

I’m getting some cats this weekend and I hope they “help” my problem.

I now live in a climate with HUGE roaches.

I grew up in a climate where they were rare. I never saw a roach in-person until I was in my 20s.

For the first year in my current apartment, it was rare for me to see a roach. Maybe an odd one every once in a while.

Now, I get multiple every time it rains. Which sucks on its own. But, they’ve all taken to the same habit of crawling up the back of my couch and staring at me 3 inches away from my face to say hello.

When this happens, I transcend beyond fear and anger and enter a blackout rampage mode. Move all my furniture. Couch cushions. Hunting until I’m absolutely certain that every single one of them is dead.

I’ve bought drain covers. I’ve bought roach traps. I’ve cleaned my house top-to-bottom. I’ve checked the seals on my door and windows. They’re nowhere in sight on a dry day, but every time it rains, they’re fucking back.

It’s genuinely starting to fuck with my head, because whenever I see peripheral movement out of the corner of my eye in my apartment, I think it’s a roach. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn’t. Are those a pair of little antennae poking out from behind my couch, or am I imagining it? I don’t know until I’ve done yet another sweep.

It’s harder to fall asleep. I keep having brief bouts of imagination wbere bugs are crawling and swarming all over me. I constantly do visual sweeps of my apartment. I can feel my stress level rising on rainy days. I feel like I’m losing my mind.

I fucking hate roaches.

I’m your huckleberry.

Fart.

Can you name all of the actors that played Putties in the original English run of Power Rangers from the 90s?

See, I can set arbitrary, movable goal posts, too.

It doesn’t work that way. FBI documents remain classified for 50 years before being accessible to FOIA. That means that we don’t have the means to confirm culpability outside that 50-year window.

I can throw names at you. But here’s what I know will happen in response. You will either;

A) Claim the person was not innocent. Despite conflicting claims, they either had a weapon, attempted violence, whatever. So they deserved to be murdered.

Or

B) The situation is not clear. Nobody was outright blamed. Details are fuzzy. Investigations were inconclusive.

Regardless of what I post, the outcome will never be “Wow, you’re right. I guess law enforcement does kill innocent people without impetus sometimes.” You will always move the goal posts and claim that I did not meet your burden of proof. Because you’re arguing ideologically in bad faith. And since I’m not a fucking idiot, I’m not going to waste my time.

And if you want to say that you are, in fact, arguing in good faith, then my rebuttal is simple;

I’m not doing your fucking homework for you, Billy.

And everyone knows that the FBI was never involved in the extrajudicial killing of an innocent dissident besides that one time.

I moved outside of the US and Facebook is the only way that I am able to keep in touch with the majority of my friends and family back home. Also, in my current country, it hosts the majority of business pages and local communities. Getting rid of it would severely impact my ability to function in socioeconomic contexts.

But Twitter and Reddit? Fuck 'em. Fediverse all the way.