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Cake day: July 2nd, 2025

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  • I was excited about the whales. But apparently the Marine Biologist determined that the attacks were being done by juvenile male pods. Whales are super smart, but coming with this they actually create social “trends”. They believe this is the current social trend among “teenage” males. Destroying the propeller on the boats and then leaving. They apparently do random shit like this all the time. But this was the first that involved destruction of a boat.

    Basically they are doing the equivalent of a group of teens smashing mail boxes or other minor acts of vandalism. Whales are cool. But I wanted them to be specifically mad at rich peoples yachts. Was disappointed.




  • wheezy@lemmy.mltoFuck CarsCar commuting is borked
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    Ugh, clovers. Giving me trauma to living in San Jose and the clover that merges 101 and 880.

    The two most congested and largest freeways. Let’s have all the traffic entering have to fight with all the traffic exiting in about 100 ft of road.

    You’d literally have people blocking the far left lanes and essentially making “right turns” across the all lanes. I hated them at first. But, honestly, you learn quickly that it’s just all lanes of traffic fighting and that’s just one method of getting through. It’s not even faster because all lanes are just blocked at that point.

    Fuck cars. But clover interchanges are a special kind of stupid.

    Worst part. I took the Cal train to SF to avoid traffic. But this was a road block between my house and the train station. It was anywhere from 30-60 minutes of driving in rush hour. It was a 5 minute drive when there was no traffic at night.

    Just absolute insanity.







  • wheezy@lemmy.mltoAutismWhat-pilled am I?
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    I’m saying systems and institutions are part of human nature and we build them without thinking about them, and we likewise serve them without thought

    This sentence tells me you need to read Marx or modern day Marxist literature for yourself. You likely have a major misconception of what Marx wrote or Marxist that expanded it. Dialectical and Historical materialist thought are the people “thinking about” the things you’re saying people aren’t talking about.

    There is significantly more to Marxism than a criticism of capitalism. Marx and Engels develop Historical materialism to analyze and explain how and why systems develop. This includes feudal and prehistoric ways in which humans organize themselves into class structures and structures of government.

    A lot of what you’re saying people don’t think has been described and thought about by Marxist for centuries.


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    Have you read any Marxist literature? Even if you don’t follow the ideas beyond a criticism of capitalism I think you’d benefit from being able to see through a lense of historical and dialectical materialism.

    You definitely have some unaddressed contradictions. An appeal to “Human nature” being the obvious one. An unsatisfactory answer, personally for me, that is about as helpful as “God did it”.

    Most of what you are talking about are structures of hierarchy within a patriarchal, white supremacist, class system. These are very much not “human nature” and have not existed for most of humans evolutionary history.







  • That movement was largely a place for young liberals, interested in resistance to Vietnam, to go and be useless and not become socialist. It was a means of keeping them separated from a growing militant resistance to the apartheid in America (Malcom X, Black Pathers, etc).

    If you’re smoking weed and telling everyone “just give peace a chance” you can stand idle as the violent state attacks black neighborhoods for mass incarceration and condemn “violence on all sides”. Which is just allowing the violence of the oppressive state to be justified.

    Being against bad things while telling everyone else “not yet” when they try to fight to stop the bad things. That’s American liberalism in a nutshell.

    Hell, listen to Kings frustration.

    I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

    Or in song form by Phil Ochs: https://youtu.be/3cdqQ2BdgOA

    Pointing to historical examples that liberals of the past failed on is hard for modern day liberals though. They know the Jim Crow south was bad. They know the Vietnam war was bad. But they’re unable to realize it until after the fact. Israel took them 2 years of genocide to start acknowledging.