Bootleg version of David Foster Wallace’s graduation speech “This is Water”

She probably should have hung out for a while instead of stepping right back into an admin role

What’s Cthulu? The girl reading this right now

Just saw an ad for Licorice.com, a service that delivers a curated box of licorice to your door. Did someone turn on the free money pump again?

Congrats! I’m at about 36 minutes myself, so I know what an achievement 30 minutes is

Kafka is funny! That’s what nobody mentions

Wild how people on here go miles out of their way to read a comment in the least generous way possible

What about my response gave you the impression that I think not tipping a worker is good? Are you saying you think workers should be made to rely on tips?

I mean, he wasn’t wrong about that

It’s from From the Wikipedia article for “Jewish dairy restaurant”

Truly the Larry David of revolutionaries

I didn’t think I needed to explain that getting hit by a car is more injurious than getting hit by a bike, but sure

But also cars, at least where I live are not ignoring all traffic laws while I’m trying to cross the street so a bike hitting me is much more likely

I don’t like being the anarchist in this analogy

Ideally pedestrians and cyclists put aside their grievances and team up to kill their common enemy, the motorist

Honestly I have to go with OP if I’m taking a side, as an NYC apartment dweller myself. Like yeah, you have to make compromises and get along with your neighbors etc, but this guy has just permanently annexed the hallway. It’s a fire hazard and an all around dick move. Part of living with limited space is looking the other way when people fudge the rules, sure, but the other part is not taking more than your share of the common space. At the very least this guy has inconvenienced everyone else on his floor (assuming it’s an elevator building) or everyone living above him (if it’s a walk up)

Maybe it’s my bias as a pedestrian, but cyclists can be nearly as entitled and dangerous as a motorist to people on foot. The number of times I’ve almost gotten run over by cyclists blowing through red lights is uncountable. And if my neighbor was like actually it’s my inalienable right to block the hallways with my bikes, I would not like that one bit

It is oft said that “fascism is imperialism turned inwards,” no? Again, it is a material difference of the conditions in which we mobilize the masses and build a revolution.

It is a failure of solidarity to ally, even tactically, with a genocidal regime, simply on the assumption that domestic conditions will be better for organizing. Moreover, yes, the Democratic Party has shown time and again that they are willing and eager to use the full, repressive force of state terror on the left. The numerous links between the military, the police, the intelligence apparatus and the genocidal regime in Israel are exactly the fascism coming home from the frontier and it is happening under the merely class collaborationist Democrats

Finally, we do not see the Democratic Party as a fascist organization. We define fascism using the comintern’s definition as presented by Georgi Dmitrov: “the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic and most imperialist elements of finance capital”.

I fail to see the distinction, particularly, when the Democratic Party is in full support of the genocide in Gaza.

This philosophy of “Social Fascism,” where modern social democracy and fascism are equated

Are we equating the Democratic Party with social democracy now?

Thank you for an actual response. Your party has a god-awful reputation and stuff like this looks disgustingly unprincipled on its face

I ask again however, as I did elsewhere in this thread, who exactly is in this “People’s Front” against fascism aside from CPUSA itself? The Democratic Party, itself a fascist organization, surely cannot be included

Well your commitment to democratic centralism is commendable at least

They are not.

Okay I’m convinced

THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Communists will give full united support and participation in the broad front to defeat Trump, Trumpism, and the MAGA Republicans.

The party is here committing itself to electoralism on behalf of the Democrats with the thinnest figleaf of a self-declared “broad front” (who else is a member of this front exactly, btw?). Let’s see here, who exactly is at the top of the ticket, and would be elected upon the defeat of Trump, and Trumpism. It’s noted war criminal, Genocide Joe Biden! Guess you didn’t endorse him, just fully committed yourselves to electing him.