queermunist

queermunist, 17 days ago

And then the price of the cheesy bean burrito somehow kept going up after the safety net was taken away. 🤔

queermunist, 17 days ago

Without dialectics its really damn hard to imagine how change actually happens. As far as zero-theory no-books gang is concerned, either China is communist or they’re not. There’s no understanding of iterative transformations and how quantitative change becomes qualitative change. They see that China has private property and profit and wage labor etc. and conclude they’re not communist. Vulgar economism or a sort of faux-Marxist dogmatism. The fact that politics are in command and the market is subjugated to the Party’s agenda is lost on them.

That was me before COVID, and it was China being the only country in the world to take COVID seriously (other than New Zealand, the bunker nation of billionaires) that forced me to actually learn. That’s what it looks like when politics are in command. Even after they’ve left zero COVID policies behind (under immense pressure from the entire rest of the world) they’ve had only 60,000 deaths. Compared to more than a million in my country, even though our population density is vastly lower, it’s hard to still think of them as a revisionist degerated worker’s state.

queermunist, 17 days ago

You’re right that Cuba and Vietnam also responded seriously, but what I mean is China was the only one that had a zero COVID policy. As a result, their per capita numbers were the best in the world (among countries that have adequate ability to test, anyway). Being a country of over a billion people gives their tremendous success a lot more weight. No disrespect meant to Cuba, Vietnam, or DPRK.

DPRK is too unique to really compare to other countries anyway. They could isolate as much as New Zealand, no one else could reasonably lock down like that because that’s a direct product of their nation being under siege for essentially its entire existence.

If New Zealand is the bunker nation of billionaires, DPRK is the people’s bunker nation.

queermunist, 17 days ago

Excess death stats, right?

What you have to remember is that all cause mortality from air borne respiratory disease went down because of those zero COVID policies. Masking and staying home and aggressive testing prevents everything else from killing people too, many of those excess deaths can be attributed to other less deadly infections that had also been suppressed by China efforts. Immunity debt might play a role as well, as people who have not been exposed to years of new flu variants suddenly get slammed. I’m not willing to say that all excess mortality is from COVID.

Though it could very well be higher than what is reported, same as it is in every country. No one wants to admit COVID isn’t over.

queermunist, 18 days ago

All I have to say is 🔻

queermunist, 18 days ago

Pretty sure that’s because crackers only recognize injustices when they happen to themselves. 🤷‍♀️

queermunist, 18 days ago

It will be “just the flu” and we will be told to keep going to work and maybe wear a mask if we feel like it.

queermunist, 18 days ago

Try throwing rinsed beans in the airfryer. 10 minutes at 400F does the trick for most types.

Makes a delicious crunchy topping or filling for wraps!

queermunist, 18 days ago

Imagine if the fact that they put chicken shit in cow feed became ingrained in the public consciousness. 👀

queermunist, 18 days ago

Right - I forget some people aren’t lazy and actually soak dried beans

queermunist, 18 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Men are having fantasies of being accepted by their imaginary daughters despite their differences. This is powerful psychology.

queermunist, 19 days ago

I was totally a subscriber back then!

They used to actually moderate against ecofash tendencies iirc

queermunist, 19 days ago

This post makes me think a shitredditsays community might be a good idea.

queermunist, 19 days ago

It’d be really funny.

queermunist, 19 days ago

When the Tesla bubble pops it’s going to crash the whole tech sector. 😆

queermunist, 18 days ago

Don’t forget Boeing! I have no idea how they can just keep killing whistleblowers and convince investors their company isn’t fucked.

queermunist, 19 days ago

I understand. All I ask is you make it quick. 🫡

queermunist, 20 days ago

A ton of companies are going to destroy their own products by replacing workers with AI and it’s extremely funny to watch.

queermunist, 20 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

It’s what pushed me to give up eating flesh. I couldn’t abide the suffering of the workers forced to kill animals for me.

queermunist, 20 days ago

I uh, haven’t had a lot of luck either. It was really dry last year so my corn was barely knee high 😔

But this year will be different!

Also, subscribed 😊

queermunist, 20 days ago

Your claim Trump’s genocide will be “much” worse ring hollow, because you must realize Democrats will look at the election results and realize they need to obstruct Trump’s genocide or face even more losses in 2026. Democrats will become the resistance again, instead of being complicit collaborators.

queermunist, 20 days ago

First they came for the Palestinians and you won’t speak out, because you are not Palestinian.

queermunist, 20 days ago

🤡

Israel has killed hundreds of times more children than Russia has in Ukraine. It’s the deadliest conflict for children in the modern world.

queermunist, 20 days ago

This genocide is only possible because of our government’s logistical, technical, and financial support. It’s only possible because we protect Israel from its neighbors, who would have long since intervened if it wouldn’t put them into conflict with the US. Israel is the 51st State, what happens there is possible only because of us.

Furthermore, Foucault’s Boomerang always comes home! Palestine is where we test border technology, policing tactics, facial recognition software, military AI, new weapons and defenses, and methods of political repression. We send our actual police there for training! IDF come over here to teach tactics to us! They’re talking about giving Americans that serve in Israel full veterans benefits! We are not safe.

You think you’re safe? This will come back for both of us, the things learned in Palestine will be applied to us when it’s our turn. It’ll start at the border, then come to the cities, and before you know it they’ll come for you too. That’s what that phrase is supposed to be warning us of, take your head out of the sand. The empire always comes home.

queermunist, 19 days ago

I’m complicit! If I had an ounce of courage I’d do something that matters, not fucking post. I’m crushed by my guilt. Why aren’t you?

When our time comes, no one will be left to speak out for you.