Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]

We’re stretching the budget now, but good sleeping bag too.

I do a lot of ranting in front of my kids, and when we’re confronted with obvious bullshit like a bunch of people having to live under a bridge, I make sure to conclude the rant by telling them Stalin would’ve dealt with the people responsible for this.

I also tell them that in this family we talk to strangers, and then model that behavior. We spend a lot of time learning about the lives of people around the world and the collective accomplishments of the people in maligned places like Appalachia or China. We study foreign languages and speak to people in their native languages. As a general guiding principle my wife and I have agreed that we want our kids to grow up with self awareness that they are part of the workers of the world.

A few years ago I heard from a few people that breast cancer is not treated in Canada. That seemed highly unlikely, and about 1 minute of research confirmed it wasn’t true, but do you have any idea what people were talking about?

Yeah, I used to observe the democrats in action and think it was weird that I was so much better at doing political messaging in my own organizing projects. Eventually I realized that their messaging appears to suck because we’re not actually pursuing the same goals. I don’t know if they tricked me, they changed, or if I deluded myself, but now I have a more developed understanding of class conflict and no longer find them worth paying attention to.

I’ve changed the aesthetics of all the things that cause problems in your life, why are you still mad?

Hard to say. I’m a liberal, so history always begins anew every day. There is nothing that we can learn about human societies from examining the past.

Regretfully, this is the only way. There is literally no alternative.

I tried that but I still ended up with a general strike, conscripts beating their officers to death, and widespread mutinies in the navy. People keep whining about food and wages. I don’t know what these people want. It’s like nobody wants to work anymore. I’m thinking about printing more copies of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

What’s your idea for addressing the problem of Russia’s emerging petty bourgeois using anti-semitic violence to protect their power? I’m sure you have a good faith, reality based solution to offer.

Local Georgian man discovers weird trick to fight anti-semites and the social structures that are the root cause of antisemitism.

Liberals hate him!

That’s probably fair. I was thinking that the US is ahead of Russia in regards to erasing any class consciousness in their population.

I thought it was the other way around. The US is the future of Russia, assuming no major changes in the global order.

Why can’t my enemies be respectable and have a conventional army?

-Dean Philips (D-MN)

Congrats on your transition?

Important to note brucellosis was first introduced into native ungulate populations by infected cattle. The western cattle industry is now obsessed with the possibility of buffalo transmitting brucellosis back into cattle herds (which are largely vaccinated and brucellosis free).

The disease is also in elk and other animal populations that can transmit the disease back to cattle. This potential seems to get little attention, which always makes it look to me like the real industry concern isn’t disease impacts (the cattle can be and often are vaccinated), but coming up with misleading arguments to limit wild bison populations that will eventually compete with cattle for grass. Elk don’t compete for the same food, so no one pretends to care if they have brucellosis. Accomodating more bison on more public land will limit the number of cattle allowed to graze on the same land, and so we have this conflict.

This is Cormac McCarthy? What book?

If everyone hates him he must be doing something right

This is a parody post, I think.