No idea

Nah you gotta do what’s best for you two, I’m just trying to get a read of where people are. I don’t plan on ever owning a house, so my concern’s more with getting my paycheck garnished.

I’m back because liberal twitterati have been annoying me lately and I need to kvetch about it

Boss said I’m fired if I pop off on twitter again

Critical support to Tennessean used car salesmen with brains so fried by Qanon they’re stumbling backwards into opposing Bill Gates geo-engineering bullshit

If this is a case of “person realizes something everyone already knew” please let me know.

The Civ series is basically Whig History: The Game.

I also get weirded out by the opposite reaction, where stories of getting in brawls with meth heads and dealing with family members being busted for drug possession are treated with a strange fascination.

I’ve only seen this reaction a few times, mostly vicariously. Like one time me and a couple friends were laughing about the times when dates had turned into drug deals, and the then-partner of one my friends insisted we tell them “more crazy stories.” Flattering, in a way, but also :what-the-hell:

That’s right you goddamn quakers. I was just talking on the phone to my family in a language THAT ISN’T ENGLISH. :sicko-blur:

Maybe, but they’re the demand side of the equation. They don’t like to associate with the supply side.

The anarchist-to-ML pipeline is real, and as someone who went through it, I’ll say that anti-structure Reaction is also real. A lot of anarchists (at least in my experience) are young and full of piss and vinegar and distrustful of any kind of hierarchy that could constrain their individual actions. It’s a form of liberalism that many outgrow and many don’t.

Then there’s the fact that in the U.S. at least, anarchism is far more tolerated by the state than is any kind of organized ML movement. Other comments have already addressed this, but it bears repeating: when you spend your whole life immersed in anti-communist propaganada, it’s easy to take at face value that ML governments / orgs are “just as bad” as the capitalists.