Kids? That’s the marines specialty

It’s at least $50 billion a year for the IHS

Also autistic, so don’t trust me too much on this, but maybe try something like a group chat with them first? Then you can either patiently wait for one of the friends to invite you to something or drop hints or straight up ask if anyone wants to hang out. If you wanna get wild, do it when your best friend is busy with something else.

Idk, I’m not good at having friends so I feel like my advice is probably bad here if you want to maintain your relationship with your best friend, but if the other people want to be your friend and you want to be their friend, your best friend should help that happen, not prevent it

Edit: hell, even if they don’t want to be your friend he should help you anyway. Honestly I’m getting kinda mad at your friend rn

Haha I love textbooks! You can get a massive amount of info all in one place and as long as it’s not a shitty book you can usually rely on the info to be relatively accurate. The reason I think an intro textbook is good for studying philosophy is that it will give you a broad look at the topic without an overwhelming amount of detail and typically there is some effort put into the order in which the info is presented, which matters a lot when we’re talking about thousands of years and dozens of different philosophers. Like don’t only read textbooks by Marxists, but it’s not a bad place to start

We also don’t have to decide what to put in the text as these books already exist. There are a lot of Marxist academics, especially in philosophy. Obviously there are disagreements and such, but idk what your point is tbh. I’m just saying to find an intro to philosophy book written with dialectical materialism in mind. Even one without a Marxist perspective would be useful to anyone trying to learn about philosophy.

I didn’t think about this before, but an intro to philosophy textbook written by a Marxist would probably be a great resource for a sort of generalized understanding of the history of philosophy without all the liberal bullshit and hero worshipping. Plus you can just about always get a PDF of textbooks

Plato is a good place to start if you’re already comfortable reading difficult texts. Mainly because of how influential he was to all of the other western philosophers. A more modern starting point would probably be Bertrand Russel, most of his stuff is easier to parse.

If you’re purely interested in the historical context of these ideas and their influences on societies, I’d say read it mostly “in order” as the ideas tend to build on one another. If you’re trying to understand some specific aspects of life or something, like you’re interested in the philosophy part itself and not just the historical context then I’d say write your questions down and look for the authors who discuss them the most.

Anyway, Diogenes is the only ancient philosopher worth a fuck and the meaning of life is to overthrow our oppressors

Idk if these technically count as survival, but Satisfactory and No Man’s Sky are both great. Ark has probably changed a lot since I played it, but I loved it once I found a good server

Future Democratic President Liz Cheney with Vice President…uh, one of W’s kids?

Any time I see politicians in a row I think about those rad 2 for 1 shots you can do in video games

I wanted to say Tim Cain but I know that’s wrong, but like…it’s not really wrong

Clearly racism and misogyny plays some role in it, but Harris/SomeGuyIForgot was short something like 6 million votes of Biden/Harris. This liberal talking point is one of the most frustrating because it is also exactly what trump says when shit is obviously not perfect.

Even 2012 Obama only lost ~4M votes compared to 2008 Obama. Dems are becoming more and more disillusioned as time goes on, which should be a good thing except in the Burgereich it means they get more fascist because one time a communist corrected them on twitter about some historical fact

Williams believes extremists will try to murder him after this story is published. And if they fail, he thinks he’ll “live to see the United States cease to exist.” He identifies with the violent abolitionist John Brown, who tried to start a slave revolt two years before the American Civil War and was executed. Williams thinks he himself may not be seen as such a radical soon, he told me. “I wonder if I’m maybe a little too early.”

I’m pretty comfortable with reading/listening to analysis from people who think I should die, but I would never go to them to actually learn? I think of it more as an exercise of my own ideology when I try to understand someone with whom I clearly disagree.

I would never actually praise any of these people, they exist solely to absorb my derision and help me solidify my beliefs in the face of constant pressure to conform. Anyone who reads theory and is into terf shit is probably just fash with bad reading comprehension.

umm they have a PhD in punk sooo

They’re originally from a small town outside of Houston called Needville, but it’s still just a 30-45 minute drive to be in the middle of Houston so not exactly “rural” compared to most of TX. Houston has tons of these little white flight towns around it

I just heard of this, so IDK what I’m talking about, but wouldn’t borealism include indigenous groups in these arctic regions that were colonized? Like maybe modern borealism is all about white people, but those white people did in fact subjugate those regions and do genocides. And there’s definitely a kind of paradoxical view of people in arctic regions similar to the “noble savage” view of indigenous groups in North America.

This is a killer app idea

And she lost to a guy who lost his last election, so bad²

The first two things they should already be doing all the time. It would actually be funny if there was a way to make the inauguration crowd small af, but funny is all it would be. The kazoo bit makes my whole body hurt just reading it

I only wear v-necks because I hate regular collars. I have 10+ of the same shirt in a few different colors and I cried when I couldn’t find the kind I liked a long time ago (I’ve since found another brand that is tolerable and I also switched to long sleeve v-necks)

Anyway, it was fun realizing I was autistic and not just secretly a cartoon character who was transported into the real world