Angry wokeist commies learn to appreciate that hard work and risk that goes into being a landlord; landlords learn the true meaning of friendship (without changing any behaviors).

Inside of you are two UylessesTs

I think this is some kind of irony, but I’m not sure which type.

Is this the moment Biden truly became president?

I vaxxed my cat and it won’t shut the fuck up.

Dame

until apocalypse means “the literal end of existence” instead of “the collapse of the existing social order”

The literal Greek translation is just “disclosure,” “uncovering,” or “revelation” [of something previously hidden]. It’s very likely that it was meant in the sense you said–a revelation of the rot at the heart of society. Early millenarian Christians always predicting the apocalypse has a lot of parallels with Q-Anon weirdos constantly predicting The Storm. It’s basically the same idea.

I’m not sure emotions really have an ethical valence at all. You can be happy or sad about whatever you want without it being blameworthy or praiseworthy. I don’t think it’s ethical to actively make things worse, though.

I find the faux-concern “it’s understandable that you’re so traumatized, but have you thought about getting help to get past your PTSD?” shit even more infuriating than outright accusations of cowardice.

“I won’t apologize for the United States. I don’t care what the facts are” is also a banger.

Imagine if this was the blitzkrieg, and instead of going to bomb shelters people were just like “I’m sick of hearing about these bombings, I’m just going to pretend they’re not happening and leave it up to fate.” And then the bomb shelters are all closed and even the people who still wanted to take shelter are left to fend for themselves.

And the people who try to take shelter or talk about all the bombings are told that they should seek therapy for their uncontrolled and unreasonable anxiety.

Still remember a classmate who peed themselves in class because our horrible head master refused to let him go to the bathroom

This drives me nuts as both someone with a small bladder and as a teacher. I can’t fathom why anyone would ever be that cruel. I always tell my students not to even ask: just get up quietly and go. It’s less disruptive, and I don’t need to police bodily functions.

He said he gets that all the time, actually. He’s very nice.

I’m sure Jim Hansen gets things like that all the time.

Yeah that’s actually what he said! He was super nice about it. Really decent dude.

Capitalism as a system wants all of us to feel this way. It wants us alienated from one another, atomized, and convinced that any attempt to find community and solidarity is impossible. Don’t listen to it. The fact that so many people in this thread are commenting some variation of “damn, I really feel this” exposes this feeling for the corrosive lie it is. Maybe you haven’t found your community yet, but don’t let capitalism grind you down and make you start thinking you have no community. Keep at it, comrade. You will get there, and you are worth it.

“Nothing will fundamentally change” has got to be up there on the list.

#Birdlore #Birdlorelore

I sometimes think about the girl in one of my college classes (which was taught by Ralph Nader’s incredibly insane and rad sister) referring to Evelyn Fox Keller’s book A Feeling For the Organism as “the feeling of the orgasm.”

An even better one: my PhD focused on the foundations of climate science, and when I was ABD I was teaching a class about it. We had Jim Hansen–extremely famous climatologist–in as a guest lecturer one week. He gave his spiel, and then opened it up to questions. One undergrad raised her hand and said “how did you go from making The Muppets to being a climate researcher?” She thought he was Jim Henson, and apparently had the whole time. It was the reddest I have ever seen a human being turn.

Not only do I still think about that one, I tell my students about it every year when I talk about Hansen’s work.

Saw this on another sub the other day. Good stuff OP.

For those out of the loop:

Basically Russia (and various international actors) are using social media to push a narrative that “your country is bad” and “you should mistrust your institutions”.

Damn, sounds like Russia is correct on this one

This is such a baffling position to me. Like how do you arrive at “no matter how many people from various walks of life they kill, this other country will always have my unconditional support to do whatever they want” as your view? I can sort of understand the “I will never apologize for the United States, no matter what the facts are” jingoist position even if I think it’s monstrous, but this is even crazier. If my mother was just openly murdering Innocent people she wouldn’t have my unconditional support. What the fuck has done to justify this in his head? It’s insane.