That bundt cake looks amazing even without the ganache! I am curious, how dense is that Christmas bread?

Please update us on how the smoke sesh with Doris goes

Indoor cats unless you have a Catio. Best of both worlds!

It should be the “YEEEAAAWWW” sound clip of Howard Dean

Idk what a backtrack is but I will use it whatever it is. This injury only pops up once a year or so and usually isn’t so painful so I havent had a primary care look at it. I have an appointment with my new doc on Monday though so I’ll definitely be bringing it up. I appreciate the info though, it’s been like 5 days of this shit I would love to not be in pain

Ohhhh yeah they have a while counterterrorism unit, which Tisch headed I think?

Are you referring to Israel specifically? Where else I’m curious

Just for context (I know yer comment was from hours ago), but yeah you missed a lot of this stuff having just joined in October. The primaries were in June, and there are MANY people who felt extremely passionate about the guy. Like essentially expressing that he was going to change the face of American politics. The naysayers (such as myself) first started off like “I doubt that anything will come of this, it is American electoralism after all, but if it does that will be so great! Let’s see where it goes” and then we were called wreckers and ultras and shit for not being in absolute frenzied support lol. We have been straight up called ignorant and other much less nice names when actually trying to engage in good faith discourse.

So us naysayers have gotten more aggressive over it, especially since he has walked so much back without even being in office… And I think that within the past couple of months the dogmatists have just gotten quiet because every statement or he has made has been terrible. Some people do still claim that he is doing 5D chess to take the bourgeois by surprise and kick start the revolution or whatever, though. And I think our point, rather than this ACTUALLY being aboit Mamdani, is that people who are claiming to be Marxists are throwing materialist analysis into the trashcan in order to uncritically support him. Thats worth debating IMO.

So now that you’re caught up on the history of this struggle session, welcome to hexbear, wait til you see 4 year old struggle sessions get relitigated over and over and again. It’s like a tradition at this point

I think I have a herniated disc maybe. Its been an on and off problem for 10 + years, I aggravated it the other day and its just getting worse. I’m walking like an old person who holds their back. This sucks :( I changed health insurances, too, so I can’t go see my chiropractor because they don’t take what I have now, and I can’t pay out of pocket lest it look like they are trying to scam people by not being on my insurance panel. That’s literally the only thing that’s brought me relief in the past and I don’t trust other chiros. I’m sad

After a night of also drinking, yes lol

Also why the ass pic there’s nothing goin on back there

Who the god damn fuck is this? @[email protected] you need to weigh in here this is despicable. An affront to everything sacred

Yes, I apprexiate this analysis! I think that the lumpen in the US is probably more similar to Marx’s conception, but their conditions and they way that they operate have changed because the bourgeoisie decided to try to extract value from them

The modern lumpen is also very much a source of surplus extraction, but it happens indirectlt via services etc.

I was thinking this. Prison labor, the drug market… The underground economy directly benefits the bourgeoisie.

While not exactly the same, I was reading an article written by a black/trans/disabled sex worker, and they said that the only way they could organize around issues they cared about was BECAUSE of sex work and the time it afforded them. Having no time because we need to devote 3/4th of our lives to working, commuting, getting ready for work and sleeping probably plays a role in how weak the movement is here in the US, too.

The closest to lumpen I can see are the homeless, but even then there are a lot more that are employed than people think.

Another thing, too, is that while people may not have their labor to withhold, they can still contribute to the revolution by other means IMO. They can stand in solidarity at picket lines, for example. Some are much more willing to be militant, too. Like instead of the peasant class, the proletariat should be aligning with the lumpen here in the US

Sega Channel ruled. They would have little monthly contests so I entered one and I got a dope Jurassic Park backpack

sorry if you’re struggling right now, comrade. Are you looking for crisis hotlines, therapy, groups, etc? You can also DM me and I can try to help find something if that feels better to you

I need to read much, much more about the lumpen but the term feels so extremely reductive, especially given today’s conditions. Like I feel like there is a lot of potential within prison populations to build political consciousness, and other groups like sex workers and disabled folks, too. It’s already happening within these populations anyway.

Yooooo you did it! Perfect day to log back on! Will reread this article tomorrow

Okay that’s what I THOUGHT. I thought I was tripping thinking that using lard was standard because everyone was criticizing it as a weird american thing. Kinda surprised that many people don’t know this

Is that not a Mexican thing, too?

I have been touching a lot of fuckin grass lately, too much actually.

I’m also (technically) like 4 days late on submitting my critical analysis paper for a class. I think I figured out that I am extremely intimidated about writing an academic paper after being outta school so long. I might need accommodations to actually get through this. Hard to reckon with. It’s gonna be a neat paper about ICE/Palestine/activism though

Also fuck my family they suck ass