chauncey [he/him]

Fun fact: Congressional representatives can’t be recalled.

The movie surprised me, I thought it was really well done.

Never stop reminding them that abortion rights were lost while Democrats controlled the presidency and Congress.

Biden is bending over backwards to funnel weapons to Israel. I don’t remember him going the extra mile to protect abortion rights at all.

DINK is a common term comrade. Remember Doug Funny’s next door neighbors?

I think it’s referring to a string of recent NYT articles basically admitting Ukraine is losing

Innocent soul

The question is in reference to a public statement Austin made a few weeks ago, where he said that indiscriminately killing civilians may lead to a “tactical victory” but in the long term it results in a “strategic defeat”.

Basically admitting that asides from it being awful on moral grounds it’s a bad idea strategically too.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/3604755/a-time-for-american-leadership-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-lloyd-j-austin-i/

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - vs Children

Lots of folks in here debating what he wrote as correct or not.

When I first took the time to actually read Bin Ladens reasoning I remember being caught really off guard as we were blasted with messaging via the news and through political speeches that 9/11 happened because “terrorists hate our freedom” etc.

So just taking the time to actually read what the guy said - regardless of whether he was correct or not - and realizing the disconnect with what I had been told to be his reasoning, had an impact on me. This was over a decade ago.

I think that alone is important.

Marx & Engels’ "Address of the Central Authority to the League, March, 1850”:

[T]hat everywhere worker’s candidates are put up alongside the bourgeois democratic candidates, that they are as far as possible members of the League, and that their election is promoted by all means possible. Even when there is no prospect whatever of their being elected, the workers must put up their own candidates in order to preserve their independence, to count their forces and to lay before the public their revolutionary attitude and party standpoint. In this connection they must not allow themselves to be bribed by such arguments of the democrats as, for example, that by so doing they are splitting the democratic party and giving the reactionaries the possibility of victory. The ultimate purpose of all such phrases is to dupe the proletariat. The advance which the proletariat party is bound to make by such independent action is infinitely more important than the disadvantage that might be incurred by the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If from the outset the democrats come out resolutely and terroristically against the reactionaries, the influence of the latter in the elections will be destroyed in advance.

Democracy Now

Just follow the Bogle strategy. Low fee index funds.

So how many 9/11s was it?

The post 9/11 US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are estimated to have cost around $8 trillion dollars.

$8 trillion divided by 22 years divided by 365 days is $1 billion per day.

And the state I live in is talking about budgetary cuts.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar

“America is a third world country, and people don’t recognise it… and I think that that’s pretty god damn sad, that they don’t recognise their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slum.”

Myth of Sisyphus helped me through a lotta shit in my early 20’s

I don’t usually respond to meme posts, but this is great

I like how the “latest fad” is usually something that’s been a thing for years if not decades.

Got any links to help me learn about building media boxes?

Remember what it was like before you were born? It’s like that