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might be a generational thing. now we have to tell the zoomers to read another book. five more years and alphas will call them "hunger game adults"

Well it criticizes PSL for not being connected to the proletariat without actually defining who constitutes that elusive class in the US, so I would be more interested in reading the author's definition of that before proceeding.

Where does the Central derive its legitimacy from? [...] Not from any connection to the proletariat, as they are professional activists leading an organization of mostly students and young people drawn from all classes.

Then you have the criticism about PSL not achieving recognition & material support from the AES states it valorizes. Sure. I think the question of whether receiving that support would even be a good thing, tactically, is pretty open for debate.

my brain inserted the linkedin AI slop hype emojis at the start of each line of your post

How worrying! Good thing the political elites are doing nothing to stoke the belief that untouchable elite pedophile groups exist, so these ideas lack a fertile substrate in which to take root.

If you visit any war museums in Vietnam they really drive home how terrifying the B-52 fascist death machines were and how important of a goal it was to stop them. MiG-21 pilot Vũ Xuân Thiều sacrificed his life to ram one of them with his plane. Unbelievably heroic.

That video is good but the "shithole country" color filter is as egregious as I've ever seen lmfao

The state of mass food serving here is so dire, we need to just straight up steal the idea of those temples that cook ENORMOUS pots of dal and stir it with a giant ladle:

Probably way, way cheaper too.

I think this is a good post! People of color are often given the bill for accommodating white disabled people.

exploring the depths of western leftism by becoming an abused sidewalk newspaper merchant in 2026

it is so funny that the only attempted persecution of political elites in the west come from document mishandling

finally, we have been lacking un-elaborated internet comments about how philosophical a game is [characters & bosses named after philosophers]

What's funny is I think that often my ideas about this mostly come down to "how much do I want to deal with arguing with pedantic angry nerds who have tied their identity to corporate slop"

If you don't mind me asking, what was the hook that got you in?

RIP to a fallen US troop :(

this is one funny thing that dates The Dark Knight, the joker goes on some long cynical rant the thesis of which is americans only care about going to the mall

Marx's Capital Illustrated is decent, as at least it explains MCM vs. CMC pretty well.

like half of them are Deepak Chopra lol

Depends, it's a pretty common take that a lot of the US's infrastructural woes are due to not being able to build things effectively anymore, which is downstream of de-industrialization.

aka moving further up the value chain like US did when it de-industrialized, moving lower-value fundamental manufacturing to Vietnam

If you don’t believe me then I can ping somebody for you, because, quite honestly, I would be very surprised if you were in regular contact with any Jews.

I don’t personally believe the examples I gave. This is another reason the hypothetical-contradiction argument style is annoying, because you invite people to play in an imaginary world and then are horrified when they play in that imaginary world. We are talking about alternative explanations that a person you are making this argument to would find compelling. That being said, thank you for the in depth reply.