Rugged individualism is the path of freedom and prosperity

Cool, so I’ll play you chess, but you get one individual piece of your choice, and I get a full set.

Checkmate Kaspy

ctrl + f “socialism” >> zero results

lmao

first published in 1949: https://monthlyreview.org/articles/why-socialism/

at least they mention Paul Robeson tho

Dig all the extra reflective bits and the ears and tail. Bikes lend themselves to more personalization, and you’re doing it up nicely.

Send us all the treats to fuel our profits!

Not like that!

The Rising Left

that’s a damn fine visual metaphor

Adams Family Values (2026)

Philosophically I’m an anarchist, so pragmatically I’m a communist, and currently I’m a socialist [that supports Actually Existing Socialism].

This is what gets called ‘red fash tankie’ by western chauvinists claiming to be leftists.

Vault-tec Culture Stasis Pod uses the latest in AI technology to encase ideology in a diamond-hard protective layer impenetrable to Commie Ideas!

From each torrent according to their download, to each torrent according to their upload

the bit-torrent file sharing protocol was the real cyber-communist manifesto the whole time

There is something about it that is like a new formation of online socialization in a similar structure to hazing/initiation for hierarchical organizations. It is a very performative mode that shows fealty towards sadistic power for the sake of proving the existence of that power. It’s a super position of “got mine, fuck you” and “one day I’ll be wearing this boot”. So you end up with something like “fuck you, the boot has got mine” cheering on the sadism as vicarious redemption.

There is a tension between when global capitalism loses hegemony, and how that process of collapse plays out. My main concern is that the death drive of capitalism will result in a massive scale destruction of productive capacity that could be used to transition with better resiliency.

If capitalism doesn’t terror bomb the world in its death throes, I’m fairly hopeful that much of the world can adapt pretty quickly. We can’t avoid significant climate catastrophe at this point, but there is a possibility of adaptation and resilience in that scenario.

on this week’s episode of Sycophants in Cybertrucks Getting Risky

I got a nice OLED TV as my main monitor. I only connect it to the internet to run updates if I think it is necessary (there is also usually a USB option for updates too), then disconnect once that’s done. Works great for sailing the seas and streaming whatever. It’s unfortunate I paid for stuff that I won’t use in the TV, but that’s often the case with many products these days.

I’m glad 6 and 7 are on good terms now. Their relationship was rather fraught for a while after the whole cannibalism thing with 7 and 9.

The Colorado ballot initiative to make prison labor explicitly illegal as a form of slavery getting completely nullified by a judge comes to mind.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251225073402/https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/24/middleeast/israel-womens-rights-netanyahu-intl-cmd

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