Different person here but I can give my own reason.

I stopped at the start of middle school. I was sorta just edgy while also hating he US military. More so to be a contrarian against my peers and specific adults, but that chip on my shoulder did come from me facing Islamaphobia growing up.

From there, becuase I was a stubborn little asshole (well I’m still pretty stubborn, but hopefully more reasonable) I would do it to spite people who asked me to do it or if I understood what it meant.

I don’t think there was anything more annoying go my teenage self then somebody telling me:

“Just because the pledge/the national anthem/other ‘patriotic’ thing symbolizes something you see as bad doesn’t mean others think those things have the same meaning. So you should do them out of respect for others.”

Maybe my neurodivergent ass just doesn’t get it, but that statement/sentiment infuriated me growing up, and I always found it insulting my intelligence. I came to be a leftist largely out of spite, contrararinism, and a longing to find flocks of other black sheep. I’m glad I started reading and enhanced my ideology into something actually coherent rather than stew in hatred and diverge into a more bitter person. A lot of those things still fuel some of my resolve, but I’m not guided by it like before. Ironically it was through materialism that I think I began to understand empathy.

Apologies for rambling but I didn’t know how to finish my thoughts and just let myself ramble for the sake of it.

History illiterates say Hitler built the autobahn, when his reign merely expanded it. Modern day Mecha-Hitler just stole the resources for the CHSR so it could get a gooner avatar.

This project could have been done years ago but the state blindly trusts its money to private contractors with no accountability for completing it.

The druze in Syria really are between tge worst possible options. On one side is quite headchopping Jihadist working at the behest if the west. On the other are genocidal baby killers also working at the behest if the west.

Thus is now only possible because of Assad’s all but fucking morons refuse to admit it.

Like half the milk produced in California is bought by the state and dumped because if it were to hit the market, milk would be like pennies per ounce, and the Farmers would basically go bankrupt.

This shit makes me so mad.

Definitely plausible

Do they mean a strain of the bubonic plague?

I’d argue it easily surpasses over a billion.

A century of development stunted, and other century of attempted sabatoge.

Do you have any email services you would suggest instead if proton?

The Bionomist section is so revealing to the sheer scale eugenics is baked into the American system.

Personally I’m very interested in the continued throughline of joint-stock ventures.

Ironically though, I feel a good bit of optimism reading it as well here on California. The amount of relavent information is vast and I think quite helpful in radicalizing other Californians.

Born Muslim and I slowly went down the Bernie-Hassan-ML pipeline, and began reading Marxist texts. I think I started with the Manifesto, then chapter one of Capital, then maybe Blackshirts And Reds. From there I can’t remember what I read exactly but I used multiple reading guides on what to read next. I’ve also reread chapter one of Capital a few times but could never stick with the whole text. I’m going to come back to it after reading a few more things on my horizon which I feel will be useful. (Also so far my favorite text to simply read was Wretched of The Earth)

I’m currently reading Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World, by Malcom Harris, which I’d recommend to any Californian Comrade. Even non-Californians could take something from it as well because I’d say it does a good job at providing an easy to follow narrative for how Capitalism in CA developed, which has been helpful to teaching me how to think about the logic of capital. (At least on a way that is easier to convey then some of Marx’s writings.)

My parents are from Syria and Iran, and weren’t particularly anti-government (not exactly favorable eitheir but considered them better then US puppets) so I was never really inundated with the Imperialist propaganda about foreign adversaries. When you apply the logic that most of the what the US says about your community is bullshit, it becomes very easy to apply that to other countries, making you open to changing your biases when provided with enough evidence.

May I ask if you could point to a compiled list of them for the uninitiated and tech illiterate?

Thank you! This is helpful!

I assumed they just forgot a space between Por and Qué. Or that it was a linguistic law I was unaware of.

I’m planning to take some classes in Spanish soon so I’ve tried to pay better attention in order to prepare myself.

Yup I’m not a speaker of the language, the 2nd part of my message explains I used an auto translator and apologizing for mistakes.

Oops. I just reconized he was asking “why not both?” And didn’t realize lol.

Digo cualquiera de los dos porque si fuera un agente estúpido, no estaría fingiendo ser de la CIA. Pero si no es un agente, es solo un bicho raro y peligroso que se hace pasar por uno.

Perdón si la traducción es mala estoy usando un traductor automático y no hablo español

I’d assume the “everyone agrees on” bit is what’s holding up progress.

Honestly the Ming bros were snubbed in this tier list, they should be at least A tier.

Is anyone aware of if Brazil will stop backstabbing Venezuela in regards to BRICS or if the Brazilian leadership, whomever or may be, will still obstruct Venezuelan membership in BRICS?