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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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There is actually a very accurate historical document of the post-9/11 vibes. A clipart comic called Get Your War On. Click on through: www.mnftiu.cc/2001/10/09/w...

submitted 10 hours ago • 117 comments

We should do popularism unless the public supports any redistribution of capital, financial regulation, or non interventionist foreign policy

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Wow really coming out swinging there, thanks chief

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

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 1 day 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 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago • 4 comments

Who is this for exactly

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments