Is this still the case? I thought this was slowly falling out of style, but maybe it depends on the place.

More and more in my experience it goes something like: “How’s it going?” “It’s going” “Yeaaah…”

I’m just waiting for someone to waltz in and bless us with some enlightened analysis about how China is actually building these to suck all the air from Xinjiang and Taiwan.

But at what cost??

Jimmy Carter has been the only president that hasn’t been a complete fuckwad

Old man Biden did well as president

USians considering people from the Global South as less than human exhibit number 32 quadrillion.

Just FYI, .world users can’t see replies from lemmygrad accounts.

I kept it short because I considered it obvious

Classic.

This is a good moment to point out that an open source alternative to Figma, Penpot, exists and has come a very long way and is almost feature-complete with Figma. It also has its own unique features.

I’ve personally been using it for a long time for various use-cases and I’m more than happy with it.

I’m not disagreeing, I meant for The Principles of Communism specifically because it’s such a short read. If most people read it just once it would save so much time that’s usually spent clearing up misconceptions in conversations.

I wish most people would start with that instead of the Manifesto of the Communist Party (or “The Communist Manifesto” as most people call it). It gets through most of the misconceptions in a much faster and simpler way. I like that you have it listed first in your reading list.

At the very least it would get people to start grasping what communism even is, instead of them creating vibes-based strawmen in their heads that they argue against.

Good.

Blowback.

Campfires, slowly crackling

Putting Genocide Joe in scare quotes. Libs are going fully mask-off in this thread.

Homelessness.

I’ve re-read this comment three times and can’t get over “Morocco, Africa”. I’ve never seen a country referred to like this in my life.