Messenger: My lord, our forces have engaged the enemy at what the locals call Cao Cao Reeks Plains

Cao Cao: What the fuck?

If I didn’t want an enemy general to use a certain route through the mountains I would simply rename it Stinky Loser’s Pass

I was genuinely just thinking that this would have been the funnier direction to take the joke, what the hell

Even the dog is a bit suspect based on the company it keeps, I would first make sure it’s not what Jeffrey Epstein reincarnated as

I think Why Socialism? works surprisingly well here as a sort of preface to the whole list, it’s at least tangential to most main topics. I was so ready to criticise its inclusion from the perspective of its target audience being completely different than the readers of this list, but I think it gives the list structure in a great way.

While it is nice to have Uncle Ho on the list, I don’t think Why do we Have to Study Theory? quite does the thing a text about theory in the abstract should do here. I strongly believe there should be such a text here, but I can’t recommend one off the top of my head, sorry.

I hadn’t read General Rules for Independent Study before, it’s pretty great. I would put it second on the list after Why Socialism? for practical reasons.

Maybe “Tankies” would work better as the first thing in the section about imperialism? I think it feels a little repetitive here, with Why Marxism? making similar points, and the first two thirds of Lenin’s Imperialism are IMHO pretty dry and could use something like this to wash it down. There could be something short about social liberation here instead, but sadly I have no recommendation this time either.

executive producers include Barack and Michelle Obama

Excuse me?

Sometimes I get so bored I look at my Bluesky discovery feed to see what the robot thinks I would like, and this time it was a lot of pro-Democrat Wizard of Oz themed foot fetish content, as far as I could tell

Like a month ago he was saying that the Democrats made a mistake ‘making everything instrumental and materialistic’, but now it’s “concrete solutions” along with this unity bullshit

I know that if you firmly believe a wrong enough thing, trying to resolve its contradictions with reality will eventually land you in racism, but usually it takes more than one step

You know that industry with passionate workers with highly transferable skills? Let’s make their jobs suck ass!

Larp is short for la Role Playing, it’s like french or spanish or something

I’m so fucked up it’s actually real to me

Nationalism makes fools of us all, sadly

I don’t think they have to react at all. The more interesting possibility is the other guy winning, and what the “Netanyahu must go” type of liberals will say when nothing changes.

Nah they think the Catholics can’t actually turn the cookies into Jesus, we believe they can, but interpret the invitation to eat his flesh and drink his blood as just him being polite, so we choose not to

Thinking of starting a new Christian denomination where the main difference is that the others can have Jesus present in the Eucharist in whatever mode they want, but we don’t want to bother the guy

This is one of the least surprising things I have ever read

No but you see the next one might be actually bad for real, so we must not demand any concessions this time either, you privileged fuck

Or maybe like a hobbit or an elf

I think the rice I made today was so good that it finally balanced my humors