Okay, so you’re just a moron and you can’t relate to your fellow worker with slightly different circumstances because you’ve not experienced them specifically. That if anything is actually lazy. I suggest you read my posts again and maybe have a salad to get that blood pressure down lol, I have no skin in this game because I WFH so I can cook elaborate meals anytime.

Fast food good for people with not enough time or energy to make meals, if you were having such a rough life as to use what I presume is a dollar store of some sort, then surely you get that? And the fact it’s gotten more expensive, being the symbol of the economic strength of the post-90s Pax Americana world order, it’s upsetting to see it get so expensive, as a reminder that this world order is long gone and we’re firmly in times of economic hardship and sweeping populism across the west now.

I think I get what you’re saying wrt exploitation of the global south, but this is a very out of date view in my opinion.

The physical location of a person does not determine the value that can be exploited out of them by capital, it is why some leftists take an anti-immigration stance as it can drive down wages by increasing supply of labour domestically, which is proof enough that one can be exploited no matter where you are located.

In the neoliberal world the argument is then that with wages being driven down living should also get significantly cheaper as the cost of products comes down and companies lower prices to out-compete each other. Of course in reality due to concentration of power in so few hands companies often behave more like a cartel so it doesn’t happen.

In theory with strong minimum wage laws exploitation should be much harder to achieve locally than via outsourcing (you can’t run a sweatshop in the UK), but those minimums are often so out of touch with actual living expenses that a decrease in wages even far above the minimum is sorely felt on the middle income working class.

There’s still some exploitation that can only be done with overseas labour, sure, but it’s really less and less as globalization equalises the global labour market. Once scammers used to be far more common in poorer countries, now grifters are everywhere.

And I think when it comes to the EU and the refugee crisis, that isn’t necessarily related to this, it just coincided that severe contradictions in neoliberal race to the bottom trickle down austerity economics coincided with an influx of immigration, and Europe was always quite racist tbh and especially islamophobic, so grifters seized on stoking the fears of cultural shifts and jobs being taken.

That sucks I’m sorry. Different strokes for different folks I guess. Maybe we can swap countries haha I’d love to live somewhere with AC and summer year round and not 99% humidity and an average temperature of 10c

Moving to the US be like

Anarcho-NATO.

I’m pretty sure Vaush was memeing when he said that but it honestly makes a lot of sense

I’m pretty sure neoliberals also actually advocate for open borders and reduced immigration in general, and often accuse the left of being anti-immigration because of concerns regarding wages by unions.

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Yeah but summer time is better

Have you tried using AC or drinking more water? Some anti-allergy meds would help too. At least it’s not so cold during the summer that you don’t want to do anything.

1 instance, 3 communities, 91 users. I’m pretty reserved with the block button.

Low curiousity/worldliness. Honestly makes me think someone is either dull or maybe depressed

I do not agree. Biden may not be a flashy big reform guy but in practice he is basically the most progressive president since FDR.

Didn’t mean to imply it was a good thing, but that you and your family and friends might at least be somewhat safe from immediate hardship of something as bad as the collapse of a nation-state

A mild but noticeable shift to the right, even more than Biden -> Harris so no more Bernie, Walz or AOC, compromising on social policy (especially immigration, but also trans rights, guns etc).

Otherwise business as usual. If trump croaks and desantis/vance takes the reigns they might be competent enough to get enough of Project 2025 underway that by the next cycle the institutions of the country will be so eroded that Democrats will be reduced to permanent “opposition” status to maintain a sense of democracy rather than any real democracy,

it will not actually be possible to elect them, a few cycles and they will either dissolve or implode, then is replaced with a GOP faction.

If it makes Americans feel any better, the Roman Republic still survived as an Empire for centuries long after it’s military dictatorship carousel of clowns and opportunists eroded the republic’s institutions and kept all that SPQR stuff just for aesthetics and a national identity

TIL. Thanks! I figured it was for men and women, but hadn’t heard it before

Well, TIL. Like I said, first time hearing it. Usually it’s just called “oral” casually.

Good at whistling -> good at using lips/mouth or tongue for faux-whistling -> good at giving head to wife, presumably a pre-SRS trans woman or performing cunnilingus on wife if she is a post-SRS trans woman or a cis woman (haven’t heard that called head before tho)

OP checks out honestly, I think whistling actually made me better at being able to form the optimal lip shape for that “hermetic seal engaged” feeling without giving my gf teeth surprises by accident. She’s an even better whistler and her even briefly trying to give me cuni changed what I thought was possible to feel.

TL;DR: sex reference

EDIT: why the downvotes?

True. In some sort of utopian society where labour was a choice and mostly revolved around research and progress to further humanity’s understanding of the world and minimization of suffering powered by all sorts of fancy technology eliminating both pain and boredom, the average Joe Schmoe would have hardly any real purpose, and it’s hard to make an argument that if that utopia aligns with one’s values today yet one can’t contribute to some major scientific research that one is anything but yet another CO2 emission source.

No. Broadly the way I’ve squared it is that I support specific policies and adopting of said policies, where even if they are not anarchist in principle properly benefit the working class or limit oppression in some capacity, if a state implements these I will support that decision, but not the existence of that state or more generally a state at all.