The "pretending to be pro-LGBTQ+ just to get more commies" narrative about y'all will never not be fucking hilarious to me.

I was at a local bookstore/clothing consignment/vinyl shop with a friend because he collects vinyl. I was looking through the books and spotted "A People's History of the United States" by Zinn and ended up picking it up for another friend. I started talking to the owner as I was ringing up about the few leftist texts that he had and how it's kind of cool to see that sort of thing in the TX panhandle since there aren't really many leftists here and he simply replied "yeah, we're out there."

I now call that place the "Commie Record Store" lol.

Last time I was there he had a 4th print edition of State and Revolution from 1935, that is now in my possession. The book is super old and the spine is brittle and I don't know what to do with it, but I feel like it's somehow special now.

He now acts as my source for physical books. I mostly read digital but I would like a small collection of "the classics" so to speak.

And similar to comrade Queerecommie, I have a hat with several buttons that anyone here would recognize but the average lib won't. I also use the big nerdy Marx words like dialectics, material conditions, praxis, bourgeois, etc.

Fifty bucks is fifty bucks.

conflating politics and economics

Jesus fucking Christ. Sorry guys I'm out. I can't with these fucking people anymore.

Looking at the bigger picture I hate realizing this sort of thing sometimes.

China gets mocked for suicide nets(and like no one even questioned if it was real or not) but the US legit has workplace shootings that often end up with suicide.

I'm still mad about how ridiculous the "communism is bread lines" train of thought is because we have food banks, soup kitchens and church food based outreach in our great United States of America. If food insecurity is a symptom of a failed state well guess the fuck what? And that's not even covering the fact that Russia has breadlines during and after the transition to capitalism after the USSR was desolved. So again it was a direct result of how bad capitalism is at food security.

Can we just let all the fashies in here so we can all just get along and have tea and scones together puh-leaaaaaaaase??????

Yes yes. Yes yes.

I am a totally normal human and talk like one as well.

I for one am eager to see the rapid uptick in Godot usage.

Q: What's the difference between 9/11 and a cow?

A: You can't milk a cow for 22 years.

I saw this and gave him an upvote in solidarity. I was gonna comment but don't really wanna deal with contrarian bullshit stress today.

I'm reading Killing Hope in chunks and according to that text, it's unsure who did what to start the actual Korean War but it sounded a lot like the whole ass scenario was basically a powder keg waiting for any spark.

I've also read that a majority of the population was for communism.

I also read that McCarthy tried to unexist all of North Korea until China intervened since the US was shitting all over their doorstep.

People say "learn history" as if there isn't 4 different accounts depending on what narrative you are after.

Like sure guy, what history do I need to learn to satisfy your western take on a situation that happened on the other side of the planet 40 years before you were born?

My other favorite one is that apparently all 20,000 of you are Russian trolls.

I can barely get 4 friends together at any given time for DND but somehow you guys can keep this collective larp going for 3 years.

I had a former co-worker pull this "compromise" card when I was talking about how maybe minimum wages should be a living wage. He said "both sides should just come to a middle ground". Like bruh, you know that "compromise" would be literally not a living wage, right? You get that, right?