The impending destruction of the petrodollar is at hand

Come and join us on the coast

fear of death and the need for legacy

Most of them are virtual groups - no need to leave the bed!

‘Simmering in their destruction’ is certainly one possibility, but look at North Korea. In the wake of their US-inflicted devastation, the Kim dynasty emerged and devoted all resources, both human and natural, to creating nuclear weapons so that the US could not do that again.

You could try out a DSA book club. They sometimes read through fiction books that are much more entertaining than straight up economic theory (…for some) then everyone discusses. It’s a very approachable way to start understanding marxist/leftist socioeconomic ideas. Link: Reading Groups

There was a shortformvid clip I saw some time ago that stuck with me: You can only ‘believe’ in something that does NOT have evidence for it (or at least not conclusive evidence), otherwise you would KNOW it to be true. Belief requires a certain amount of uncertainty. Note that I am in no way religious and in no way am saying people should believe religious texts, just sharing an interesting take on the concept of ‘believing’

they’re busy surviving an ethnic cleansing

Doubt

who keeps upvoting this bullshit?

You are misinterpreting my comment, and you seem to be trying your best to antagonize. I wrote, pretty explicitly, that I don’t believe in him. I don’t believe in any candidate… except maybe Claudia de la Cruz. I’ll repeat again: Progressive politics is more than just elections. Productive discussion - even in small forums like this - are far more useful than arguing about a candidate in an election that I would guess that none of us here can even vote in.

No, not at all. I’m saying that the likelihood of getting a ‘progressive’ candidate on a ballot is extremely unlikely. I’m also saying that ‘politics’ and specifically ‘progressive politics’ is far more than just elections. I’d contend that most ‘governance’ is done by unelected government workers. I’m saying that political candidates dont matter as much as us building our own communities and networks. I’m saying that arguing over which candidate would fuck us over the least is largely a waste of time. Progressive politics, in practice, should devote less time to electoralism and more time to developing their communities - government be damned.

Seems like this instance needs to define what ‘progressive politics’ are. From my perspective, US electoral methods are currently constructed in a way where ‘leftist’ ideas are simply not allowed to advance. Like, yes Platner is guilty of war crimes but he is the less worse candidate, so sure vote him in and then move on and do the real work of community building, organizing, unionizing, and building a powerful labor bloc that is not beholden to any political party. Elections will not save us.

so, anti-freedom then? I can understand not allowing proselytizing, but this reads to me like de facto anti-muslim legislation.

^^^ she wasn’t dumped, she was saved. Now she’ll get some cushy job next to noem were they just collect checks and keep furthering the construction of the american reich.

Wireless everything. Its magic. RF magic.

saving this comment for when i dive deeper down the rabbit hole later. at the moment i think im only self-hosting jellyfin and owntracks, and I have a couple llm models in LM studio but haven’t messed with them in a while.

Sounds interesting. I currently pay the 5$/month for the Kagi search engine and that works great so I’m inclined to trust them on their other ventures.

you CAN effect change, major change. You choose not to, which is fine. But a single person can most definitely change the world.