Unintended may be somewhat true, in that nobody explicitly had that as a conscious reason, but it was an obvious result that they could’ve known beforehand. So I don’t think it’s useful at all to call it unintended. Just an easily understood and expected side effect

Got a 15k in today in preparation for our future long march to eastern Europe.

Listened to chapter 25 of Capital again during the run though. Read it twice now and listened twice. Despite me finding it super useful, I can’t retain half of it.

Tomorrow is leg day and I will likely regret pushing myself on the run today, though.

Lol same for the spoiler. I just guessed randomly and googled after

If any of this is truly what was “intended” by the speaker, then that’s just horrible speaking and that person shouldn’t be allowed to speak at such events. Unbelievably terrible method of making a point. A sarcastic tone, and even a strong and clear one, is not a rhetorical tool that serious people should use, let alone to condemn genocide.

Can’t see because of local legal restrictions. What is in the link?

Other labor theory of values had been proposed before Marx, but Marx developed it into a consistent and rigorous form. It was (and should now still be) obvious to even liberals that value is created through labor. How that works, in what amounts, and how that value is imbued and made useful in an economy are things that Marx developed entirely differently to his predecessors

Libs and your obsession with whataboutism. This one isn’t even “whatabout,” the point is that the guy in this picture was fine, and in fact the army did everything in their power not to harm him.

In a complete opposite fashion, US drone operators gleefully shot random people and caused unbelievable harm to an entire region.

I proudly defend whataboutism when it’s used to exemplify the necessity of some tactic elsewhere or to compare similar cases for better understanding. But this isn’t even that

Much more useful, and with the same basic “gamification” strategies are just Anki flashcards. Even the Anki flashcards for the Duolingo will be more effective than the duolingo, because Duolingo is materially incentivized to throw all sorts of difficulties to progression in front of you.

My method, generally, for language learning is having a grammar book and flashcards (with sound if you can, otherwise listening will go to shit) for vocab and doing both. The flashcards take me 40 minutes a day for intense study (writing my answers first to practice spelling/writing other scripts) and 20 minutes if I just speak out loud. Same amount of time as Duolingo and about 10x as effective

Yeah I genuinely appreciated it as a beginner’s vocab and grammar learner in like 2012. It was great and I blew through so many courses learning so many words/basics of the linguistics of langauges. They even had discussion boards about basically every word where explanations of grammar and usage we there, as well as questions from others. Communism would revive old Duolingo and expand it. Capitalism strangled my beloved owl and replaced it with an apparition formed from the dollars it’s body decayed into.

I’ve said it before, I’m bi and very much not attached to my manhood. But for any poll’s sake, it’s not fitting to ignore that I live in and experience the world as a cishet.

This whole thread is very disappointing to me, I don’t think anyone here has presented a coherent idea of what fascism is. I’ve said it many time on hexbear, the US is the perfect example of fascism having already won long ago. Fascism is the expropriation at the edges of the empire, where exchange is unequal due to expropriation. The US was fascist, stayed fascist, and is now fascist. https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/

Biden is just the specific face of it today, the slight flavor. A flavor that’s slightly nicer to the queer community (not seeing the queer community as a space/group to expropriate from specifically) and nothing else. Trump wanted to expand some internal expropriation and apply fascism more internally and closer to home (and maybe at China, but I think he’s just racist not actually wanting war). Nothing else.

Yeah I should say, I’m not worried about theft as a phenomenon, I just wouldn’t have an electric bike outside considering I don’t earn enough to lose something like that. Theft is a tragic symptom but I also prefer not to be affected by it lol

But smart, having inside places is cool. Most places I go and bike to wouldn’t have that

Eh I got it recommended by a comrade who seemed knowledgable about it, but I kinda regret it. It’s expensive and, even if the parts are replaceable, the phone is slow and underperforming enough that it’ll still just need replaced within 5 years due to software requirements from everything around it.

Literally cheaper and just as little (or less) impact in continuously buying used flagship phones from 4 years ago.

That comrade is a bit of a lib so I should’ve seen it coming. Of course I’m a lib so I didn’t.

Is bike theft not a major issue in New York It’s the main thing keeping me from getting one. Bikes get stolen so frequently that I prefer my 100 buck bike, much more easily replaced.

I can’t tell who they’re angry at? Us or Jacobin? Or a third party I’m not online enough to know? Or angry that we like Jacobin? (We don’t right?)

It feels purposefully vague to the point that I can’t parse it

I’m going to rant here, so it’s not aimed at you specifically but it’s something I need to vent here.

I saw that video, after seeing many others some of which I didn’t want to see and some of which I searched for for confirmation. Today, seeing that one, I realized I’ve experienced a sort of desensitization. I didn’t feel ill, I didn’t feel particularly disgusted at the image (did feel disgusted that people are doing and supporting this, of course), I mostly felt anger. Idk if that is desensitization or something else, but I just am constantly unbelievably angry at what has happened and can’t feel much else when seeing these images.

I used to describe to libs and non-Marxist leftists :same thing: how I felt about seeing unhoused people on the streets. People would mention how I was visibly angry when walking by someone, and I would always bring up that I’m constantly so angry about these people being unhoused in wealthy countries, and am upset that there’s no way to fix it without much bigger changes than they want to comprehend, and I try to channel this anger into energy to read about how to fix this, strategize, organize, work for a better world, etc.

I don’t necessarily think this is good mentally or morally, especially when projected onto the suffering of Palestinians now. I feel like I’m so upset that it builds to be unbearable in its form and I can’t deal with it as it is anymore, but can only try to become more energized and focused from it. Maybe it’s dialectics like that.

I’ve been asked shit too at borders. Not really intensely, but about party affiliations and about whether or not I was “radicalized” somewhere lol. I was turned into a communist by the West, not any country outside I’ve gone to lol

Hahahha swaffelen, it’s definitely a funnier way of saying it

This says more like “I slammed my penis against the car door” which is less painful sounding and more like a show of force. Not that it matters much. Swamp German is the correct slur for future reference

Late to the party but I learned about skibidi when babysitting for my neighbor. She is from Afghanistan and speaks little English or the local language, but we get by. Her son, though, spoke the local language well at 4 and was trying, in 4 year old language, to tell me what skibidi was without mentioning YouTube, because the distinction of YouTube film and representing something real was not clear yet in his child brain.

The sound effects he used were so hilarious and confusing. If I can remember right he said "it’s this monster head that comes out of the [ground] and goes ‘bwaaaam’ ". Think of Sound effects for Interstellar lol.

I genuinely thought for a bit that this was some folklore from Afghanistan that I’d never heard of til I tried to ask his mom wtf he was talking about and she was confused but mentioned it possibly being something about a toilet and we looked it up hahahah

In any case, Marg bar amriika