CommunistCuddlefish [she/her] @ CommunistCuddlefish @hexbear.net

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Don't worry about it. It's only weird in atomized western cultures, it's normal for generations of families to live together. An author I like, Xiran Jay Zhao, talked in a video about how yeah of course they live with their parents even though they're in their ¿late 20s/early 30s?, it's not weird in their culture, it let's them focus on their writing career, they love their parents and enjoy being around them. I've got a friend in his mid-30s who says "hell yeah of course I live with my parents, I love my mom and dad and like getting to see them, my girlfriend and I get to have our own personal space so we're not up in each other's business all the time, I help my parents out, it's cheaper than renting on my own or dealing with roommates I don't know or trust to be covid-safe".

If it works for you, own it and be glad that this is working for you, because plenty of people could benefit from getting to live with their parents but we can't for various reasons.

You do not under any circumstances gotta hand it to the terror group Queen of England

That's exactly what I miss about being Muslim. It was very comforting to believe that the warmongers who started the War on Terror and killed millions would be punished in the afterlife. Now that I'm an atheist and can't believe in Hell, I feel this burning need for them to be punished while they're around to suffer.

Hell yes, going yo watch the movie inspired by Metallica's "One"

Yeah that makes sense! I generally tell people "Liberals are right wing because they still support capitalism and empire" but some of the edge cases make that harder to sell. Left-liberal is a term that can fill that niche.

Argument invalid, any local manufacturer who is getting rich making bombs to murder brown children is a local manufacturer whom I hate and do not want getting that money.

I like this. Do you have any suggestion for alternative terms? I think I've struggled with finding a different word because I don't feel comfortable calling anyone in the Democratic Party "leftist" so I fall back on "progressive" as a default

1000% excited for Drunken Angel!

I've seen good takes of yours and generally respect you, but I don't like this one. Too much doomerism leads to doing nothing and sitting out the moment.

This is great!

Can't wait for him to no be able to do anything due to gridlock from the NYC democratic party machine

Of course. And then radicalize supporters against the establishment more. "You elected me to get these things done, but these corrupt neoliberal ghouls defy the will of the masses!" Or if he won't, then others can.

then the massive Centrist Lib media apparatus will blame every problem plaguing NYC (even if the problems predated his mayoralship) which will give the Dem establishment more ammunition to blame all their woes on the progressive wing of the party and sell disenfranchised urban poor voters on establishment Dems.

They do this anyway! No matter what progressives do the Dem establishment will always punch left. They do not care about truth.

We may as well take the symbolic win and do something with it.

Letting the city sink under and establishment Dem was totally not the smarter fucking move.

Everything is going to get worse whether we fight or not. The important thing is to let people see socialists, even "democratic" socialists, fighting for them. You don't win friends and allies by standing by and not trying to help them. You do it by sticking your neck out for them. Waiting for the "perfect" moment to start fighting for the masses means it'll never happen.

Also if anyone calls me a doomer for this take I'll be recording your usernames and asking you how you feel about this post in a year from now

That's fair.

Sorry, but he's taking PEDs in order to sell his supplements of purified bull's testicles and shit. Craft an influencer personality, convince weird guys that they can get as masculine as him by eating raw organ meat, actually does a ton of PEDs to get that physique instead. It's not like he's engaging in a harmless hobby, he's grifting.

But damn, that is a hell of a thing to do to one's body just to grift

I know right? Took one look at him and saw

Extremely red.

Distended

Dude's doing trenbolone at least

Cursed, but I am glad that this site is a site where someone can say "nsfl" and I know it's not actually going to be. I wouldn't have clicked if I saw that title on

That is bleak. And the immunity debt myth has been debunked but still won't die because Capital needed the status who to remain. Thank you for the clarification and the charts!

First of all, Libs were saying this in 2021. And 2022. And 2023. And 2024. And each year I saw more and more people I knew develop very clear Long Covid, (although only a few acknowledged that's what it was, but they'd get covid for the 3rd or more time and complain about sudden onset of symptoms that were consistent with LC). I expect 2025 would be the same but I'm more isolated now and don't hear about it as much, plus the testing infrastructure has gotten so much worse that people aren't necessarily going to know if they got covid or something else.

There's no mechanism or selection pressure for covid to get less damaging, so there's no reason to think it's gotten better. The damage comes from the virus getting everywhere since it binds to a receptor that is in every cell, and the immune system fighting it off, which is what causes the damage that gives Long Covid such an incredibly broad range of symptoms. Yes it mutates constantly, but that part stays the same.

And the "multiple infections makes you immune" thing is hopium. Antibody efficacy for covid (whether from vaccine or infection) wanes fast because it mutates so quickly, like how getting the flu one year may not prevent a flu infection the next year, but worse. Much hay was made in crunchy circles about "natural immunity" (the idea that getting covid would confer better immunity to future variants than getting vaccinated) which has been thoroughly debunked by the fact that people keep getting infected over and over again.

I remember hearing that covid damages the immune system too so people who get it are actually more susceptible to other infection in general but I didn't follow if that was true or not. Seems like there was some impact but it didn't end up being as bad as HIV.

Absurd question but I just realized I have no idea how do I make other bipoc friends? Because almost all my friends are white and there's things they don't get. I live in a very white place but it's a city and there's tons of normal (non-cracker) people around, but a lot of them seem siloed in their own communities. I've never felt like I could go to cultural events for my ethnic group and don't even know if there are any here because my parents are pretty assimilationist, I don't speak the language, I don't have a shared cultural background because I was raised very American.

That's very sweet!

Was Indira Ghandi peaceful? Was Golda Mair peaceful? Was Margaret Thatcher peaceful? Was Hillary Clinton peaceful?

Contra(named after the Nicaraguan fascist death squads)points did a video about comphet. When will she do a video about compensatory girlboss divine femininity?

On the one hand yes, on the other hand I'm afraid then they'll just use that to keep justifying voting for their preferred genocidal mass-murderers

This site has been a much-needed place for some safety and camaraderie during the worst period of my life (so far).

That's the best way, just carry a defunct key to use as a tool. I have a key that's my "scraping fascist stickers off" key from an old broken bike lock.