I can’t see “jesus saves” without thinking of the Jam’s “down in the tube station at midnight”

The last thing that I saw As I lay there on the floor Was “Jesus Saves” painted by an atheist nutter

I’ve done that before! You can cook the rice the same day, mainly I think you just wanna let it cool down and ‘dry’ a little so it doesn’t steam when you fry it.

Given the amount of morons I see who cough without covering their mouth, the next pandemic is going to be so much worse. A lot of people took offence at being asked to think about others, I think next time they’ll go out of their way to be as selfish as possible.

It is insanely easy to end up homeless, the vast majority of the working class could last a month, maybe two if they’ve got some savings.

What’s noticeable here is the £2,000 given is quite a big lump sum, actually capable of helping people make a difference. It’d be inhumane to test it, but if that £2,000 was split up into 12 payments of £166, would it have made as much of a difference? I doubt it. Yet that’s how most benefits work, a pittance a month. Just enough to keep you alive, nowhere near enough to actually help lift people out of poverty.

I feel like most people you ask will only think about their own country, as in “I don’t want to live in a theocracy, there should be a separation” and do not think about other states that way.

Like others said, when you have them, you figure out a way to manage.

Tangentially related: I was at my sister’s recently, visiting for Christmas. One kid under 10, surrounded by mountains of toys, but instead of playing with those she chooses to make up her own game using an old umbrella. I loved that.

That feel is real. I thought 2020 would be a belter, I was pretty excited for the Olympics and the year just had a great sense of optimism. That was shattered pretty quickly.

I think it’s important to listen to both sides. I’m team boki.

Is this an mmo that you can get by playing as if it’s a single player game or does it really depend on the community? Never played before but I like the art style!

@cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml gave an excellent reply so rather than reiterate what they said, I recommend their comment to understand why you can’t just pop off capitalists and expect change.

Really truly, although it might feel counterproductive the best way forward is to sit down and read.

There’s a really good reading guide in the sidebar of this community, and Cowbee has their own here: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6218252

I recommend reading through them, because they will cover everything you’re thinking about.

As a quick answer, though:

For those of us living in the USA discussing theory won’t change anything.

Marx himself said “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” and virtually everyone here will agree. However, if you don’t understand the theory then how on Earth can you challenge capitalism? You will be doomed if you do not understand how to apply dialectical materialism to your own country. Marxism isn’t a dogma, that’s why theory is so important.

How should we unite all of the different leftists under one leader so that there can be a united opposition.

You will never get everyone to agree fully, but you can get most people on board by talking about the problems and showing how Marxism can be a solution. If you want to unite people, go spread the word.

Currently we need far more comrades like Luigi to remove the bourgeoisie with violence.

Randomly popping off a capitalist doesn’t actually fix anything you know? They’re just replaced by another capitalist. The system itself needs to be removed. That can only happen when the working class achieves sufficient class consciousness.

I will preface this by saying I am a novice and only started reading theory a few weeks ago and could be way off, but this is my current understanding.

I read Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds, and two quotes stood out to me:

What distinguishes fascism from ordinary right-wing patriarchal autocracies is the way it attempts to cultivate a revolutionary aura. Fascism offers a beguiling mix of revolutionary-sounding mass appeals and reactionary class politics. The Nazi party’s full name was the National Socialist German Workers Party, a left-sounding name. As already noted, the SA storm troopers had a militant share-the-wealth strain in their ranks that was suppressed by Hitler after he took state power.

Fascism is a false revolution. It cultivates the appearance of popular politics and a revolutionary aura without offering a genuine revolutionary class content. It propagates a “New Order” while serving the same old moneyed interests. Its leaders are not guilty of confusion but of deception. That they work hard to mislead the public does not mean they themselves are misled.

As I am British, I have been applying these ideas to the UK. It aligned perfectly with Reform.

'cause the thing is, fascists, more often than not, do actually see and talk about real problems, but then they misplace the blame to further their own interests. See the short snippets from this BBC Question Time where the Green party leader Polanski replies to Zia Yusuf, a higher up of the fascist Reform party: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/10/10/zack-polanski-bbcqt/

The capitalist Tory government spent the last decade and a half gutting public services in the name of private profits, but instead of blaming current problems on that, Reform blame immigrants because they have no interest in fixing the problem, they just want to be the one to profit from it.

TLDR: The same factors that drove you to communism drives fascists too, the difference is communists want solutions but fascists want to profit from the problems.

In the UK we call them gammons, because their puffy red faces resemble gammon (ham).

Interesting how they’re all food related!

I don’t think that’s fair. Were the civil rights sit ins of the 60s liberal slacktivism? The non aggression makes the violent retaliation all the more stark. Sitting down and dressing like a frog aren’t a million miles apart in that regard. They’re both proving they’re not a threat and trying to highlight the violent response they’re receiving. Being dragged out of libraries, being tear gassed through a vent.

At least they’re trying to do something.

Do hotdogs and fish fingers confuse you, or are you perfectly capable of understanding hotdogs aren’t made of dog and fish don’t have fingers?

I absolutely understand where you’re coming from, but one upside to it is it makes it harder for the right to frame these protests as “look at these ruthless, aggressive leftists!” when there’s a dude dressed like a frog frolicking about.

On the other hand it does undermine the seriousness of the protest too so it’s a double edged sword.

LPT: cover the bottom of your bathtub or shower with gravel, so when you shower the combination of soap runoff and physical abrasion cleans your feet.

If you haven’t got gravel, you can also use kidney stones. Ask your local hospital today!

Coconut milk has been called milk since forever and nobody’s surprised a cow wasn’t involved.

This only became an issue when alternatives to meat and dairy got popular because these restrictions on naming has nothing to do with clarity and everything to do with mega farm owners wanting to crush the opposition to their racket. They don’t want to replace “oat milk” with “oat enhanced water” because they care about you, they do it because they hate competition.

I was struggling to see it at first so I tried to make it clearer, if this helps anyone:

Personally I see value in these sorts of policies not because I actually want it, but because it highlights the present hypocrisy and gets people thinking about what it means. Policies like this could indeed get people demanding the law change.