Bill White

Using a shovel to dig a ditch instead of your bare hands still builds muscle, so using a track hoe will also build muscle. Because some past concerns about tech were misguided, all concerns even about qualitatively different tech are therefore invalid. I am very smart.

I mean we could rid the world of rich amoral sociopaths running everything and address climate change and the end of capitalism like grown ups, but hey let's kick the can down the road with a regional nuke war instead.

MSNABCNN reporter: "We get it, your side thinks a monkey with a machine gun is bad. But have we heard the monkey's side of the story?"

Monkey: "Ook?"

Reporter: "See, it's fine, this is just a distraction. We NEED to be talking about how his eating so many bananas is making them too expensive!"

It's what's left of human nature after empathy is beaten and shamed out of you.

Proper prep and sealant application is necessary for performance and not looking like crap, dammit!

So I guess we're at the "rageboner gooning with a concrete fleshlight" part of late stage capitalism huh.

Barbecue is fun. You can smoke a chicken in a couple hours if you spatchcock it. Work up from there to brisket and pork butt. Then whole hog. Long smoke but totally worth it. After that, well, oligarch is basically long pig.

That's cool, the collection of squishmallow skeletons was getting out of hand

I'm not sure replacing vampires with zombies is progress. But fortunately, history does have examples of reversing oligarchical capture. Maybe the French can offer some suggestions.

The corporate race to replace paid humans with coal-eating zombies is going well, I see. Maybe after the inevitable Butlerian thingy we'll all get to ride giant dicks and watch Sting in a metal speedo so that's cool I guess.

End corporate personhood, incentivize worker owned orgs, reverse CU, ban stock trading by pols, fix regulatory capture. Open finances for upper level politicians, large donor, or major media org extending 10yrs past service, prosecute corruption as treason. Limit executive power. And eat the rich.

Failure to meet a populist moment, utilize modern media, or address growing concerns with economic disparity and big donor political capture tells me they suck at strategy. They doubled down on tactics that failed in 2016 and lost against a two bit con artist. It's time for new leadership.

They didn't reshape the party after Trump's first win, why would we expect them to do that this time instead of going back to the business as usual that got us into this mess in the first place?

Trump is an effect, not a cause. The widespread frustration that put him into office isn't going to magically disappear even if he does. Those internal divisions reflect grappling with (or avoiding) the issues that got us Trump in the first place.

For a lot of "middle class" people those are basically savings accounts with better interest rates and more risk. They can't quit their jobs and live off the interest / rent without draining equity. Like you said, a con job to keep them high off capitalist vibes.

Orrr they can draw lines on the map with a sharpie and pretend that'll move a hurricane. Shallow thinkers tend to conflate map and territory like that.

And even by the definitions you wish we'd grant how are teachers not "working class"? Because they need extensive training? So do some trades (who earn more w/ less debt). The teachers I know have trouble making ends meet and deal with endless bs from above. Working class isn't just blue collar.

Defined by whom, for what purpose?

Territory matters. How ppl draw maps can reflect their agenda as much as anything, and maps become outdated. There not much "middle class" left, "professionals" lack power / stability. Those divisions may persist as culture / caste, but are economically hollow.

The functional part of being working class esp in the original context of this mess is that you're screwed if you lose your job. You may burn thru savings but you're not living sustainably off rent, others' labor, or owning other shit that makes money.

He's trying to win, not understand. Dropping context and sliding semantics so he can score those tasty internet points. Back in 1990 he would have probably had his own Usenet alt group everyone else knew to avoid.

Maybe conflating "working class" with "blue collar"? The owner of a multi million dollar construction company is aesthetically blue collar, sure. I'd bet 95%+ of teachers are some shade of fucked if they lose their job w/o other household income. That's the bit that matters.

Another tip: chopping meat, vegetables, etc is tedious and tiring. Get a large, heavy cleaver style blade, about 2-3 ft across, with a diagonal edge, and mount it in a tall upright track with a weight on top, then let gravity do the work! For additional economic benefit, find other uses for it.

We're already doing the violence, might as well have the economic revolution.

The future is nothing but vampires and zombies.

There's still chocolate and bacon so it's not all bad

What helped me was imagining I was playing chess with a grumpy toddler who just hopped a pawn over six pieces to the back and screamed KING ME while making poopy pants. Okay kid, you're losing and you also stink but clearly I'm not gonna convince you.

Really takes the edge of the pockyclipse

I was hoping it was all just pointless but harmless debate, but "they're asking for it" is a pretty clear indication the cat is dead in Schrodinger's shitbox

4chan, like all chaotic temporary autonomous zones, was a catalyst more than anything else. It was nihilistic sure, but with a silly side. It took a brief moment of real optimism dashed by a corrupt, broken world to turn it full on toxic.

Self-identification reflects the popularity of labels, not policies or principles. But if you can't get the difference between map and territory, don't worry, I'm sure tacking right and palling with war criminals will work this time.