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Oh yeah. That's right.

It's tapeworm time.

Americans do not generally have a third place where they spend time in common. Sometimes they go to a coffee shop or something. But there's no such thing as the town square or the neighborhood market where the old people hang out or the weekly potluck. You don't know your neighbors or, even if you do, you spend no time with them. You do basically nothing as a community.

There are exceptions but they're very limited and are usually somehow tied to the chamber of commerce or a tourism board or something.

Culturally, when faced with a problem, you're supposed to just deal with it as best you can, not bring it up as a problem to the community (the community does not exist). Sometimes people try to get together to help others but it inevitably turns into a charity that becomes part of the NGO industrial complex, a way to make money for the "leadership" team and give the people responsible (bourgeois) a nice tax break and a spot on that leadership team for their progeny.

Folks can barely even socialize with each other most of the time. When forced into proximity under amicable terms and with a shared interest, some will eventually get along, at first being surprised at the people around them and discovering that they can talk to them for more than 10 minutes without getting frustrated or needing to pay them for the time. Most of the time they cannot talk about anything without getting heated pretty quickly. No capacity for cooling a situation down, it's always time to fight.

Also getting Americans to form a union is like pulling teeth. It's possible but really fucking hard because a critical number of people will have a series of false consciousnesses that are about their own superiority or an ideology that makes all things individualistic.

H5N1 has a roughly 50% mortality rate in known cases for humans. It's probably an overestimate but we shouldn't assume it's way off.

So half that would get it from milk die and half would be "immune" for a while lol. Though maybe not even immune to whatever variant might become effective at human-human transmission.

Ahahaha fuck the troops

Probably but I also know for a fact that development was done with DARPA and they were strapping guns to that thing before it was even publicly shown. When DARPA pulled funding later they said it was due to it being too loud for combat.

The goal was always to use this as an assault device of some kind.

The paper of record

"It's just... a piece of cheese?"

Yeah they've been on a bad trajectory. I see CPUSA members that are, individually, much cooler than CPUSA's leadership, but I have yet to see that translate into a non-cringe platform.

Isn't CPUSA having a convention soon / now? Are they able to (in theory) deal with their embarrassing leadership at it?

If so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.

The US is threatening to decline, just showing a few cracks in the armor. It isn't quite there yet. While American life is getting worse, that has never been the measure of American Empire. It is domination and contol. Most countries still do whatever the US pressures them to do, imperialism is alive and well, its dog in the Middle East hasn't been crushed despite doing genocide. The US is in the process of cannibalizing the EU and they're gladly handing themselves over.

There is still a struggle against the empire and we must support it.

Tor is secret Firefox

Trots often introduce themselves as Marxists because they know Trotskyism will turn people away.

Stalin was a big nerd that probably read too much lol

Deeply unserious people.

If you're gonna be an ultra at least offer a proper critique. These lazy anticommunists don't even inform themselves before flapping their gums.

Also cops and prison! Really good at incarceration and state violence.

Once you get to a protest, find people that are actively doing things and ask them. They likely know or are the organizers. You will be able to get added to a means by which to hear about upcoming actions or have an opportunity to get directly involved.

If the main challenge is finding that first protest to go to, there is almost certainly one very soon, maybe even today, for Nakba Day.

We expect better tab hygiene than that in the worker's commune, comrade.

Should've been two people on a canoe as I understand this is what Minnesotans do 24/7.

The left side looks like a simplified map of the state, which is kinda fun.