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Marxist, wife guy, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. Crime, baseball, communism. http://immortal-science.com
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The world is full of this sort of spoiled, worthless aristocrat that sits idle, living off the money their families made torturing and murdering the poor of their own countries to fatten the wallets of foreign capitalists, and it is a primary function of US foreign policy to restore them to power

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

"What I like most about the Franco-Italian artists Picasso is how he used blue periods, and innovated the genre of dadaism" "Oh, yes, very good. I think the best thing about him is that he painted the Michaelangelo's David at the request of Pope Henry IV"

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Was there, can confirm

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This makes it sound like he's just a sad old man who sits around watching TV because all his friends died of age and infirmity instead of a national leader whose entire government is being systematically murdered by foreign assassins

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The reason this happens is that if we were honest about which faction is actually engaging in acts of violence and oppression, people might demand that the other faction do something about it. Saying "there are problems on both sides, let's all calm down" lets them get back to making money

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why did "not just whistling Dixie" become an idiom for not bullshitting someone Was there a guy who kept saying he had really important news and when people asked what it was he would just whistle Dixie Because that would be hilarious

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I know I'm not saying anything new here, but it is really amazing to me how many liberals and progressives will insist that something is absolutely and irredeemably bad but also that we can't and shouldn't do anything to get rid of that thing

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It hurts to have a pinned begging letter, and hopefully I won't for long. But my work has dried up to a trickle, and AI is killing off a lot of what I do for income. I have to pay bills and I can't. I need work. Should you be inclined, Venmo lpchicago or PayPal leonard dot pierce at gmail dot com.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Here is something fun to think about. Liberals and leftists don't agree on much, but they broadly agree - and are correct to do so! - that one problem with America, politically, is the presence of a vast, well-funded right-wing media apparatus that feeds people misinformation, lies, and propaganda.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Who is this for exactly

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

The dream of the '90s may no longer be alive in Portland, but the fact that everything has gotten really expensive but nobody seems to have any money indicates that the dream of the late 2000s still is

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

How is it June of 2025 and people are still getting rooked by "Alt[federal agency]" accounts

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I’m very glad the protests are big, I’m heartened by them, but the Democratic Party doesn’t deserve all these people putting their bodies in the streets, and they can’t be allowed to highjack that energy, and neutralize it like they did last time

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

"I'm a lifelong Democrat, but we tried to stop Trump and we failed. We don't know how to win elections anymore, so I just thought I'd come over here to listen to what you have to say. Maybe socialists are on to something."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment