Literally half of why I changed my degree lmao

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Not all skinfolk are kinfolk if thats what your gettin at

Their pancakes and hashbrowns slapped when I was a kid. Has it just gotten worse or do I have rose tented glasses because of how old I was at the time?

I wish you had said nothing 😔

Its missing something by Reagan Youth but otherwise fantastic

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Idk disney kinda does this sometimes but usally with adoptive/step mothers. I get it though, its much less common and even the ways abusive mothers and fathers are portrayed is heavily influenced by our cultural understanding of gender.

Typically when plants flower they become more bitter. There are outliers but the general rule holds. Broccoli is better before it flowers fs

I wish they would both explode

God I wish he was that cool

Btw

Gary Varvel is a Christian, conservative, cartoonist and speaker

Varvel’s Views From The Right newsletter includes his cartoons, links to conservative commentary and Varvel’s essays on current events from Biblical worldview.

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This man is a christian nationalist. You are platforming a christian nationalist.

Yes I understand how that is unpopular. I don’t expect a revolution to occur during a time when people think peaceful change is possible. Revolutions aren’t something we make happen, they are a condition that is imposed upon us. The goal is to make a political organization that is ready to control a popular revolution when it eventually happens.

Well, could you all maybe hole up in a meeting room for awhile and maybe thrash something out

We do this often yes.

I’m all about a better way but “we don’t know” obviously isn’t it

It isn’t “we don’t know” its “I am not personally informed enough on these functions so I won’t pretend to explain them”. There are people who can but I am not them and that is okay. I know saying idk isn’t convincing but I won’t do the subject a disservice by butchering it. Not every socialist is expected to understand every aspect of future socialist projects. We work as a group. I do intend to learn more on this subject though, it’s just a long process that requires a lot of reading.

seem only to want to shit on Democrats and offer no practical political suggestions.

We shit on democrats because we do not hope to convince fascists that they are wrong and should change. We hope to show liberals the flaws within their party and line of thinking because they are actually capable of change. We don’t offer what you consider practical politcal suggestions because we do not pretend what you consider practical will actually work in the long term.

Visions for how a socialist economy would look in the US absolutely exist, you only have to look for them. Unfrotunately they are longer than a lemmy comment and require a lot of time to write. I am playing minecraft with my partner rn and don’t feel like finding them for you. If you have good-faith questions to ask or want resources to read go to the askchapo community or something

If I am honest with you I am not the guy who gets on the podium and explains an entire economy to the people. The exact details of how a socialist economy should function under the material conditions of the united states are still up for debate. I could do the leftist thing and send you an entire book that no one reads if you want but anyway. What I would like to see is the owning class (landlords and business owners) stripped of most of their assets. All the homes they don’t need, all the machinary they use to enrich themselves. This is going to require violence unfortunately. You can’t vote for this. I would then want to see those resources distributed amongst the people. I want those homes given to people who don’t have a home. I would want the state to give jobs to workers who do not have them using the means of production that has been recently expropriated. I want those workers to produce goods for workers who need them at a price those workers can afford since the need for shareholder profit has been eliminated. I would like to see the people’s wealth be used for the benefit of the people in the form of healthcare and education rather than war and subsidies for private businesses. Most things would stay relatively similar to how they were for quite some time. We wouldn’t switch to bartering, thats an inefficient system in the modern era for large scale production. We wouldn’t just give everyone one big check, we would permanently increase the value of their wage but removing the vast majority of surplus value extraction that business owners call profit. A lot of bullshit labor that exists specifically for the purpose of making the rich more rich would be eliminated and in exchange the people as a whole would have to work less. I can tell you what socialism intends to achieve and how it intends to achieve it broadly but I am no political-economist. I can’t give you all the details. It gets way more complex as you approach international trade. China’s model is worth looking into with its mixture of private and publicly owned business

Edir: also no, we can’t own the means of production rn. Not as a whole. You can own some means of production in like, a co-op as a small group of workers but you will always be outcompeted by a formally structured capitalist business that can exploit its workers for profit in a way that a co-op can’t

Taxing the rich, healthcare for all, environmental protections, and publicly funded education are not socialism. They are things that socialism and socialists value sure but they are not socialism. Socialism is an organization of production. Who do I vote for if I want to own the means of production in common? How would a politician ever get elected on that platform and survive? Are you actually suggestion that we can vote business owners out of existence and they’d just roll over and let it happen? You say we just have to vote for the right people but the right people aren’t allowed on the ballot.

Genuinely the final straw in my physics undergrad. I do history now lol

I hate having no one to send this to 😮‍💨

Liberals are not anti-capitalist Capitalism is on the right. Liberals are on the right. It really is that simple.

The fundamental difference between the left and right is and has always been preservation of the current form of political economy (the right) vs progression to new form of political economy (the left). During the days of feudalism the right wanted to preserve feudalism and was represented by the landed aristocracy while the left was represented primarily by bourgeois revolutionaries pushing for a capitalist system. Today those bourgeois are on the right because they are trying to preserve the current system that sustains them while communists and anarchist are on the left because they recognize that this system does not work for them and are trying to build a new one. Liberals stand in the way of that and are therefore on the right

The action of putting them in the tube doesn’t. However, this is a rat used for testing of some kind so it will be hurt at some point

Their cops probably aren’t shooting kids for holding a toy gun like ours do