“Good afternoon, 47. Your destination is Utah Valley University, where your target is located, a 32-year old man named Charlie Kirk. An infamous political pundent known for going to various colleges and universities to debate and attempt to convince various youths of the merits of right-wing ideology. Other than that, he’s quite the unremarkable man. Our intel leads us to believe he hasn’t hired any armed guards or, for that matter, any dedicated security. He’ll be seated inside of a stand, surrounded by a crowd of hundreds - both sympathizers and opponents, nearly all ineffectual and unarmed. We’ve left a vintage .30-06 hunting rifle near a rooftop for you to utilize, with specially engraved bullets as ordered by the client. It’s a rather simple job, which we wouldn’t normally give to you, but our client has specifically requested your services, for whatever reason. Consider this… a good opportunity to stretch your legs.”

Honestly, I haven’t been doing too well in terms of last week and today. I’ve barely done anything productive and I’ve been scatterbrained.

In terms of what I wanna do this week, I’m hoping to, at bare minimum, finish the introduction / primer to my worldbuilding project so I can say I made progress on my passion project. I also hope I can actually do some reading as well, particularly theory, as it’s a thorn in my back to say that I haven’t read any. I’ve got a lot of time to spare, it’s just that I’ve been using it to slowly rot in my bedroom instead of doing anything.

With that out of the way, cheers to another week of surviving hell world, comrades.

Am I a man to the bone?

No.

Am I a woman to the bone?

No.

I’m bad to the bone.

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Can’t be hotter than the fire ol’ Charlie’s being bathed in right now, in Hell.

The children yearn to huff the fuel. :saw-gerrera:

I thought it was more an issue with the concept of the dunk tank (racist carnival attraction) than just the word dunking.

I can’t remember what other video it was, but I think it was a video with a thumbnail containing Stalin, Hitler, Gaddafi, and Pol Pot, and it had the same “Something Good About Someone Bad” kinda deal. Stalin and Gaddafi on the same tier as those genocidal fuckers?

They’re pretty much low-tier fascists who only like leftist leaders because they’re being constantly touted as “red fascists” rather than the revolutionaries they are. Consequences of capitalist propaganda I suppose, literally any way you slice it, if you eat that propaganda, you will come out having a fascist opinion.

Edit: Kinda makes me think a lot of those MAGA white-supremacist “communists” actually kinda follow this logic.

I feel like sometimes, people forget capitalism, at a certain point, is all about creating problems and then “solving” them. I mean, we already mostly figured out the solutions to things like food and water scarcity, entertainment, child care, and at minimum 60% of problems human face. With the new era, we aren’t trying to solve problems, not really. We’re trying to solve problems under capitalism, which is a, and forgive my slightly ableist language, a “fool’s errand” - a task that will never be completed so long as the thousands of artificial obstacles exist.

People talking about medications in the comments, and sure, medicines are good, but they could easily be produced in higher qualities, in larger pallets, in whatver-metrics-you-need-to-measure, because you no longer have Eli and Lilly trying to tell the doctors that they need to do this or that to ensure Goldman Sachs gets their money.

I would like to believe this post isn’t a critique of solving problems, it’s a critique of the capitalist methodology of forcing artificial scarcity (reducing your mental health when you are continuously deprived of your basic survival needs) and trying to “solve” that artificial scarcity within the framework of the capitalist system. Even if you create super-psychiatry, even if you create super-mega-perfect-psychiatry, you will never create a good psychiatry, and you ask why?

It’s because of capitalism. The problem is not that many problems exist, because the reason many problems exist is because somebody is forcing them to exist. And it’s capitalism. Maybe I’m mixing up the primary and secondary contradictions a little bit here, but if you remove the systems empowering, upholding, and catering the whims of all these awful, selfish, racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, specialist, any other bigotries I haven’t named, then how can they continue to exist?

If, in the new socialist society, the bourgeoisie and their reactionary squires don’t have a leg to stand on, then they fall. So, to the hypothetical medicine lover here, it’s not that medicine sucks, it’s that medicine is constrained and beholden to the whims of capitalism. I’d like to think this is a pretty moderate (moderate in terms of socialist / communist ideology) take, but if it isn’t moderate, then please tell me why it isn’t.