SoyViking [he/him]

Some of these have non-female partners but I don’t think it is unreasonable to think that loneliness is on the rise. It is one of the ways capitalism is degrading society.

How do you say twink in ancient Greek and Latin?

“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” - Georgy Zhukov

Back in my day we had multiple continents but now the tectonic plates have gone woke and wants us all to be one continent!

He died with the plague. It could have been anything that killed him, like a vaccine. The plague is no worse than a flu.

In not American but still very much from the imperial cow so I’ll answer anyway. To be honest I think my mom has a great part of the honour. I was always a bookish kid and (among many other things) she pointed me in the direction of communist authors who were, among other things, writing about bourgeois hypocrisy and deconstructing anti-communist propaganda. So from my early teens I was familiar with the idea that bourgeois media is full of bullshit.

It didn’t make me a convinced communist for life (like so many others, I’ve had my lib cringe phase where I believed the worst anti-communist nonsense) but I always had an open mind to listening to the other side.

Later on, around the 2008 financial crash, I was listening to a lot of leftist lectures on YouTube, trying to make sense of it all. Parenti was one of them and that man simply made sense.

Nope.

Those questions are not tough for them at all. The propaganda has it covered and they will give some version of “we tried our gosh darned best to bring the savages freedom and democracy but their barbarian culture was simply too primitive”.

I can’t seem to find anyone in real life who doesn’t.