Doubledee

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[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think Statler and Waldorf are the old guard grumpy comrades with nothing positive to say about current events but you know they have their hearts in the right place.

Beaker probably has revolutionary thoughts given how Dr. Honeydew treats him.

The Muppet rock band probably has some comrades in it but they keep it quiet because there's a CHUD in the band too, and so we can't tell from the outside who is what.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At this point I'm pretty sure they're trying to get someone to make an attempt on his life. They're blaring existential dread at the least stable people in US society.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Chuds I know are burying the lede and talking up how this is the elusive example of good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago

Genuinely the raving of a clown. His brain is going, and it appears he's absorbing apocalyptic evangelical rhetoric by osmosis. Wild.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 29 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Aw shit was that me? I think there's a few of us postal comrades on here.

The first 90 will be rough no matter what you are going into, you will be expected to put up with a lot of shenanigans. Use that time to figure out who the shop steward is and see what they're pulling on you that is not actually by the book so you're ready to grieve and protect yourself once you're not on probation.

I work inside so I don't know what the most current tech is as far as keeping cool in summer but I'm sure your coworkers will have good suggestions.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I can only speak for myself but I'm noticing a bunch of this rhetoric all at once and it's hitting my fedposting alarm. Of course it's also relevant. But I think the passive threat that there could be ops going on messes with people too.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

Yeah if USians aren't dying to drone strikes on Bradleys no amount of dead Iranians will destabilize the US.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does Iran only have 1,000 missiles? For some reason I was thinking they had stockpiled way more than that as their primary deterrence.

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do we weigh that given the censorship we know Israel is attempting to impose over footage of damage?

[–] Doubledee@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

Trump got that Witch of the Wastes condition from Howl's Moving Castle.

 

che-si

 

Hey so, I was raised in a very sheltered religious environment, I have changed a lot since I became an adult and accepted that I was just gonna have missed some stuff. I have a kid now though and I don't want to be like... a weird caveman who knows nothing about basic ass science stuff when they have questions or are learning these things in school or wherever. Is there an approachable book or resources about science that fundie-raised folks might have missed? I appreciate this is a weird question but I have to imagine I'm not the only person in this position. (TEST EDIT for reasons)

 

Sorry if this is the wrong comm for this, I never post, but I'm most of the way through Age of Extremes and I'm a bit baffled. I get that he lived a long life and saw a lot of stuff but his analysis of the 20th century seems really defeated and... I mean liberal?

He has some pointed critiques of RES states that veer really close to saying revolution is impossible, that the market cannot be stopped, that basically we have to accept that communism was never a possibility and move on. It is really jarring after the previous titles. Am I misreading him? Some of it might just be old dude stuff, I guess, he has some old man takes on art at least. It just seems like he is totally despairing by the end of the last book, but everything I saw about him made it sound like he was a committed Marxist until he died.

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