Nice read 🙏

Grief is like that, it keeps coming back in waves, even years after. Make sure to accept those feelings as a necessary part of healing. All the love, comrade!

Sure ping me. Though I’m starting at Section 0 anyways, so I guess there’s gonna be quite some overlap.

I’m starting your beginners reading list this week :)

What kind of weirdness? 🤔

Everything I said is true and you didn’t refute any of it.

When you order beef and the waiter brings chicken, you point out the mistake. When the waiter bites your nose, what do you do?

This is a leftist space. Debunking is something done in general forums, when you’re trying to inform the audience. No one here is gonna waste their precious time debunking any of that for the 100th time lol

You made me think of this short essay by my countryman Jones Manoel: Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture (2020)

I want to argue that there was no reason to recommend him before. Nothing will change my mind that Manufacturing Consent (1988) was written to distract from Inventing Reality (1986). Only one of those books has a dedicated Wikipedia page, and it’s not the one written by the communist.

No problem. I hope I can finish the current list so as to be able to contribute at least with feedback.

Essentially, I think any revolutionary needs to actively train and prepare for revolution, not just simple organizing. I also want anyone to be able to follow this list, urban or rural, global south or global north, and take away core skills for self-sufficiency, community organizing, and better surviving the day to day both pre-revolution and during revolution.

Fucking yes, please! =D

I also liked the idea of having two lists. Like a first semester, second semester of college thing.

I’ve considered it, and I listened to some shorter essays. Sadly, it doesn’t solve the main issue of not having enough time and energy to engage with deeper texts. I probably will be in a better situation next year, though.

I read so little Theory. I’m crushed by working two full time jobs, one to support my family, another pursuing a master’s degree. I feel hopeless at times. Totally burned out. (At least I should finish my degree soon and get some “rest”.)

Not necessarily. The military police and these death squads go back to the US coup in '64. They were aligned with Bolsonaro recently, but they are going to align themselves with any right wing government. Bolsonaro is not all that relevant anymore. He’s under house arrest for now, and he’s gonna be sent to jail soon. He’s been convicted already.

My last experience with Mint might’ve been 10 years ago. The outdated packages so common among Debian-based distros back then made me switch to something else. I don’t know what’s the current situation, though.

Look, I have a mean futsal kick, but not close to a professional player. There are levels to it.

That said, and I might be misremembering, but I think the US army killed a lot more people with their incendiary bombings than with the two nuclear bombs.

I got my reddit account temporarily banned for 3 days.

For context, r/NBA was discussing gambling, and a user said there are wealthy people making a lot of money with gambling. So despite being detrimental to society, gambling isn’t going anywhere.

I replied we can stop them by cutting their heads off. Got suspended for violating Rule #1, then deleted the app 😛

Not going to the gym is so detrimental to my mental health =( I need it to help regulate my sleep, and also anxiety and depression symptoms. But I got some teeth pulled and I can’t go >_>