Just saw the new Fred Flinstone vid about pumpkin spice lattes. He had this kind of aside about not drinking PSL (along with another one against drinking flavored coffee drinks which just seemed needlessly pedantic).

I was really surprised, so I tried looking further, and he linked some aggregate in the comments which leads to a podcast and a huge google doc with a bunch of links to different criticisms and summaries of Starbuck's sugary coffee drinks from late 2020 or so. Covering up how bad their coffee actually tastes with sugar and artificial flavors and apparently Fred Flinstone going on a misogynistic rant in some Hexbear posts. And generally a very anti-femme theme.

Anyways, I was just wondering what the Hexbear take is here. Was it a group of misogynistic posters? Just one weirdo with a Hanna-Barbera fetish? I was considering trying a pumpkin spice latte when they come back this fall, but maybe it would just spike my blood sugar.

Can you love me
The way that I love you?
An endless ache

Uhh, let me chill here

I'm going to try keeping this as anonymous as possible, so I won't be going into where I am, of course.

An IRL comrade told me several years ago that the only way ahead in political organizing where I am is to start something myself. I disagreed at the time and I've spent the intervening years trying to find an org that was doing something and not handicapped by a poisonous national committee. The benefit to that was that I've found some good IRL comrades from various shitty orgs that would be worth joining with in the struggle, but that first comrade was right and I hate it.

I want democratic-centralism. I want political education. I want praxis.

So, I come to you with this question: How do?

More specifically, regarding political education, does anyone have a good, well-ordered reading list? Like, from babby's first socialism to contemporary political analysis.

I'm much less worried about the praxis side, as the majority of my experience is in labor organizing and the other comrades I want to propose this idea to have experience in other community organizing.