The dialectic will continue as it always has. People will be born, experience joy and suffering, and then they will die. Forces of liberation will come into violent conflict with the forces of privilege. You will participate in a brief moment in history, and then that moment will pass. Things will get better and worse simultaneously, while the dialectic churns and transforms the world. Monsters will rise to power, and then they will fall. Everything that appears solid will melt into the air, and new forms of being will appear, rife with their own contradictions. We will all do our small part to change things for the better, elevating the collective human consciousness and combating the injustices of our time. We will all be tempted to indulge and preserve our limited privileges, clinging to the familiar and comfortable. Even within us, the dialectic churns. We will make our choices and live with the consequences. And then we will die.

And everything will be okay

Now that’s the kind of oddly specific content I come here for

Nolanization is underselling it, that was a Snyder movie who’s so much worse.

It really goes to show that all Alexander “the great” did was copy an already existing empire. The fact that the Greeks are the founders of “Western culture” while the Persians are ignored can only be the result of racism

Or, hear me out here, the plane changes pilots all the time and you’re completely replaceable mr. adam

It’s great for Lockheed Martin

Proportional to how much they cost. Truly free festivals have rad lib energy

Yeah I’m not talking about my job offer here, I’m just curious if IAO counts as bastards

That’s true. I can police the police. That’s good, right? On that note, are internal affairs officers bastards?

Eighth-assed is my middle name

I’m bad at treating people poorly but I’m really good at being sloppy

Oh no the cat’s never wrong

I did not expect Kamala to run to the right of Biden. I had zero expectations and I’m still let down

Write in Joe Biden, anything else is a vote for Trump

Right, but the movements and organizations capable of fixing anything don’t really exist yet, so organizing outside of electoralism requires a level of faith in “the party that is to come”, which is hard for most people (even well-read Marxists!)

The only thing keeping me going is my experience dealing with exponential growth. The movements that do exist might not seem to be growing fast enough, but I know that at a critical moment the exponential growth will pay off, and they will rapidly begin to meet the scale of the problem. But most people looking at socialist and working class movements in the US right now might conclude that it’s hopeless, and that trying to create anything new will take too long.

Also, the fact that there’s no actual left party with any sort of popular base makes it hard to avoid the gravitational pull of the most “left” party allowed to us by capital. People want to support an actual organization without doing third party crank shit, it’s a hard position

He was clearly blue MAGA

The problem is that even a billionaire can’t solve the problem, only a revolutionary transformation of society can solve it. Most ruling classes tend to perceive revolution as a fate worse than death, so bunkers are the only option left to them

He won’t dump him, but I can see him saying “I don’t know, I might fire him after we win, if he can’t hack it.” And never bring it up again, but his supporters cling to that to deflect all criticism of Vance

The best antichrist of my lifetime